Candidate team of the World Games: Dutch korfball team

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The Dutch korfball team is one of ten nominated for the Team of the Year award 2013 by the International World Games Association (IWGA).

From January 6 to January 31, 2014, supporters and friends will be able to cast an online vote for The World Games 2013 top team. One vote per person per day is allowed.

We invite you to provide active support for the Dutch korfball team. The IKF is proud on this nomination for the World Games winners. Encourage people all over the world in all 60 korfball countries to support them with your votes. Use social media channels as well. To participate in the team vote, please visit the IWGA and vote; click here

The IWGA press officer has stated: “Everybody will be allowed to participate in the voting on the IWGA website. Each participant will have available one vote per day best team. The voting will be closed on January 31. Afterwards the IWGA will announce the winners and ranking on their website and launch a press release. The winners will be awarded a trophy.

The support for your athletes / team does not only honor their performance during The World Games 2013. The vote will also increase the popularity of your sport and will make it once more visible.”

IKF Competition Regulations 2015

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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

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As 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

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The 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

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At 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.

Chinese Taipei retain their title in the 3rd IKF Asian Korfball Championship

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The 3rd IKF Asian Korfball Championship came to an end today with some very entertaining matches, particularly in the afternoon session. Chinese Taipei, having beaten Japan 21 – 9 in the semi-final, beat China, who reached the final with a 23 – 6 win over Macau China, by 18 goals to 13. In the bronze medal match Macau China beat Japan 10 -8 to clinch their first medal since 2004. Malaysia beat Korea , who qualified to play for 5th place following a 9 – 3 win over Indonesia, by 12 goals to 9.

The final ranking is:

1 Chinese Taipei  2 China  3 Macau China  4 Japan  5 Malaysia  6 Korea  7 Indonesia

AKC D4-1421  AKC D4-1586

AKC D4-1582  AKC D4-1468

AKC D4-1506  AKC D4-1559

AKC D4-1623  AKC D4-1635

AKC D4-1642 AKC D4-1644

AKC D4-1647 AKC D4-1652

 

3rd IKF Asian Korfball Championship – Day 3

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The last day of the round robin found the older korfball countries winning through to the semi-finals. Both China Macao and Japan have been around for quite a few years but even so are not that active. However, they were good enough to see of the challenge of the newcomers – Malaysia, Indonesia and Korea. The goal tally rose again with 27 more goals than yesterday. In total 441 goals have been scored in the 21 matches, an average of 21 in the 2 x 18 minute matches, which equates to 35 goals per match in a full length match.

Tomorrow morning starts with a repeat of today’s final match – INA vs KOR – to see who will challenge MAS for 5th place. This is followed by the two semi-finals – CHN vs MAC and TPE vs JPN. The final ranking matches will be in the afternoon.

The results of day 3 are:
MAC – CHN 7 –26; MAS – JPN 6 – 9; TPE – INA 26 – 8
KOR – MAC 8 – 11; CHN – MAS 17 – 5; TPE – JPN 29 – 7; INA – KOR 2 – 6;
Ranking after day 3:
TPE 18 pts; CHN 12 pts; MAC 9 pts; JPN 9 pts; MAS 9 pts; KOR 3 pts; INA 0 pts

D3 AKC-1344  D3 AKC-1314

D3 AKC-1308  D3 AKC-1359

D3 AKC-1291  D3 AKC-1401

3rd IKF Asian Korfball Championship – Day 2

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The newer and less experienced countries showed quite some progress in the way that they played today, even if this was not necessarily reflected in the results against the top teams. This was illustrated in the goals scored (including matches against CHN and TPE) going up from 39 goals on day one to 71 on day two.

The results of day 2 are:
CHN – INA 25 – 4; MAC – JPN 13 – 9; KOR – MAS 3 – 5; TPE – CHN 18 – 6;
INA – MAC 6 – 13; JPN – KOR 6 – 5; MAS – TPE 7 – 19

Ranking after day 2:
TPE 12 pts; CHN 9 pts; MAS 9 pts; MAC 6 pts; JPN 6 pts; INA 0 pts; KOR 0pts

D2 AKC-1263 D2 AKC-1247

3rd IKF Asian Korfball Championship – Day 1

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This third edition of the IKF Asian Championship consists of a record seven participating countries. Among them we have Indonesia (who could almost be considered to be a new country having last played in 1994) and Malaysia (first time at a senior IKF event having competed for the first time in the IKF under 23 AOKC in 2011). Japan, Korea and China Macao are also competing and in korfball terms are very inexperienced having limited tournament experience, particularly in recent years. Hosts China and holders Chinese Taipei make up the list of competing countries. Teams are playing a round robin format (of 2 x 18 minutes) in order to give all competing countries as much experience against different opposition within the time available. On Monday, cross semi-finals and finals will take place to determine the ranking. This event is also the first IKF event to use the new substitution rules where, under certain conditions, players are allowed to return to the match.

The results of day 1 are:
CHN – JPN 24 – 2; INA – MAS 2 – 9; MAC – TPE 4 – 27; KOR – CHN 2 – 19;
JPN – INA 4 – 3; MAS – MAC 7 – 6; TPE – KOR 24 – 2
Ranking after day 1:
TPE 6 pts; CHN 6 pts; MAS 6 pts; JPN 3 pts; INA 0 pts; MAC 0 pts; KOR 0pts

 

 

IKF Asia Korfball Championship

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From Friday 11 till Monday 14 October 2013 the next IKF Asia Korfball Championship takes place in Tianjin China.

The teams from;

Country
Chinese Taipei TPE
China CHN
Japan JPN
Macau MAC
Korea KOR
Malaysia MAL
Indonesia INA

compete to become the next IKF Asia korfball champion. Chinese Taipei is the reigning champion in Asia.

Under events you are able to find the match schedule for this event.