IKF referees in 2014

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The following korfball referees are appointed international referees in 2014.

Name Country Rank
Filip Lukás CZE ELITE
Jeanes Paul ENG ELITE
Jones Steve WAL ELITE
van Meerten Henry NED ELITE
Buis Ronald NED A
Elekes Tamás HUN A
Fridřich  Ondrej CZE A
Golawski  Maciek POL A
Hoeksma Jan Henk NED A
Van der Beken  Vincent BEL A
van der Lucht  Marco NED A
Wensma Miguel BEL A
Anus Sandra GER B
Berkel Georg GER B
CHEN Chih-Wei   (Jack) TPE B
CHIU Jon   Chiang TPE B
Elewaut Björn BEL B
Faria Carlos POR B
LEE Wing Hung   (Ivan) HKG B
Meeus Kris BEL B
Osiński Piotr POL B
Van Grimberge   Tina BEL B
Woods Dean ENG B
Almeida Isabel POR C
Alves Jorge POR C
Antunes Carla POR C
Bencivenga   Domenico ITA C
Boldizsár Végh HUN C
Brian Muringa   Fungai ZIM C
Buckle Ian IRL C
Busik Peter SVK C
Campilho Joao POR C
CHIU Fei   (Marc) HKG C
de Almeida Mario POR C
Dhaiya Pradeep IND C
Diaz Jordi CAT C
Diekmann   Frank GER C
FU Zheneli   Ding CHN C
Garcia   Adrià CAT C
Grafton John IRL C
HUANG  Dan-Lin (Alice) TPE C
Jaszczuk Bartosz POL C
Kotlář Ľuboš SVK C
Kumar P.   Santosh IND C
Kumar Sandeep IND C
Ma Ding CHN C
Marks Megan AUS C
Navarro Javi CAT C
Negi Singh   Vijaypal IND C
Qin Cong CHN C
Qin Jian CHN C
Rashmi   Dorothy Sharma IND C
Rosie Luke AUS C
Schwarze   Martin GER C
Sieber   Alexander ENG C
TANG Jason HKG C
Theÿse   Christie RSA C
TSANG Chi Hon   (Ben) HKG C
Turchányi Bálint HUN C
Vargas Antonio Guijarro CAT C
Velimir   Čučaković SRB C
Voda Tomás CZE C
YE Tsung-Chi   (Mike) TPE C

U16 Korfball World Cup

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In the line up for the U16 Korfball World Cup is a change. The U16 team from Hungary will replace the youngsters from Pakistan.

Friday 14 March 2014

1930 – 2130             2 against 2 duel tournament

Saturday 15 March          

0900 – 1900            Matches; schedule see under the Event

Sunday 16 March 

1000 – 1715          Matches; schedule see under the Event

1730                     Price giving ceremony.

All times are in Amsterdam time zone.

Participants in the U16 Korfball World Cup

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The participants in the U16 Korfball World Cup are: Belarus, Catalonia, Chinese Taipei, Czech Republic, England, Germany, The Netherlands, Pakistan and Russia.

The U16 KWC is played from 14 – 16 March 2016 in Schijndel The Netherlands.

The U16 KWC is an IKF patronaged event. The KNKV is the organiser of this annual event for U16 teams.

IKF European Korfball Championship 2014 draw

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Recently the IKF Competitions Committee organised the draw for the IKF European Korfball Championship (IKF EKC) to take place from 25 October 2014. The draw was based on the most recent IKF ranking dated 5 November 2013 with teams drawn in pairs.

16 national teams will compete to become the next IKF European Korfball Champion on Sunday 2 November. The tournament starts with pool matches on the first three days. Pools A and B contain the top 8 ranked teams and pools C and D the bottom 8 ranked teams. The teams finishing 1st to 3rd in pools A and B join with the teams finishing 1st in pools C and D to form a group of 8 teams to form a top group for the quarter finals while the remaining teams will play quarter finals towards places 9 to 16. Quarter finals take place on Wednesday 29 October.

During the closing days of the tournament in Maia, Portugal, the teams from Slovakia and Turkey will compete for the “Jan Hanekroot Cup”. They have, therefore, been placed in different first round pools.

The pools are:

Pool A   Pool B
The Netherlands Belgium
England Portugal
Germany Catalonia
Russia Czech Republic
Pool C   Pool D
Poland Hungary
Wales Slovakia
Turkey Ireland
Serbia Scotland

Brazil wins Pan American Korfball title and qualifies for IKF World Korfball Championship

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With a clear and deserved 20-10 victory over Colombia, Brazil has won the First IKF Pan American Championship, and has qualified for next year’s IKF World Korfball Championship in Belgium.

Following yesterdays golden goal victory against Colombia, Brazil was a light favorite for the title, but a close match was expected. The first 15 minutes Colombia was the better team, with a well-organized European style defense organized by coach Tilbert La Haye. Despite the considerable length disadvantage, Colombia daring took the lead with a goal by Stephanie Canizales. Brazil had difficulty keeping the score level in the first 15 minutes, due to the tight defense, but also avoided the Colombian women making the large number of goals that they made yesterday. However, after 20 minutes, leading 4-3, Brazil in three minutes increased the gap to 7-3 with goals by Wallace Cruz, Fernanda Cardoso, and Daniel Ferreira. The gap gave Colombia a strong blow, from which it never recovered in the remainder of the game. After the half-time break, Brazil cruised to 12-7, when Colombia suddenly made two goals and a short tense period occurred in which the Colombians had several opportunities to close the gap to 2. Andressa Silva however took away any further expectations of the Colombian by scoring 13-9 in the 39th minute. After that, the match was over and Brazil easily expanded the gap to finally win by 20-10. Michele Iatarola and David Ferreira lead the Brazilian scorelist with 5 each, and Juan Lerma topped the Colombia list with 4. Brazil’s women performed very well in defense, keeping the Colombian women to only 3 goals, while they scored 8 between them.

Brazil 1st IKF Pan American Korfball Champion

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Brazil is the first IKF Pan American Korfball Champion.

In the final they did beat Colombia 20 – 10. At half time the Brazilians were 7-3 in the lead. The topscorers in the final are Michele Iatarola and Daniel Ferreira, both from Brazil, each with 5 goals. (more to follow)

Daniel Ferreira was the male topscorer with 20 goals in the event. Michele Iatarola was the female topscorer with 18 goals.

Update: Brazil beats Colombia 14-13 (GG)

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This morning’s match showed the true level of competition in Latin America as the two strongest countries, Brazil and Colombia, met each other for the first time. The match was dominated by high pressure defense from both sides and repeated breaches of the shot clock time limit, resulting in very few goals at half time (5-5). In the second half, Brazil managed gradually to take a lead of 9-12 just a couple of minutes before the final whistle, but miraculously Colombia came alongside, only to give away a goal with less then 20 second on the clock. The last long distance shot was a score however, and the first golden period in Latin America started. Brazil was the luckiest here, but the expectations have been set for tomorrow’s final, which will likely see these two countries playing each other again. (more later)

Colombia and Brazil, clear candidates to play the final for the IKF Pan American Korfball Championship

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After the first day of competition, countries participating in the tournament settled their possibilities for the upcoming days:  Colombia and Brazil are the candidates to play the final after their good results of the first day and it appears that the Mexican team is going to be too weak at this moment to be a contender for the other two countries in the tournament.

After the withdrawal of Argentina, the Colombian team reinforced their aspirations to fight against Brazil for the place in the next IKF World Korfball Championship. A consistent victory of 14-23against the second team of Brazil, replacing Argentina after their withdrawal, is going to boost the aspirations of the Colombians against the host country. The game was close in the first 10 minutes, but after an impressive scoring performance of the Colombian girls the difference was bigger before the end of the first half and at the beginning of the second half the game was very well controlled. Great performance indeed of all the Colombian girls who showed great capacities to score goals and specially Virgina Caicedo who finally became the best scorer of the game with 5 goals.

In the other game of the day Brazil presented its credentials as a main candidate to be the first Latin American country in the IKF World Korfball Championships. The host team beat Mexico by 40-7 lead by Daniel Ferreira and Michelle Iatarola, each of them with 10 goals,  and could show in front of their crowd all their potential.

Brazil impresses with large victory over Mexico

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Brazil impressed most at the first day of the IKF Pan American Korfball Championship in Americana, S.P., Brazil. They beat the inexperienced Mexican team 40-7. Rivillini took most of the goals for Brazil, with Moreno of Mexico scoring 3. In the other match, Colombia also showed a strong performance well ahead of expectations, by beating the Brazil reserve team (Brazil B) by 24-15 in an unofficial match. Showing this performance, Brazil and Colombia are the clear favorites for Sunday’s final. They will play each other Saturday morning in the first round of the competition.

(more later)

Brazil eager to perform for ‘torcida’

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In the final days leading up to the 2014 IKF Pan American Korfball Championship the host team has prepared in Americana, Sao Paulo, under Portuguese coach Jorge Alves, with an intensive programme of daily training sessions and a full schedule of promotional activities.

Twenty players, led by Rio de Janeiro State Federation (FECRJ) president Daniel Rivillini and members of Sao Paolo State Federation (FCESP) Luciana Bortoleto and Thiago Barbacena, have undertaken numerous promotions, aiming to encourage school students to support the Brazilian team participating in the event, as well as a large network of physical education teachers in the area. Activities have been held in the Escola Sesi Santa Barbara, Escola Objetivo, ETEC Americana, Esesc Sao Paulo, Metrocamp Campinas, Ses Americana and UNE Sao Paulo

This is a great opportunity for the Brazilian team to perform in front of local supporters, and consolidate progress since their two-week training camp in Portugal in February 2013.

In front of its own ‘torcida’ and determined to put on a great show, the squad is focused on becoming the first continental champion, thereby qualifying for 2015 IKF World Korfball Championship.

Withdrawal of Argentina

Unfortunately, the Argentinean Korfball Association has advised the IKF that, due to the difficult economic situation in its own country, the Argentinean team was not able to raise the funding necessary to participate in the 2014 IKF Pan American Korfball Championship.

The competition committee has decided to maintain the schedule of four teams, including a second team from Brazil to replacing Argentina. Games played by this team will, however, be out of the competition.