World Games Korfball
July 21, 2017 @ 1:30 pm - July 25, 2017 @ 8:45 pm
The next World Games will be in Wroclaw (Poland) from 20 - 30 July 2017. This will be the 10th edition.
Korfball is part of the World Games program again. Korfball is scheduled in the first five days of the event; 21 - 25 July 2017. The first match is Friday 21 July 1330 PM (UTC/GMT + 1) in the WKK Sport Center; Chinese Taipei versus Germany.
The World Games Korfball event is the the major korfball event in 2017 for national teams.
Eight teams will compete to become the next World Games winner: Australia (AUS), Belgium (BEL), China (CHN), Great Britain (GBR), Germany (GER), The Netherlands (NED), Poland (POL) and Chinese Taipei (TPE).
The Netherlands is the reigning champion since the exciting final in Cali, Colombia in August 2013.
3000 athletes, 31 sports,111 countries... 😃
July 20-30!
Don't miss @TheWorldGames on the #OlympicChannel!#TWG2017 pic.twitter.com/x8FZpe75g3— Olympic Channel (@olympicchannel) 19 de julio de 2017
The World Games 2017 korfball event wil be the WKK Sport Center in Wroclaw: Watch WG_Korfball_WKK_venue
The match schedule (all times in UTC/GMT + 1 time zone):
| World Games | Match schedule korfball | ||
| Friday 21/07 | 13:30 - 14:45 | TPE | GER |
| 15:15 - 16:30 | NED | CHN | |
| 19:00 - 20:15 | POL | GBR | |
| 20:45 - 22:00 | BEL | AUS | |
| Saturday 22/07 | 13:30 - 14:45 | CHN | AUS |
| 15:15 - 16:30 | TPE | GBR | |
| 19:00 - 20:15 | NED | BEL | |
| 20:45 - 22:00 | POL | GER | |
| Sunday 23/07 | 13:30 - 14:45 | AUS | NED |
| 15:15 - 16:30 | BEL | CHN | |
| 19:00 - 20:15 | GBR | GER | |
| 20:45 - 22:00 | POL | TPE | |
| Monday 24/07 | 13:30 - 14:45 | 4A | 3B |
| 15:15 - 16:30 | 4B | 3A | |
| 19:00 - 20:15 | 2A | 1B | |
| 20:45 - 22:00 | 1A | 2B | |
| Tuesday 25/07 | 11:00 - 12:15 | place 7 | or 8 |
| 13:00 - 14:15 | place 5 | or 6 | |
| 17:00 - 18:15 | place 3 | or 4 | |
| 19:00 - 20:15 | place 1 | or 2 | |
| Medal ceremony | |||
During the International Korfball Federation Executive Committee meeting on 14 January 2017, the IKF Exco made a draw to establish the pools for the World Games Korfball Event.
The result of the draw is:
| POOL A | POOL B | |
| 1. | The Netherlands | Chinese Taipei |
| 2. | Belgium | Great Britain |
| 3. | China | Germany |
| 4. | Australia | Poland |
The teams in all four lines were drawn with each set of two teams based on the IKF Ranking from 1 January 2017; CLICK HERE.
