Great Britain secured a fifth place finish at The World Games 2025 after a big 20-11 victory over Czechia in Chengdu, China on Sunday.
Chess Gray and Liv Wimpenny scored four goals each as Great Britain ended the competition on a high, finishing as the top placed European side for a third The World Games in a row.
Great Britain started with incredible pace and worked themselves into a five goal lead with four minutes gone on the clock after Emma Oakley, Emma Savage, C Gray, Cece Green, and Lottie Robertson netted.
Czechia got themselves on the scoresheet through Veronika Drbohlavova but any suggestion of a switch of control in the match was dissipated when Green and Anna Neville hit GB’s sixth and seventh goals.
With less than two minutes left in the first quarter Michaela Srchova snatched a second for Czechia but Robertson scored her second of the match to ensure her team went in a the break with a six goal cushion.
The second quarter was a slightly slower affair that began with a third goal for Czechia through Marketa Malinovska before a Margarat Keyes goals was sandwiched in between two GB goals from Savage and Oakley.
The quarter ended with an 11th GB goal from C Gray and a fifth for Czehcia thanks to Marketa Fiserova.
A similar third quarter saw GB score another two through Wimpenny and C Gray while Czechia hit back with three of their own from M Keyes, Fiserova, and Barbora Koderova.
If GB had eased off in the second and third quarters, then they really let go in the fourth hitting a quick-fire three through Robertson, Green, and Minty Loxton.
Malinovska and Isabella Keyes put Czechia to within six of GB which C Gray extended to seven with four minutes to go in the game.
I Keyes scored Czechia’s 11th and final goal before Wimpenny finished the game with three goals in the final three minutes to secure Great Britain the fifth place spot.
Elsewhere in the competition, USA won their first The World Games title after a 16-8 final victory over Canada and Australia picked up another bronze medal after a dramatic 13-12 over-time win against Japan.
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Great Britain 20-11 Czechia (8-2, 3-3, 2-3, 7-3)
Great Britain scorers | Chess Gray (4G, 2A), Cece Green (3G, 2A), Liv Wimpenny (4G), Lottie Robertson (3G, 1A), Emma Oakley (2G, 2A), Emma Savage (2G, 2A), Minty Loxton (1G, 2A), Anna Neville (1G).
Goalie save % | Dylan Whittington 33.33% (1/3), Emilie Chandler 57.14% (12/21).






