2017 Women's EuroHockey Championship III
The 2017 Women's EuroHockey Championship III was the 7th edition of the Women's EuroHockey Championship III. It was held in Sveti Ivan Zelina, Croatia from 30 July until 5 August 2017. The tournament also served as a qualifier for the 2019 Women's EuroHockey Championship II, with the winner qualifying.


2017 Women's EuroHockey Championship III, Format
The five teams were placed in a single pool. Each team played the other four teams once. The final results from those games are also the final standings with the first ranked team qualifying for the 2019 Women's EuroHockey Championship II.


2017 Women's EuroHockey Club Trophy
The 2017 Women's EuroHockey Club Trophy was the 41st edition of the women's Women's EuroHockey Club Trophy, Europe's secondary club field hockey tournament organized by the EHF. It was held from 2 to 5 June 2017 in Munich, Germany.


2017 Women's EuroHockey Club Trophy
Münchner won the tournament after defeating Club de Campo 1–0 in the final. Minsk finished third, after defeating Grodno 5–4 in the third place playoff.


2017 Women's EuroHockey Junior Championship
The 2017 Women's EuroHockey Junior Championships was the 18th edition of the Women's EuroHockey Junior Championship, an under 21 women's field hockey tournament. It was held in Valencia, Spain between 28 August and 3 September 2017.


2017 Women's EuroHockey Junior Championship
Netherlands won the tournament by defeating Belgium 6–0 in the final. England won the bronze medal by defeating Germany 3–2 in the third-place playoff.


2017 Women's EuroHockey Junior Championship, Statistics, Final Standings
As per statistical convention in field hockey, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.


2017 Women's EuroHockey Junior Championship, Statistics, Goalscorers
There were 50 goals scored in 14 matches, for an average of 3.57 goals per match.


2017 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship
The 2017 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship was the 13th edition of the women's field hockey championship organised by the European Hockey Federation. It was held from 18–26 August 2017 in the Wagener Stadium, Amstelveen, Netherlands. The tournament also served as a qualifier for the 2018 Women's Hockey World Cup, with the winner qualifying.


2017 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship
The Netherlands won their ninth overall title by defeating Belgium 3–0 in the final, while England capture the third place by beating Germany 2–0.


2017 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship, Format
The eight teams are split into two groups of four teams. The top two teams advance to the semifinals to determine the winner in a knockout system. The bottom two teams play in a new group with the teams they did not play against in the group stage. The last two teams will be relegated to the EuroHockey Nations Challenge.


2017 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship, Results, Fifth to eighth place classification, Pool C
The points obtained in the preliminary round against the other team are taken over.


2017 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship squads
This article displays the rosters for the teams competing at the 2017 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship. Each team had to submit 18 players.


2017 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship squads, Pool A, Belgium
The following 18 players were selected in the Belgium squad.


2017 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship squads, Pool A, Czech Republic
The following 18 players were selected in the Czech Republic squad.


2017 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship squads, Pool A, Netherlands
The following 18 players were selected in the Netherlands squad.


2017 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship squads, Pool A, Spain
The following 18 players were selected in the Spain squad.


2017 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship squads, Pool B, England
The following 18 players were selected in the England squad.


2017 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship squads, Pool B, Germany
The following 18 players were selected in the Germany squad.


2017 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship squads, Pool B, Ireland
The following 18 players were selected in the Ireland squad.


2017 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship squads, Pool B, Scotland
The following 18 players were selected in the Scotland squad.


2017 Women's European Union Amateur Boxing Championships
The 2017 Women's European Union Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Cascia, Italy from 4 to 12 August 2017. This was the 8th edition of this competition organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, the European Boxing Confederation (EUBC).


2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship
The 2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship was the 30th edition of the European Volleyball Championship, organised by Europe's governing volleyball body, the Confédération Européenne de Volleyball. The tournament was co-hosted by Azerbaijan and Georgia, and was held between 22 September and 1 October 2017.


2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship
Serbia defeated Netherlands in the final to capture their second european title. Turkey defeated Azerbaijan for the bronze medal. Tijana Bošković from Serbia was elected the MVP.


2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship, Format
The tournament is played in two different stages. In the first stage, the sixteen participants are divided in four groups of four teams each. A single round-robin format is played within each group to determine the teams' group position (as per criteria below). The three best teams of each group (total of 12 teams) progress to the second stage, with group winners advancing to the quarterfinals while second and third placed teams advancing to the playoffs.


2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship, Format, Pool standing criteria
Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loserMatch won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser


2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship, Format, Pool standing criteria
The second stage of the tournament consists of a single-elimination, with winners advancing to the next round. First, the playoff is played (involving groups second and third places) to determine which teams will join the group winners in the quarterfinals, followed by semifinals, 3rd place match and final.


2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship, Venues
Three venues (each in a different city) were selected to be used in the tournament. Two located in Azerbaijan (at Baku and Ganja) and one in Georgia (at Tbilisi).


2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship, Preliminary round
All times are Azerbaijan Time (AZT) / Georgia Time (GET) (UTC+04:00).


2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship qualification
This is an article about qualification for the 2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship.


2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship qualification, Pool standing procedure
Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loserMatch won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser


2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship qualification, Direct qualification
The host country team(s) and the best ranked teams in 2015 European Championship, total 7 teams, directly qualified for 2017 European Championship.


2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship qualification, First round
First round was held 20–22 May 2016. 8 teams competed in two first round tournaments consisting of 4 teams. The top ranked teams of each pools and the best 2nd placed teams with the best score qualified for the second round.


2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship qualification, Second round
24 teams competed in the second round, where each pool of 4 teams played in 2 tournaments in 15–25 September 2016. The 1st placed teams of each pool qualified directly for the 2017 Championship. The 2nd placed teams of each pool qualified for the third round.


2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship qualification, Third round
The 2nd placed teams of the second round will play one home and one away match to determine the 3 winners who will then subsequently be qualified through to the 2017 Championship. The third round matches will be held on 1–9 October 2016.


2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship squads
This article shows the rosters of all participating teams at the Women's European Championship 2017 in Baku and Ganja, Azerbaijan and Tbilisi, Georgia.


2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship squads, Overview
Each of the 16 teams submitted a preliminary 'long list' with a maximum of 22 players, for the final tournament a maximum of 14 players from the 'long list' were eligible to compete.


2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship squads, Pool A, Azerbaijan
The following is the Azerbaijan roster in the 2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship. Only the players in bold took part in the final tournament (see 'Overview' section).


2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship squads, Pool A, Germany
The following is the German roster in the 2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship. Only the players in bold took part in the final tournament (see 'Overview' section).


2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship squads, Pool A, Hungary
The following is the Hungarian roster in the 2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship. Only the players in bold took part in the final tournament (see 'Overview' section).


2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship squads, Pool A, Poland
The following is the Polish roster in the 2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship. Only the players in bold took part in the final tournament (see 'Overview' section).


2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship squads, Pool B, Belarus
The following is the Belarusian roster in the 2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship. Only the players in bold took part in the final tournament (see 'Overview' section).


2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship squads, Pool B, Croatia
The following is the Croatian roster in the 2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship. Only the players in bold took part in the final tournament (see 'Overview' section).


2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship squads, Pool B, Georgia
The following is the Georgian roster in the 2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship. Only the players in bold took part in the final tournament (see 'Overview' section).


2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship squads, Pool B, Italy
The following is the Italian roster in the 2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship. Only the players in bold took part in the final tournament (see 'Overview' section).


2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship squads, Pool C, Bulgaria
The following is the Bulgarian roster in the 2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship. Only the players in bold took part in the final tournament (see 'Overview' section).


2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship squads, Pool C, Russia
The following is the Russian roster in the 2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship. Only the players in bold took part in the final tournament (see 'Overview' section).


2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship squads, Pool C, Turkey
The following is the Turkish roster in the 2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship. Only the players in bold took part in the final tournament (see 'Overview' section).


2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship squads, Pool C, Ukraine
The following is the Ukrainian roster in the 2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship. Only the players in bold took part in the final tournament (see 'Overview' section).


2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship squads, Pool D, Belgium
The following is the Belgian roster in the 2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship. Only the players in bold took part in the final tournament (see 'Overview' section).


2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship squads, Pool D, Czech Republic
The following is the Czech roster in the 2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship. Only the players in bold took part in the final tournament (see 'Overview' section).


2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship squads, Pool D, Netherlands
The following is the Dutch roster in the 2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship. Only the players in bold took part in the final tournament (see 'Overview' section).


2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship squads, Pool D, Serbia
The following is the Serbian roster in the 2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship. Only the players in bold took part in the final tournament (see 'Overview' section).


2017 Women's European Volleyball League
The 2017 Women's European Volleyball League was the ninth edition of the annual Women's European Volleyball League, which features women's national volleyball teams from twelve European countries.


2017 Women's European Volleyball League
In their first appearance in the competition, Ukraine won the title after defeating Finland in the final.


2017 Women's European Volleyball League, Final four
The top placed team from each group and the best second-placed team will qualify for the final four.


2017 Women's Ford National Hockey League
The 2017 Women's Ford National Hockey League was the 19th edition of the women's field hockey tournament. The competition was held in Wellington, New Zealand from 16–24 September.


2017 Women's Ford National Hockey League
The tournament saw an increase to eight teams from the seven that contested the 2016 edition.


2017 Women's Ford National Hockey League
Midlands won the title for the second time, defeating Northland 4–2 in the final. Auckland finished third after defeating North Harbour 3–0 in a penalty shoot-out after the third place match finished 1–1.


2017 Women's Ford National Hockey League, Statistics, Goalscorers
There were 89 goals scored in 24 matches, for an average of 3.71 goals per match.


2017 Women's Four Nations Cup
The 2018 Women's Four Nations Cup was the seventh Hockey Four Nations Cup, an international women's field hockey tournament, consisting of a series of test matches. It was held in Germany, from June 15 to 18, 2017, and featured four of the top nations in women's field hockey.


2017 Women's Four Nations Cup, Competition format
The tournament featured the national teams of China, Ireland, South Korea, and the hosts, Germany, competing in a round-robin format, with each team playing each other once. Three points were be awarded for a win, one for a draw, and none for a loss.


2017 Women's Four Nations Tournament
The 2017 Women's Four Nations Tournament (Torneio Quatro Nações) in Portuguese, was the 2nd edition of the Women's Four Nations Tournament held in São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil between 9–11 June as a Women's friendly handball tournament organised by the Brazilian Handball Confederation.


2017 Women's Hockey Africa Cup of Nations
The 2017 Women's Hockey Africa Cup of Nations was the seventh edition of the Women's Hockey Africa Cup of Nations, the quadrennial international women's field hockey championship of Africa organised by the African Hockey Federation. It was held in Ismailia, Egypt from 22 to 29 October 2017.


2017 Women's Hockey Africa Cup of Nations
Zambia withdrew before the tournament. The winner qualified for the 2018 Women's Hockey World Cup.


2017 Women's Hockey Africa Cup of Nations
The five-time defending champions South Africa won their sixth title.


2017 Women's Hockey Asia Cup
The 2017 Women's Hockey Asia Cup was the ninth edition of the Women's Hockey Asia Cup. It was held from 28 October to 5 November 2017 in Kakamigahara, Gifu, Japan. The winner of this tournament qualified for the 2018 World Cup in England.


2017 Women's Hockey Asia Cup
India won their second title, after beating China in the final.


2017 Women's Hockey Asia Cup, Results, First round, Pool A
Both matches were scheduled for 29 October, but were moved due to heavy rain.


2017 Women's Ice Hockey World Championships
The 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championship was the 19th such event hosted by the International Ice Hockey Federation. Teams participated at several levels of competition. The competition also served as qualifications for the 2018 competition. At the 2017 annual congress it was decided that the top level would expand from eight to ten teams. As a result all relegation from the 2017 tournaments were cancelled, and there would also be no relegation in all 2018 tournaments.


2017 Women's Ice Hockey World Championships, Championship (Top Division)
The tournament was held in Plymouth Township, Michigan, United States from 31 March to 7 April 2017.


2017 Women's Ice Hockey World Championships, Division I, Group A
The tournament was held in Graz, Austria from 15 to 21 April 2017.


2017 Women's Ice Hockey World Championships, Division I, Group B
The tournament was held in Katowice, Poland from 8 to 14 April 2017.


2017 Women's Ice Hockey World Championships, Division II, Group A
The tournament was held in Gangneung, South Korea from 2 to 8 April 2017.


2017 Women's Ice Hockey World Championships, Division II, Group B
The tournament was held in Reykjavík, Iceland from 27 February to 5 March 2017.


2017 Women's Ice Hockey World Championships, Division II, Division B Qualification
The tournament was held in Taipei, Chinese Taipei from 12 to 17 December 2016.


2017 Women's Indoor Hockey Asia Cup
The 2017 Women's Indoor Asia Cup was the sixth edition of the Women's Indoor Hockey Asia Cup. It was held in Doha, Qatar from 24–28 April 2017.


2017 Women's Indoor Hockey Asia Cup
The number of teams for this year’s cup wasincreased by one compared to the previous tournament where five teams competed. Cambodia and Hong Kong, who competed previously, not joined this year’s edition and be replaced by Malaysia, North Korea, and China.


2017 Women's Indoor Hockey Asia Cup
Kazakhstan defeated Malaysia in the final to win the cup and secured a place in 2018 Women's Indoor Hockey World Cup.


2017 Women's Indoor Pan American Cup
The 2014 Women's Indoor Pan American Cup was the 7th edition of the Indoor Pan American Cup, an indoor hockey competition. The tournament was held in Georgetown, Guyana, from 16–21 October.


2017 Women's Indoor Pan American Cup
The United States won the tournament for the first time, defeating Argentina 2–1 in the final. Uruguay won the bronze medal after defeating Canada 3–2 in the third place match.


2017 Women's Indoor Pan American Cup, Statistics, Goalscorers
There were 156 goals scored in 25 matches, for an average of 6.24 goals per match.


2017 Women's International Festival of Hockey
The 2017 Women's International Festival of Hockey is the second edition of the annual International Festival of Hockey. The tournament will be held in Victoria, Australia. The tournament will take place between 5–12 November in the Victorian cities, Melbourne and Bendigo. Four teams will compete in the tournament, an increase from two at the previous edition.


2017 Women's International Festival of Hockey, Results, Bendigo
The first stage of the tournament was a test match in Bendigo at the Bendigo Hockey Complex.


2017 Women's International Festival of Hockey, Results, Melbourne
The second stage of the tournament is a 4 team competition at the State Netball and Hockey Centre in Melbourne.


2017 Women's International Match Racing Series
The 2017 Women's International Match Racing Series was a series of match racing sailing regattas staged during 2017 season.


2017 Women's International Tournament of Spain
The 2017 Women's International Tournament of Spain was the 21st edition of the Women's International Tournament Of Spain, held in Melilla, Spain between 24–26 November as a friendly handball tournament organised by the Royal Spanish Handball Federation as a preparation of the host nation to the 2017 World Women's Handball Championship.


2017 Women's Junior Pan-American Volleyball Cup
The 2017 Women's Junior Pan-American Volleyball Cup was the fourth edition of the bi-annual women's volleyball tournament. Nine teams participated in this edition held in San José, Costa Rica.


2017 Women's Knockout Cup
The 2017 Women's Knockout Cup is New Zealand's women's 24th knockout football competition.


2017 Women's Knockout Cup
The 2017 competition had three rounds before quarter-finals, semi-finals, and a final. Competition was run in three regions (northern, central, southern) until the quarter-finals, from which stage the draw was open. In all, 38 teams entered the competition.


2017 Women's Knockout Cup, The 2017 final
The 2017 final was played between two Auckland teams Glenfield Rovers and Eastern Suburbs at QBE Stadium before the men's Chatham Cup final. This was Glenfield Rovers seventh final appearance, having won three and lost three previously including the 2016 final, while Eastern Suburbs have only been in the final once before in 2005 where they lost to Lynn-Avon United. Glenfield went on to win the game 5–4 which was slightly generous to Suburbs in a game where Glenfield created more chances. Kate Loye from Rovers was the winner of the Maia Jackman trophy for the most valuable player.


2017 Women's LEN Super Cup
The 2017 Women's LEN Super Cup was the 12th edition of the annual trophy organised by LEN and contested by the reigning champions of the two European competitions for women's water polo clubs. The contending teams were Russia's Kinef Kirishi (2016–17 Euro League champions) and Hungary's UVSE (winners of the 2016–17 LEN Trophy). The match was played just before the Men's Super Cup at the Császár-Komjádi Béla Uszoda, in Budapest, on 4 November 2017.


2017 Women's LEN Super Cup
This was the first appearance in the Super Cup final for both teams, which won their first continental cup in the 2016–17 season. The European champions of Kinef Kirishi defeated 10–6 the home team of UVSE and won the Trophy.


2017 Women's Lacrosse World Cup
The 2017 FIL Women's Lacrosse World Cup, the tenth World Cup, is the preeminent international women's lacrosse tournament. The tournament is being held at the Surrey Sports Park in Guildford, Surrey, in the South East of England, with 25 nations competing. Rathbones Investment Management plc committed as the title sponsor for the event in 2014.


2017 Women's Lacrosse World Cup, Introduction
The 2017 Rathbones Women's Lacrosse World Cup is an official Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL) event and will be organised and managed by the English Lacrosse Association. This tournament was first held in 1982 and is held every four years. This will be the third time that England has hosted the World Cup having previously hosted the tournament in 1982 and 2001.


2017 Women's Lacrosse World Cup, Format
The seeding structure for the FIL Rathbones Women’s Lacrosse World Cup has been calculated through use of placing positions from the 2013 World Cup in Canada. Nations who are playing in the World Cup for the first time were placed based on previous results, geographic diversity and their 2016 European Championship placing position.


2017 Women's Lacrosse World Cup, Format
The pools played a round robin between 12 and 18 July. The top placing teams from Pools B, C, D and E will play off to decide which 2 nations qualify to play in the Championship Division. Pool A members all advance to the Championship Division because it is composed of the top teams, according to World Lacrosse.


2017 Women's Lacrosse World Cup, Format
The nations were split up to play in the Championship Division (Teams 1-8), Platinum Division (Teams 9-16) and Diamond Division (Teams 17-25).


2017 Women's League1 Ontario season
The 2017 Women's League1 Ontario season is the third season of play for League1 Ontario, a Division 3 semi-professional soccer league in the Canadian soccer pyramid and the highest level of soccer based in the Canadian province of Ontario.


2017 Women's League1 Ontario season
For the first time, the league expanded to include teams in the nation's capital, Ottawa, allowing it to span from the western to eastern borders of southern Ontario.


2017 Women's League1 Ontario season, Changes from 2016
The women's division grew from nine to eleven teams, with the addition of Toronto Azzurri Blizzard, Unionville Milliken SC, and West Ottawa SC, while the Kingston Clippers women's side did not return for play.


2017 Women's League1 Ontario season, Standings
Each team plays 20 matches as part of the season; two games split home and away against every other team in the division. There are no playoffs; the first-place team is crowned as league champion at the end of the season.


2017 Women's League1 Ontario season, Cup
The cup tournament is a separate contest from the rest of the season, in which all eleven teams from the women's division take part. It is not a form of playoffs at the end of the season (as is typically seen in North American sports), but is more like the Canadian Championship or the FA Cup, albeit only for League1 Ontario teams. All matches are separate from the regular season and are not reflected in the season standings.


2017 Women's League1 Ontario season, Cup
The cup tournament for the women's division is a single-match knockout tournament with four total rounds culminating in a final match in the start of August, with initial matchups determined by random draw. Each match in the tournament must return a result; any match drawn after 90 minutes will advance directly to kicks from the penalty mark instead of extra time.


2017 Women's League1 Ontario season, Statistics, Top Goalkeepers
Updated to matches played on October 8, 2017. Minimum 540 minutes played. Source:


2017 Women's League1 Ontario season, All-Star Game
On June 28, the league announced that this year's all-star game would take place against the Ontario team competing in the 2017 Canada Summer Games. The rosters for this game will be selected by team & league officials, and was announced on July 25th.


2017 Women's March
The Women's March was a worldwide protest on January 21, 2017, the day after the inauguration of President Donald Trump. It was prompted by the fact that several of Trump's statements were considered by many as anti-women or otherwise offensive to women. It was the largest single-day protest in U.S. history. The goal of the annual marches is to advocate legislation and policies regarding human rights and other issues, including women's rights, immigration reform, healthcare reform, disability justice, reproductive rights, the environment, LGBTQ rights, racial equality, freedom of religion, workers' rights and tolerance. According to organizers, the goal was to "send a bold message to our new administration on their first day in office, and to the world that women's rights are human rights".


2017 Women's March
The main protest was in Washington, D.C., and is known as the Women's March on Washington with many other marches taking place worldwide. The Washington March was streamed live on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. The Washington March drew over 470,000 people. Between 3,267,134 and 5,246,670 people participated in the marches in the U.S., approximately 1.0 to 1.6 percent of the U.S. population. Worldwide participation has been estimated at over seven million. At least 408 marches were reported to have been planned in the U.S. and 168 in 81 other countries.


2017 Women's March
After the marches, organizers reported that around 673 marches took place worldwide, on all seven continents, 29 in Canada, 20 in Mexico, and 1 in Antarctica. The crowds were peaceful: no arrests were made in D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, or Seattle, where a combined total of about two million people marched. The organization's website states that they wanted to adhere to "the nonviolent ideology of the Civil Rights movement". Following the march, the organizers of the Women's March on Washington posted the "10 Actions for the first 100 Days" campaign for joint activism to keep up momentum from the march.


2017 Women's March, Background, Organizers
On November 9, 2016, the first day after Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, in reaction to Trump's election campaign and political views, and to his defeat of presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, Teresa Shook of Hawaii created a Facebook event and invited friends to march on Washington in protest. Similar Facebook pages created by Evvie Harmon, Fontaine Pearson, Bob Bland (a New York fashion designer), Breanne Butler, and others quickly led to thousands of women signing up to march.


2017 Women's March, Background, Organizers
Harmon, Pearson, and Butler decided to unite their efforts and consolidate their pages, beginning the official Women's March on Washington. To ensure that the march was led by women of differing races and backgrounds, Vanessa Wruble, co-founder, and co-president of Okayafrica, served as Head of Campaign Operations and brought on Tamika D. Mallory, Carmen Perez and Linda Sarsour to serve as National Co-Chairs alongside Bland. Former Miss New Jersey USA Janaye Ingram served as Head of Logistics. Filmmaker Paola Mendoza served as Artistic Director and a National Organizer.


2017 Women's March, Background, Organizers
During "the first hours of the first meeting for what would become the Women's March," Mallory and Perez allegedly put forward a debunked antisemitic conspiracy theory regarding Jews and the slave trade. No one who was in the room spoke about it for almost two years. Mallory and Bland deny that the offensive content in the conversation took place, but, according to Tablet Magazine, "multiple sources with knowledge of what happened confirmed the story."


2017 Women's March, Background, Organizers
Several journalists who shared the story were emailed by a PR agency which claimed to be able to disprove the article, but would only share their information on condition of journalists keeping it off the record. Andrea González-Ramírez, a journalist from Refinery29, claimed to have agreed to the PR firm's request, but the PR firm's fact checking failed to disprove Tablet Magazines claims.


2017 Women's March, Background, Organizers
According to The New York Times, opposition to and defiance of Trump infused the protests, which were sometimes directly called anti-Trump protests. Organizers stated that they were "not targeting Trump specifically" and that the event was "more about being proactive about women's rights". Sarsour called it "a stand on social justice and human rights issues ranging from race, ethnicity, gender, religion, immigration and healthcare". Wruble stated that "it's about feminism [… ] But it's about more than that: It's about basic equality for all people."


2017 Women's March, Background, Organizers
Planned Parenthood partnered with the march by providing staff and offering knowledge related to planning a large-scale event. Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards said that the march would "send a strong message to the incoming administration that millions of people across this country are prepared to fight attacks on reproductive healthcare, abortion services and access to Planned Parenthood, [which] hopes that [in the future] many of the protesters will mobilize in its defense when Trump and congressional Republicans make their attempt to strip the organization of millions in federal funding". The national organizing director stressed the importance of continuing action at a local level and remaining active after the event.


2017 Women's March, Background, National co-chairs
Vanessa Wruble, co-founder, brought on Tamika D. Mallory, Carmen Perez and Linda Sarsour to serve as National Co-Chairs alongside Bob Bland. The four co-chairs were Linda Sarsour, the executive director of the Arab American Association of New York; Tamika Mallory, a political organizer and former executive director of the National Action Network; Carmen Perez, an executive director of the political action group The Gathering for Justice; and Bob Bland, a fashion designer who focuses on ethical manufacturing. Gloria Steinem, Harry Belafonte, LaDonna Harris, Angela Davis and Dolores Huerta served as honorary co-chairs.


2017 Women's March, Background, International
Seven women coordinated marches outside the U.S. The women were: Brit-Agnes Svaeri, Oslo, Norway; Marissa McTasney, Toronto, Canada; Karen Olson, Geneva, Switzerland; Kerry Haggerty, London, United Kingdom; Rebecca Turnbow, Sydney, Australia; and Breanne Butler and Evvie Harmon in the United States. The women organized the international marches through social media and had weekly Skype meetings to plot strategy.


2017 Women's March, Background, Policy platform
On January 12, the march organizers released a policy platform addressing reproductive rights, immigration reform, healthcare reform, religious discrimination (primarily that against Muslim Americans), LGBTQ rights, gender and racial inequities (primarily those that favor men and Non-Hispanic whites, respectively), workers' rights, and other issues. "Build bridges, not walls" (a reference to Trump's proposals for a border wall) became popular worldwide after the Trump's inaugural address, and was a common refrain throughout the march.


2017 Women's March, Background, Policy platform
The organizers also addressed environmental issues: "We believe that every person and every community in our nation has the right to clean water, clean air, and access to and enjoyment of public lands. We believe that our environment and our climate must be protected and that our land and natural resources cannot be exploited for corporate gain or greed—especially at the risk of public safety and health."


2017 Women's March, Preparation and planning, Name origin
Originally billed as the "Million Women March," Wruble renamed the event to mirror the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the historic civil rights rally on the Mall where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. The rally also paid tribute to the 1997 Million Woman March in Philadelphia, in which hundreds of thousands of African American women are said to have participated.


2017 Women's March, Preparation and planning, Logistics planning
Because of scheduling conflicts at the Lincoln Memorial, a permit was secured on December 9 to start the march on Independence Avenue at the southwest corner of the Capitol building and continue along the National Mall.


2017 Women's March, Preparation and planning, Logistics planning
By January 20, 2017, 222,000 people had RSVP'd as going to the Washington, D.C., march and 251,000 had indicated interest. On January 16, 2017, Fox News reported that authorities were expecting "a crowd of almost 500,000 people", and the permit for the march issued by the National Park Service was revised by the head of D.C.'s Homeland Security department to half a million people—significantly more than the estimated attendance at President Donald Trump's inauguration ceremony the previous day.


2017 Women's March, Preparation and planning, Partnerships
In late December, organizers announced that over 100 organizations would provide assistance during the march and support the event across their social media platforms. By January 18, more than 400 organizations were listed as "partners" on the March's official website.


2017 Women's March, Preparation and planning, Partnerships
Planned Parenthood (which has received federal funding since 1970, when President Richard Nixon signed into law the Family Planning Services and Population Research Act) and the Natural Resources Defense Council were listed as the two "premier partners". Other organizations listed as partners included the AFL–CIO, Amnesty International USA, the Mothers of the Movement, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, the National Organization for Women, MoveOn.org, Human Rights Watch, Code Pink, Black Girls Rock!, the NAACP, the American Indian Movement, Emily's List, Oxfam, Greenpeace USA, and the League of Women Voters.


2017 Women's March, Preparation and planning, Partnerships
On January 13, event organizers granted the anti-abortion feminist group New Wave Feminists partnership status. But after the organization's involvement was publicized in The Atlantic, it was removed from the partners page on the march's website. Other anti-abortion groups that had been granted partnership status, including Abby Johnson's And Then There Were None (ATTWN) and Stanton Healthcare, were subsequently unlisted as partners as well. New Wave Feminists and Johnson still participated in the official march, alongside other anti-abortion groups such as ATTWN, Students for Life of America, and Life Matters Journal.


2017 Women's March, Participation
While organizers had originally expected over 200,000 people, the march ended up drawing between 440,000 to 500,000 in Washington D.C. The Washington Metro system had its second-busiest day ever with over a million trips taken, considerably larger than the inauguration day's ridership and second only to the first inauguration of Barack Obama. The New York Times reported that crowd-scientists estimate that the Women's March was three times the size of the Trump inauguration, which they estimate at 160,000 attendees. However, The Washington Post and The New York Times have stated that it is difficult to accurately calculate crowd size and other estimates of the Trump inauguration range from 250,000 to 600,000 people.


2017 Women's March, Participation
An estimated 3,300,000 – 4,600,000 people participated in the United States and up to 5 million did worldwide.


2017 Women's March, Participation
Packed cars, buses, airplanes, and trains commuted protesters to the march. The large crowds enabled Washington's Subway to break 1,000,000 passengers for only the second time in its history. The 1,001,613 trips are the second busiest day, the highest counted total (as the highest, from Obama's First Inauguration is only an estimate) and the highest single-day ridership for a weekend day breaking the previous record of 825,437 trips set during the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. It was also reported that over 45,000 disabled people in attendance, led by the organizing efforts of disability justice activist Mia Ives-Rublee.


2017 Women's March, Participation, Washington, D.C., Speakers
The official list of speakers included America Ferrera, Scarlett Johansson, and Gloria Steinem. Other speakers were Sophie Cruz, Angela Davis, and Michael Moore, as well as Cecile Richards, Ilyasah Shabazz, Janet Mock, LaDonna Harris, Janelle Monáe, Maryum Ali, Rabbi Sharon Brous, Sister Simone Campbell, Ashley Judd, Melissa Harris-Perry, Randi Weingarten, Van Jones, Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, Roslyn Brock, Mayor Muriel Bowser, Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and Kamala Harris (D-CA), Donna Hylton, Ai-jen Poo, and Raquel Willis.


2017 Women's March, Participation, Washington, D.C., Speakers
Steinem commented "Our constitution does not begin with 'I, the President.' It begins with, 'We, the People.' I am proud to be one of thousands who have come to Washington to make clear that we will keep working for a democracy in which we are linked as human beings, not ranked by race or gender or class or any other label."


2017 Women's March, Participation, Washington, D.C., Speakers
Ferrera stated, "If we – the millions of Americans who believe in common decency, in the greater good, in justice for all – if we fall into the trap by separating ourselves by our causes and our labels, then we will weaken our fight and we will lose. But if we commit to what aligns us, if we stand together steadfast and determined, then we stand a chance of saving the soul of our country."


2017 Women's March, Participation, Washington, D.C., Speakers
Johansson called for long-term change: "Once the heaviness [of the election] began to subside, an opportunity has presented itself to make real long-term change, not just for future Americans, but in the way we view our responsibility to get involved with and stay active in our communities. Let this weight not drag you down, but help to get your heels stuck in."


2017 Women's March, Participation, Washington, D.C., Speakers
The youngest presenter at the Washington D.C. march, 6-year-old Sophie Cruz, said, "Let us fight with love, faith, and courage so that our families will not be destroyed," and ended her speech saying, "I also want to tell the children not to be afraid, because we are not alone. There are still many people that have their hearts filled with love. Let's keep together and fight for the rights. God is with us." Cruz repeated her speech in Spanish.


2017 Women's March, Participation, Washington, D.C., Speakers
Alicia Keys performed at the rally saying, "We are mothers. We are caregivers. We are artists. We are activists. We are entrepreneurs, doctors, leaders of industry and technology. Our potential is unlimited. We rise." Angela Davis said, "We recognize that we are collective agents of history and that history cannot be deleted like web pages." Maryum Ali also spoke, saying, "Don't get frustrated, get involved. Don't complain, organize."


2017 Women's March, Participation, Other U.S. locations
Across the United States, there were a total of 408 planned marches.


2017 Women's March, Participation, International
Marches occurred worldwide, with 198 in 84 other countries. Organisers of the event reported 673 marches worldwide, including 20 in Mexico and 29 in Canada. Women in India also organized a nationwide march on January 21, 2017, called I Will Go Out to demand access to safe public spaces. It was held in small countries such as Belgium, Costa Rica, Latvia. The movement also took place in countries in Africa, including Kenya, Nigeria, and Tanzania all held marches calling for women to have equal rights, and specifically demanding an end to violence against women.


2017 Women's March, Participation, Participation by well-known people, Political figures
U.S. Senator Cory Booker, former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, and civil rights activist Jesse Jackson attended the Washington march. Anne-Marie Slaughter, president of New America and former Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. State Department, attended the New York City march. John Lewis attended the Atlanta rally, which saw more than 60,000 march to the Georgia State Capitol.


2017 Women's March, Participation, Participation by well-known people, Political figures
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont delivered a speech at the march in Montpelier in front of the Vermont State House, as did other Vermont political figures, such as former Governor Madeleine Kunin and current Lieutenant Governor David Zuckerman. Both Massachusetts Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey participated in the Boston Women's March, along with Mayor Marty Walsh.


2017 Women's March, Participation, Participation by well-known people, Political figures
Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand since October 2017, gave a speech after marching in Auckland; New Zealand was chronologically the first country in the world to participate in the march.


2017 Women's March, Participation, Participation by well-known people, Additional celebrity participation
In San Francisco, performer and activist Joan Baez serenaded the crowd with "We Shall Overcome" in Spanish. Comedian Colin Mochrie and Actress Eliza Dushku attended Boston's march. Singer Carole King was among 30 residents rallying in Stanley, Idaho. Author Stephen King participated in a march in Sarasota, Florida. Singer Kacey Musgraves and comedian Chris Rock were both present in Nashville, Tennessee. Seth Rogen tweeted video from New Orleans. Actor Rami Malek was present in Paris, France.


2017 Women's March, Messaging and visual imagery, Pussyhat Project
The Pussyhat Project was a nationwide effort initiated by Krista Suh and Jayna Zweiman, a screenwriter and architect located in Los Angeles, to create pussyhats, pink hats to be worn at the march for visual impact. In response to this call, crafters all over the United States began making these hats using patterns provided on the project website for use with either a knitting method, crocheting and even sewing with fabrics. The project's goal was to have one million hats handed out at the Washington March.


2017 Women's March, Messaging and visual imagery, Pussyhat Project
The hats are made using pink yarns or fabrics and were originally designed to be a positive form of protest for Trump's inauguration by Krista Suh. Suh, from Los Angeles, wanted a hat for the cooler climate in Washington, D. C. and made herself a hat for the protest, realizing the potential: "we could all wear them, make a unified statement". One of the project founders, Jayna Zweiman, stated "I think it's resonating a lot because we're really saying that no matter who you are or where you are, you can be politically active." Suh and Zwieman worked with Kat Coyle, the owner of a local knitting supply shop called The Little Knittery, to come up with the original design. The project launched in November 2016 and quickly became popular on social media with over 100,000 downloads of the pattern to make the hat.


2017 Women's March, Messaging and visual imagery, Pussyhat Project
The name refers to the resemblance of the top corners of the hats to cat ears and attempts to reclaim the derogatory term "pussy", a play on Trump's widely reported 2005 remarks that women would let him "grab them by the pussy". Many of the hats worn by marchers in Washington, D.C., were created by crafters who were unable to attend and wished them to be worn by those who could, to represent their presence. Those hats optionally contained notes from the crafters to the wearers, expressing support.


2017 Women's March, Messaging and visual imagery, Pussyhat Project
They were distributed by the crafters themselves, by yarn stores at the points of origin, carried to the event by marchers, and also distributed at the destination. The production of the hats caused reported shortages of pink knitting yarn across the United States. On the day of the march, NPR compared the hats to the "Make America Great Again" hats worn by Trump supporters, in that both represented groups that had at one point been politically marginalized; both sent "simultaneously unifying and antagonistic" messages; and both were simple in their messages. Pussyhats were featured later on the fashion runway, and on the covers of Time and The New Yorker.


2017 Women's March, Messaging and visual imagery, Signage
In Richmond, Virginia, attendees of the March on Washington participated in an "Art of Activism" series of workshops at Studio Two Three, a printmaking studio for artists in Scott's Addition.


2017 Women's March, Messaging and visual imagery, Signage
In Los Angeles, actor Amir Talai was carrying the sign "I'll see you nice white ladies at the next #blacklivesmatter march right?" to express frustration at the lack of participation by white Americans in the Black Lives Matter movement, and simultaneously hopeful of encouraging them to do so. The photo of Talai with the sign went viral over the internet.


2017 Women's March, Messaging and visual imagery, Signage
In January 2020, the National Archives acknowledged that it altered photographs of the Women's March on Washington, blurring the word Trump in a sign that reads, "God Hates Trump" and another that reads, "Trump & GOP — Hands Off Women" as well as other placards that referenced parts of a woman's anatomy. A spokesperson for the National Archives explained that the censorship was designed to avoid politicizing the event and to protect children and young people who might see the signs.


2017 Women's March, Response, Academics
While the march aims to create a social movement, Marcia Chatelain of Georgetown University's Center for Social Justice commented that its success will depend on the marchers' ability to maintain momentum in the following weeks. "One of the goals of any type of march or any type of visible sign of solidarity is to get inspired, to inspire people to do more. And the question is, at the march, what kind of organizational structures or movements will also be present to help people know how to channel their energy for the next day and for the long haul?" Historian Michael Kazin also commented on the importance of a long-term strategy: "All successful movements in American history have both inside and outside strategy. If you're just protesting, and it just stops there, you're not going to get anything done."


2017 Women's March, Response, Academics
In the aftermath of the protest, museum curators around the world sought to gather signs and other cultural artifacts of the marches.


2017 Women's March, Response, Politicians
Many members of the U.S. House of Representatives announced that they would not attend Trump's inauguration ceremony, with the numbers growing after he made disparaging remarks about veteran House member and civil rights leader John Lewis. Some of them said they would attend the Women's March.


2017 Women's March, Response, Politicians
Maine Representative Chellie Pingree said she would instead visit a Planned Parenthood center and a business owned by immigrants on Inauguration Day before going to Washington to appear on stage with other politicians who refused to attend. "We need to do everything we can to let the incoming administration know we are not happy about their agenda. I've had unprecedented numbers of my constituents calling me worried about healthcare, the environment, public education, and they feel disrespected," she said.


2017 Women's March, Response, Politicians
On January 22, 2017, Trump wrote on his personal Twitter account: "Watched protests yesterday but was under the impression that we just had an election! Why didn't these people vote? Celebs hurt cause badly." Two hours later, he sent a more placatory tweet: "Peaceful protests are a hallmark of our democracy. Even if I don't always agree, I recognize the rights of people to express their views." A White House official criticized the March for not welcoming abortion rights opponents, and then criticized Madonna's comment that she "thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House".


2017 Women's March, Response, Politicians
Senator Bernie Sanders, who attended the March in Montpelier, Vermont, said Trump should listen to the protesters: "Listen to the needs of women. Listen to the needs of the immigrant community. Listen to the needs of workers. Listen to what's going on with regards to climate change ... Modify your positions. Let's work together to try to save this planet and protect the middle class."


2017 Women's March, Response, Politicians
Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, offered her support on Twitter, calling the march "awe-inspiring" and stated "[I] hope it brought joy to others as it did to me".


2017 Women's March, Response, Politicians
Following a tweet that offended other lawmakers and the public, Bill Kintner resigned from his position as Nebraska State Senator.


2017 Women's March, Response, Politicians
John Carman, a Republican official in South Jersey mocked the Women's March, asking if the protest would "be over in time for them to cook dinner". He lost the next election on November 7, 2017, against a political newcomer, Ashley Bennett.


2017 Women's March, Response, Politicians
The Friedrich Ebert Foundation, which is associated with the Social Democratic Party of Germany, had planned to give their human rights award to the 2017 Women's March. After a German Jewish organization, however, protested in an open letter, accusing the organizers of antisemitic statements and ties to antisemites, the foundation put the award on ice.


2017 Women's March, Response, Celebrities
Apart from the celebrities present at the march, others such as Beyoncé and Bruce Springsteen made statements of support for it. The latter, who endorsed Hillary Clinton and is a friend to Barack Obama, gave a speech during a concert in Australia, saying, "The E Street Band is glad to be here in Western Australia.


2017 Women's March, Response, Celebrities
But we're a long way from home, and our hearts and spirits are with the hundreds of thousands of women and men that marched yesterday in every city in America and in Melbourne who rallied against hate and division and in support of tolerance, inclusion, reproductive rights, civil rights, racial justice, LGBTQ rights, the environment, wage equality, gender equality, healthcare, and immigrant rights. We stand with you. We are the new American resistance."


2017 Women's March, Response, Celebrities
Cyndi Lauper commented on Madonna's controversial speech at the Washington march, saying, "Anger is not better than clarity and humanity. That is what opens people's minds. When you want to change people's mind, you have to share your real story."


2017 Women's March, Response, Celebrities
Jon Voight called the march "destructive" and said it was "against the president and against the government". He was particularly critical of Shia LaBeouf and march participant Miley Cyrus, saying "they have a lot of followers" and felt their stances were "teaching treason".


2017 Women's March, Response, Celebrities
Piers Morgan, a friend of Trump's, stated the march was a reaction by women that "a man won" and that "At its core, it was about Trump-hating and resentment that he won and Hillary lost". He also felt that it was democratic to protest, but not due to the result of a democratic election. In response to Morgan's comments about the march, Ewan McGregor canceled his appearance on Good Morning Britain, which Morgan was hosting.


2017 Women's March, Follow-up
Following the march, the organizers of the Women's March on Washington posted the "10 Actions for the first 100 Days" campaign to keep up the momentum from the march. The first action included contacting senators about concerns, with an option of using "Hear Our Voice" postcards. A new action was provided every 10 days.


2017 Women's March, Follow-up
Filmmaker Michael Moore called for 100 days of resistance, for Trump's first 100 days of his presidency.


2017 Women's March, Follow-up
In July 2017, the Women's March official Twitter feed celebrated the birthday of Assata Shakur, an African-American on the FBI most wanted terrorists list who was convicted of murder, leading to criticism from conservative media outlets. In an August 1, 2017, editorial, Bari Weiss criticized three co-chairs for their association with Louis Farrakhan, and for failing to reject anti-Semitism. In a reply letter, co-Chair Bob Bland dismissed critics as "apologists for the status quo, racist ideology and the white nationalist patriarchy".


2017 Women's March, Follow-up
In October 2017, leaders of the decentralized Women's Marches across the country formed a new organization, March On, and launched a Super PAC called March On's Fight Back PAC. Led by Vanessa Wruble, one of the co-founders and chief architects of the Women's March on Washington, March On announced the goal of creating political change through their "March on the Polls" campaign, including marching people to voting booths for the November 2018 midterms for a "March on the Midterms". "March on aims to coordinate actions at the federal, state, and local level.


2017 Women's March, Follow-up
On January 21, 2018, a second Women's March was held, taking place in cities around the world. Demonstrations were also held in 2019 and 2020.


2017 Women's March, Locations
The 2017 Women's Marches took place in many cities around the world since January 21, 2017.


2017 Women's Masters Basel
The 2017 Women's Masters Basel was a curling tournament held from October 5 to 9 the Curlingzentrum Region Basel in Basel, Switzerland as part of the 2017–18 World Curling Tour. The event was held in a triple-knockout format.


2017 Women's NORCECA Volleyball Championship
The 2017 Women's NORCECA Volleyball Championship was the 25th edition of the tournament, and played from 26 September to 16 October 2017 in Canada, Dominican Republic, and Trinidad and Tobago. The top two teams of each pools qualified for 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship


2017 Women's NORCECA Volleyball Championship, Qualification
The top six teams from NORCECA ranking qualified directly, except United States, the reigning World champion. Other six teams will qualify though the zonal qualification.


2017 Women's National Invitation Tournament
The 2017 Women's National Invitation Tournament was an annual single-elimination tournament of 64 NCAA Division I teams that were not selected to participate in the 2017 Women's NCAA Tournament. The tournament committee announced the 64-team field on March 13, following the selection of the NCAA Tournament field. The tournament began on March 15 and ended on April 1, with the championship game televised on the CBS Sports Network. In the championship game, the Michigan Wolverines defeated the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, 89–79, in triple overtime.


2017 Women's National Invitation Tournament, Participants
The 2017 Postseason WNIT field consists of 32 automatic invitations – one from each conference – and 32 (or more) at-large teams. The intention of the WNIT Selection Committee was to select the best available at-large teams in the nation. A team offered an automatic berth by the WNIT will be the team that is the highest-finishing team in its conference's regular-season standings, and not selected for the NCAA Tournament. A team that fulfills these qualities, and accepts, earned the WNIT automatic berth for its conference, regardless of overall record. The remaining berths in the WNIT were filled by the best teams available. Any team considered for an at-large berth has an overall record of .500 or better.


2017 Women's National Invitation Tournament, Bracket
All times are listed as Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4)* – Denotes overtime period


2017 Women's National League (Ireland)
The 2017 Women's National League, known for sponsorship reasons as the Continental Tyres Women's National League, was the seventh season of the Women's National League, the highest women's association football league in the Republic of Ireland. It was the second league season to run over an entire calendar year.


2017 Women's National League (Ireland)
Wexford Youths won the season and their third National League title. Amber Barrett from Peamount United won her second top scorer award with 16 goals.


2017 Women's National League (Ireland), Format
Teams play each other three times, either twice at home and once away, or once at home and twice away. Each team plays 18 games, 9 home and 9 away.


2017 Women's Oceania Cup
The 2017 Women's Oceania Cup was the tenth edition of the women's field hockey tournament. It was held from 11 to 15 October in Stratford.


2017 Women's Oceania Cup
The tournament served as a qualifier for the 2018 FIH World Cup.


2017 Women's Oceania Cup
Australia won the tournament for the seventh time, defeating New Zealand 2–0 in the final.


2017 Women's Oceania Cup, Statistics, Final standings
As per statistical convention in field hockey, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.


2017 Women's Oceania Cup, Statistics, Goalscorers
There were 61 goals scored in 4 matches, for an average of 15.2 goals per match.


2017 Women's PGA Championship
The 2017 KPMG Women's PGA Championship was the 63rd Women's PGA Championship, played June 29 – July 2 at Olympia Fields Country Club in Olympia Fields, Illinois, a suburb south of Chicago. Known as the LPGA Championship through 2014, it was the second of five major championships on the LPGA Tour during the 2017 season.


2017 Women's PGA Championship
Danielle Kang won the championship for her first professional win, one stroke ahead of defending champion Brooke Henderson.


2017 Women's PGA Championship
Olympia Fields hosted the PGA Championship in 1925 and 1961, and the U.S. Open in 1928 and 2003. It has also been the site of the U.S. Senior Open (1997) and the U.S. Amateur (2015).


2017 Women's PGA Championship
Golf Channel and NBC Sports televised the Women's PGA for the third consecutive year.


2017 Women's PGA Championship, Field
The field included 156 players who meet one or more of the selection criteria and commit to participate by a designated deadline.


2017 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players
Players who qualified for the Championship are listed below. Players are listed under the first category in which they qualified; additional qualifying categories are shown in parentheses. Players were eligible based on the following criteria:


2017 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players
Laura Davies, Shanshan Feng (4,6,12), Brooke Henderson (4,5,6,12), Cristie Kerr (4,6,10,12), Anna Nordqvist (4,5,6,10,12), Inbee Park (3,4,6,7,12), Suzann Pettersen (3,4,6,10,12), Yani Tseng


2017 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players
3. Professionals who have won an LPGA major championship in the previous five years and during the current year


2017 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players
Choi Na-yeon (4,12), Chun In-gee (4,6,12), Ariya Jutanugarn (4,5,6,12), Kim Hyo-joo (4,12), Lydia Ko (4,5,6,12), Brittany Lang (4,6,10,12), Stacy Lewis (6,10,12), Brittany Lincicome (4,10,12), Mo Martin (12), Ryu So-yeon (4,5,6,12), Jiyai Shin (6), Lexi Thompson (4,6,10,12), Michelle Wie (10,12), Yoo Sun-young (12)


2017 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players
4. Professionals who have won an official LPGA tournament in the previous two calendar years and during the current year


2017 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players
Chella Choi (5,12), Carlota Ciganda (6,10,12), Charley Hull (6,10,12), In-Kyung Kim (6,12), Kim Sei-young (6,12), Jessica Korda (6,12), Minjee Lee (6,12), Mirim Lee (5,6,12), Caroline Masson (10,12), Haru Nomura (6,12), Jenny Shin (12), Kris Tamulis (12), Amy Yang (5,6,12)


2017 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players
5. Professionals who finished top-10 and ties at the previous year's Women's PGA Championship


2017 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players
6. Professionals ranked No. 1-30 on the Women's World Golf Rankings as of June 5, 2017


2017 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players
M. J. Hur (12), Park Sung-hyun (12), Gerina Piller (10,12)


2017 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players
8. The top eight finishers at the 2016 LPGA T&CP National Championship


2017 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players
Jean Bartholomew, Jessica Carafiello, Wendy Doolan, Lisa Grimes, Amanda McCurdy, Karen Paolozzi, Hillery Sence, Kristin Walla


2017 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players
9. The top finisher (not otherwise qualified via the 2016 LPGA T&CP National Championship) at the 2017 PGA Women's Stroke Play Championship


2017 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players
10. Members of the European and United States Solheim Cup teams in 2015


2017 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players
Paula Creamer (12), Sandra Gal (12), Caroline Hedwall (12), Karine Icher (12), Alison Lee (12), Catriona Matthew (12), Azahara Muñoz (12), Gwladys Nocera, Morgan Pressel (12), Melissa Reid (12), Lizette Salas (12), Angela Stanford (12)


2017 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players
12. LPGA members who have committed to the event, ranked in the order of their position on the 2017 official money list through the conclusion of the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship


2017 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players
Marina Alex, Beth Allen, Brittany Altomare, Aditi Ashok, Laetitia Beck, Nicole Broch Larsen, Ashleigh Buhai, Katie Burnett, Dori Carter, Sandra Changkija, Pei-Yun Chien, Karen Chung, Cydney Clanton, Holly Clyburn, Jacqui Concolino, Perrine Delacour, Lindy Duncan, Austin Ernst, Jodi Ewart Shadoff, Simin Feng, Laura Gonzalez Escallon, Jaye Marie Green, Mina Harigae, Nasa Hataoka, Céline Herbin, Dani Holmqvist, Wei-Ling Hsu, Vicky Hurst, Eun-Hee Ji, Tiffany Joh, Moriya Jutanugarn, Danielle Kang, Haeji Kang, Kim Kaufman, Megan Khang, Christina Kim, Katherine Kirk, Joanna Klatten, Nelly Korda, Olafia Kristinsdottir, Candie Kung, Min Seo Kwak, Bronte Law, Ilhee Lee, Lee Jeong-eun, Lee Mi-hyang, Min Lee, Amelia Lewis, Lin Xiyu, Pernilla Lindberg, Gaby López, Lee Lopez, Ally McDonald, Stephanie Meadow, Wichanee Meechai, Ai Miyazato, Giulia Molinaro, Becky Morgan, Belen Mozo, Therese O'Hara, Amy Olson, Ryann O'Toole, Lee-Anne Pace, Brooke Pancake, Annie Park, Jane Park, Sadena Parks, Emily Kristine Pedersen, Katherine Perry, Pornanong Phatlum, Beatriz Recari, Paula Reto, Demi Runas, Madelene Sagström, Sherman Santiwiwatthanaphong, Alena Sharp, Kelly Shon, Sarah Jane Smith, Jennifer Song, Nontaya Srisawang, Marissa Steen, Jackie Stoelting, Thidapa Suwannapura, Kelly Tan, Pannarat Thanapolboonyaras, Ayako Uehara, Mariajo Uribe, Cheyenne Woods, Jing Yan, Angel Yin, Sakura Yokomine, Pavarisa Yoktuan


2017 Women's PGA Championship, Field, Qualified players
13. The remainder of the field will be filled by members who have committed to the event, ranked in the order of their position on the 2017 LPGA Priority List as of the commitment deadline


2017 Women's PSA World Series Finals
The 2017 Women's PSA World Series Finals is the women's edition of the 2017 PSA World Series Finals (Prize money : $160 000). The top 8 players in the 2016–17 PSA World Series are qualified for the event. The event took place in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates from 6 to 10 June 2017.


2017 Women's Pan American Cup
The 2017 Women's Pan American Cup was the fifth edition of the Women's Pan American Cup, the quadrennial international women's field hockey championship of the Americas organised by the Pan American Hockey Federation. It was held between 5 and 13 August 2017 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, simultaneously with the men's tournament.


2017 Women's Pan American Cup
The tournament doubled as the qualifier for two major international tournaments: the winner qualified directly to the 2018 World Cup, and the two teams not qualifying through the 2018 South American Games or the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games qualified for the 2019 Pan American Games to be held in Lima, Peru. Also, the top 6 teams qualified for the next Pan American Cup, while the bottom two need to compete in the Pan American Challenge.


2017 Women's Pan American Cup
Argentina won the tournament for the fifth consecutive time after defeating Chile 4–1 in the final. As they had already secured an automatic berth at the 2018 Hockey World Cup thanks to a fourth-place finish at the World League Semifinal in Johannesburg, South Africa, their quota was immediately awarded to first reserve team, Italy.


2017 Women's Pan American Cup, Qualification
The top six nations at the 2013 Pan American Cup qualified directly with the remaining two spots were assigned to the first and second-placed team at the 2015 Pan American Challenge, which was held in Chiclayo, Peru.


2017 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup
The 2017 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup was the 16th edition of the annual women's volleyball tournament. It was held in two cities, Lima and Cañete, in Peru from 17 June to 25 June. Twelve teams competed in the tournament.


2017 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup
The United States won the title when they defeated the Dominican Republic 3–1 in the final. American Micha Hancock was awarded the Most Valuable Player.


2017 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup, Pool standing procedure
Match won 3–0: 5 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loserMatch won 3–1: 4 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loserMatch won 3–2: 3 match points for the winner, 2 match points for the loser


2017 Women's Roller Hockey World Cup
The 2017 FIRS Women's Roller Hockey World Cup was the 14th edition of the Women's Roller Hockey World Cup, organised by the Fédération Internationale de Roller Sports (FIRS). The tournament was held for the first time in China, in the city of Nanjing, from 27 August to 2 September 2017, as part of the 2017 World Roller Games.


2017 Women's Roller Hockey World Cup
Spain won its sixth title, retaining the title they conquered one year before.


2017 Women's Roller Hockey World Cup, Competition format
During the previous edition of the World Cup, the FIRS determined to end with the celebration of two different tournaments for divisions A and B, and merged all competitions in a whole event integrated in the World Roller Games. Despite this merge, teams were divided into two different competitions.


2017 Women's Roller Hockey World Cup, Competition format
For this tournament there would not be golden goals during the overtimes.


2017 Women's Roller Hockey World Cup, Competition format, World Championship
The eight first ranked teams were divided into two groups. All teams would qualify for the quarterfinals.


2017 Women's Roller Hockey World Cup, Competition format, FIRS Cup
The three remaining teams would a double round-robin tournament for determining the final positions.


2017 Women's Roller Hockey World Cup, Teams
The 12 participating teams were divided into three competitions according to their positions in the 2016 FIRS Women's Roller Hockey World Cup. The Division B was renamed as FIRS Cup.


2017 Women's Roller Hockey World Cup, Teams
The two top seeded teams were drawn in different groups. The draw was held in Barcelona on 5 July 2017.


2017 Women's Roller Hockey World Cup, FIRS Cup
After the withdrawal of Egypt, the competition system changed for playing each team three teams against each other.


2017 Women's Rugby League World Cup
The 2017 Women's Rugby League World Cup was the fifth staging of the Women's Rugby League World Cup and was held in Australia between 16 November and 2 December 2017. Pool and semi-final matches was held at Southern Cross Group Stadium in Sydney, with the final held at Brisbane Stadium. The final was played as a double-header with the men's final.


2017 Women's Rugby League World Cup, Pre-tournament matches
Before the World Cup it was announced that France would host England in two tests in Perpignan, and Papua New Guinea would host Australia in Port Moresby.


2017 Women's Rugby League World Cup, Venues
All the matches were played at Endeavour Field (Southern Cross Group Stadium) in Sydney, with the exception of the final which was played in the larger Brisbane Stadium in Brisbane.


2017 Women's Rugby League World Cup, Pool stage
The two pools feature three teams each. The top two teams in each pool will qualify for the semi-finals. Pool play will involve a round robin with an additional inter-pool game for each team so all teams will play three pool games.


2017 Women's Rugby League World Cup Final
The 2017 Women's Rugby League World Cup Final was a rugby league match which determined the winner of the 2017 Women's Rugby League World Cup. It was played between reigning champions Australia and their rivals New Zealand on 2 December 2017 at Brisbane Stadium in Brisbane, immediately before the final of the concurrent men's competition. It was the third consecutive time that the two sides played in the World Cup final.


2017 Women's Rugby League World Cup Final
Australia emerged victorious, winning the match 23–16 and earning their second World Cup win.


2017 Women's Rugby League World Cup Final, Route to the final
Both teams had little difficulty reaching the final, each winning their group matches and semi-final by large margins.


2017 Women's Rugby League World Cup squads
This article lists the official squads for the 2017 Women's Rugby League World Cup.


2017 Women's Rugby World Cup
The 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup was the eighth edition of the Women's Rugby World Cup and was held in Ireland in August 2017. New Zealand became the 2017 champions by beating England 41–32 in the final on 26 August. Matches were held in Dublin and Belfast. The pool stages were held at University College Dublin with the semi finals and finals held at Queen's University and Kingspan Stadium in Belfast.


2017 Women's Rugby World Cup
The tournament took place three rather than four years after the previous Women's Rugby World Cup because World Rugby wanted to move away from clashing with other events. The event will return to a four-year cycle after 2017.


2017 Women's Rugby World Cup
The 2017 tournament set attendance records for a Women's World Cup. The tournament drew 45,412 fans over 30 matches. The final was played in front of a crowd of 17,115, and the pool matches sold out.


2017 Women's Rugby World Cup
This was the last edition of the tournament under the "Women's Rugby World Cup" name. On 21 August 2019, World Rugby announced that all future World Cups, whether for men or women, would be officially titled as the "Rugby World Cup", distinguished only by year and not by gender. As such, the 2021 edition in New Zealand will bear the title of "Rugby World Cup 2021".


2017 Women's Rugby World Cup, Bidding process
On 2 March 2015, it was announced that the Irish Rugby Football Union had submitted a bid to host to Women's Rugby World Cup in August 2017. The Irish bid was the only one made to host the event. On 13 May 2015 it was announced that Ireland would host the event in Dublin and Belfast.


2017 Women's Rugby World Cup, Bidding process
On 4 June 2015 it was announced that Garrett Tubridy had been appointed tournament director for the event.


2017 Women's Rugby World Cup, Qualifying
Ireland, the host nation, had already qualified automatically by finishing in the top seven teams at the 2014 tournament before being announced as hosts. A further six teams (England, Canada, France, New Zealand, USA and Australia) qualified automatically as top seven finishers at the 2014 tournament. Italy and Wales qualified as the top two teams across the 2015 and 2016 Women's Six Nations excluding England, France, and Ireland. The remaining three qualifiers (Hong Kong, Spain and Japan) were determined by the end of 2016.


2017 Women's Rugby World Cup, Match officials
At the end of March 2017, World Rugby announced fourteen match officials: nine referees and five assistants.


2017 Women's Rugby World Cup, Pool stage
The pool draw took place on 9 November 2016 at Belfast.


2017 Women's Rugby World Cup, Pool stage
Each pool was a single round-robin of six games, in which each team played one match against each of the other teams in the same pool. Teams were awarded four points for a win, two points for a draw, one point for a loss by one to seven points, and none for a defeat by more than seven points. A team scoring four or more tries in one match scored a bonus point.


2017 Women's Rugby World Cup, Pool stage
The tournament comprised 12 teams in three pools of four with the pool winners plus the best runner-up progressing to the semi-finals.


2017 Women's Rugby World Cup, Finals, Knockout Rankings
At the completion of the pool stage, teams were ranked first according to their position within their pool (positions 1 to 3 were the pool winners, positions 4 to 6 were the pool runners up, etc.) and then by competition points. The top four teams progressed to the tournament semi-finals, teams ranked 5–8 progressed to the 5th to 8th play-offs, and the teams ranked 9–12 progressed to the 9th to 12th play-offs.


2017 Women's Rugby World Cup, Finals, Tie breakers
If teams were tied on pool points they were ranked by rules applied in the following order –1. The team that won the match between the two teams was ranked first (does not apply to teams in different pools) 2. If the teams were still level, the difference between points scored and points conceded was used to rank the teams3. Difference between tries scored and tries conceded was used to rank the teams4. Most points scored 5. Most tries scored 6. Coin toss


2017 Women's Rugby World Cup, Finals, Finals
The team ranked first after the pool stages played the team ranked fourth and the team ranked second played the team ranked third.


2017 Women's Rugby World Cup Final
The 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup Final was a rugby union match to determine the winner of the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup, played between reigning champions England and New Zealand on 26 August 2017 at Kingspan Stadium in Belfast. New Zealand won the Rugby World Cup for a record fifth time, beating England 41–32.


2017 Women's Rugby World Cup Final, Route to the final
England was the only team in the competition to be made up of professional rugby players, whereas New Zealand had just six players contracted.


2017 Women's Rugby World Cup Final, Route to the final
New Zealand was placed in Pool A with Canada, Hong Kong and Wales. England was in Pool B alongside USA, Spain and Italy. On 10 August England played their first game of the tournament against Spain  and ran in ten tries, including a hat-trick to Kay Wilson, to record a 56–5 victory. New Zealand played Wales the same day and led 20–0 at half time before extending the final margin to 44–12, with Selica Winiata scoring a hat-trick of her own. New Zealand continued their dominance with a 121–0 thrashing of Hong Kong in their next game.


2017 Women's Rugby World Cup Final, Route to the final
They scored 19 tries in total, with eight of them coming from winger Portia Woodman. England's second match saw them score the same number of tries and points as their first one as they downed Italy 56–13. Despite the two victories, concerns were raised over their kicking as in both matches they only converted three of the ten tries. England's final pool game was against the USA and they played a dominant first half to lead 33–7, before the Americans fought back to a close the final score to 47–36. The result meant that both teams would advance to the Semi-Finals. New Zealand played Canada in their last pool game and with another hat-trick, this time from front rower Aldora Itunu,  New Zealand came away 48–5 victors.


2017 Women's Rugby World Cup Final, Route to the final
In the Semi-Finals New Zealand took on USA and England played Pool C winner France. The USA team put in a good first half effort to only trail by eight points going into the break. They visibly fatigued in the second half though and New Zealand pulled away to claim a 45–12 victory. New Zealand scored seven tries in total, with Woodman again starring with four of them. Kelly Brazier was named Player of the Match for her playmaking and ball handling skills. England overcame France 20–3 n their Semi-Final.


2017 Women's Rugby World Cup Final, Route to the final
At half time nothing separated the two teams as they each scored a solitary penalty in wet Belfast conditions. In the second half, two 20 year-olds (Sarah Bern and Megan Jones) scored the games only tries and put the game out of France's reach. It was a much closer match than the final score indicated, with Jones try coming in the final minutes and not long after the French had narrowly missed scoring one themselves.


2017 Women's Rugby World Cup Final, Match, Summary
England won the battle up front in the first half, holding onto possession and keeping New Zealand inside their 22 for most of it. However, New Zealand were the first to score when a cross-field kick from Victoria Subritzky-Nafatali was claimed by Selica Winiata setting up her first try. Emily Scarratt, who was playing at fullback instead of in her regular center spot, responded by making a break into New Zealand's 22 and then scored a penalty from a resulting dangerous tackle.


2017 Women's Rugby World Cup Final, Match, Summary
In the 20th minute New Zealand's Sarah Goss was sin-binned for a tip tackle on Katy McLean and England nearly scored only for Alex Matthews to be held up over the tryline. They were eventually rewarded for their dominance, earning a penalty try from the resulting scrum. Lydia Thompson scored England's second try seven minutes later following a break from Rachael Burford. Just before half time New Zealand finally secured enough possession to string together some attacking phases, allowing prop Toka Natua to score. Despite the early momentum being with England, New Zealand trailed by just seven points at half time.


2017 Women's Rugby World Cup Final, Match, Summary
New Zealand played a much better second half. After being awarded a penalty early, they chose to kick to the corner and from the resulting lineout, Subritzky-Nafatali helped set up Natua's second try of the evening. With a successful conversion the scores were now level. England worked their way back into New Zealands half and were awarded a penalty that Scarratt managed to convert to edge them ahead. Lock Charmaine Smith pulled New Zealand ahead with a try in the 53rd minute, before England struck back through another Thompson score. England held a narrow one point lead.


2017 Women's Rugby World Cup Final, Match, Summary
Three minutes later Natua scored her hat-trick try, then Kendra Cocksedge and Winiata crossed in quick succession to give New Zealand a 16-point lead with 11 minutes to play. With four minutes remaining Lesley Ketu was sin binned helping Izzy Noel-Smith score a consolation try for England near the end. The final score was 41–32 and New Zealand had won their fifth title to go with 1998, 2002, 2006 and 2010 victories.


2017 Women's Rugby World Cup Final, Match, Summary
Natua was named player of the match for her three tries. New Zealand's captain Fiao'o Fa'amausili was proud of how her team got themselves back into the game, while England's captain Sarah Hunter complimented New Zealand on their second half performance.


2017 Women's Rugby World Cup qualifying
The qualification process for the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup began on 14 February 2015. Twelve teams qualified for the tournament, which was held in Ireland in 2017.


2017 Women's Rugby World Cup qualifying, Qualification process
Following the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup, seven teams received an automatic qualification berth - these berths being given to the top seven teams (England, Canada, France, Ireland, New Zealand, the United States and Australia). The remaining five berths for the 2017 finals were awarded through regional tournaments.


2017 Women's Rugby World Cup qualifying, Regional qualification
There are 12 nations participating in the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup. Seven teams have automatically qualified by virtue of their performance at the prior Rugby World Cup, leaving five teams to qualify through regional matches. Regional Qualification began on 14 February 2015, during the second round of the 2015 Women's Six Nations Championship.


2017 Women's Rugby World Cup qualifying, Regional qualification, Europe, European Qualification
England, France, and Ireland automatically qualified by virtue of their finishes in the 2014 tournament. In addition, there were three other places available for European countries.


2017 Women's Rugby World Cup qualifying, Regional qualification, Europe, Round One
The top two teams from the combined 2015 and 2016 Women's Six Nations Championship, Italy and Wales, qualified directly. The remaining team, Scotland, proceeded to Round Three.


2017 Women's Rugby World Cup qualifying, Regional qualification, Europe, Round Two
The top team from the 2016 Women's European Championship proceeded to Round Three. The tournament took place in Spain in October, 2016, with Spain being declared champions.


2017 Women's Rugby World Cup qualifying, Regional qualification, Europe, Round Three
Scotland and the winner of Round Two, Spain, played a home-and-away series to determine the final European qualifier. Spain won both games.


2017 Women's Rugby World Cup qualifying, Regional qualification, Asia and Oceania, Asian Qualification
The top two teams of the 2016 Asia Rugby Women's Championship qualified to the Repechage. The ARWC was contested between Japan, Hong Kong, and Fiji (the winner of the Oceanic qualification competition).


2017 Women's Rugby World Cup qualifying, Regional qualification, Asia and Oceania, Oceania Qualification
New Zealand and Australia automatically qualified due to their finishes in the 2014 tournament. A third team, Fiji, defeated Papua New Guinea 37–10 in the Oceania qualifier to move on to the repechage.


2017 Women's Rugby World Cup qualifying, Regional qualification, Repechage
The two best-ranked teams from a final qualifying tournament featuring one team from Oceania and two teams from Asia.


2017 Women's Rugby World Cup squads
This article lists the official squads for the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup in Ireland.


2017 Women's Rugby World Cup squads, Pool A, Canada
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2017 Women's Rugby World Cup squads, Pool A, Hong Kong
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2017 Women's Rugby World Cup squads, Pool A, New Zealand
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2017 Women's Rugby World Cup squads, Pool A, Wales
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2017 Women's Rugby World Cup squads, Pool B, England
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2017 Women's Rugby World Cup squads, Pool B, Italy
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2017 Women's Rugby World Cup squads, Pool B, Spain
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2017 Women's Rugby World Cup squads, Pool B, United States
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2017 Women's Rugby World Cup squads, Pool C, Australia
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2017 Women's Rugby World Cup squads, Pool C, France
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2017 Women's Rugby World Cup squads, Pool C, Ireland
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2017 Women's Rugby World Cup squads, Pool C, Japan
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2017 Women's Six Nations Championship
The 2017 Women's Six Nations Championship, also known as the 2017 RBS Women's Six Nations due to the tournament's sponsorship by the Royal Bank of Scotland, was the 16th series of the Women's Six Nations Championship, an annual women's rugby union competition between six European rugby union national teams. Matches were held in February and March 2017, on the same weekends as the men's tournament, if not always the same day.


2017 Women's Six Nations Championship
For the first time, the 2017 tournament used the rugby union bonus points system common to most other professional rugby union tournaments. As well as the standard four points for a win or two for a draw, a team scoring four or more tries during a match received an additional league table point, as did a team losing by 7 or fewer points. Additionally, to ensure that a team winning all of its five matches (a Grand Slam) would also win the Championship, three bonus points were awarded for this achievement.


2017 Women's Six Nations Championship, Table
* England were awarded an extra 3 table points for achieving the Grand Slam.


2017 Women's South American Volleyball Championship
The 2017 Women's South American Volleyball Championship was the 32nd edition of the Women's South American Volleyball Championship held in Cali, Colombia and organised by South America's governing volleyball body, the Confederación Sudamericana de Voleibol (CSV). The champions will qualify for 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship.


2017 Women's South American Volleyball Club Championship
The 2017 Women's South American Volleyball Club Championship was the ninth official edition of the women's volleyball tournament, played by six teams from 14–18 February 2017 in Uberaba and Uberlândia, Brazil. Rio de Janeiro won its third consecutive title, the fourth overall, and qualified for the 2017 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship in Kobe, Japan. Gabriela Guimarães was elected the Most Valuable Player.


2017 Women's South American Volleyball Club Championship, Competing clubs
Teams were seeded in two pools of three according to how the representatives of their countries finished in the 2016 edition.


2017 Women's Super 3s
The 2017 Women's Super 3s, known for sponsorship reasons as the 2017 Toyota Super 3s, was the third Women's Super 3s competition that took place in Ireland. It ran from June to August, with 3 teams taking part made up of the best players in Ireland. The teams played 10 matches each, four 50 over matches and six Twenty20s. Scorchers won the competition, winning their second title.


2017 Women's Super 3s, Competition format
The three teams played ten matches each in a league system. Each team played the other two sides twice in a 50 over match and three times in a Twenty20 match, with all matches contributing to a unified table.


2017 Women's Super 3s, Competition format
The league worked on a points system with positions being based on the total points. Points were awarded as follows:


2017 Women's Super 3s, Competition format
Win: 2 points. Tie: 1 point. Loss: 0 points. Abandoned/No Result: 1 point.


2017 Women's Tour de Yorkshire
The 2017 Women's Tour de Yorkshire was a cycling one-day race that took place in Yorkshire in April 2017. It was the second edition of the Women's Tour de Yorkshire and was organised by Welcome to Yorkshire and the Amaury Sport Organisation. The race started in Tadcaster, ended in Harrogate and covered a distance of 122.5 kilometres (76.1 mi).


2017 Women's Tour de Yorkshire, Route
The women's stage started at Tadcaster and followed the same route as the men's race; leaving Tadcaster over the newly re-opened Tadcaster Bridge, the route took the riders through Knaresborough, through Lofthouse, Ripon, skirting Fountains Abbey and then into Harrogate where the race culminated on Parliament Street. The race started at 9:20 am and finished around 12:30 pm.


2017 Women's Tour de Yorkshire, Teams
Eighteen teams were entered in the race. Listed alphabetically, these were;


2017 Women's Twenty20 Cup
The 2017 Women's Twenty20 Cup, known for sponsorship reasons as the 2017 NatWest Women's Twenty20 Cup was the 9th cricket Women's Twenty20 Cup tournament. It took place in June and July, with 36 teams taking part: 34 county teams plus Scotland and Wales. Lancashire Women won the Twenty20 Cup, as winners of Division 1, the first of two trophies they won in 2017, along with the County Championship.


2017 Women's Twenty20 Cup
The tournament ran alongside the 50-over 2017 Women's County Championship, and was followed by the Twenty20 2017 Women's Cricket Super League, competed for by regional teams.


2017 Women's Twenty20 Cup, Competition Format
Teams played matches within a series of divisions with the winners of the top division being crowned the Champions. Matches were played using a Twenty20 format.


2017 Women's Twenty20 Cup, Competition Format
The championship works on a points system with positions within the divisions being based on the total points. Points were awarded as follows:


2017 Women's Twenty20 Cup, Competition Format
Win: 4 points. Tie: 1 point. Loss: 0 points. Abandoned/Cancelled: 1 point.


2017 Women's Twenty20 Cup, Teams
The 2017 Women's Twenty20 Cup was divided into three divisions: Division One and Division Two with nine teams each, and Division Three with 18 teams, divided into regional groups of 6 teams apiece; teams in all divisions played eight games.


2017 Women's Twenty20 East Asia Cup
The 2017 Women's East Asia Cup was a Twenty20 (T20) cricket tournament, which was held in Hong Kong in September 2017. The venues for the round-robin stage matches were the Hong Kong Cricket Club in Wong Nai, and the Mission Road Ground in Mong Kok. The tournament was completed with the final and third-place play-off, which were played at the Kowloon Cricket Club.


2017 Women's Twenty20 East Asia Cup
The Twenty20 East Asia Cup is an annual competition featuring China, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea that was first played in 2015 and alternates annually between a men's and women's event. China were the defending women's champions, having won the inaugural edition in 2015 at the Yeonhui Cricket Ground in Incheon, South Korea. South Korea had won the inaugural men's edition in 2016. Matches did not have Twenty20 International status.


2017 Women's Twenty20 East Asia Cup
Hong Kong defeated Japan in the final on 24 September 2017 to win the Women's East Asia Cup for the first time.


2017 Women's U-19 European Handball Championship
The 2019 Women's U-19 European Handball Championship was the eleventh edition of the European Women's U-19 Handball Championship, held in Celje, Slovenia from 27 July to 7 August 2017.


2017 Women's U-19 European Handball Championship, Draw
The draw was held on 20 April 2017 in Paris.


2017 Women's U-19 European Handball Championship, Tournament awards
The all-star team and awards were announced on 6 August 2017.


2017 Women's Volleyball Thai-Denmark Super League
2017 Women's Volleyball Thai–Denmark Super League (Thai: วอลเลย์บอลหญิงไทยเดนมาร์คซูเปอร์ลีก 2017) was the 5th edition of the tournament. It was held at the MCC Hall of The Mall Bangkapi in Bangkok, Thailand from 22 – 26 March 2017.


2017 Women's World Draughts Championship
The 2017 Women's World Draughts Championship at the international draughts held in Tallinn, Estonia International Draughts Federation FMJD. Sixteen female players in total was competing in the tournament. The tournament started on October 1, 2017, and lasted on October 15, 2017. Three round played in hotel Europe, other – at Paul Keres Chess House. It played as a round-robin, with 15 rounds in total. The winning prize for the tournament is 20,000 euros. At the same time the 2017 World Draughts Championship was held.


2017 Women's World Draughts Championship
Women's World Draughts Champion Natalia Sadowska (Poland) and former champion Zoja Golubeva (Latvia) participated in competition. New world champion became Zoja Golubeva.


2017 Women's World Draughts Championship, Rules and regulations
The games will be played in the official FMJD time rate of the Fischer system with 1 hour and 20 minutes for the game plus 1 minute per move. Conforming to the FMJD regulations players are not allowed to agree on a draw before they both made 40 moves. If they do so nevertheless, the referee is obliged to decide on a 0-point each players.


2017 Women's World Draughts Championship, Rules and regulations
The final classification will be based on the total points obtained. If two or more players will have same total points to define the places:


2017 Women's World Floorball Championships
The 2017 Women's World Floorball Championships was the 11th World Championships in women's floorball. The tournament took place in Bratislava in Slovakia between 1–9 December 2017. Sixteen teams participated and the competition was won by Sweden.


2017 Women's World Floorball Championships, Qualification
All teams, apart from the host country (Slovakia), will have to qualify for the Final Round via the qualifications, and there will be a total of 6 qualification groups - one in the Americas, one in Asia-Oceania and four in Europe. China and Thailand will be participating in the women's event for the first-ever time, while Malaysia, Slovenia, Austria and Korea are making a return.


2017 Women's World Floorball Championships, Venues
The games of the 2017 Floorball World Championship will take place in Bratislava in the Ondrej Nepela Arena and in HANT Arena.


2017 Women's World Floorball Championships, Statistics, Scoring leaders
GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalties In MinutesSource:


2017 Women's World Junior Squash Championships
The 2017 Women's  World Junior Squash Championships is the women's edition of the 2017 World Junior Squash Championships, which serves as the individual world Junior championship for squash players. The event took place in Tauranga in New Zealand from 19 to 24 July 2017.


2017 Women's World Junior Team Squash Championships
The 2017 Women's World Junior Team Squash Championships was held in Tauranga, New Zealand. The event took place from 25 to 29 July 2017.


2017 Women's World Nine-ball Championship
The 2017 Women's World Nine-ball Championship was a professional nine-ball pool tournament which was held in Hainan Chengmai (China) from 8 to 11 November 2017. The event was organized by the Guoao Group, which has hosted this event from 2013.


2017 Women's World Nine-ball Championship
Overall 64 players from all arount the world was divided into 8 groups of 8 players, where double elimination format was applied. In the group stage all matches were race to 7 with alternate break format. Overall 32 players proceeded to the main tournament - knouckout stage. In the Knouckout stage all matches were played race to 9.


2017 Women's World Nine-ball Championship
Siming Chen won the title with the 9–7 victory over Pan Xiaoting in the final. It was Chen's first Women's World Nine-ball title.


2017 Women's World Nine-ball Championship, Main tournament - Last 32
Knockout stage consisted of last 32 players. Defending champion - Han Yu was defeated by Pan Xiaoting in semi-finals 5–9.


2017 Women's World Nine-ball Championship, Main tournament - Last 32, Final
The final was played between two Chinese players - Chen Siming and Xiaoting Pan. Alternate break format was played. Chen Siming had three break-and-run in racks: 8, 10 and 12. Xiaoting Pan had two break-and-run in racks 1 and 3.


2017 Women's World Squash Championship
The 2017 Women's World Open Squash Championship is the 2017 women's edition of the World Championships, which serves as the individual world championship for squash players.


2017 Women's World Squash Championship
The event was held alongside the Men's World Squash Championship between 9 and 17 December 2017 inclusive. Raneem El Weleily defeated fellow Egyptian and the defending champion Nour El Sherbini in the final.


2017 Worcestershire County Council election
The 2017 Worcestershire County Council election took place on 4 May 2017 as part of the 2017 local elections in the United Kingdom. All 57 councillors were elected from 53 electoral divisions which returned either one or two county councillors each by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office. The Conservatives extended their majority in the council, gaining ten seats, largely at the expense of Labour and UKIP, who lost six seats between them; the Conservative majority increased from one seat to eleven.