The International Korfball Federation has just released the most recent IKF Ranking. Only minor changes occurred since the last ranking of November 2014. In the top-10, only Catalonia and the Czech Republic swapped places while all others retained their position. The Netherlands tops the IKF ranking followed by Belgium and Chinese Taipei.
The IKF published an adjusted actual ranking after the various IKF Events in the recent months. You find the actual ranking under ‘Documents’ and in the following link:
The Hungarian Korfball Association (HKA) has confirmed that it will participate in the IKF World Korfball Championship, due to be held in October and November 2015, despite the fact that some of their stronger players have withdrawn from the team due to a conflict.
This confirmation follows news in the media earlier this week that the Hungarian Korfball Association would have withdrawn from participation in the upcoming IKF World Korfball Championship. These reports turned out to be premature.
Several European countries had contacted the IKF based on the news in the media, indicating their willingness to replace Hungary should the Hungarians not take part. The IKF is very grateful to the flexibility shown by those countries and their commitment in taking part.
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After the medal presentations all teams, including the U19 and U16 Korfball4 winners from Chinese Taipei, showed up for a farewell photo.
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All participants in the IKF Level III Youth Camp finished the camp very successful.
Guided by Mr Ben Crum as project manager the group was very eager to absorb korfball training and coaching knowledge. Ben Crum is a well known Dutch coach with PKC, writer of various korfball training books and IKF Honorary member.
Ben had former Dutch national coach, Mr Jan Sjouke van den Bos to do lectures and sessions during the week as well.
After the presentations all 22 partuicipants showed up for the photo.
All 5 IKF continents were active and represented in the youth camp.
Ben Crum and Frans Walvis in the closing ceremony
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The IKF U19 & U16 Korfball4 Championships day 3 results clearly show the development of Asian korfball. The U16 win from MAS (Malaysia) over CHN (China) 4-3 is a surprise based on ranking.
In the U19 Championship TPE (Chinese Taipei) is the favorite to become the first IKF U19 Korfball4 Champion.
Day 1 of the IKF U19 & U16 Korfball4 Championships in Jakarta, Indonesia showed some interesting results. The first round is played in all three pools.
Both in U19 and in U16 age group the youngsters from Chinese Taipei show their abilities with clear wins.
Some exciting events are underway this week from 16 to 22 August in Dordrecht, the Netherlands. First of all, IKF in liaison with KNKV run the IKF Level III “Youth Coach Camp”. An international group of 22 coaches perform under guidance of current coach of Dutch korfball champion PKC, Mr. Ben Crum. He is appointed as a program manager for this course. Mr. Crum lead a group of prestigious coaches invited to guide the participants in the “Youth coach camp” and learn all about coaching drills at youth level. Amongst this group of tutors, coach of Dutch national team Mr. Wim Scholtmeijer, Mr .Jan Sjouke van den Bos, head of coaches for the KNKV and Mr Detlef Elewaut, coach of Belgium national team, conduct some of the sessions.
During the week several training sessions take place at different Dordrecht clubs featuring local korfballers from 11 to 16 years coming from the clubs: DeetosSnel, Sporting Delta, Movado, Oranje Wit, KC Dordrecht together with some players from KC Barcelona. The training sessions will be useful as a practice for the 22 coaches from 15 different countries representing all five continents. They participate this week in order to obtain the IKF level III diploma for international coaches:
Coach
Country
M/F
1
Javi Navarro
Catalonia
M
2
Nigel Cooper
Scotland
M
3
David Konecny
Czech Republic
M
4
Bandor Nagy
Hungary
M
5
Kevin De Waele
Belgium
M
6
Joe Stirling
England
M
7
Liandri Theyse
South Africa
F
8
Danie Smith
South AFrica
M
9
Pardeep Dahiya
India
M
10
Alice
Chinese Taipei
F
11
Bird
Chinese Taipei
F
12
Karen Fuchs
Germany
F
13
Keisuke Mashiba
Japan
M
14
Anna Schutze
Germany
F
15
Daniel Rivillini
Brazil
M
16
Maria J. Capparelli
Argentina
F
17
Sebastian J. Iula
Argentina
M
18
Diego Rodrigo
Argentina
M
19
Luciana Bortoletto
Brazil
F
20
Rosa Cooper
New Zealand
F
guest
Chattha Imtiaz Ahmad
Pakistan
M
guest
Hashmi Shamsa
Pakistan
F
For some years, IKF and KNKV work closely together in order to involve all korfball nations pursuing to raise their level of play.
For that purpose we provide coaches with a complete program for coaching youth teams. This should be planned and executed with accuracy; furthermore the IKF Level III “Youth Coach Camp” is an opportunity to enjoy a unique experience, sharing one week with coaches from all around the world in the excellent environment of one of the greatest korfball cities in the world and hosted by well-known club DeetosSnel. The clubs from Dordrecht opens its doors to an international program for coach education and provide the best facilities to perform during this week.
https://korfball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/coaching-website.jpg7681366Frans Walvishttps://korfball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/LogoIKF.pngFrans Walvis2015-08-19 13:25:542015-09-04 13:29:04IKF Level III “Youth Coach Camp” join International Week Dordrecht 2015
