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The 2023 World Lacrosse Championship was the 14th edition of the international men's field lacrosse tournament for national teams organized by World Lacrosse. Initially scheduled for 2022, it was postponed to 2023 due to the COVID-19 pandemic .
The 2010 WLC was held in Manchester, England from July 15 to 24. For the first time, a World Lacrosse Festival was sanctioned to run alongside the world championships. With more nations entering, the Round Robin stage of the tournament featured 30 nations and was split into 7 divisions, considerably larger than ever before
The United States men's national lacrosse team has won eleven of fourteen World Lacrosse Championships, the most recent in 2023. Team USA finished second in the other three field lacrosse tournaments, losing to Canada in 1978, 2006, and 2014. The team is organized by US Lacrosse, the national governing body.
World Lacrosse (WL), formerly the Federation of International Lacrosse, is the international governing body of lacrosse, responsible for the men's, women's, and indoor versions of the sport. It was established in 2008 by the merger of the previously separate men's and women's international lacrosse associations. [ 2 ]
The team's best performance in the World Lacrosse Championship was in the 2010 World Lacrosse Championship, when it came in fourth. [2] The team came in eighth in the 2014 World Lacrosse Championship, [3] and fifth in the 2023 World Lacrosse Championship. The team also won the bronze medal at the 2022 World Games, playing the Sixes variant. [4]
The Philippines made their debut at the World Lacrosse Championship in the 2014 edition, though they only participated as a festival squad and did not feature in the main competition. [5] In the World Lacrosse Festivals, the national team played in the Elite Division against teams from Ireland, Japan, Thailand, and the United States.
In January 2019, World Games named Staats as their Athlete of the Month. [21] [20] In 2023, Staats again competed for the Haudenosaunee National Lacrosse team at the 2023 World Lacrosse Championship in San Diego, California. The team again came in third, winning the bronze medal, and he was named as the Best Attacker and named to the All-World ...
The Italy men's national lacrosse team represents Italy in international lacrosse competitions. It is organized by the Federazione Italiana Giuoco Lacrosse. It has participated in 4 World championships and 5 European championships. It was initially formed exclusively by naturalised players due to the almost total absence of the discipline in Italy.