Spain is the new Women's World Champion. In the final of Iquique, played in front of 1.600 fans and with thousands connected with FIRS TV from all over the world, Spain got the gold medal at the end of an amazing and exciting game against Portugal. The world title has been assigned at the last second of the first overtime; Maria Diez gave to her team the decisive point.

Now, Spain is both European and World Champion in female rink hockey.
As said before, the final game of Iquique offered the best in female rink hockey nowadays. Spain, as European Champion, was one of the most accreditated pretender to the title. And the first part of the final against Portugal seemed to confirm that. Laura Puigdueta scored the first spanish goal at th 15th minute of the 1st half and doubled at the beginning of the 2nd. In the second part of the match, Portugal performed a come back and in few minute tied the game thanks to Marta Vieira and Marlene Sousa.
The Final went so at the extratime where Spain got its victory.
The 3rd place and bronze medal went to Argentina that won 4-0 the game with France.
Iquique 2016 was the last stand-alone women's world championship; starting from 2017, this championship will be part of the World Roller Games that will take place in Nanjing, China.

13th WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS FINAL STANDING
1st - Gold Medal - SPAIN - New world Champion
2nd - Silver Medal - PORTUGAL
3rd - Bronze Medal - ARGENTINA
4th - France
5th - Chile
6th - Colombia
7th - Italy
8th - Germany
9th - Brazil
10th - Usa
11th - South Africa
12th - India
13th - Egypt

Results and standings are available in this page.
Complete videos and highlights of every game are available in this page.
More pictures are available on FIRS facebook page.

SPAIN – PORTUGAL 3-2 at golden goal (1st half: 1-0)
SPAIN: 1 – Laura Vicente, 2 – Natasha Lee, 3 – Laura Puigdueta, 4 – Berta Tarrida, 5 – Anna Casarramona, 6 – Marta Gonzales, 7 – Maria Diez, 8 -Berta Busquets, 9 - Sara Gonzales, 10 – Teresa Bernadas. Coach: Alejandro Dominguez.
PORTUGAL: 1 - Claudia Vicente, 2 – Ana Ferreira, 3 – Beatriz Figueredo, 4 – Ines Vicente, 5 – Marlene Sousa, 6 – Renata Balonas, 7 – Marta Vieira, 8 – Sofia Silva, 9 – Rute Lopes, 10 – Maria Celeste Vieira. Coach: Carlos Pires.
REFEREES: José Risso (Argentina), Ulderico Barbarasi (Italy). Table referee: Christian Madariaga (Chile).
SCORERS
1ST HALF: L.Puigdueta.
2ND HALF: L.Puigdueta,M.Vieira, M.Sousa.
1ST OVERTIME: M.Diez

FRANCE – ARGENTINA 0-4 (1st half: 0-2)
FRANCE: 1 – Lucie Gohet, 2 – Vanessa Daribo, 3 – Camille Renier, 4 – Julie Lafourcade, 5 – Nolwenn Bena, 6 – Claire Fay, 7 – Celia Gohet, 8 – Emilie Laboyrie-Couderc, 9 – Frederique Denest, 10 Flora Michoud-Godard. Coach: Stephan Herin.
ARGENTINA: 1 – Andrea Jara, 2 – Lorena Rodriguez, 3 – Daiana Silva, 4 – Valentina Fernandez, 5 – Adriana Gutierrez, 6 – Julieta Fernandez, 7 – Luciana Agudo, 8 – Solome Rodriguez, 9 – Veronica Dieguez, 10 – Anabella Flores. Coach: Nestor Perea.
REFEREES: Álvaro Meza (Chile), Daniel Löwe (Germany). Table referee: Josep Navarro (Spain)
SCORERS
1ST HALF: A.Gutierrez, L.Rodriguez.
2ND HALF: A.Gutierrez, D.Silva

GERMANY – ITALIA 1-2 after penalties (1st half: 0-0)
GERMANY: 1 – Annika De Beauregard, 2 – Anna Hartje, 3 – Maren Wichardt, 4 – Franziska Neubert, 5 – Katharina Neubert, 6 – Laura La Rocca, 7 – Simone Firll, 8 – Britt Stina Johansson, 9 – Kim Alina Kenchels, 10 – Christina Klein. Coach: Quim Puigvert.
ITALY: 1-Veronica Caretta, 2 – Alice Sartori, 3 - Maria Teresa Mele, 4 – Francesca Maniero, 5 – Giulia Galeassi, 6 – Pamela Lapolla, 7 – Erika Ghirardello, 8 – Elena Tamiozzo, 9 – Elena Toffanin, 10 – Sara Zarantonello. Coach: Pino Marzella
REFEREES Josep Navarro (Spain), Ricardo Leão (Portugal). Table referee: Boris Tarassioux (France).
SCORERS
PENALTIES: E.Ghirardello, P.Lapolla, M.Wichardt.

COLOMBIA – CHILE 0-3 (1st half: 0-1)
COLOMBIA: 1 – Carolina Correa, 2 – Catalina Martinez, 3 – Camila Morales, 4 – Andrea Rodriguez, 5 – Juanita Alzate, 6 – Ana Maria Ferreira, 7 – Sara Bedoya, 8 – Paula Gutierrez, 9 – Diana Rivas, 10 – Maria Jose Giraldo. Coach: Andrè Torres.
CHILE: Fernanda Idalgo, Fernanda Tapia, Alex Tapia, Carolina Zuniga, Gigliola Berloffa, Beatriz Gaete, Fernanda Urrea, Catalina Flores, Francisca Puertas, Francisca Donoso. Coach: Rodrigo Quintanilla
REFEREES. Boris Tarassioux (France), Leandro Agra (Brasil). Table referee: Daniel Löewe (Germany).
SCORERS
1ST HALF: F.Donoso,
2ND HALF: C.Flores, C.Zuniga

SOUTH AFRICA – BRAZIL 2-3 (1st half: 0-1)
SOUTH AFRICA: 1 - Samantha Dube, 2 – Andreia Da Silva, 4 – Bianca Dias, 5 – Ana Bela Peleias, 7 – Monique Jardim, 12 – Gabriela Da Costa, 13 – Alexia Katia De Sa, 99 – Tsheamo Sefoloshe. Coach: Joaquim Coimbra.
BRAZIL: 1 – Silvana Nishi, 2 – Francine Paiva, 4 – Leticia Pestana, 5 – Beatriz Ramos, 6 – Mariane Oliveira, 7 – Adriana Costa, 8 – Andrea Regueira, 9 – Marilia Pestana, 10 – Brigida Sousa. Coach: Ricardo Bouchardet.
REFEREES: Christian Madariaga (Chile), Germán Pinto (Colombia). Table referee: Ricardo Leão (Portugal).
SCORERS
1ST HALF: A.Regueira.
2ND HALF: G.Da Costa, M.Pestana, A.Costa, M.Jardim

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