U17 Korfball World Cup adjustment

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Latest information about the 17th U17 Korfball World Cup in Schijndel, Netherlands.

Poland will not participate in the U17 KWC in 2015. They withdrew. In Pool B Catalonia replaced Poland.

Eight countries and nine teams play in the U17 KWC. The youth teams of the following countries: Belgium, Catalonia, Chinese Taipei, England, Germany, Hungary, The Netherlands and Portugal.

This IKF patronised international korfball tournament for players under 17 takes place in sports centre “Dioscuren” Schijndel 21 and 22 March 2015. The local korfball club “De Boemerang” assists the KNKV in the organisation.

The revised U17 KWC pools are:

Pool A: Chinese Taipei, England, Portugal

Pool B: The Netherlands, Germany, Catalonia,

Pool C: Belgium, Hungary, RTC South

Team KNKV RTC South plays out of competition.

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20th U19 Korfball World Cup

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From Friday 3 April till Sunday 5 April 2015 the 20th U19 Korfball World Cup is played in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. Thirteen teams will be in competition in 2015. The participants travel to the Netherlands from 4 of the 5 IKF Continental Confederations.

The venues are sport centre Kalverdijkje and the Cammingha sports hall (close to each other). The U19 KWC is patronised by the International Korfball Federation (IKF); the KNKV is the organiser.

In 2015 New Zealand participates for the first time in this youth event.

The opening ceremony is scheduled Thursday 2 April in sport centre Kalverdijkje in Leeuwarden..

The U19 KWC started in 1996. Over the years the event is grown and is a fixed event in the international korfball calendar now.

The pools for the jubilee 20th U19 KWC are:

Pool A: Netherlands, England, Chinese Taipei, Catalonia, Romania, New Zealand and Brazil

Pool B: Belgium, Germany, Portugal, Czech Republic, Hungary, China and RTC U19 North*.

* The regional U19 team (RTC) is playing out of competition.

The draw is based on the IKF Ranking.

IKF University Korfball World Cup

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The International Korfball Federation announces the IKF University Korfball World Cup 2015, patronaged by FISU as test-event being held in Norwich, United Kingdom at the University of East Anglia.

This event with 8 national university teams will take place from 16 – 18 April 2015, pools below:

Pool A
A1 Chinese Taipei (TPE)
A2 Great Britain 1 (GBR 1)
A3 Hong Kong (HKG)
A4 Turkey (TUR)
Pool B
B1 Netherlands (NED)
B2 China (CHN)
B3 Russia (RUS)
B4 Great Britain 2 (GBR 2)

Match schedule IKF University Korfball World Cup 2015 (all times are UK times) can be found under Events.

U17 Korfball World Cup

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The U17 Korfball World Cup participants and the match schedule can be found under: U17 KWC Information; teams, pools and schedule

The 16th edition of this youth event – IKF Patronised – is played Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 March 2015 in Sportsvenue Dioscuren in Schijndel (NED).

Ten teams participate.

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IKF World Korfball Championship 2015 pools

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In the IKF Executive Committee meeting 7 February 2015 in Zeist, The Netherlands the draw for the 10th IKF World Korfball Championship resulted in the following pools:

WC pools 2015-01

Pool A
Belgium
Australia
Russia
Brazil
Pool B
Netherlands
Czech Republic
Germany
Hungary
Pool C
Chinese Taipei
Catalonia
Hong Kong
Poland
Pool D
Portugal
England
China
South Africa

The event starts 30 October 2015.

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Logo IKF World Korfball Championship 2015

World Games 2021

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The president of the  International World Games Association (IWGA), Mr José Perurena, just announced (22 January 2015) the World Games in 2021 will take place in the city of Birmingham, in the state Alabama, USA; click for more info.

The 2021 edition will be the 11th World Games multi-sports event with 25+ sports, about 4,500 athletes and officials from approximately 100 countries. Korfball is on the program since 1985 in London, England.

After the first World Games in 1981 in Santa Clara, USA this will be the return to the USA.

During its meetings on 21 January 2015 the IWGA Executive Committee made a final assessment of the bids from Birmingham (USA), Lima (Peru) and Ufa (Russia), and evaluated the delegations’ final presentations. The IWGA Executive Board took the final decision on the host city for the 11th edition of this multi-sports event at its meeting earlier this morning.

The IKF congratulates the city of Birmingham and we are eager to show up with korfball in 2021 as well.

The 10th World Games take place in Wroclaw, Poland from 20 – 30 July 2017.

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U23 Korfball World Cup live web casting

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The U23 Korfball World Cup matches in Rotterdam, The Netherlands you may follow thru the ikfchannel on YouTube.

The links to the ikfchannel are different for the next three days:

Time are mentioned in the Rotterdam time zone.

U23 Korfball World Cup day 1

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The U23 Korfball World Cup started earlier today in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

The matches are available thru our ikfchannel on YouTube; click U23 KWC 2014

The next three matches will start 28 December 1815, 1915 and 2015. The finals play 30 December 1245 and 1415. All times are in the Amsterdam time zone.

Five teams are in competition: Chinese Taipei, Czech Republic, Germany, England and The Netherlands.

 

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First Japanese Korfball Championship for 14 years

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Japan Korfball Association hosted the Eighth Japanese Korfball Championship on 22 November 2014.

Japan Korfball Championship 2014

This was the first time the event has taken place since 2000, and reflects strong recent progress made in the development of korfball in Japan under president of Japan Korfball Yoshimitsu Tobisa (Tobi)

In conjunction with the tournament, a coaching and referee course also took place, mentored by international korfballers from Hong Kong Ivan Lee and Akiko Tsujikawa.

Results from the 2014 Japanese Korfball Championship:
1. Korfball Club Tokyo(東京)
2. Korfball Club Nagoya(名古屋)
3. Gverle Nagasaki(長崎)

First Chinese Taipei U18 & U16 National Korfball4 Championships

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The inaugural Chinese Taipei U18 & U16 National Korfball4 Championships is taking place on National Jhongli Senior High School (Jhongli SHS) on 22 – 23 November 2014.

This event shall be the innovative national championship adopting the IKF official rules of Korfball4 recently approved by IKF Council. One single match is played 5 minutes times 4 quarters and one team is composed of 2 female and 2 male players. 2 referees with whistles are arranged. There is no limit on the number of substitutions and the player changed out is allowed to return for playing. The schedule of 1st first playing day was simply for age group U18 (senior  high school) with 6 teams’ participation. The round robin system was used for the top 3 teams and each team had 1 won – 1 loss result so the penalty contest was taken to decide the ranking. Finally Jhongli SHS wins the historical crown. The 1st runner-up is Nankan SHS and the 2nd runner-up is Hujiang SHS. All the U16 matches will be subsequently played on the 2nd playing day.

The playing of Korfball4 is dynamic, spectacular and easily learned. Chinese Taipei Korfball Association is convinced that Korfball4 is a very good alternative game played in much more accessible court to effectively create new korfball population. The highlight of match Jhongli SHS – Hujiang SHS can be seen on https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=360531074106481