As well as the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup (March-April2022), Fifa Women’s World Cup (July-August 2023), and Rugby World Cup, now to be played next year, New Zealand will also welcome the world’s largest gathering of experts on gender equality in sport and physical activity to the eighth IWG World Conference on Women and Sport in May next year.
About 1000 participants will travel to New Zealand to attend the conference.
The last conference, in Botswana in 2018, attracted more than 1000 delegates.
The event is the largest gathering of experts in gender equality in sport and physical activity in the world. It has been held every four years since 1994. For the first time in its history, it will be staged as both a physical event in Auckland and online as a digital event in parallel.
Minister of Sport Grant Robertson announced the Government was giving $950,000 towards the staging of the conference.
‘‘The conference is a chance to celebrate the progress New Zealand has and continues to make for women and girls in play,active recreation and sport and society as a whole,’’ Robertson said.
‘‘It also provides the opportunity to advance even more change as one of four major events in the country over the coming three years. It’s important that we ensure this event is as successful as it can be.’’
The women’s day was marked yesterday by are lease of footage of Football Fern Katie Bowen, Black Fern Kendra Cocksedge and White Ferns captain Sophie Devine on the top of the main stand at Eden Park.
Should all go to plan, the three top NZ athletes will be in action for their national teams over the next three years.
A year after the success of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2020, the International Cricket Council has announced the expansion of women’s cricket events post the 2023 cycle.
More teams will compete in both the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup and the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup from 2026 onwards as part of the governing body’s long-term commitment to growing the game globally and in a sustainable fashion.
In a statement the ICC said the revised formats would give more teams the chance to compete on the global stage and, importantly, provide countries with a window to ‘‘grow the game domestically and to challenge internationally as the changes take place’’.
