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Vicki Wilson
Vicki Wilson is the only Australian netballer to have played in four World Championships, winning three of them — 1991, 1995, and 1999 — and later called Australia's 1991 home-soil title in Sydney the most memorable moment of her career. She retired in 1999 with a then-record 104 international caps for Australia and was widely regarded as the best goal shooter in the world at the time she stepped away from the national team, having become team captain in 1996 after recovering from knee surgery following the 1995 World Championships. Wilson's final Australian appearance came as captain in the gold-medal match of the 1999 World Cup, giving her the rare distinction of closing out her international career with a championship win in the role she'd held for three years. Her combination of an Australian-record four World Championship appearances and a career-ending gold medal as captain has made Wilson one of the most decorated goal shooters in Australian netball history.
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Irene van Dyk
Irene van Dyk played international netball for two different countries across a 20-year career: 72 caps for South Africa from 1994 to 1999, then 145 more for New Zealand's Silver Ferns from 2000 to 2014 after relocating and becoming eligible for the black dress, retiring with a world-record 217 total test caps. She competed at five Netball World Cups — 1995 and 1999 for South Africa, then 2003, 2007, and 2011 for New Zealand — winning gold with the Silver Ferns in 2003, and reached the 200-test milestone in 2011, a mark no other netballer had approached at the time. Across her international career, van Dyk shot 5,917 goals from 6,572 attempts, a 90 percent conversion rate at the goal shooter position sustained over two decades and two national jerseys, and she remained New Zealand's most-capped Silver Fern at the time of her 2014 retirement. Van Dyk's combination of representing two different countries at netball's highest level and her world-record 217 test caps has made her one of the most statistically significant players in the sport's international history.
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