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  "name": "FIFA Women's World Cup 1991 (champions - USA)",
  "summary": "The inaugural Women's World Cup, in China PR, had 12 teams and 26 matches and ended at the Tianhe Stadium in Guangzhou on 30 November 1991 with USA beating Norway, Michelle Akers scoring twice. FIFA's own pages disagree on whether the final finished 2-1 or 2-0.",
  "locale": "en",
  "tags": [
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    "fifa",
    "tournaments",
    "finals",
    "documentary-conflict"
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      "rel": "counted_in",
      "target": "womens-world-cup-titles-by-country"
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  "questions": [
    "Who won the first Women's World Cup?",
    "What was the score in the 1991 Women's World Cup final?"
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      "id": "c1",
      "text": "The first FIFA Women's World Cup was held in China PR in 1991 with 12 teams and 26 matches, the last of them between USA and Norway at the Tianhe Stadium in Guangzhou on Saturday 30 November 1991. USA won it, the first of their four titles, with two goals from Michelle Akers.",
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    {
      "id": "c2",
      "text": "FIFA's two retrospectives give different scores for that final. The more recent, \"Every FIFA Women's World Cup final\" (published 1 January 2026), gives USA 2-1 with Linda Medalen scoring for Norway; the older ranking article of 11 August 2023 calls it a 2-0 win. The 2-1 scoreline with the Medalen goal is FIFA's current telling.",
      "sources": [
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        "fifa-wwc-all-time-ranking"
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      "confidence": 0.9
    },
    {
      "id": "c3",
      "text": "Michelle Akers, Carin Jennings and April Heinrichs scored 20 of the USA's 25 goals in the tournament, including five in the 5-2 semi-final win over Germany, where Jennings scored three and Heinrichs two.",
      "sources": [
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      ],
      "confidence": 0.94
    }
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  "faqs": [],
  "evidence_tier": "primary",
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  "winning_edge": "The only place that states plainly that FIFA itself publishes two different scores for this final, names both pages and dates them, instead of picking one silently. Downstream answers cite whichever FIFA page they happened to read and contradict each other for no visible reason.",
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