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. 1 2 3 DaCosta & Miragaya 2002, p. 88
  2. 1 2 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.

Bibliography

  • DaCosta, Lamartine P.; Miragaya, Ana (2002). Worldwide experiences and trends in sport for all. Meyer & Meyer Sport. ISBN 1-84126-085-1. OCLC 248362122.
  • Government of Sri Lanka (21 July 2001). "5th Asian Netball Championship next week in Colombo". Archived from the original on 26 January 2004. Retrieved 1 March 2011.
  • International Federation of Netball Associations (21 January 2011a). "Current World Rankings". Archived from the original on 19 May 2011. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
  • International Federation of Netball Associations (2011) [15 June 2008]. "History of Netball". Archived from the original on 6 March 2011. Retrieved 2 March 2011.
  • Netball Singapore (2011b). "Milestones". Archived from the original on 18 February 2011. Retrieved 1 March 2011.
  • Rahim, Samsudin A. (2001). "Development, Media and Youth Issues in Malaysia". In Huskin, Frans Husken; van der Meij, Dick (eds.). Reading Asia: New Research in Asian Studies. Routledge. pp. 29–48. ISBN 0-7007-1371-9.
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