Netball in Malaysia

Netball in Malaysia
A men's netball team at Interbatch Games 2009
CountryMalaysia
National team(s)Malaysia

Netball is promoted in Malaysia at the Sport Carnival for All (KESUMA).[1] In 1998, 113 districts held netball competitions.[1] That year, there were 1,718 registered netball teams in the country.[1] In 2001, netball was sufficiently popular in South East Asia for it to be included in the 21st Southeast Asian Games in Kuala Lumpur.[2] Malaysia had a national team compete in the fifth Asian Netball Championships in Colombo in 2001.[3] Malaysia also competed in the 7th Asian Youth Netball Championship in India in 2010.[4] Petronas, the national oil company, has been a major sponsor of netball in the country. This type of sponsorship was encouraged by the government as part of the Rakan Sukan programme.[5]

Important netball competitions held in Malaysia include:

The top performances for the Malaysia national netball team include:

  • 2010 Asian Youth Netball Championship: First[2]

As of August 2016, the women's national team was ranked number nineteenth in the world.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c DaCosta & Miragaya 2002, p. 88
  2. ^ a b Netball Singapore 2011b
  3. ^ Government of Sri Lanka 2001
  4. ^ Sagar 2010
  5. ^ Rahim 2001, p. 36
  6. ^ International Federation of Netball Associations 2008
  7. ^ International Netball Federation. "Current World Rankings". Last updated 20 August 2016.

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