The Catalan city of Terrassa is hosting from 29 September until 1 October 2022 the IKF U21 European Korfball Championship 2022. The first days of competion were a total success, with teams and fans enjoying the back to normal competitions with no restrictions.
DAY 3 UPDATED RESULTS & FINAL RANKING:
1st place (Gold medal): Netherlands 2nd place (Silver medal): Belgium 3rd place (Bronze medal): Catalonia 4th place: Portugal 5th place: Germany 6th place: Hungary
DAY 2 UPDATED RESULTS & RANKING SO FAR:
After these last results, the Catalan squad ends in 3r place and the game vs Hungary tomorrow at 17:15h will be irrelevant for the ranking. On the other hand, Portugal and Germany will play earlier at 16:00h for the 4th place. And finally, the Netherlands and Belgium will play at 18:30h “The Final”, to decide which of these strongest two teams becomes the 2022 U21 European korfball champion.
DAY 1 RESULTS:
This has been a long-waited edition due to the pandemic circumstances and restrictions during the last years, not allowing to follow the regular international competitions schedule.
Belgium, Portugal, Hungary, Germany, The Netherlands and Catalonia are playing a unique round that will allow all teams to play against each other to decide this year’s champion. The next generation of korfball starts are here to show their best!
The Catalan Korfball Federation is the organiser of this event in collaboration with the IKF and Terrassa’s town hall, and all games will be played at Can Jofresa Sports Complex. You can visit the official website of the tournament (u21ekc.korfbal.cat) to find all the updated information about this event, as well as all the other activities and events planned to enjoy an intense and exciting 3-day korfbal championship.
Fans around the world will be able to watch and enjoy all games through the IKF live streamings available on www.worldkorfball.sportand youtube.com/ikfchannel, with all the statistics, results, top scorers and rankings.
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From 29 September until 1 October 2022, another edition of the IKF U21 European Korfball Championship will take place in the Catalan city of Terrassa. This has been a long-waited edition due to the pandemic circumstances and restrictions during the last years, not allowing to follow the regular international competitions schedule.
But now, everything’s is set up and ready to receive the 6 national European U21 teams that subscribed to play this interesting and exciting competition. Belgium, Portugal, Hungary, Germany, The Netherlands and Catalonia will play a unique round that will allow all teams to play against each other to decide this year’s champion. The next generation of korfball starts are here to show their best!
The Catalan Korfball Federation is the organiser of this event in collaboration with the IKF and Terrassa’s town hall, and all games will be played at Can Jofresa Sports Complex. You can visit the official website of the tournament (u21ekc.korfbal.cat) to find all the updated information about this event, as well as all the other activities and events planned to enjoy an intense and exciting 3-day korfbal championship.
Fans around the world will be able to watch and enjoy all games through the IKF live streamings available on www.worldkorfball.sportand youtube.com/ikfchannel, with all the statistics, results, top scorers and rankings.
https://korfball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/header_day2_u21ekc2022.png3801000Dani Ezpeletahttps://korfball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/LogoIKF.pngDani Ezpeleta2022-09-28 10:31:332023-12-11 08:59:05The IKF U21 European Championship 2022 is ready to start in Terrassa
The first two rounds of this new IKF Korfball Champions League competition are over, and the two teams that will play the 2n Round in Prostějov are known: the German TuS Schildgen 1932 e.V. as winner of the R1A played in Lisbon, and the English Tornadoes Korball Club after winning all their games in the R1B played in Oleśnica, Poland.
Photo (c) TuS Schildgen 1932 e.V.
Three intense and wonderful days for all the local audience and fans around the world watching the live streams, with all clubs doing their best to reach the final and achieve the qualification for Round 2. The last final day was extremely exciting in both venues, with really tight and close games decided in the last quarters. A great competition has started, and it will continue next 18-20 November 2022 in Prostějov, Czech Republic, with the IKF KCL Round 2 (more info).
Tornadoes KC (c) Photo by Jenna Spelten
These are the final results of this both events played from 23 to 25 September 2022 in Portugal and Poland, organised by the IKF in collaboration with the Portuguese Korfball Federation and the Polish Korfball Association:
KCL R1-A Live streams playlist:KCL R1-B Live streams playlist:
The participants were allocated in R1-A or R1-B in these first inaugural KCL 2022/2023 events according to the following ranking, and the winner of R1-A and the winner of R1-B both progress to the IKF KCL Round 2, that will be played from 18 to 20 November in Prostějov, Czech Republic.
More information about this new competition format for European korfball clubs can be found here.
LIVE STREAMS, RESULTS & SOCIAL MEDIA
All fans around the world were be able to follow this tournament live on youtube.com/ikfchannel and on www.worldkorfball.sport (with live results and streams, statistics, scorers, play-by-play …):
The first edition of the IKF Korfball Champions League is ready to start with two first rounds, to be played from 23 to 25 September 2022 in Portugal and Poland.
The IKF KCL Round 1-A will take place in Lisbon capital, and the IKF KCL Round 1-B will be held in the Polish city of Oleśnica. This new format will allow for more matches between clubs of similar strength, doing justice to the growing club competitions in Europe.
FINAL DAY UPDATED RESULTS (R1A):
For 7th place: Marmara USC – FJEP Bonson [19-11] For 5th place: Norwich Knights – CCCD Carnaxide [9-11] For 3rd place: CC Oeiras – Platja d’Aro KC [16-14] For 1st place: TuS Schildgen – KC Barcelona [0-0]
FINAL DAY UPDATED RESULTS (R1B):
For 7th place: Kékvölgy SE – SKK Dolphins [9-7] For 5th place: Yıldız Teknik USC – Glasgow KC [13-7] For 3rd place: SJBAGB – AZS Balluff [10-11] For 1st place: Tornadoes KC – KK Brno [16-6]
UPDATE: Tornadoes KC, from England, and the German TuS Schildgen, qualify to play the IKF Champions League Round 2 next 18-20 November 2022 in Prostějov, Czech Republic.
KCL R1-A Live streams playlist:
KCL R1-B Live streams playlist:
POOLS AND MATCH SCHEDULES:
The participants were allocated in R1-A or R1-B in these first inaugural KCL 2022/2023 events according to the following ranking, and the winner of R1-A and the winner of R1-B both progress to the IKF KCL Round 2, that will be played from 18 to 20 November in Prostějov, Czech Republic.
More information about this new competition format for European korfball clubs can be found here.
LIVE STREAMS, RESULTS & SOCIAL MEDIA
All fans around the world will be able to follow this tournament live on youtube.com/ikfchannel and on www.worldkorfball.sport (with live results and streams, statistics, scorers, play-by-play …):
On social media you will be able to find the best images, clips and highlights, visiting the following official @IKFeurope and @IKFKCL profiles, as well as the regular and well-known IKF profiles (see below) and via the hashtags #KCL and #korfball:
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Poland beat Portugal by 13-5 in the final of the first World Beach Korfball Championship, completed today in Nador, Morocco. With Portugal being the highest ranked country in the beach discipline, Poland was up to a tough task, but they never let the Portuguese get into their game. Captain Tamara Siemeniuk was almost perfect in her shooting, and with strong rebounding and fast breaks, Poland gave a display of what modern beach korfball looks like: fast, fun, and exciting. Portugal was trailing 5-0 within the first 90 seconds of the match, and never managed to catch up in the game.
Gold medal: Poland
After two intense and exciting days of competition at Nador’s Corniche Beach, this is the final ranking of this successful and unforgettable championship in Morocco.
Poland had advanced to the final by beating Belgium, the other clear favorite for the title next to Portugal in the semifinal by a Golden Goal. Belgium later secured the bronze medal by beating Hungary 10-5.
Silver medal: Portugal
Tamara Siemeniuk was also crowned as the female top scorer of the event (22 goals), with Indian captain Sharma Vishal capturing the trophy for the male topscorer (27 goals). The team from India finished in the top half of the competition at 7th place.
Bronze medal: Belgium
The first World Beach Korfball Championship followed several years of playing Beach Korfball World Cups across all continents, and the IKF Council making the decision in 2018 to proceed with a formal World Championship. After two years of Covid-related postponement, the city of Nador could eventually deliver a fantastic and high profile event, with extensive media attention and contributing to the rapid development of korfball across the north African country. Morocco had a surprise result as they finished 6th in the event, losing the last placement match to the Netherlands.
IKF President Jan Fransoo was delighted with the event: “We saw many close matches, including multiple golden goals and even a match that had to be decided by penalty shootouts. Beach korfball has clearly shown the potential to level the playing field, as every single is unpredictable in terms of outcome. Further, the excitement of the local fans was impressive, with full stands at many of the matches, and a completely sold out final session on Saturday. We will continue to invest in the development of beach korfball, including targeting inclusion in relevant multi-sport games”.
DAY 2 LIVE STREAM (Evening games)
DAY 2 LIVE STREAM (Morning games)
MEDAL CEREMONY IMAGE GALLERY
By Marco Spelten – korfbalfoto.nl (updated with pictures from the Final and Bronze medal game)
The award of this event from the IKF came months after an agreement that the Moroccan Association for Korfball and the Mediterranean Youth Association made with the Ministry of National Education to develop korfball in schools. Younes Cherfaoui (MAK president): “We are very proud to be able to organise the IKF World Beach Korfball Championship and to present the beautiful city of Nador to the korfball world. The event comes at the perfect moment to showcase korfball and really use it as an accelerator for the further development of korfball within Morocco.”
A live stream signal were be provided during the tournament on Field 1. To give all teams the opportunity to play broadcasted matches, the allocation of the fields was slightly adjusted in the previous announced schedule.
The teams were divided in two groups to play a preliminary round, and the final ranking of each pool decided which squads qualify to play on the second day for places 9 to 13 and 1 to 8.
All fans around the world were able to follow and watch this tournament live on www.beachkorfball.sport and IKF Youtube channel, as well as on social media visiting the different @BeachKorfball profiles and via the hashtags #WBKC2022 and #beachkorfball:
The International Korfball Federation was glad to welcome the teams from the United States, Cameroon and India, which made their first appearance at an official international beach korfball tournament.
https://korfball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/header_champions_podium_ikfwbkc2022_marco_spelten.jpg3801000Dani Ezpeletahttps://korfball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/LogoIKF.pngDani Ezpeleta2022-08-20 19:59:102023-12-11 08:59:06Poland is the first World Beach Korfball Champion
The city of Nador is ready to host the 1st IKF World Beach Korfball Championship that will take place next August 19th and 20th at Corniche Beach. Thirteen korfball countries will participate in this prestigious event: Belgium, Cameroon, England, France, Hong Kong China, Hungary, India, Morocco, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Wales and United States of America.
The award of this event from the IKF comes months after an agreement that the Moroccan Association for Korfball and the Mediterranean Youth Association made with the Ministry of National Education to develop korfball in schools. Younes Cherfaoui (MAK president): “We are very proud to be able to organise the IKF World Beach Korfball Championship and to present the beautiful city of Nador to the korfball world. The event comes at the perfect moment to showcase korfball and really use it as an accelerator for the further development of korfball within Morocco.”
A live stream signal will be provided during the tournament on Field 1. To give all teams the opportunity to play broadcasted matches, the allocation of the fields has been slightly adjusted in the previous announced schedule. In the coming days, the LOC will inform trough which channels these live streams will be provided.
POOLS AND UPDATED MATCH SCHEDULE:
The teams have been divided in two groups to play a preliminary round, and the final ranking of each pool will decide which squads qualify to play on the second day for places 9 to 14 and 1 to 8.
All fans around the world will be able to follow this tournament on www.beachkorfball.sport as well as on social media visiting the different @BeachKorfball profiles and via the hashtags #WBKC2022 and #beachkorfball:
The International Korfball Federation is glad to welcome the teams from the United States, Cameroon and India, which will make their first appearance at an official international beach korfball tournament. Will they be able to beat the Portuguese team that raised the last IKF Beach Korfball World Cup before the pandemic in 2019? Beach Korfball is back! Let’s enjoy it!
https://korfball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/header_website_post_ikfwbkc2022.jpg3801000Dani Ezpeletahttps://korfball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/LogoIKF.pngDani Ezpeleta2022-08-17 12:44:542023-12-11 08:59:07All ready for the IKF World Beach Korfball Championship 2022 in Morocco
The Netherlands have today (Sunday, Jul 17, 2022) won an tenth consecutive World Games korfball gold medal following victory in today’s final against Belgium in Birmingham, USA.
It was October 2021 during the final of the IKF European Korfball Championship when Netherlands and Belgium last met. The European championship final was spectacular, ending with a narrow victory for Netherlands by four goals [17-21].
Eight months later and the teams meet again in the final of The World Games 2022 in Birmingham, USA. The korfball arena was SOLD OUT for the korfball final at the BJCC East Exhibition Hall – the korfball arena for The World Games creating an electric atmosphere. There wasn’t a spare seat in the house.
Final score [23-12]. Belgium’s Kian AMORGASTE top scored in the game with 5 goals.
Saying goodbye to the world stage and playing in their last international korfball match is Barbara BROUWER (NED), Julie CALUWE (BEL), Brent STRUYF (BEL) and Jari HARDIES (BEL).
In the end it was a comfortable win for Netherlands. The result means that the Netherlands have now won an eleventh consecutive World Games korfball gold medal.
Medal Ceremony
Jan Fransoo, International Korfball Federation President and Anna Arzhanaova, International World Games Association (IWGA) Executive Committee presents the Gold medals and gifts to Team Netherlands.
Joana Faria, International Korfball Federation Secretary General and Nick Sellers, CEO of the Birmingham Organizing Committee for The World Games 2022 presents the Silver medals and gifts to Team Belgium.
Gabi Kool, International Korfball Federation Executive Vice President and Jay Karsten, COO of the Birmingham Organizing Committee for The World Games 2022 presents the Bronze medals and gifts to Team Chinese Taipei
Photo: Marco Spelten – actiefotografie.nl
Final Ranking – Korfball at The World Games 2022
1st Place – Netherlands
2nd Place – Belgium
3rd Place – Chinese Taipei
4th Place – Germany
5th Place – China
6th Place – Suriname
7th Place – Czech Republic & Portugal
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Welcome to the climax of the korfball competition at The World Games 2022. We have three matches for you today, 5th/6th playoff, Bronze medal and the Gold medal match.
From 13 to 17 July 2022 the World Games 2022 is taking place in the city of Birmingham, Alabama, USA. Eight teams are competing for medals at the 11th edition of The World Games.
The first match on the final day of competition is for 5th place at The World Games. After an intense 4 days of competition both teams struggled to convert their chances resulting is a relatively low scoring first half. China went into the halftime break leading [8-5].
Suriname improved in the third period scoring four consecutive goals to level the scores at [9-9 before Xin ZHANG scored twice in quick succession to restore Team China’s two goal advantage [11-9].
Today was the last game for several players and a referee. Three players from Suriname stop playing for the national team Gerald VAN DIJK, Ivan KARSTERS and Vikash MISSIER.
International Korfball Referee, Tina van de Grimbeerge (BEL) also refereed her last match after a 8 year international referee career.
Gerald VAN DIJK scored a running-in goal in the final minute to set-up a thrilling last few attacks from both teams. To take the game into extra-time Suriname had to score. China won possession and played the ball into their offensive zone. Full Time.
End of the match. Team China finish in 5th place. Final score [13-12]
Germany v Chinese Taipei
Our second match on the final day competing for the Bronze medal is Germany and Chinese Taipei. In the last edition of The World Games Chinese Taipei won Silver with Germany finishing in 4th.
Germany started the match looking the stronger team, possibly as a result after resting several of their players in yesterday’s semi-final match against the Netherlands. Whereas Chinese Taipei played an intense match against Belgium where they narrowly lost [19-18].
What an intense opening first period. The teams traded goals throughout the first 5 minutes. Until Germany’s Steffen HEPPEKAUSEN scored two to open up the first two goal advantage. Germany’s lead was quickly cancelled out thanks to two long range goals from Kai-Yeh LO and Chun-Hsien WU [8-8].
Germany have found their groove after 15 minutes and are starting to score from ‘downtown’ opening up a five goal lead [17-12]. Half time [17-15]
Chinese Taipei made the perfect start by scoring in the first attack of the second half [17-16]. This is a very tense game of korfball. At the end of the third period it was [19-17].
After 33 minutes of play, Chinese Taipei equalised once again [20-20] only for Timon ORTH to immediately score his 5th goal of the game to restore Team Germany’s lead.
For the first time since the 1st minute, Chinese Taipei went into the lead with under 3 minutes left to play, with Ya-Wen LIN scoring her eight goal of the game. [22-23]
When Germany built a lead of 4 in the second period many people thought that they had done enough to secure the victory and win the Bronze. However, Chinese Taipei and in particular player of the match Ya-Wen LIN had other plans.
The Chinese Taipei girls were on top form in this match, scoring an impressive 20 of their 23 goals. This was the difference between the teams.
Final score [23-23]. Chinese Taipei win the Bronze medal!
Netherlands v Belgium
It was October 2021 during the final of the IKF European Korfball Championship in Antwerp, Belgium when Netherlands and Belgium last met. The European championship final was spectacular, ending with a narrow victory for Netherlands by four goals [17-21].
Eight months later and the teams meet again in the final of The World Games 2022 in Birmingham, USA. The korfball arena was SOLD OUT for the korfball final at the BJCC East Exhibition Hall – the korfball arena for The World Games creating an electric atmosphere. There wasn’t a spare seat in the house!
Brett ZUIJDWEGT opened the scoring for Team Netherlands in the first minute [1-0] before Netherlands added two more goals before Belgium’s Kian AMORGASTE opened their account [3-1]. The first period ended [7-1]. The professional athletes from the Netherlands were dominating in both zones.
At halftime the difference had increased to 7 goals [11-4] in favour of Netherlands.
Leading from the front Belgium captain Jari HARDIES tried to keep his team motivated. The workrate from both teams was impressive with Belgium constantly seeking ways to find a way through the Netherlands defence.
After 30 minutes, and at the end of the third period there was a difference of 10 goals. [18-8].
In the fourth and final quarter Netherlands added six additional goals to Belgium’s four.
Saying goodbye to the world stage and playing in their last international korfball match is Barbara BROUWER (NED), Julie CALUWE (BEL), Brent STRUYF (BEL) and Jari HARDIES (BEL).
Final score [23-12]. Belgium’s Kian AMORGASTE top scored in the game with 5 goals.
In the end it was a comfortable win for Netherlands. The result means that the Netherlands have now won ten consecutive World Games korfball gold medals.
The World Games is a multi-sport event staged every four years by the International World Games Association and organised with the support of the International Olympic Committee.
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Steve Jones (GBR) has been appointed as the referee for the final of The World Games 2022 in Birmingham, USA, between Belgium and Netherlands.
On Sunday (Jul, 17 2022) at 2pm (GMT-5) the final of the International World Games Association korfball competition will take place between Belgium and Netherlands at the BJCC Convention Center in Birmingham, Alabama.
Great Britain referee Steve Jones, was first appointed as an IKF referee in 2003 and has taken charge of multiple international finals in recent years including the European Championship final in 2018 and 2021, and the World Championships final in 2011 and 2019.
Steve will be assisted in Sunday’s final by Carlos Faria (POR) as assistant referee, and Dan-Lin Haung (TPE) and Lukas Pazourek (CZE) as reserve referees.
The World Games is a multi-sport event staged every four years by the International World Games Association, organised with the support of the International Olympic Committee. The 11th edition of The World Games will be held in Birmingham, Alabama, USA, 7-17 July 2022. 3,600 athletes from 34 sports and over 100 countries will take part in The World Games.
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The International Korfball Federation (IKF) continues to provide coverage from The World Games 2022 to fans throughout the world. If you aren’t already, make sure you’re following the official IKF social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.
Due to the fact that the IKF is not the rightsholder of The World Games footage, there will be livestream restrictions (commonly known as geo-blocking) for certain countries. In countries where TV stations and broadcasters have acquired the rights to The World Games 2022 the IKF unfortunately is not allowed to provide a livestream of the medal matches.
We understand that this is disappointing for fans in the following countries and regions:
Algeria, Argentina, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chad, Chile, Chinese Taipei, Colombia, Comoros Island, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, France, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Mexico, Middle East, Morocco, Nicaragua, North Africa, Oman, Palestinian, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, USA, Venezuela and Yemen.
If you live in one of the regions impacted you should check with your national broadcaster to see if they will cover the korfball finals.
China v Suriname
Germany v Chinese Taipei
UPDATE: Korfball fans in Germany are able to watch the Bronze medal match Live on Sport1
Netherlands v Belgium
UPDATE: Korfball fans in Belgium will be able to watch the match live on Sporza’s website.
The World Games is a multi-sport event staged every four years by the International World Games Association, organised with the support of the International Olympic Committee. The 11th edition of The World Games will be held in Birmingham, Alabama, USA, 7-17 July 2022. 3,600 athletes from 34 sports and over 100 countries will take part in The World Games.
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