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The ISF Women's World Championship is a fastpitch softball

Softball

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tournament for women's national teams held every four years by the International Softball Federation

International Softball Federation

thumb|Map of member states.|400px|rightThe International Softball Federation is the international governing body for the sport of softball. The ISF is a non-profit corporation recognized by the International Olympic Committee and the General Association of International Sports Federations .The...

(ISF). The number of teams in the tournament began at five in its inaugural event in 1965, went to a high of 28 for the 1994 edition , and now the ISF Code legislates that the maximum number of teams that may participate is 16. There are qualifying tournaments that determine which countries will play at the World Championship.

Results

Year	Final Host	Champions	Final score
Year	Final Host	Medalists
1965 Details	Australia Melbourne Melbourne Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...		1 – 0
1970 Details	Japan Osaka Osaka is a city in the Kansai region of Japan's main island of Honshu, a designated city under the Local Autonomy Law, the capital city of Osaka Prefecture and also the biggest part of Keihanshin area, which is represented by three major cities of Japan, Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe...		1 – 0
1974 Details	United States Stratford Stratford, Connecticut Stratford is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, located on Long Island Sound at the mouth of the Housatonic River. It was founded by Puritans in 1639....		3 – 0
1978 Details	El Salvador San Salvador San Salvador The city of San Salvador the capital and largest city of El Salvador, which has been designated a Gamma World City. Its complete name is La Ciudad de Gran San Salvador...		4 – 0
1982 Details	Republic of China Taipei Taipei Taipei City is the capital of the Republic of China and the central city of the largest metropolitan area of Taiwan. Situated at the northern tip of the island, Taipei is located on the Tamsui River, and is about 25 km southwest of Keelung, its port on the Pacific Ocean...		2 – 0
1986 Details	New Zealand Auckland Auckland The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...		2 – 0
1990 Details 1990 ISF Women's World Championship The 1990 ISF Women's World Championship for softball was held July 13–21, 1990 in Normal, Illinois, United States. The host United States won their second straight title after the event's final was rained out. The U.S. was given the title due to a superior ranking than the other finalist, New...	United States Normal Normal, Illinois Normal is an incorporated town in McLean County, Illinois, United States. It had a population of 52,497 as of the 2010 census. Normal is the smaller of two principal municipalities of the Bloomington-Normal metropolitan area...		—
1994 Details 1994 ISF Women's World Championship The 1994 ISF Women's World Championship for softball was held July 29-August 7, 1994 in St. John's, Newfoundland. The United States won its third consecutive title with a 6-0 victory over China. The event had 28 participating countries, the largest amount in the event's history...	Canada St. John's		6 – 0
1998 Details	Japan Fujinomiya		1 – 0
2002 Details	Canada Saskatoon Saskatoon Saskatoon is a city in central Saskatchewan, Canada, on the South Saskatchewan River. Residents of the city of Saskatoon are called Saskatonians. The city is surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Corman Park No. 344....		1 – 0
2006 Details	People's Republic of China Beijing Beijing Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...		3 – 0
2010 Details 2010 ISF Women's World Championship The 2010 ISF Women's World Championship was an international softball competition being held at Estadio La Rinconada and Estadio Fuerte Tiuna in Caracas, Venezuela from June 23 to July 2, 2010...	Venezuela Caracas Caracas Caracas , officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela; natives or residents are known as Caraquenians in English . It is located in the northern part of the country, following the contours of the narrow Caracas Valley on the Venezuelan coastal mountain range...		7 – 0
2012 Details	Canada Whitehorse Whitehorse, Yukon Whitehorse is Yukon's capital and largest city . It was incorporated in 1950 and is located at kilometre 1476 on the Alaska Highway in southern Yukon. Whitehorse's downtown and Riverdale areas occupy both shores of the Yukon River, which originates in British Columbia and meets the Bering Sea in...

Rain washed out the grand final in 1990, leading USA to win based on its record in round-robin
Round-robin
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Medal table

1	9	2	0	11
2	1	4	2	7
3	1	1	3	5
4	1	1	2	4
5	0	2	1	3
6	0	1	2	3
7	0	1	1	2
8	0	0	1	1

Results

Medal table

See also