1987 Korfball World Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Netherlands
City	Amsterdam, Bennekom, Dordrecht, Papendrecht, Rotterdam and Wormer
Dates	20 to 25 April 1987
Teams	8
Venue(s)	6 (in 6 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Netherlands (3rd title)
Runners-up	Belgium
Third place	Great Britain
Fourth place	Chinese Taipei
← 1984 1991 →

The 1987 Korfball World Championship was the 3rd edition of the major international korfball competition. It was held in the Netherlands on April 20–25, in the cities of Amsterdam, Bennekom, Dordrecht, Papendrecht, Rotterdam and Wormer. In a close final, Netherlands defeated Belgium by 9–7.

Pool matches

Legend

POOL A	Pts	P	W	L	F	A	D
Netherlands	10	5	5	0	117	40	+77
Chinese Taipei *	6	5	3	2	53	61	−8
West Germany	6	5	3	2	50	42	+8
United States	6	5	3	2	61	52	+9
Indonesia	2	5	1	4	29	64	−35
France	0	5	0	5	28	79	−51

^* Chinese Taipei, West Germany and USA have held an additional penalty shoot-out to determine second, third and fourth position.

April 20, 1987
	Indonesia	6–11	Chinese Taipei	Amsterdam

April 20, 1987
	Netherlands	23–6	West Germany	Amsterdam

April 20, 1987
	United States	20–4	France	Wormer

April 20, 1987
	France	11–28	Netherlands	Bennekom

April 20, 1987
	Chinese Taipei	8–7	West Germany	Bennekom

April 20, 1987
	Indonesia	4–13	United States	Papendrecht

April 21, 1987
	Netherlands	21–10	Indonesia	Papendrecht

April 21, 1987
	France	3–14	West Germany	Papendrecht

April 21, 1987
	Chinese Taipei	15–18 (pen s.o.) 13-13 (e.t.) 10-10 at full time	United States	Wormer

April 22, 1987
	West Germany	13–2	Indonesia	Amsterdam

April 22, 1987
	United States	4–21	Netherlands	Dordrecht

April 22, 1987
	Chinese Taipei	10–4	France	Dordrecht

April 23, 1987
	West Germany	8–6	United States	Amsterdam

April 23, 1987
	Netherlands	24–9	Chinese Taipei	Wormer

April 23, 1987
	France	6–7	Indonesia	Dordrecht

POOL B	Pts	P	W	L	F	A	D
Belgium	10	5	5	0	102	46	+56
Great Britain	8	5	4	1	47	44	+3
Australia	6	5	3	2	39	50	-11
Aruba	4	5	2	3	67	70	-3
Portugal	2	5	1	4	42	65	−23
Spain	0	5	0	5	48	70	−22

April 20, 1987
	Portugal	6–10	Great Britain	Papendrecht

April 20, 1987
	Australia	9–19	Belgium	Papendrecht

April 20, 1987
	Spain	17–20 (pen s.o.) 14-14 (e.t.) 10-10 at full time	Aruba	Wormer

April 20, 1987
	Aruba	15–13	Portugal	Papendrecht

April 20, 1987
	Australia	7–13	Great Britain	Dordrecht

April 20, 1987
	Belgium	20–10	Spain	Dordrecht

April 21, 1987
	Spain	10–11	Portugal	Amsterdam

April 21, 1987
	Aruba	6–8	Australia	Amsterdam

April 21, 1987
	Great Britain	3–18	Belgium	Wormer

April 22, 1987
	Portugal	5–7	Australia	Bennekom

April 22, 1987
	Belgium	22–17	Aruba	Bennekom

April 22, 1987
	Great Britain	11–4	Spain	Amsterdam

April 23, 1987
	Great Britain	10–9	Aruba	Amsterdam

April 23, 1987
	Australia	8–7	Spain	Wormer

April 23, 1987
	Belgium	23–7	Portugal	Dordrecht

Final round

11th–12th places

April 25, 1987
	France	7–10	Spain	Papendrecht

9th–10th places

April 25, 1987
	Indonesia	5–8	Portugal	Amsterdam

7th–8th places

April 25, 1987
	United States	12–6	Aruba	Amsterdam

5th–6th places

April 25, 1987
	West Germany	10–7	Australia	Papendrecht

Bronze medal match

April 25, 1987
	Chinese Taipei	5-9 (e.t.) 4-4 at full time	Great Britain	Rotterdam

Final

April 25, 1987
	Netherlands	9–7	Belgium	Rotterdam

Final standings

Team
1   Netherlands
2   Belgium
3   Great Britain
4   Chinese Taipei
5   West Germany
6   Australia
7   United States
8   Aruba
9   Portugal
10   Indonesia
11   Spain
12   France

See also

• Korfball World Championship
• International Korfball Federation

External links

• International Korfball Federation

References

• History of the IKF and the IKF World Championship