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Turkey ready to host another World Championship event

Ankara, Turkey, August 4, 2005 - After having organized the Women's U20 World Championships successfully last month, Turkey is ready for another great event. The host team Turkey, the Netherlands, Ukraine and Belgium will fight for two tickets to the finals of the 2006 Women's World Championship in a third round tournament starting on Friday.

Three teams, the Netherlands, Ukraine and Belgium arrived in Ankara on Tuesday for the three day competition which finishes on Sunday.

Turkey and the Netherlands, who finished ninth in Germany in the 2002 Women's World Championship, were automatically seeded for this tournament while the Ukraine advanced from the second round as the top team of pool EUR-E in Greece which was held in June.

Belgium, meanwhile, have had a dream run in the tournament so far having advanced from the second round where they finished second in EUR-D in Azerbaijan in May before having been the second team of the first round tournament in EUR-C in France in the same month.

After this tournament, the first and the second team of the group (EUR-H) will book a ticket to participate in the finals of the 2006 World Championships in Japan. The third team will play in the play-off which will take place in Bulgaria from August 19-21 for the seventh European ticket to Japan.