The World Games I women's water polo competition was held on July 25–27, 1981, at Santa Clara International Swim Center in Santa Clara, California. Teams from the United States (2), Netherlands and Canada participated.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] Six days before the first game, Canada had become the newly-crowned World Cup champion in Brisbane, Australia, in a competition that included the same three teams that medaled in these Games.[11] [12]
| Gold | Silver | Bronze | |
J. Boer Brinkhof Dorine Heijnert Kok Ria Roos Ingrid Scholten Elly Spijker Ann van Beek Leineke van den Heuvel Marion van den Mark Greet van den Veen others . | I Lynn Comer Laura Cox Ruth Cox Debbie Decker Leslie Entwistle Karen Hastie Vaune Kadlubek Simone LaPay Robin Linn Sue McIntyre Maureen O'Toole Marla Smith other | Sylvie Archambault Tracy Crandall Odile Delaserra Isabel Deschamps Michele Despatis Jocelyn Dumais Diedre Finshaw Johanne Gervais Janice Gilbey Heather Gifford Hilary Knowles Denise Prefontaine Sylvie Thibault |
| width=170 | Team | width=20 | W | width=20 | L | width=20 | GF | width=20 | GA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 0 | 52 | 17 | ||||||
| I | 2 | 1 | 30 | 23 | |||||
| 1 | 2 | 24 | 29 | ||||||
| II | 0 | 3 | 10 | 47 |
Saturday, July 25, 1981:
United States I 14, United States II 4
Netherlands 17, Canada 7
Sunday, July 26, 1981:
United States I 9, Canada 6
Netherlands 22, United States II 3
Monday, July 27, 1981:
Netherlands 13, United States I 7
Canada 11, United States II 3
Other known individual participants: USA – Marybeth Rozance