KC Barcelona: New IKF Europa Shield 2016 Champion

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Congratulations to Korfbal Club Barcelona from Catalonia, the new IKF Europa Shield 2016 champion. After an excellent tournament with 5 victories in 5 games, they are the new champions after beating in the final 14-13 the 2015 winners English Bec Korfball Club.

This is the 1st time they achieve this trophy, after only two previous international participations. The 1st was two years ago in IKF Europa Cup 2014  and the 2nd last year in IKF Europa Shield 2015.

An impressive and succesful course that ended with this well deserved 1st place in IKF ES 2016. Congratulations!

Photos by (c) Andreas Voss and Dani Ezpeleta (IKF.org):

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IKF U23 WKC Logo

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Today we publish the IKF U23 World Korfball Championship 2016 logo.

The IKF U23 WKC start 9 July 2016 in Olomouc, Czech Republic.

12 National U23 teams compete to become the next U23 world champion. The Netherlands is the reigning champion since the 2012 event in Barcelona.

The event announcement is available in the website: Click here.

The logo is:

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Mr Paul Jeanes awarded IKF Pin of Merit

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Mr Paul Jeanes (ENG)  – in the middle on the photo, surrounded by two assistants –  ended his career as IKF international referee Saturday 16 January 2016; Click here for details . He was assistant referee during the IKF Europa Cup final.

Paul was international korfball referee since the beginning of this century. He was present in many major IKF events as IKF World Korfball Championship, IKF European Korfball Championship, IKF Europa Cup, IKF Europe Shield. He was respected referee in so many matches in 15 years that the IKF Executive Committee awarded him the IKF Pin of Merit for his long lasting outstanding performances.

IKF Senior Vice-President, Frans Walvis, handed him the pin and the certificate in front of the sold out IKF ECup 2016 venue in Budapest (HUN).

 

IKF Europa Cup korfball 2017

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The IKF announced Saturday 16 January 2016 the IKF Europa Cup final round in January 2017 goes to the Netherlands. The 51th IKF ECup event days are Thursday 12 till Saturday 14 January 2017.

The 2016 national championship teams of the numbers finishing one to six in the 2016 IKF ECup qualify for the 2017 event.

The following countries have qualified: The Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Czech Republic, Catalonia and England.

Other countries must play first round qualifications later this year for 4 more places. The IKF ECup 2017 plays with 10 national championship teams.

PKC/SWKGroep (NED): New IKF Europa Cup 2016 champion!

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Congratulations to the new 2016 IKF Europa Cup korfball champion: Dutch champion, PKC/SWK Groep.

After a great championship and 3/3 victories, the 1st over the German SG Pegasus (44-13) and the 2nd against the Czech Brno KK (15-40), the Dutch defeated 31-21 its most dangerous rival in the final: the Belgium champion Boeckenberg KC.

The crowd inside the Gabányi László Sportshall in Budapest enjoyed a fantastic 1st half were none of both teams clearly leaded the game. The 16-12 score by the Dutch with 0,6 second to go before the end of the first 25 minutes and the 17-12 within 10 seconds after the start of the 2nd half was a big blow in the Boeckenberg ambitions. In the 2nd half the Dutch were able to open the gap in the scoreboard, arriving at the end of the game with a comfortable and definitive 31-21.

Congratulations again to PKC/SWK Groep players and staff for an excellent tournament, and enjoy the well deserved 50th Alfons Janssens IKF Europa Cup. The 8th IKF Europa Cup for PKC in the history of this event; they are the most successful club team in the IKF history.

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Some images of the final against Boeckenberg KC:
Photos by (c) Marco Spelten (www.Facebook.com/ActiefotografieNL)

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IKF President awarded Wilson Honorary Trophy

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IKF President Jan Fransoo has been awarded the Wilson Honorary Trophy by the Royal Netherlands Korfball Association KNKV. The trophy was presented to Mr Fransoo by Rob Meijer, KNKV President, at the organization’s General Assembly earlier today in Arnhem (Netherlands).

The Wilson Honorary Trophy recognized contributions to the development and promotion of korfball. It is the oldest existing korfball trophy in the world, and has been awarded annually by the KNKV since 1937. The award is named after S.A. Wilson, President of the Royal Netherlands Korfball Association from 1934 until 1946. Between 1946 and 1954, he also served as President of the International Korfball Federation.

KNKV President Meijer presents the WIlson Honorary Trophy to IKF President Fransoo

KNKV President Meijer presents the WIlson Honorary Trophy to IKF President Fransoo (photo Remco Boer via Twitter)

2018 FISU University World Championships

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The FISU announced the 35 host cities for the 2018 FISU University World Championships. As of 2018 korfball is part of the FISU Calendar.

This follows the first test event in 2015 in England and the very positive evaluation by the FISU / IKF afer the event in April.

The 2018 FISU University World Korfball Championship is awarded to Vila Real, a city in the north of Portugal.

Media attention during the IKF WKC

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The 10th IKF World Korfball Championship in Belgium from 30 October till 8 November 2015 attracted massive media attention all over the world.

The IKF website showed record breaking figures. Worldkorfball.org and the IKF WKC matches had even higher figures till around 10,000 per eventday and over 300,000 page views.

Further we received in each of the websites visitors from more than 100 countries all over the world. The top-10 based on absolute numbers is: Netherlands, Belgium England, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Australia, Czech Republic, Hong Kong China and Russia. On the places 12 and 13 we have two countries – France and United States of America – without participation in the event.

The IKF WKC final was live on Dutch public TV and attracted around 600,000 extra spectators. Belgian public TV showed the final as well; figures later. Both TV stations showed up in Antwerp with big teams to make side shows as well. And both brought former Dutch and Belgian internationals in as co-commentators. The Dutch had Ms Mady Tims, recent super star. The Belgians had Ms Ilse Poinart. She scored the decisive goal that brought Belgium the World Cup in 1991.

Belgian king Philippe was present in the final as well in the sold out Lotto Arena in Antwerp. He took the time to make a photo with the Belgian team and after the match he handed the World Cup to the captain of the World Champions.

In Chinese Taipei all their home team matches were distributed as well.

In Germany the WDR produced a documentary on the IKF WKC around the German national squad. The reporters were very enthusiastic about the great atmosphere during the whole event.

The IKF WKC underlined that media show interest when there is tension and excitement. The korfball players and the staff did a good job as well.

Netherlands is the 2015 World Champion

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The Netherlands has won the 10th IKF World Korfball Championship. In a fully packed Lotto Arena in Antwerp (BEL), the Netherlands eventually managed to win a match that was closely contested until in the 41st minute the Netherlands managed to create a 4-point margin that the fiercely fighting Belgians were unable to close. The final score was 18-27.

Close to 5,000 fans watched the match, with the 3,000 Belgians joined by a substantive 1,000+ crowd that came to support their team from the Netherlands.

The Belgian team were also supported by H.M. King Filip, who was introduced to both teams before the match and presented the Nico Broekhuijsen World Cup to captain Tim Bakker of the Netherlands after the match.

Match winners on the Dutch side were Richard Kunst with 8 goals and Marjolijn Kroon with 6, while Laurens Leeuwenhoek defensively controlled Belgian star Nick Jansens to only 3 goals. Jesse De Bremaeker scored 7 Belgian goals but it was insufficient for the Diamonds to regain their 1991 world title.

Photos by (c) Marco Spelten (www.Facebook.com/ActiefotografieNL – www.korfballphoto.com

You can also find all the photos of every WKC 2015 game in IKF facebook profile (Albums): https://goo.gl/isjFDN
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IOC President plays korfball

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Sunday 11 October 2015 Mr Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, participated in a small korfball match in Lausanne, Switzerland.

He visited the 35th edition of the Generation Games in front of the Olympic Museum. Korfball was well represented for the first time in the Generation Games and Mr Bach spontaneously decided to become a player as well as IKF Senior Vice-President, Mr Frans Walvis. Korfballclub Lausanne organised this korfball representation in the Generation Games 2015.

Mr Bach and Mr Walvis showed their sportmanship and the other players from Switzerland and the Netherlands coached by former Dutch record international Mr Leon Simons were enthusiastic as well.