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1987 Korfball World Championship

international football competition

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ4179267 ↗
Source-derived summary

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.

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

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1987 Korfball World Championship” as international football competition. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1987—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Korfball, World and Championship can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as international football competition. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “1987 Korfball World Championship” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.