U16 Korfball World Cup

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10 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

U19 Korfball World Cup

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The 18th U19 Korfball World Cup, an IKF patronised event, organised by the Royal Dutch Korfball Federation (KNKV) will take place between 28 and 31st March 2013 in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands.

Logo 10th IKF World Korfball Championship

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The KBKB Organising Committee of the 10th IKF World Korfball Championship in 2015 in Belgium has released with full approval of the IKF the event logo.

It shows power. Further it is dynamic, bright and clear.

CK Vallparadis wins 2013 IKF Europa Shield

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shieldimageCK Vallparadis/Assessoria confirmed Catalonia’s ranking as the top IKF Europa Shield country by winning 19 – 10 against the German team from Castrop-Rauxel. The result means that Germany have finished runners up for the past three years and the country has yet to ever win the Shield event. The bronze medal game was an all Czech affair with Brno defeating Kolin 23 – 17. Fifth place was earned by Nottingham (ENG) who beat Obudai (HUN) 20 – 11 and seventh place was won by Cascais (POR) who beat AZS Wroclaw (POL) 20 – 7.

The most exciting game of the day was the first semi-final where the eventual winners from Catalonia just squeezed past the eventual bronze medallists – Brno – by a golden goal. Henning SCHMIDT (GER) just edged out Jan SEDY (CZE) by one goal for top male scorer with 17 and Antje MENZEL (GER) was the top female scorer with 16, Berta ALOMKA SESE (CAT) being second with 12.

 

Hong Kong Korfball League takes off

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The Hong Kong Korfball League took off this year with seven teams. Matches are played outdoor on hardcourt in Shek Kip Mei Park in Kowloon, in the very heart of the vibrant Asian city. While in Hong Kong, IKF President Fransoo took the opportunity to visit some of the matches, and meet with players, officials, and HKCKA Chairman Warman Cheng.

The League has seen a steady growth over the past years. Teams are self-organized and consist of 16 players. The rules of the HKCKA try to limit the differences in strength by applying a point system for the strength of each player: a national team player gets more team than university student players, and high school students gets even fewer points in this system, which maximized the total number of points that a team can have amongst its members. This also stimulates strong players to spread themselves over multiple teams, and to recruit high school players to join them. One of the universities in Hong Kong, the University of Science and Technology, has a long established formal student club and enters a complete team of HKUST student beginners. To allow all players to play in each match, a maximum of 8 substitution are allowed.

Picture: Players of the ACE and DOMINANT teams join the IKF President and HKCKA Chairman in a group pictures after their match won by ACE (Source HKCKA)

IKF Europa Shield – semi-finalists now known

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Following Saturday’s second session the semi-finalists of the 2013 edition of the IKF Europa Shield are now known. Adler Rauxel (GER), who completed a 100% record in their pool matches following their 13 – 9 win against Cascais, will play Kolin (CZE) following the Czech club’s 8 – 17 defeat to CK Vallparadis (CAT). The other semi-final will be between CK Vallparadis, who also had a 100% record in their pool matches, and Brno (CZE) who rounded off their day with a 14 – 9 win over Obudai (HUN).

Fifth and sixth places will be between Nottingham, who won 20 – 5 against AZS Wroclaw (POL) in the day’s second session, and Obudai (HUN). Fighting it out for 7th and 8th places will be Cascais (POR) and AZS Wroclaw (POL).

Remarkably the number of goals scored in the second session was exactly the same as in the morning session – 95. The top female scorer after the pool matches is Antje MENZEL (GER) with 10, three clear of Marie MASOVA (CZE) and Yvonne WISCHNIEWSKI (GER) who led after the first day. For the men, Jan SEDY (CZE) and Jose Luis JURADO CRUZ (CAT) are top with 10 apiece.

IKF Europa Shield 2013 – Day 2

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In the day’s first session the aggregate scoring fell well below that of Friday, averaging under 24 per game. This was not helped by having the lowest aggregate score for a match so far this year – 15 – but also the lowest score by a team so far in this year’s event – four – by Nottingham. Only twice before, in Europa Shield history, has a team scored fewer than four. I suppose one should not be too surprised as Nottingham was one of those teams and had also scored four twice more in previous events.

The day’s opening match saw Adler Rauxel  (GER) almost certainly earn their semi-final place by beating Brno (CZE) 14 – 11. Kolin (CZE) also booked their semi-final place beating a very poor performing Nottingham team 11 – 4. In the other matches Obudai (HUN) beat Cascais (POR) 14 – 12, a performance which virtually books a 5th/6th place match against the winners of Nottingham and AZS Wroclaw(POL), and CK Vallparadis (CAT) beat the Wroclaw team 18 – 11.

IKF Europa Shield 2013 – Day 1

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The opening day of the 2013 edition of the IKF Europa Shield saw the number 1 in each pool scheduled to play the number 3 and the number 2 to play the number 4. It looked from the opening day’s results that there will not be many surprises in this year’s event unless the lower ranked countries raise their game.

In the opening matches in each pool the higher ranked team both won by a ten goal margin. In pool B Adler Rauxel (GER) – beat Obudai (HUN) 17 – 7 whilst in pool A Kolin (CZE) beat AZS Wroclaw 19 – 9. In the other matches Brno (CZE) gained a surprising large win over Cascais (POR) by a 20 – 12 score line.

The last match of the day proved to be the closest and most exciting with 19 goals scored in the first half of the 2 x 20 minutes match, with CK Vallparadis (CAT) leading Nottingham (ENG) by five with a 12 -7 score line at half time. This was mainly due to a combination of greater accuracy in shooting and better passing, Nottingham being punished on more than one occasion due to their misplaced passes. The second half slowed in intensity and number of goals scored (only 9 in total in the whole half) and saw a mini-revival by Nottingham who, although winning the half by three goals, could not close the gap and the Catalans finally won 15 – 13.

Overall an average of 28 goals per game was achieved in each 40 minute match. Matej KUBICEK (Kolin, CZE) was top male scorer of the day with five and this total was matched by the top female scorer Yvonne WISCHNIEWSKI (Adler Rauxel, GER)

KZ/Hiltex spreads the message in Hungary

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As a side event of the Europa Cup Final, the team of KZ/Hiltex held a
clinic for 150 Hungarian korfball kids.

The kids arrived from korfball schools all around the country, and were
accompanied by their PE teachers who hold the korfball trainings in the
schools. The participating schools were from Dunakeszi, Fót, Szeged and
Budapest. Besides the school children, a group of g-korfballers
(children with special educational needs) also joined the event.
The clinic created a nice exposure for korfball in the Hungarian media,
even the biggest youth sports website of Hungary published a report on
the event.

IKF U21 European Korfball Championship 2014

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The next IKF U21 European Korfball Championship (IKF U21 EKC) is awarded to Turkey from 4th till 10th of May 2014 in Antalya.

We wish the Turkish Korfball Committee (TKC) an excellent youth event, topkorfball and many very competitive matches. And the IKF expresses the wish this will further increase the awareness for korfball in Turkey and the rest of the world due to many site events, media attention and many spectators.

Twelf teams will particpate; the same number as in 2011