The 18th edition of the U17 Korfball World Cup is played from 18 – 20 March 2016 in Sportsvenue Dioscuren in Schijndel, the Netherlands; see more details under Events
The 10 participants are drawn in 2 pools:
POOL A
POOL B
The team from the Dominican Republic is new in the line up of teams in the U17 KWC.
A record number of 15 countries have entered the 21st U19 Korfball World Cup 2016 in Leeuwarden (NED). This important international korfball tournament for players under 19 will be held from 24 – 27 March in Kalverdijkje sports centre and the Cammingha sports hall in Leeuwarden and is patronised by International Korfball Federation (IKF). For the very first time Dominican Republic and Hong Kong China are among competing nations.
The official drawing of the pools (according the rules and ranking of IKF) took place on 26 January. The results are as follows:
Pool A: Netherlands, Portugal, Catalonia and RTC North*;
Pool B: Chinese Taipei, Czech Republic, China and Poland;
Pool C: England, Germany, Morocco and Hong Kong China;
Pool D: Belgium, Hungary, Russia and Dominican Republic.
* RTC North play out of competition
Winners of the 2015 edition were the Netherlands, followed by Belgium.
Teaser trailer U19KWC 2016:
Belgium will be the world’s hotspot for korfball for the next 10 days, with the 10th IKF World Korfball Championship being hosted in Turnhout-Tielen, Ghent and Antwerp. 16 countries from all five continents have qualified for the Championship, after four regional championships with a total of more than 40 countries taking part.
The Netherlands, who won 8 out of 9 previous World Korfball Championships, are the clear favorite for the title, with Chinese Taipei and host country Belgium the likely contenders for a place in the final. The Belgian national coach Elewaut announced his team is committed the regaining the world title. Belgium won the IKF World Korfball Championship in 1991, coincidentally the last time that the Belgians were the host. The dramatic last few minutes of that match are in the minds of all Dutch and Belgian korfball fans. This year’s final will be played on 8 November at 15:30 CET and will be broadcasted live on multiple TV channels in Europe and Asia. All matches can be watched live at the IKF Channel.
Brazil will make its debut at the IKF World Korfball Championship, and will be the first Latin American country to qualify since Aruba took part in 1991. The full list of countries and the match schedule is available online.
Eight countries at the IKF WKC 2015 will have the opportunity to qualify for The World Games 2017. Poland, as host country of TWG 2017, has qualified automatically. Due to the dominance of European countries in the IKF World Ranking, and the desire to increase the global participation at The World Games, the IKF Council has determined that any non-European country that finishes in the top-11 of this WKC would qualify, with the remaining countries coming from Europe. Currently, 3 non-European countries are ranked in the world’s top-11, being Chinese Taipei (3), Australia (8), and China (10).
Past results and the full history of the previous IKF World Korfball Championships are available in detail, while the current IKF World Korfball Ranking is also available.
Three female players from Taiwan will play this season in the Netherlands’ Korfball League, the strongest club competition in the world. Ya-Wen “Wen” Lin (21) and Chou-Ying “Joyce” Li (26) will join Dalto, while Dan-Lin “Alice” Huang will join DVO.
The three players will bring international experience to the two teams in the Korfball League, and are part of the Chinese Taipei national team that will compete in this year’s IKF World Korfball Championship in Belgium.
Lin has played for Chinese Taipei in the World Games in 2013 in Colombia, the IKF Asia-Oceania Korfball Championship in 2014 in Hong Kong, twice in the IKF Asia-Oceania Korfball Championship, the IKF University World Cup and the IKF U23 World Korfball Championship.
Li has played for Chinese Taipei in the same events, but in addition played at the 2007 and 2011 IKF World Championships and is the most experienced female players of the Asian champion.
Huang has played for Chinese Taipei in the IKF Asia-Oceania Korfball Championship in 2014 in Hong Kong and the IKF University World Cup in 2015 in England. She is also an international referee and officiated in this year’s IKF Asia-Oceania U23 Championship in Taiwan.
Sources: Dalto, NLKorfbal, DVO, worldkorfball.org. Photo credit: Ben Masvelder (via Twitter)
The Koninklijke Belgische Korfbalbond (KBKB – Royal Belgian Korfball Federation) and students of the Karel de Grote-Highschool (KdG) launched recently www.ikf-wkc-2015.be as result of a unique collaboration project that started end of January 2015.
About 40 KdG-students presented on June 11 their project results to a jury that consisted of mentors of the KdG and a representation of the KBKB. Sam Schuddinck, Félix Rijkers, Mike Van den Heuvel and Yannis Tack, forming the BePro team, made most impression with their interactive website and integrated computer game.
“We closely followed the different teams during their preparations”, tells Eric Duchesne, IKF WKC project manager at the KBKB. “We were really impressed by the results and the level of expertise these students have shown after a relative short period of time. The BePro-team (see picture) could convince us with their proposal and together we started working to finalize everything in time. We are very pleased to be able to launch the website and korfball game 50 days before the actual start of the World Korfball Championship.”
“The web application contains all required functionalities”, continues Eric Duchesne, “it offers a public part where the visitor can find all information about the tournament and it also gives the opportunity to pick your favorite team and to leave reactions or to cheer via the integrated social media functions. In the private part, athletes and officials will find all the information they need about the practicalities before and during the tournament and they can communicate with the organisation in a direct and uniform way.”
“The icing on the cake is the korfball game that has been developed”, concludes Eric Duchesne. ”The game is in the High5 korfball theme, a low profile korfball product that aims at korfball initiation for all ages. The combination of the web application and the computer game is really unique in history of korfball and we are glad that we launch this as a leading korfball nation together with the students of KdG. “
The latest impression from Jakarta, Indonesia.
After the medal presentations all teams, including the U19 and U16 Korfball4 winners from Chinese Taipei, showed up for a farewell photo.
Chinese Taipei is the great winner in these first Korfball4 Championships in Asia for U19 & U16 teams.
In both age groups the youngsters from Chinese Taipei win the gold medal with clear wins over theire opponents. Congratulations.
The final day results in both age groups U19 and U16 Korfball4 in Asia are:
| Sunday 23-8-2015 | |||||||
| Game | Time | Pool | Teams | ||||
| 36 | 9:30 AM | 19(2K)S1 | MAS | 25 | — | 10 | SIN |
| 37 | 10:05 AM | 19(2K)S2 | CHN | 25 | — | 12 | INA |
| 38 | 10:40 AM | 16(2K)S1 | TPE | 42 | — | 6 | INA |
| 39 | 11:15 AM | 16(2K)S2 | MAS | 9 | — | 8 | CHN |
| 40 | 1:20 PM | 19(2K)S3 | HKG | 9 | — | 4 | MAS |
| 41 | 1:55 PM | 19(2K)S4 | TPE | 33 | — | 13 | CHN |
| 42 | 2:30 PM | 19(2K)S5 | SIN | 14 | — | 15 | INA |
| 43 | 3:15 PM | 16(2K)S3 | INA | 5 | — | 22 | CHN |
| 44 | 4:00 PM | 19(2K)S6 | MAS | 11(0) | — | 11(1) | CHN |
| 45 | 4:45 PM | 16(2K)S4 | TPE | 22 | — | 7 | MAS |
| 46 | 5:30 PM | 19(2K)S7 | HKG | 10 | — | 27 | TPE |
| 6:15 PM | Prize Presentation Ceremony | ||||||
Match 44 MAS (Malaysia) — CHN (China) was decided after Golden Goal.
The IKF U19 & U16 Korfball4 Championships day 3 results clearly show the development of Asian korfball. The U16 win from MAS (Malaysia) over CHN (China) 4-3 is a surprise based on ranking.
In the U19 Championship TPE (Chinese Taipei) is the favorite to become the first IKF U19 Korfball4 Champion.
| 22-8-2015 | |||||||
| Game | Time | Pool | Teams | ||||
| 25 | 9:30 AM | 19(1K)S1 | MAS | 13 | — | 5 | SIN |
| 26 | 10:05 AM | 19(1K)S2 | HKG | 12 | — | 1 | INA |
| 27 | 10:40 AM | 16(1K)S1 | TPE | 31 | — | 2 | INA |
| 28 | 11:15 AM | 16(1K)S2 | MAS | 4 | — | 3 | CHN |
| 29 | 1:20 PM | 19(1K)S3 | CHN | 10 | — | 7 | MAS |
| 30 | 1:55 PM | 19(1K)S4 | TPE | 24 | — | 7 | HKG |
| 31 | 2:30 PM | 19(1K)S5 | SIN | 7 | — | 8 | INA |
| 32 | 3:15 PM | 16(1K)S3 | INA | 2 | — | 11 | CHN |
| 33 | 4:00 PM | 19(1K)S6 | MAS | 1 | — | 7 | HKG |
| 34 | 4:45 PM | 16(1K)S4 | TPE | 19 | — | 4 | MAS |
| 35 | 5:30 PM | 19(1K)S7 | CHN | 8 | — | 25 | TPE |
The first IKF U19 & U16 Korfball Championships in Jakarta, Indonesia go in the final phase. Today – 23 August – is finals day. See under Events.
Some photo impressions show the atmosphere. The photos have historic value as these are the 1st IKF Korfball4 Championships.
The second day in the IKF U19 & U16 Korfball4 Championships results followed the IKF rankings. No great surprises.
Chinese Taipei U19 and HongKong U19 are pool winners in U19 Korfball4.
Chinese Taipei U16 winner in the U16 Korfball4 pool as well.
| U19 | Pool A | |||||||
| TPE | MAS | INA | W | L | Score | Rank | ||
| TPE | * | 29:8 | 24:3 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | |
| MAS | 8:29 | * | 10:5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | |
| INA | 3:24 | 5:10 | * | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
| U19 | Pool B | |||||||
| CHN | HKG | SIN | W | L | Score | Rank | ||
| CHN | * | 7:14 | 21:9 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | |
| HKG | 14:7 | * | 20:3 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | |
| SIN | 9:21 | 3:20 | * | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
| U16 | ||||||||
| TPE | CHN | MAS | INA | W | L | Score | Rank | |
| TPE | * | 35:3 | 21:8 | 52:1 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 1 |
| CHN | 3:35 | * | 6:13 | 17:5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| MAS | 8:21 | 13:6 | * | 19:5 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 |
| INA | 1:52 | 5:17 | 5:19 | * | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |