Here’s the match report from the IKF
“Australia – Hong Kong China: play off for 3rd /4th place
Australia came out looking like a different team to the side that played Hong Kong on the first day of the tournament. Today the shots went in, the play flowed smoothly and the defence was intense. The Aussies broke away to a 6-2 lead before Hong Kong fought back to 7-6 with Ying Yeung TANG scoring twice to take the pressure off. Australia was playing their best korfball for the tournament and James Tye and Kathy Mc Culloch-Tull were playing well. At half time the score was 12-9 with the stage set for an exciting second half. Australia scored through Jess Rismondo in the first 10 seconds after the break and drew 4 goals clear for the fourth time for the match. With Australia growing in confidence with each shot, the Aussies broke away and were too good today for Hong Kong and took the bronze medal comfortably with a final score of 24-19”
In the other games, New Zealand was trounced by India, down 10-0 after 10 minutes, they never recovered and lost 34-10. The 5th place and possile World Champs berth going to India.
Unsurprisingly, Korea easily overcame the Pakistan team who I’m pretty sure hold the sorry record of the worst loss ever in an International and probably in any competitive Korfball game (They lost to India on Day One 63-1!!! That’s not a typo!) as well as probably the worst aggregate goal difference in an International tournament -155 across 5 matches. The Pakistanis, by all accounts, were beginners really only participating to learn some skills.
In the Grand Final, no real surprises again with Chinese Taipei taking Gold over China. Surprisingly though, the half time score was 9-9! Not only a very low scoring half but also surprising that China was capable of staying in touch with the Taiwanese. The second half however was all Chinese Taipei and they ran out easy winners 27-19.