4th IKF Asia Korfball Championship: Day 3 Report (results, photos & schedule)

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Third day of 4th IKF Asia Korfball Championship started with India against Sri Lanka. This contest was a one sided affair as India defeated Sri Lanka by 61-8. This was the highest scoring match of the tournament.

Second match of the day was between Chinese Taipei and China. The world no. 2 again proved why they are the best in Asia as they outplayed China 25-7. The top scorers of the match Nien – Hua Huang and Yong- Bing Yang with 6 and 2 goals respectively for Chinese Taipei and China.

The afternoon session began with India up against Hong Kong China. India again started the match well at the initial stages but could not maintain the momentum for long. The score line at half time was 12-9 in the favor of Hong Kong China.

The match went neck to neck until the final whistle. The Indian shooters were again off the mark despite of very good rebounding particularly by Indian captain Pardeep Dahiya, they had a very low conversion rate whereas in contrast Hong Kong China scored at almost every opportunity they got. The match ended with Hong Kong China defeating India by 19 goals to 17.If India had won the match China would have qualified and this would have ended Hong Kong China’s hopes of reaching the finals. The player of the match was by far Wing- Yan Cheung who also was the top scorer of the match with 9 goals. Aditya Nandal scored 5 goals for India.

The last match of the day was also the last for Sri Lankan’s as the places for finals and third place match were already decided. Nonetheless it was a valiant effort by the team from South Asian Region. They enjoyed being a part of this tournament as this was their first International appearance. The score line after the match read 29-8 in the favor of China. Top scorers of the match were Yin-Zhou and Farnendo Dilip with 6 and 4 goals respectively for China and Sri Lanka.

Today the teams placings for finals and 3rd place position were decided.

Tomorrow the first match will be played for the bronze medal between China and India at 05:30 GMT and later on at 07:30 GMT the Asian Champion for the fourth edition IKF AKC will be decided between Hong Kong China and Chinese Taipei.SOU_4340SOU_3820SOU_3829SOU_4344SOU_3839SOU_4394SOU_4403SOU_4331

4th IKF Asia Korfball Championship: Day 1 & 2

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4th IKF Asia Korfball Championship 2016 commenced in Jaipur, India 26 August 2016.

DAY 1
The host nation played their first match against the reigning Asian champion Chinese Taipei. The defending champions took no time as they opened the scoring in the very first minute of the match. Chinese Taipei raced towards a 16-8 lead at the half-time. And going with the flow they finished the match 21-12. The top scorers of the match were Shu-chi Chang for Chinese Taipei and Pardeep Dahiya for India with 5 and 4 goals respectively.
In the second match of the day Hong Kong China played the debutant team Sri Lanka. The experienced team sailed past the Lankans with the score line reading 30-1 in the favour of Hong Kong China.

DAY 2
There were 4 matches scheduled. The morning session began with Hong Kong China up against China. China started the game brightly and made a nice lead of 5 goals in the 15th minute. Hong Kong China reacted and reduced the deficit to 2 goals at the half time. After the interval the game went neck to neck until the last minute. The scores were tied until the 31st minute. China had a golden chance to wrap the game moments before the final whistle but they missed a penalty. The game finished 13-13 after full time. The match went on in Golden Goal, Tsz Fung LUK of Hong Kong China scored the golden goal. The match ended 14-13 in favour of Hong Kong China.
In the second match of the day Chinese Taipei had no difficulty defeating the new comers Sri Lanka. The match ended one sided with the score line of 38-9 in the favour of Chinese Taipei.

The formal opening of the tournament also took place on Saturday. The Chief Guest was IKF President Dr Jan Fransoo and the Guest of Honour was Honorary Life Time President of IKF Asia Mr M.C. Gupta. There were many dignitaries present at the function, Dr. Inglish Huang, IKF Asia President, Mr Tilbert La Haye, CEO IKF and Dr. Pramod Sharma, Co-chairman IKC were some who graced the event with their presence. The chief coordinator of the ceremony was the IKC Chairman Mr Dilip Kumar.
Another highly significant match of the day started with the hosts India up against their counterparts China. India started well and took a quick lead of 3 goals. Scores at the half time were 7-5 in favour of India. China took no time in responding in the second half and gained a 1 goal lead at the end of the 3rd quarter with the score of 10-9 in China’s favour. The score line read a little against the run of play as India were dominating the match. The 4th quarter was a total one sided affair as China gave the hosts no chance to get back in the match. The score line ended 15-10 in favour of China.
In the last match of the day the defending champions were up against Hong Kong China.
This was the second match of the day for Taipei and they made no fuss about it as they strolled past Hong Kong China with a score line reading 27-9 in favour of Chinese Taipei.
The top scorer of the match was Ken Lin from Chinese Taipei with 6 goals.
The day ended with exciting matches and the biggest moment of the day was the Golden Goal match.

You can follow all games play-by-play, all the results, with statistics and scorers on www.worldkorfball.org.
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Korfball developments on track in India: IKF President in Delhi

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Korfball developments are gaining pace again in Inda after a number of years of administrative turmoil in the most populous South-Asian country. IKF President Jan Fransoo, accompanied by IKF Asia President Huang, was in Delhi on Friday to discuss developments with the leadership of the Indian Korfball Committee IKC. The IKC was instated by the IKF following the suspension of the Korfball Federation of India KFI at the General Meeting of the International Korfball Federation last year.

Fransoo and Huang met with Mr Dilip Kumar, IKC Chairman, and Dr Pramod Sharma, IKC Co-chairman. Work in the area of development has been gaining pace again, with various National Championships having been held again, and an Indian Korfball League started. Furthermore, korfball has been reinstated as part of the University Sports Championships and the School Sports Championships.

To that effect, the Presidents and the IKC leadership met with the Secretary General and Director of Sports of the Association of Indian Universities AIU, as well as with the leading Lakshmibal National University of Physical Education. The AIU expressed extensive support for the further development of korfball and the IKC, IKF and AIU will work closely together on this.

Finally, the governance issue was discussed extensively with the relevant stakeholders in Delhi. Next steps were agreed upon towards re-establishing a formal and recognized national governing body for korfball.

IKF President in Taipei to discuss korfball opportunities

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IKF President Jan Fransoo today met in Taipei ((TPE) with Deputy Sport Minister Wang to pay tribute to the excellent development that korfball has made across the island over the past decades. The IKF President was accompanied by IKF Asia President Ying-Che Huang and CTKA Secretary General Chien-Ting Chen. The visit coincided with Chinese Taipei reaching the second place on the IKF World Ranking for the first time in history following their silver medal at last month’s IKF U23 World Korfball Championship.

Mr Wang continued to pledge full support for the various initiatives of the Chinese Taipei Korfball Association. The IKF President also praised Mr Wang and the present and previous leadership of the CTKA for the tremendous work they are doing to support IKF Asia. Discussions were also held about hosting potential future events in Taiwan.

Subsequently, the IKF President, the IKF Asia President, and the CTKA Secretary General also met with the Chinese Taipei University Sports Federation. Discussions evolved around the participation of Chinese Taipei in the upcoming first FISU World University Korfball Championship in Portugal in 2018, and the prospects of the second FISU World University Korfball Championship in 2020.

 

IKF Level III “Youth and talent coach camp” starts in Dordrecht

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Finally 16 attendees started last Monday 22nd the 2nd edition of “Youth and talent coach camp”. After change of location of the course to Dordrecht and the excellent facilities of the club DeetosSnel, KNKV provides a very intensive week learning program of theoretical and practical sessions; at the same time the program is implement with a visit to a game of the Dutch national team and different club training sessions.

Participants are coming mainly from European countries, seven in total, and other non-European like Dominican Republic, Brazil, USA and Nepal.

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Peter Busik (Slovakia)
Luis Rosa (Catalonia)
Xavi Vidal (Catalonia)
Johan Oosterling (The Netherlands)
Tamara Siemieniuk (Poland)
Kevin Robson (Belgium)
Jakub Massa (Czech Republic)
Rob Williams (England)
Vinicius Gama (Brazil)
Guillem Castanyer (Dominican Rep)
Leandro Tavares (Brazil)
Laudys Zapata (Dominican Rep)
Yoan Sanchez (Dominican Rep)
Laxman Gautam (Nepal)
Clairlynn Rountree (USA)
HErman Egberts (The Netherlands)

The course offers the opportunity to learn every detail from the coaching of korfball and to share this experience with other participants from all around the world. Tutors are Ben Crum and Jan Sjouke van den Bos who bring their expertise and knowledge into the sessions of the course. The closure of the course will be friday 26th where participants will obtain their diploma as IKF Level III coach.

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New IKF Ranking 2016: Belgium drops to 4th place

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Following the IKF U23 World Korfball Championship held last month the IKF has a revised ranking of countries. There were a few countries who had qualified but did not take part in the event – BEL, AUS, POR and CAT. With their points earned in this event on the previous occasion dropping out and no points earned this time, there were some significant changes in overall ranking, the most notable being Belgium dropping from 2nd to 4th and the rise of China, Czech Republic and Germany at the expense of Catalonia, Portugal and Australia.

The next revision will be done in November following the IKF European Korfball Championship and IKF Asia Korfball Championship. The IKF ranking by the end of 2016 will be used to make the draw for The World Games. With Belgium dropping from 2nd place, they now run a chance of being drawn into the same pool as the current World Champion The Netherlands. In none of the past events such a draw would have been possible.

Points for the ranking are mainly earned through participation in IKF events with a weighting for each event given according to the importance of the event. Countries who take part in qualification for a final round also get points for that event, being ranked for example, 17th, 18th etc. Points earned are written down each year until the next version of the event when the previous version drops out of the calculations. With the change in some continental championships to a bi-annual rather than a four yearly cycles weighting reductions will be revised in November to reflect this.

The events counting at present towards the ranking are: IKF WKC, IKF U23 WKC, IKF Continental Championship, IKF Continental U21/23 Championship, IKF AOKC, IKF Asia U23KC, IKF University WKC, IKF European Bowl.

IKF Ranking 2016 as of 1 August 2016; CLICK HERE

 

IKF Asia Korfball Championship 2016

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Friday 26 August the 4th IKF Asia Korfball Championship (IKF AKC) start in Jaipur, Rajhastan, India.

IKF Asia and the IKC (interim committee) have done their utmost to organize a good event.

Five teams compete to become the next Asian Korfball Champion.

Chinese Taipei is the defending Asian Korfball Champion.

Details are available: CLICK HERE

USA Korfball pioneer Ralph Davis passes away at 96

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Today, the International Korfball Federation has been informed of the passing of Ralph Davis, holder of the IKF Badge of Honour, at the age of 96, amid his next of kin. Ralph Davis was one of the pioneers of korfball in the United States in the late 1970s. Many consider him one of the two founding fathers of US Korfball, together with Jan Broekhoff.

Davis was a coach of the Portland State University Korfball Team and served as President of the US Korfball Federation. Apart from korfball, he was very active in sports throughout his entire life.  He was a Seaside and Gearhart ocean-front lifeguard, credited with 250 life-saving rescues, physical education instructor at Portland State University, and a coach in football, track and cross country athletics. Further, he was founder and director of the Seaside Marathon and its summer Beach Run. The latter he created in 1966 together with his late wife Betty, who also was a former life guard. She supported him over many years in korfball activities. He was active in the gym until very recently continuing to practice sports.

His true dream, however, was a further growth of korfball in the US, which may happen now that The World Games have been awarded to Birmingham (AL, USA) in 2021. At those games, we will surely remember Ralph Davis’s most famous quote, with which he signed off all his letters: “If it isn’t korfball, it isn’t”.

The global korfball community have lost a pioneer in korfball and a friend of many. We send our condolences to Vaunda, Bryan, Scott and their families.

 

IKF EKC 2016 match schedule and event rules

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The IKF hereby publishes the match schedule for the IKF European Korfball Championship (IKF EKC) being held from 22 – 30 October 2016 in Dordrecht, The Netherlands. All details IKF EKC: Click here for match schedule and event rules.

The IKF EKC 2016 event rules are published as well.

Matches will be played in 4 quarters of 10 or 7.5 minutes Real Playing Time (RPT)

There will be a break of one (1) minute between quarters one and two and again between quarters three and four. Half time after Q2 shall be 10 minutes.

Each team will be allowed one (1) time out which can be requested at any time when play is stopped.

Each team will be allowed a maximum of 8 (reversible) substitutions.

If scores are level after the end of normal time a “Golden Goal” period of extra time shall be played with a maximum length of 10 minutes RPT. If there is no winner after the “Golden Goal” period, then the match shall be determined by penalties with all eight players from the end of the “Golden Goal” period taking penalties.

We draw your attention to the fact that this is the first time in IKF senior competitions that teams play their matches in four equal quarters of 10 or 7.5 minutes real playing time with one minute breaks between Q1 and Q2 and between Q3 and Q4.

Ten (10) teams are participating in the event. The Netherlands is the defending European Korfball Champion following their win in the last IKF EKC held in 2014 in Portugal.

IKF Honours referee Henry van Meerten with the Pin of Merit

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At the recent IKF U23 WKC it was announced that Henry van Meerten, who had been an IKF referee for many years, would be retiring as an IKF International Referee.

On behalf of the IKF, Secretary General Graham Crafter presented Henry with the IKF Pin of Merit to mark his excellent service to the IKF over such a long period of time.

It was rather fitting that his last match was in the Czech Republic since it was in that country that he refereed his first international match in 2007. His last match was the bronze medal match between the Czech Republic and Germany. Lukas Filip from the Czech Korfball Association also presented Henry with a memento to mark the occasion.