Development plan re-starts korfball in Dominican Republic

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The office of the Vice-President and the Sports Ministry of Dominican Republic together develop a new campaign to re-start korfball in Dominican Republic. This plan tries to bring korfball into the regular education of a number of sports students in the Instituto Superior de Formación Docente Salomé Ureña (ISFODOSU) located in the two main cities in the country: Santo Domingo, the capital, and Santiago de los Caballeros. Later the program launches the practice of korfball in schools in both cities through the support of the sport teachers as guides and trainers for the teams.

This plan supports the re-start of korfball in the country some years after its introduction. The program is conducted by IKF Director of Development and Education, Mr Albert Vidanya, and IKF instructor, Mr Dani Ezpeleta. The program started 16 March 2015 in Santiago de los Caballeros after some words from Mr Jaime David Fernández  Mirabal, Sports Minister, Mr Franco Ventura,  vice rector of ISFODOSU, and Mrs Anniete Cohn-Lois, responsible for Gender in the Vice-President Office.

Activities will run two weeks, and will finish with the final happening programmed for the Friday 27 March with the two groups of ISFODOSU from Santiago de los Caballeros and Santo Domingo. They play and exhibition the game of korfball in the sports center of the capital, with the presence of several schools, the authorities and responsible of the project.

IKF anti-doping rules in line with 2015 code

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The IKF is on the list of International Federations published by WADA that the IKF anti-doping rules are in line with the 2015 World Anti-Doping Code.

The IKF has drafted and submitted to WADA the revised IKF anti-doping rules some months ago.

WADA is the World Anti-Doping Agency.

The full list is available: click here

 

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

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The IKF Council sends the best wishes for a healthy 2015 to the whole korfball community and all others around the globe. May korfball contribute to a better world.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Merry Christmas and Happy New year

2015 IKF EXco / Council Meeting Schedule

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The IKF Executive Committee scheduled the formal meetings for 2015.

  • 7 February 2015; IKF Exco meeting
  • 6 June 2015; IKF Exco meeting
  • 5 September 2015; IKF Exco meeting in Antwerp

During the IKF World Korfball Championship in Antwerp, Belgium:

  • 4 and 5 November 2015; IKF World Korfball Congess
  • 6 November 2015; IKF Council Meeting; 0900 AM
  • 7 November 2015; IKF General Meeting; 0900 AM

Coach education for Costa Rica pioneers

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In late September IKF instructor Jorge Alves was in Costa Rica where he worked with the budding korfball community to progress the skills of a group of local coaches who will lead development in the IKF’s newest member country.

Nineteen people participated at the IKF Level II “Formation Coach” course, for a total of 35 hours, with 12 of the coaches taking part in the IKF’s on-line coach development programme.

Teaching 19 new coaches is another step forward for the Costa Rica Korfball Association (“Asociación de Korfball y Deportes Asociados”). Subsequently, on 1 November, the IKF Council approved Costa Rica’s membership application, subject to final ratification by the IKF General Meeting scheduled for November 2015 in Belgium, which should officially make Costa Rica the 63rd IKF member.

Costa Rica’s newly qualified coaches have already started to introduce korfball into primary and secondary schools, with the aim of setting up a competition in the cities of Cartago and San José.

New age groups and Korfball event planning

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Following the IKF Congress discussions in Lisbon end October 2013 and ongoing development in the IKF Competition Committee the IKF introduces a new programme of age related korfball events based on a four year cycle.

The details are in two documents:

  1. IKF Global & Continental Competition outlook 2015-2025 incl New Age Groups
  2. New Age Group IKF Competitions 20141119

IKF welcomes IOC call on mixed gender team events

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The International Korfball Federation today happily noticed the International Olympic Committee’s recommendation to include mixed-gender team events in future editions of the Olympic Games. The recommendation was part of the set of recommendations for the Olympic Agenda 2020 ( Documents Olympic Agenda 2020 Recommendations ENG). With its high rank of #11 in the list of 40 recommendations, the IOC prominently displays its desire for mixed gender team sports as part of the Olympic Games.
Jan Fransoo, IKF President: “We are aware of the successes of the mixed relay events in the Winter Olympic Games and Youth Olympic Games recently,and welcome the IOC intention which suggest moving beyond relays to actual mixed-gender teams. Korfball is a modern sport with a tradition of more than 100 years of mixed-gender teams. Apart from being a fast and dynamic teamsport, the sport has been instrumental in promoting gender equality across the globe.
The recommendations are up for discussion early next month at a Special Session of the IOC in Monaco. Subsequent to the adoption of resolution 11, the IKF will be in touch with the IOC on the matter.

IKF Ranking 2014

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Following the IKF Continental Championships in 2014 in Americas, Africa, Asia, Oceania and Europe and the IKF U21 European Korfball Championship the IKF has prepared a new revised overall ranking.
The IKF publishes the revised ranking in general once a year.

Ranking end 2014 Ranking end 2013 Country Code Points
1 1 Netherlands NED      188.000
2 2 Belgium BEL      182.125
3 3 Chinese Taipei TPE      174.750
4 5 Portugal POR      159.875
5 4 England ENG      158.500
6 8 Czech Republic CZE      136.500
7 6 Catalonia CAT      133.000
8 9 Australia AUS      130.750
9 7 Germany GER      126.625
10 10 China CHN      117.000
11 11= Russia RUS      112.125
12 11= Hong Kong China HKG      112.000
13 15 Poland POL      111.250
14 16 Hungary HUN      108.250
15 14 South Africa RSA      101.000
16 18 New Zealand NZL        91.000
17 13 India IND        73.250
18 23 Scotland SCO        72.500
19 20 Turkey TUR        70.000
20 21 Ireland IRE        69.500
21 19 Slovakia SVK        68.750
22 22 Serbia SRB        66.000
23 17 Wales WAL        63.250
24 26 Zimbabwe ZIM        52.000
25 35 Malaysia MAS        48.000
26 27 France FRA        46.750
27 25 Sweden SWE        45.000
28 31 Korea KOR        42.250
29 24 Romania ROU        39.000
30 30 Greece GRE        35.250
31 34 Macau China MAC        34.750
32 33 Japan JPN        33.000
33 38 Indonesia INA        22.750
34= 28 Luxembourg LUX        21.250
34= 29 Armenia ARM        21.250
36 43= Brazil BRA        19.000
37 42 Zambia ZAM        17.000
38 Colombia * COL        14.000
39 32 Italy ITA        12.000
40 37 United States USA        10.000
41= 43= Malawi MAL          8.000
41= Mexico * MEX          8.000
42 36 Pakistan PAK          6.000
43 39 Bulgaria BUL          4.000
44= 40 Cyprus CYP          3.000
44= 41 Nepal NEP          3.000
46= 43= Argentina ARG          1.000
46= 43= Aruba ARU          1.000
46= 43= Belarus BLR          1.000
46= 43= Bosnia & Herzegovina BIH          1.000
46= 43= Botswana BOT          1.000
46= 43= Canada CAN          1.000
46= 43= Croatia CRO          1.000
46= 43= Curacao CUR*          1.000
46= 43= Denmark DEN          1.000
46= 43= Dominican Republic DOM          1.000
46= 43= Finland FIN          1.000
46= 43= Georgia GEO          1.000
46= 43= Mongolia MGL          1.000
46= 43= Singapore SIN          1.000
46= 43= Surinam SUR          1.000
* = prov. Member

Costa Rica 63rd IKF member

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The Costa Rica Korfball Association is the 63rd member of the International Korfball Federation. The Council of the IKF approved Saturday 1 November 2014 the membership application of Costa Rica, following positive advice from IKF Americas and subject to final ratification by the IKF General Meeting in November 2015 in Belgium.

2nd Worldwide korfball youth event

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In the weekend of 14 – 15 June 2014 the IKF Development and Education Committee wants to celebrate another edition of the worldwide korfball youth event. As a follow up of the succesful International Korfball Youth Day Celebration held 15 June 2013 and following the great result of the Worldwide Korfball Match created by IKF Europe Development officer, Mr. Bandor Nagy, we organise the 2nd edition.

If players and teams are ready to play a match between team Korfs and team Balls, please join the Facebook event at https://www.facebook.com/events/635176416557674/  in order to follow the information regarding the worldwide match.

Our intention is to tally the results of all the Korfs teams and the Balls teams aggregated, so it will be a country-wide korfball match between the two teams. We will have an interactive map where the visitors can see the results at each location, and by age group, including all the names of the players who played korfball in that location during the weekend of the 14-15 June. Next to the map, the big score board will show the progressive overall standings. At the end of the weekend we will have the final result between Korfs and Balls and we wil also post pictures, videos and reports from many locations.