The Week Junior UK - Issue 189, 27 July 2019

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The Week Junior•27 July 2019

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·REX SHUTTERSTOCK

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n21July,New Zealand won the NetballWorld Cup with

adramatic 52-51 win against their big rivals Australia.

After beating England in the semi-finals the day before,

New Zealand went on to pick up the trophy for the fifth time.

England won bronzefor the thirdtime inarow.The

Roses, which is the England team’snickname, beat South

Africa58-42 in the third-placeplay-off.

New Zealand and Australia have playedeach other in

the NetballWorld Cup final in the past six tournaments,

and Australia boastsarecor d11World Cup final wins.

This year NewZealand got theirrevenge. Thecompetition,

which is held every four years,wasplayed in

Liverpool over 10 days. Therewere16countries

involved, including Barbados, Jamaica, Uganda

and Zimbabwe. Northern Ireland finished 10th

and Scotlandcame 11th.

Anetball team has seven players on thecourt at

any one time.Goalsare sc ored by shooting theball

thro ughthe goal ring.Players pass the ball butcan

only holditf or thre eseconds,and arenot allowed

to move down the courtcarryingthe ball.Watch the

highlights at tinyurl.com/TWJ-netballfinal

England weredisappointed not

to win the NetballWorld Cup in

Liverpool, but they have another

chanceofhome glory in 2022.

That year theCommonwealth

Games will be held in

Birmingham, and netball will

be one of the 17 sports taking

place. England arethe reigning

Commonwealth Games netball

champions, after beating

Australia in the 2018 final.

NewZealandwin WorldCup

Cou tdown to 2022...

●Peaty is an Olympic champion.

He won the 100 metres

breaststrokeraceatthe 2016

Olympics, whichwasTeam GB’s

first gold of the games.

●He holds therecord forthe 50

metres breaststroke. Breaststroke

is when your arms pushforwards

and sweep back, with the legs

kicking out and tucking in.

●Peaty began swimming agedfour,

even though hewasafraid of the

water when hewaslittle.

Adam Peaty

At theWorld Aquatics Championships

in SouthKorea, the British swimmer

brokehis own worldrecordin the

100 metres breaststrokesemi-final.

Peaty,24, became the first person

to swim theracein less than

57 seconds. His new worldrecord

of 56.88 seconds beat his previous

recordof 57.10 seconds.Peaty went

on to win the final on 22 July,and

Britain’sJames Wilbycame second.

THEWEEK’S WINNER...

The NewZealand

teamcelebrates.

NewZealand

beat Australia.

The Roses

finished third.

STANDING

TALL

At2.08 metres, the

tallest

playeratt

heWorld

Cupwas

Sri Lanka’s

Tharjini Sivalingam.

Anaverage hous

edoor is less

than tw

ometres high.