IKF Competition Regulations 2015
As of 1 January 2015 the revised IKF Competition Regulations 2015 are in place. The revised Regulations are available if you follow the link: Competition Regulations 2015
Revised IKF Competition Regulations published
/in Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Korfball News, Oceania /by Frans WalvisAs of 1 January 2014 the revised IKF Competition Regulations are valid. The revised IKF Competition Regulations 2014 are published under ‘Documents’ in the ‘Document Library’.
WADA Conference in South Africa
/in Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Korfball News, Oceania /by Frans WalvisThe World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has just held its most important Congress for over four years in Johannesburg (RSA). The IKF was represented by the Secretary General and IKF Africa also had an observer at the event.
The main topics at the Conference were the coming changes to the WADA Code, due to come into effect on 1 January 2015, and the new requirements made upon International Federations, National Anti-Doping Organisations and their athletes’ requirements concerning testing, whereabouts and TUEs.
During 2014 the IKF and all countries will need to bring their Anti-Doping Rules in line with the new Code.
Draft rules for Beach Korfball
/in Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Korfball News, Oceania /by Frans WalvisAt its recent Congress – 25 and 26 October 2013 – held in Lisbon (POR) the IKF announced that it will, in the coming months, be rolling out draft rules for different korfball disciplines.
The first of these sets of rules are the Rules for Beach Korfball. Designed to be played 3 vs 3 at the highest level, or 4 vs 4 at recreation level, the game is expected to be played with a field size of 18 m x 9 m or 20 m x 10 m, no halfway line, two posts set in from the ends like the traditional variant of the game and in four quarters of 2 1/2 minutes . Teams will consist of 3 male and 3 female players and unlimited substitutions will be allowed.
The IKF member countries are being encouraged to try out these new draft rules and feed back their experiences so that a final set of rules can be put in place by the end of 2014.
Under ‘Documents‘ and ‘Playing Rules‘ these Draft Rules for Beach Korfball are published.
IKF Africa Year of Youth Event Finished
/in Africa, Korfball News, Year of the Youth /by Frans WalvisSaturday 28 September is the IKF Year of Youth 2013 event in IKF AFrica finished with the last clinics.
A whole week several korfball activities were held in Harare (Zimbabwe).
The week started with clinics for coaches and referees, conducted by Mr Riko Kruit and Mr Theo van der Linde. The 23 participants were coming from Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It was a group with mixed experiences and skills, some are involved in korfball in their country for some time yet, and others had no experience at all. It was a challenge for the instructors to keep the clinics for all participants and they succeeded.
Thursday and Friday was the IKF Africa Year of Youth U19 tournament. Unfortunately both Botswana and Mozambique could not realize to send a representative team and had to withdraw. Because of this the U19 teams of Zimbabwe, Zambia and South Africa played a full competition these two days. The most experienced South African Under 19 squad finished tops at the first ever regional Zone Six Youth Korfball Tournament, making a clean sweep of victory in all their four matches.
As side event during the International Tournament a school korfball tournament outside the sports hall was held. Here could be seen the future for Africa (e.g. Zimbabwe) is sunny, the young players were very enthusiastic, but also showed having already good korfball skills.
As said on Saturday the last clinics were conducted and all teams were going home in knowledge they were part of a historic event.
The press attended the clinics as well the tournament. Friday evening Zimbabwean Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) did spend about 10 minutes at prime time to show korfball nationwide.
Also national newspapers reported and were lyric in their reaction.
We strongly believe this event will show to be a big step in development on the African continent.
| Results IKF Africa Year of Youth U19 Tournament | ||||
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26-sep |
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| Zimbabwe | Zambia | 9 – 3 | ||
| Zambia | South Africa | 5 – 15 | ||
| Zimbabwe | South Africa | 5 – 17 | ||
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27-sep |
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| South Africa | Zimbabwe | 13 – 4 | ||
| South Africa | Zambia | 18 – 0 | ||
| Zambia | Zimbabwe | 5 – 9 | ||
| Ranking | ||||
| # matches | points | scored | against | |
| South Africa |
4 |
12 |
63 |
14 |
| Zimbabwe |
4 |
6 |
27 |
38 |
| Zambia |
4 |
0 |
13 |
51 |
IKF Level IV “High Performance Coach” Course great success
/in Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Korfball News, Oceania /by Frans WalvisThe IKF Master Coach Clinic in Dordrecht, The Netherlands was very intense. The 12 participants and 7 the tutors worked hard during 5 days. The agenda covered many topics relevant for the “High Performance Coach” working in the area of topkorfball.
The participants arrived Tuesday 27 August from 9 countries. The longest trips were made by Inglish Huang from Chinese Taipei and Warman Cheng from HongKong. But attendants from Russia, Germany, Belgium, England, Czech Republic, Catalonia, and Portugal contributed as well.
Sunday 1 September this part of the course came to an end. In the next few months the attendants will work at home on their ‘homework’. The reactions from attendants were positive; “this adds to my coach qualities”, “excellent to communicate with coaches from other countries”, good to learn from very experienced international coaches”, good to discover the facilities of software to analyse korfball matches”.
Project manager Ben Crum was very satisfied and tired after five heavy days.
Frans Walvis, IKF Senior Vice-President, was present on the last day to express the great value of this course in the light of the IKF strategy; 6 countries should compete for the highest places in the IKF elite events. Walvis mentioned to the participants: “Have a safe journey home and spread the word that this course is a valuable asset in further developing your coach abilities and will help you to improve the level of play in your home country. Tell other countries as well that this course is available”. Of course Walvis took the opportunity to thank project manager Ben Crum, the KNKV and Albert Vidanya from the IKF for their great efforts in this success.
Year of Youth Africa Zone VI U19 korfballevent
/in Africa, Korfball News, Year of the Youth /by Frans WalvisFrom Tuesday 24 September till Sunday 29 September the big African Year of Youth Festival will be held in Harare, Zimbabwe.
It is the first time ever there is an IKF Africa continental event where all Zone VI countries will participate.
Coach and referee clinics will be conducted. Further there is a tournament for representing U19 teams of Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa, Malawi, Botswana and Mozambique.
All countries are preparing their teams to be able to get a good result.
As side event a korfball tournament for primary schools of Harare will be held.
This primary school event is sponsored by the Swan Fund.
Korfball moves forward with rule changes
/in Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Korfball News, Oceania /by Frans WalvisThe Council of the International Korfball Federation has announced a series of rule changes as part of the continual improvement to further develop the world’s only mixed team sport. The changed rules come into effect on 1 September 2013.
The most striking change is to allow competition rules to prescribe that players may re-enter the game after having been substituted. The rule change should allow teams to better protect their athletes against injuries in intensive tournaments. The rule change has been designed such that there is no interruption in the game, and furthermore such that the all-round skills character of the game is maintained: players will have to play in both attack and defence at least once before they can be taken out.
In the coming days, the Council will be also announcing new rules for beach korfball, which allows the game to be played on a smaller court similar in size to a beach volleyball court.
The Council is also working to launch a fourth discipline of the game. Besides (indoor) korfball (8vs8), there is currently outdoor korfball (played on grass or artificial turf) (8vs8) and beach korfball (3vs3 or 4vs4). The council is preparing the launch of a small game, probably 4vs4, later this year.
This text was issued today in an IKF Press Release.
Changes in the Rules of Korfball to take effect from 1 Sept 2013
Explanation of the Changes in Playing Rules to come into effect on1 September 2013
The World Games korfball program online
/in Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Korfball News, Oceania /by Frans WalvisThe World Games korfball program is online.
Of course you may follow the korfball event during the World Games in Cali, Colombia through the IKF online scoring software system directly attached to the jury table in the korfball venue in Cali.
Follow the link: Korfball in the World Games 2013 in Cali
As well there is a free of charge app available to follow this and all other international korfball events on your smartphone: World Korfball for Android.
U16 Korfball World Cup
/in Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Korfball News, Oceania /by Frans Walvis10 Countries will compete in the U16 Korfball World Cup 2013.
This international korfball tournament for players under 16 will be held in the sports centre “Dioscuren” Schijndel Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 March 2013. The KNKV assisted by the local club ‘De Boemerang’ organises this youth event. It is patronized by the International Korfball Federation (IKF).
To compose the pools, the latest IKF under 16 ranking has been used and resulted in the following groupings:
Group A: The Netherlands, England , Russia , Hungary and Catalonia.
Group B: Chinese Taipei, Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic, Belarus and District South