IKF PAKC 2018: Suriname and Dominican Republic qualify for the IKF WKC 2019 in Durban

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The two places that give access to the next IKF World Korfball Championship 2019 in Durban, South Africa are known: Suriname and Dominican Republic are qualified after Sunday’s last results at the IKF Pan-American Korfball Championship 2018 in Cali, Colombia.

DAY 3 RESULTS (4-March-2018):
9:30h SUR-CRC: 23-3
10:45h COL-ARG 11-7
12:00h DOM-BRA 17-6

FINAL RANKING POOL (after Day 3):

1st – SURINAME (15 pts)
2nd – DOMINICAN REPUBLIC (12 pts)
3rd – BRAZIL (9 pts)
4th – COLOMBIA (6 pts)
5th – ARGENTINA (3 pts)
6th – COSTA RICA (0 pts)

 

TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE:  worldkorfball.org/competitions/ikf-pan-american-korfball-championship-107

All games were filmed and are now available on www.worldkorfball.org, with all the results, play-by-play, statistics and top scorers. You can also find all these full matches and all the images and photographs on Facebook’s PAKC 2018 official event site: www.facebook.com/events/167074280553769/?active_tab=discussion

As usual, on IKF social media profiles you may find images, videos and other info related to this tournament. Follow it using the hashtag #PAKC2018 on

DAY 3 IMAGES (by Dani E.)

IKF PAKC 2018: Day 3. Suriname secures gold; Brazil and Dominican Republic to contest other medals

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The last day at the 2nd IKF Pan-American Korfball Championship 2018 has started. The ‘Coliseo Mundialista’ in Cali will host the last 3 important games still to be played. After yesterday’s games and results, Suriname is leading the ranking with 12 points, followed by Dominican Republic and Brazil, that will play today’s last match. The winner will obtain one of the two places that gives access to the next IKF World Korfball Championship in 2019 in Durban, South Africa.

Yesterday Suriname secured the gold medal and is the first country in the world to qualify for next year’s IKF World Korfball Championship.

These were all the results from Day 2 (3-March-2018):

9:30h ARG-SUR: 8-22
10:45h COL-DOM: 12-19
12:00h BRA-CRC 17-8
17:00h DOM-SUR 9-20
18:15h ARG-CRC 10-9
19:30h COL-BRA 8-11

RANKING POOL (after Day 2):

1st – SURINAME (12 pts)
2nd – DOMINICAN REPUBLIC (9 pts)
3rd – BRAZIL (9 pts)
4th – COLOMBIA (3 pts)
5th – ARGENTINA (3 pts)
6th – COSTA RICA (0 pts)

DAY 3 MATCH SCHEDULE (4-March-2018):
9:30h SUR-CRC: 23-3
10:45h COL-ARG 11-7
12:00h DOM-BRA 17-6

 

Tournament schedule:  worldkorfball.org/competitions/ikf-pan-american-korfball-championship-107

[UPDATE] All games were filmed and are now available on www.worldkorfball.org, with all the results, play-by-play, statistics and top scorers. You can also find all these full matches and all the images and photographs on Facebook’s PAKC 2018 official event site: www.facebook.com/events/167074280553769/?active_tab=discussion

As usual, on IKF social media profiles you may find images, videos and other info related to this tournament. Follow it using the hashtag #PAKC2018 on

DAY 3 IMAGES (by Dani E.)

IKF PAKC 2018: Day 2 (live update)

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Day 2 is on in Cali. After the six first games played yesterday in this 2nd IKF Pan-American Korfball Championship 2018, Suriname and Dominican Republic and  are leading the ranking with 6 points, Brazil and Colombia follow them as 3rd and 4th with 3 points, and Argentina and Costa Rica classify 5th and 6th still no wins.

These were all the results from Day 1 (2-March-2018):

(G1) BRA-ARG: 15-13
(G2) COL-SUR: 5-21
(G3) DOM-CRC: 24-6
(G4) BRA-SUR: 10-18
(G5) DOM-ARG: 13-5
(G6) COL-DOM: 12-3

RANKING POOL (after Day 1):

1st – SURINAME
2nd – DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
3rd – BRAZIL
4th – COLOMBIA
5th – ARGENTINA
6th – COSTA RICA

DAY 2 MATCH SCHEDULE (3-March-2018): UPDATED
9:30h ARG-SUR: 8-22
10:45h COL-DOM: 12-19
12:00h BRA-CRC 17-8
17:00h DOM-SUR 9-20
18:15h ARG-CRC 10-9
19:30h COL-BRA 8-11

Tournament schedule:  worldkorfball.org/competitions/ikf-pan-american-korfball-championship-107

[UPDATE] All games were filmed and are now available on www.worldkorfball.org, with all the results, play-by-play, statistics and top scorers. You can also find all these full matches and all the images and photographs on Facebook’s PAKC 2018 official event site: www.facebook.com/events/167074280553769/?active_tab=discussion

As usual, on IKF social media profiles you may find images, videos and other info related to this tournament. Follow it using the hashtag #PAKC2018 on

DAY 2 IMAGES (by Dani E.)

IKF PAKC 2018: Day 1 Report

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End of Day 1 at the 2nd IKF Pan-American Korfball Championship 2018 in Cali, Colombia. After a great 1st day of competition, with some interesting and really exciting duels in the spectacular Coliseo Mundialista, the teams from Suriname and Dominican Republic and  are leading the ranking with 6 points, Brazil and Colombia follow them as 3rd and 4th with 3 points, and Argentina and Costa Rica classify 5th and 6th with still no points.

These were all the results from Day 1 (2-March-2018):

(G1) BRA-ARG: 15-13
(G2) COL-SUR: 5-21
(G3) DOM-CRC: 24-6
(G4) BRA-SUR: 10-18
(G5) DOM-ARG: 13-5
(G6) COL-DOM: 12-3

RANKING POOL (after Day 1):

1st – SURINAME
2nd – DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
3rd – BRAZIL
4th – COLOMBIA
5th – ARGENTINA
6th – COSTA RICA

This has been a great day of competition, with lots of students from Escuela Nacional del Deporte and local supporters and fans attending the games during the whole day. They created an amazing and cheerfully atmosphere in certain games, showing one more time how much they love sports and the passion and excitement they put on it.

The Opening Ceremony took place before today’s last game, with some spectacular local dancers and the official speech from IKF President Jan Fransoo. Let’s celebrate a great first day of competition, that will bring for sure more surprises and interesting games on its Day 2.

DAY 2 MATCH SCHEDULE:
9:30h ARG-SUR
10:45h COL-DOM
12:00h BRA-CRC
17:00h DOM-SUR
18:15h ARG-CRC
19:30h COL-BRA

Tournament schedule:  worldkorfball.org/competitions/ikf-pan-american-korfball-championship-107
[UPDATE] All games were filmed and are now available on www.worldkorfball.org, with all the results, play-by-play, statistics and top scorers. You can also find all these full matches and all the images and photographs on Facebook’s PAKC 2018 official event site: www.facebook.com/events/167074280553769/?active_tab=discussion

As usual, on IKF social media profiles you may find images, videos and other info related to this tournament. Follow it using the hashtag #PAKC2018 on

You can find the pools, match schedule, tournament rules and more on https://korfball.sport/event/ikf-pan-american-korfball-championship-pakc

Day 1 Image gallery (by Andrea Navarro)

Ready to start the IKF Pan-American Korfball Championship 2018

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Everything’s ready in Cali, Colombia, for the 2nd IKF Pan-American Korfball Championship 2018. Six teams will compete for two places in next year’s IKF World Korfball Championship in Durban, South Africa.

From March 2th to 4th, 2018, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic and Suriname are the teams that will be playing to be the new Pan-American champion.

The ‘Coliseo Mundialista, Escuela Nacional del Deporte’ that hosted the 2013 World Games will be the perfect venue for this thrilling and exciting tournament.

[UPDATE] All games were filmed and are now available on www.worldkorfball.org, with all the results, play-by-play, statistics and top scorers. You can also find all these full matches and all the images and photographs on Facebook’s PAKC 2018 official event site: www.facebook.com/events/167074280553769/?active_tab=discussion

As usual, on IKF social media profiles you may find images, videos and other info related to this tournament. Follow it using the hashtag #PAKC2018 on

You can find the pools, match schedule, tournament rules and more on https://korfball.sport/event/ikf-pan-american-korfball-championship-pakc

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IKF call for social and digital media help

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Are you interested to increase the IKF’s social and digital impact?

If korfball is your passion and you have social media or other digital skills than you can help increase korfball’s global impact by volunteering your time and skills.

Korfball is growing globally. With close to 70 member countries, korfball is part of many people’s daily lives, and korfball activities take place globally at any time of day. Over the past years, the IKF has built up considerable presence in social and other web media and is one of the most innovative international federations in this domain. Live scoring on worldkorfball.org, casting of IKF events on worldkorfball.org and YouTube, extensive social media coverage of our events on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, a website as a repository of our official documents, and much more.

The IKF would like to further develop its social media and digital presence. For social media we would like more impact during our events, coverage of other events, and more presence in between events. In terms of information provisioning we would like to collect and share more of our data and provide interesting graphs, analyses, and social content. We would like to inform interested korfball fans better and in a more personalized way. We would like more technology support in our competition processes, such as for accreditation. And of course we are interested to further develop the experience of viewers of our webcasts.

For this, we would like to put together a pool of volunteers that can help us. These volunteers can be any of the following (but definitely not limited to this list):

  • Social media writer/producers
  • Video producer, director, etc
  • Social media editors
  • Software developers
  • Data scientists
  • Journalists, interviewers, reporters (social and other electronic media)
  • …. (fill in what you think the IKF and the global korfball community needs)

If you are interested, or if you would like to know more, please send us an email. In the email, at least include:

  • Your name and contact details
  • Your specific interests/ambition
  • Your specific skills
  • Any other information that is useful for us to know
  • Any information you would like to know from us

Please send your application or expression of interest before 15 March 2018 to the IKF Office: office@ikf.org. For further information contact the IKF CEO Tilbert La Haye: tilbert.la.haye@ikf.org.

Note: This is a call for volunteers. We do not solicit commercial applications for service provisions. Please refrain from developing any commercial proposal based on this text.

IKF U19 Open European Korfball Championship

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In a little under two months the 30, 31 March and 1 of April the National U19 teams of Belgium, Brazil, Catalonia, Czech Republic, England, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal and Turkey will face each other at the IKF U19 Open European Korfball Championship 2018 in Friesland, The Netherlands.

This year’s U19 tournament is a special one, while for the first time ever this long existent event has got an official IKF status. In 1996 the former district of the Royal Dutch Korfball Association (KNKV), Friesland, organised an inaugural tournament for U19 players from countries all over the world. The tournament was the idea of the late Jan Hanekroot who was then the IKF Development Officer for England. The first edition involved five countries and was very successful and since then the Junior World Cup, later converted into Korfball World Cup, has grown throughout the years in quantity and quality. A great achievement!

The Netherlands’ representation in the tournament began with a regional Frisian team and was followed in subsequent years by the Junior Talent Team from District North, now named The Netherlands RTC North. Since 2008, the national under 19 squad has been participating in the tournament. In this year’s edition The Netherlands RTC North will complete the participants of the event for the last time. Starting with 2019 only National teams of countries will be allowed to participate.

From now on the former IKF patronaged U19 Korfball World Cup will continue as a biannual IKF U19 (Open) European Korfball Championship altered with a biannual IKF U19 World Korfball Championship. This automatically means that in the future the IKF U19 events are open for bidding for all IKF member countries. Nevertheless, the first IKF U19 World Korfball Championship in 2019 already has been allocated to the Dutch Royal Korfball Federation (KNKV).

The 13 teams of the 2018 edition are divided into three pools. On the first day of the tournament most of the pool matches will be played. The remaining pool matches will be played on the first part of the second day. Later that day the 8 highest placed countries will play the quarter- and semi-finals. While the 5 lowest ranked teams will continue their tournament in a new pool. On the third and last day the final classification will be decided and will it become clear who can call themselves IKF U19 Open European Korfball champions of 2018.

Each match (except the final day) will last two times 15 minutes real playing time with a 4-minute halftime break. If there’s no winner after regular playing time, a golden goal period of 5 minutes will decide who comes out as winner.

Would you like to see the korfball talents of each country live? Visit the event during the Easter weekend at ‘t Kalverdijkje in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. The first match is scheduled to start at 9:00 AM on the 30th of March. The final match is scheduled to start at 2:45 PM on the 1st of April, after which the medal ceremony will start at 4:00 PM.

More info, pools & playing schedule you can find at: www.ikf.org/event/ikf-u19-open-european-korfball-championship.

 

Livestreaming of the games & interviews:
Livestream: Hall 1
Livestream: Hall 2
Interviews

Social media profiles:
Instagram IKF U19 OEKC
Facebook IKF U19 OEKC
Twitter IKF U19 OEKC

Korfball aims for the 2023 Southeast Asian Games in Cambodia

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The proposal to organize courses for referees and coaches was mooted by the President of Thailand Korfball Association. For referees and coaches, the IKF level 1 course began on 3 February till 5 February. The aim was enhancing their level and korfball skills.
The event took place at Sports Center of Srinakharinwirot University (SWU).
This event is organized under the close cooperation among IKF Asia, Thailand Korfball Association (TKA), SWU and National Taipei University of Education (NTUE) (Taiwan).
Prof. Inglish YC Huang, IKF Asia President conducted the coach course while Ms. Bird FY Hsieh, IKF Instructor conducted the referee course.

The grand event could be successfully organized with the grant support from Taiwan Sports Administration (Sports Ministry) based on the New Southbound Policy. Prof. Inglish Huang and Ms. Bird Hsieh were able to take 18 elite korfball players of NTUE as teaching assistants to efficiently and effectively enhance participants learning quality.

Apart from the education courses, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed by Prof. Supranee Kwanboonchan the TKA President and Prof. Inglish Huang, President of IKF Asia, which was witnessed by the participants, sponsors, and media in the morning on 3 February. The objective of this MOU is to state the partnership between TKA and the IKF Asia toward korfball as a sport for all and as an elite sport in Thailand.

Furthermore, the mixed training with the players of NTUE and the players of Thailand U19, U16, and open national squads were done in the evening 4 February.

With the great initiative invitation of Prof. Tuk (well-known nickname of S. Kwanboonchans), these parallel coach and referee courses consisted of 44 and 30 participants respectively from Cambodia, Hong Kong China, Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, Singapore, Chinese Taipei and Thailand. This is a record-breaking number of participating countries in an IKF level 1 coach and referee course.

Prof. Tuk, an optimal role model for a leader, who is also the current President of ASEAN Council of Physical Education and Sport. IKF Asia will maintain its close cooperation with Prof. Tuk for spreading korfball not only in Thailand but further in the ASEAN countries by means of her tremendous influential strength.

A feasibly crucial goal is to deliver korfball into the competition programs of 2023 Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) in Cambodia.

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Registration for IKF Beach Korfball World Cup (Europe) 2018 now open!

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All 69 IKF recognised National Korfball Federations are invited to participate in the next IKF Beach Korfball World Cup (Europe) 2018 that will take place in Blankenberge (Belgium) from 11 to 12 August 2018.

This event will contain both a Senior and Under 19 category. IKF A & B countries are entitled to subscribe two teams per category, and C-D-E countries only one. Remember that beach korfball is played in a 4 against 4 format, and the maximum number of players per team is 6. So be aware! Because during the tournament it will not be allowed for a player to play in more than one team.

It is up to each National Federation to decide how to select the National Team. This can be done by a standard selection process, but for example also by picking the best (club) team of a National Beach Korfball Championship.

To be able to participate countries must send a complete filled entry form to the IKF no later than 12 March 2018 to officially subscribe for this tournament.

More detailed info and documents has been sent via e-mail to all National Federations.

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THE BEST RANKED EUROPEAN TEAM WILL BECOME EUROPEAN BEACH KORFBALL CHAMPION 2018

With the introduction of World Cups, the IKF invests in the global development of beach korfball. Every continental organisation has the opportunity to organise a World Cup in 2018 and every country from all over the world is able to participate in each of the events. This can lead to at most 5 World Cups:

IKF Beach Korfball World Cup (Europe)
IKF Beach Korfball World Cup (Asia)
IKF Beach Korfball World Cup (Oceania)
IKF Beach Korfball World Cup (Africa)
IKF Beach Korfball World Cup (Americas)

More general info about IKF Beach Korfball World Cups on: beachkorfball.com/?p=11486

KV Adler Rauxel (GER) is the new Europa Shield champion!

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Congratulations to KV ADLER RAUXEL from Germany, new IKF Europa Shield 2018 champion after beating 16-13 the English BEC KC in an incredible and unforgettable final in Portugal.

In the spectacular Multiusos de Odivelas sports hall, both teams showed their best kofball and delighted all fans and supporters with an extraordinary, intense and exciting final match. Nothing was clear until the last seconds. A huge compliment to BEC KC for its Silver medal after playing an awesome and superb tournament.

In the previous Bronze medal game, BRNO KK from Czech Republic defeated the English NORWICH KNIGHTS KC by 12-17, becoming the last team to fill the podium.

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IKF EUROPA SHIELD 2018: FINAL RANKING

1st: KV ADLER RAUXEL e.V. (GER)
2nd: BEC KC (ENG)
3rd: KK BRNO (CZE)
4th: NORWICH KNIGHTS KC (ENG)
5th: KC BARCELONA (CAT)
6th: MARMARA UNIVERSITY (TUR)
7th: KORF LX PROJECT (POR)
8th: CRC QUINTA DOS LOMBOS (POR)

IKF EUROPA SHIELD 2018 Final: KV ADLER RAUXEL (GER) 16 – BEC KC (ENG) 13

Bronze medal (GAME 17): NORWICH KNIGHTS KC (ENG) 12 – KK BRNO (CZE) 17

Congratulations to the Local Organizing Committee and the Portuguese Korfball Federation for their hard work and turning again this great event a wonderful and successful tournament. Also thanks to all local and regional authorities, to Odivelas townhall, and specially to all volunteers and people who helped and worked so hard during all these days and previous weeks. Good job!

 

You can watch again and review all games and all the statistics on www.worldkorfball.org.

Official LOC Facebook Profile: facebook.com/IKFEuropaShield2018

Official IKF Facebook Event site (live update): facebook.com/korfball.org –
IKF Europa Shield 2018

Tournament rules, participants, pools & schedule can be found on: ikf.org/event/ikf-europa-shield-2018

 

Other links:

 

All images, videos, live updates, results and other curiosities were available live 24/7 on IKF social media profiles (#EShield2018 #korfball):

 

FINAL DAY IMAGE GALLERY:
By Marco Spelten (@actiefotografieNL) and Gertrude de Vries (@gertrudedevries.fotografie)