1979 Women's World Team Squash Championships

Women's World Team 1979
1st World Women's Team Championship
Location	Birmingham, England
Date(s)	15–20 March 1979
Results
Champions	Great Britain
Runners-up	Australia
Third place	Ireland
1981  →

The 1979 Women's World Team Squash Championships were held in England and took place from 15 to March 20, 1979. ^{[1] [2]}

Great Britain won the championships. ^[3]

Results

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Round Robin

Team One	Team Two	Score
Australia	Sweden	3-0
Great Britain	Canada	3-0
Sweden	United States	2-1
Australia	Ireland	3-0
Great Britain	Ireland	3-0
Great Britain	Australia	3-0
Great Britain	United States	3-0
Australia	Canada	3-0
Ireland	Sweden	3-0
Ireland	United States	3-0
Canada	Sweden	2-1
Canada	United States	3-0
Great Britain	Sweden
Australia	United States
Ireland	Canada

Pos	Nation	Team	P	W	L	Pts
1	Great Britain	Sue Cogswell, Angela Smith, Teresa Lawes, Barbara Diggens, Jayne Ashton, Lesley Moore	5	5	0	10
2	Australia	Barbara Wall, Vicki Hoffman, Sue King, Rhonda Thorne, Anne Smith	5	4	1	8
3	Ireland	Geraldine Barniville, Dororthy Armstrong, Barbara Sanderson, Irene Hewitt	5	3	2	6
4	Canada	Shelagh Murray, Elaine Hinnegan, Ann Thompson, Penny Glover, Kay Widmer, Sue Pexman, Barbara Savage	5	2	3	4
5	Sweden	Katarina Due-Boje, Tina Dahl, Agneta Samuelson, Eva Lundqvist	5	1	4	2
6	United States	Mariann Greenberg, Carol Weymuller, Ginny Akabane, Barbara Maltby, Diana Nyad	5	0	5	0

Final

Great Britain 3	FINAL Edgbaston Priory, Birmingham, England 20 March 1979		Australia 0
1 2 3 4 5 1 Sue Cogswell Barbara Wall 9 6 9 3 9 1       2 Angela Smith Vicki Hoffman 9 7 7 9 9 3 9 5     3 Teresa Lawes Sue King 5 9 9 5 7 9 9 7 9 5

See also

• World Team Squash Championships
• World Squash Federation
• World Open (squash)

References

1. "Women's World Team Championship 1979" (PDF). worldsquash.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016.
2. "Times Archives". Oxfordshire Libraries. Archived from the original on 19 July 2018. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
3. "Squash Girl in Form" . Runcorn Guardian. 30 March 1979. Retrieved 4 July 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
4. "Sports results". Trove.
5. "Women's World Open". Trove.
6. "Women's World Teams 1979". Squash Site. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 4 September 2015.

Preceded by None	Squash World Team England 1979	Succeeded by Canada 1981