Information on the Women's World Championship is now available in the World Squash Library ©Getty Images

The World Squash Library has added a new chapter to its collection - a compendium on the last five decades of the Women's World Championship.

It follows the addition of the Men's World Championship statistics and features dates, results and venues of the competitions as well as photographs of the winners and programme covers.

Posters of the champions are also free to download.

Records go back to the inaugural competition in 1976, which was won by Australian Heather McKay without dropping a game in Brisbane in Australia.

For decades, players from Australia and New Zealand were dominant at the Women's World Championship, winning all but two titles between 1976 and 2003 - although a title was not on offer every year.

Some of the best in that period include Kiwi Susan Devoy, who won four titles, and Australia's five-time winner Sarah Fitz-Gerald.

However, the record for the most world titles belongs to Malaysia's Nicol David who won eight in 10 years, beginning in 2005.

Egyptian players have won the last five titles, with Nour El Sherbini claiming four of those.

The World Squash Library was created in October by former World Squash Federation chief executive Andrew Shelley as a database for fans to access results easily and preserve the sport's heritage.

Work now turns to collating information on World Junior Championships of the past.