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.

IKF referees in 2014

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The following korfball referees are appointed international referees in 2014.

Name Country Rank
Filip Lukás CZE ELITE
Jeanes Paul ENG ELITE
Jones Steve WAL ELITE
van Meerten Henry NED ELITE
Buis Ronald NED A
Elekes Tamás HUN A
Fridřich  Ondrej CZE A
Golawski  Maciek POL A
Hoeksma Jan Henk NED A
Van der Beken  Vincent BEL A
van der Lucht  Marco NED A
Wensma Miguel BEL A
Anus Sandra GER B
Berkel Georg GER B
CHEN Chih-Wei   (Jack) TPE B
CHIU Jon   Chiang TPE B
Elewaut Björn BEL B
Faria Carlos POR B
LEE Wing Hung   (Ivan) HKG B
Meeus Kris BEL B
Osiński Piotr POL B
Van Grimberge   Tina BEL B
Woods Dean ENG B
Almeida Isabel POR C
Alves Jorge POR C
Antunes Carla POR C
Bencivenga   Domenico ITA C
Boldizsár Végh HUN C
Brian Muringa   Fungai ZIM C
Buckle Ian IRL C
Busik Peter SVK C
Campilho Joao POR C
CHIU Fei   (Marc) HKG C
de Almeida Mario POR C
Dhaiya Pradeep IND C
Diaz Jordi CAT C
Diekmann   Frank GER C
FU Zheneli   Ding CHN C
Garcia   Adrià CAT C
Grafton John IRL C
HUANG  Dan-Lin (Alice) TPE C
Jaszczuk Bartosz POL C
Kotlář Ľuboš SVK C
Kumar P.   Santosh IND C
Kumar Sandeep IND C
Ma Ding CHN C
Marks Megan AUS C
Navarro Javi CAT C
Negi Singh   Vijaypal IND C
Qin Cong CHN C
Qin Jian CHN C
Rashmi   Dorothy Sharma IND C
Rosie Luke AUS C
Schwarze   Martin GER C
Sieber   Alexander ENG C
TANG Jason HKG C
Theÿse   Christie RSA C
TSANG Chi Hon   (Ben) HKG C
Turchányi Bálint HUN C
Vargas Antonio Guijarro CAT C
Velimir   Čučaković SRB C
Voda Tomás CZE C
YE Tsung-Chi   (Mike) TPE C

Worldkorfball.org new release

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Tuesday 7 or Wednesday 8 January 2014 the IKF will launch the completely redesigned version of worldkorfball.org

This on line software system serves the IKF jury in major IKF Events. The jury keeps control of the matches with the support of the software and the connected database. They register players, referees, coaches, scorers, substitutions, reversible substitutions, yellow and red cards; all match related actions. Second goal of the on line system is to give korfball spectators from all over the world the opportunity to follow the game as well behind their Pc, laptop, tablet and/or smartphone. There is an Android app as well.

The redesigned system follows the changed IKF rules – including the reversible substitutions, integrates with news form the IKF website and integrates with the ikfchannel on YouTube.

The 48th IKF Europa Cup in Papendrecht (NED) will be the first IKF event with the redesigned jurysoftware.

The first version of the software was released just before the IKF World Korfball Championship in 2007 in Brno (CZE).

Season’s Greetings from the korfball community

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The entire international korfball community sends all of you the sincere Season’s Greetings as well as the best wishes for a healthy and sportive 2014!

Win a copy of the IKF Guide to Korfball Coaching!

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The IKF gives away 5 copies of the IKF Guide to Korfball Coaching written by Ben Crum! The challenge: 1,000 likes on our Facebook Page!

How to win: like the page & share this post:

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THE CHALLENGE: one week to reach 1,000 Facebook Fans!

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Time to spread korfball worldwide. Invite your friends to like this page, so all korfball fans around the world follow the latest international korfball news.

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The IKF Executive Committee

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IKF Executive Committee in 2013 as elected after the General Meeting 27 October 2013 in Lisbon (POR).
From left to right:
Mr Frank Buvens (BEL), Mrs Danielle RUTS (BEL), Dr Jan FRANSOO (president) (NED), Mr Gert DIJKSTRA (NED), Mr Graham CRAFTER (ENG), Mr Frans WALVIS (NED)

The IKF Council

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IKF Council in 2013 as elected after the General Meeting 27 October 2013 in Lisbon (POR).
From left to right:
Mr Tim MILLER (AUS), Mr Milan SCHWARZ (CZE), Mrs Helen SEARLE (AUS), Mr Gert DIJKSTRA (NED), Mr Graham CRAFTER (ENG), MR Inglish HUANG (TPE), Dr Jan FRANSOO (president) (NED), Mr Frans WALVIS (NED), Mr Frank Buvens (BEL), Mrs Danielle RUTS (BEL), Mr Les WILLIAMS (SAF)

Ukraine the 60th Korfball country

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At the 2013 IKF AGM in Lisbon last month – 27 October 2013 – the recently constituted Lviv Regional Korfball Federation was recognised as a new member, making Ukraine officially the 60th korfball country.

Korfball activity in Ukraine started in the city of Lviv last year under the supervision of former Catalan Korfball Federation board member Mr Carles Albà. With assistance from the IKF, through instructors Mr Casper Boom former international of the Netherlands and Russian national coach Mr Sergei Nizovsky, an introductory course for new korfball coaches attracted physical education teachers from a number of different schools.

Following the coaching course Lviv Linguistic Lyceum has become the main centre of korfball activity in Ukraine, with PE teacher Mr Dmitry Golubenko taking the lead. On 20 April he organised Ukraine’s first korfball tournament, attended by more than 60 players.

Lviv Regional Korfball Federation was formed directly after this tournament, taking on the mission to develop Ukrainian korfball.

Frank Buvens and Graham Crafter re-elected

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During the IKF General Meeting Sunday 27 October 2013 in Lisbon the Composition of the Executive Committee was on the agenda. In accordance with the Statutes Mr Graham Crafter (ENG) and Mr Frank Buvens (BEL) have completed their elected term of office and are eligible for re-election. Both were willing to serve again and General Meeting re-elected them unanimous for a period of 4 years.

Mr Graham Crafter serves the IKF as Secretary General. Mr Frank Buvens is the responsible officer for Refereeing and Competitions.