Water polo at the 1981 World Games

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]

Medalists

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

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^ "Holland dunks Canadian women". San Jose Mercury-News. San Jose, California. July 26, 1981. p. 3E.
^ "German fin swimmer wins fourth gold medal". San Jose Mercury-News. San Jose, California. July 28, 1981. p. 3D.
^ SARGIS, JOE (July 26, 1981). "Jim Cash of Manhattan, Kan., set two world records..." United Press International.
^ SARGIS, JOE (July 28, 1981). "The Netherlands, with Ria Roos scoring four goals, buried..." United Press International.
^ "HistoFINA Water Polo Medallists and Statistics" (PDF). Lausanne, Switzerland: FINA. 2017. p. 66.
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Gold	Silver	Bronze
Netherlands 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 .	United States 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	Canada 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