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News, videos, photos, and results of the IKF World Korfball Championship

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Multimedia news of the IKF World Korfball Championship 2015 is available through many social and other online media. Here is a brief overview for those not familiar with social media:

1. Live webcasting

Live video is available of all matches in the WKC2015 at the IKF Channel on YouTube.

2. Highlights, interviews and a daily show.

KorfballTV produces highlights and a daily show on their Internet Channel.

3. Social updates

Photos, short news items, results, and other social material is shared via the IKF Facebook Page and via the IKF Twitter feed.

4. Live scores and stats

Live scores, along with a live video and all live and historical match and player information can be found on www.worldkorfball.org.

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IKF WKC media attention

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The final of the 10th IKF World Korfball Championship (IKF WKC) on Sunday 8 November 2015, starting time 1530 PM (CET +1) in the LOTTO Arena in Antwerp, Belgium is live on the open public TV network in the biggest korfball nation in the world; the Netherlands. Not only on public TV but on regional TV stations in the Netherlands as well.

In Belgium the IKF WKC 2015 including the final is on public TV as well. Will the home team manage to achieve the necessary high level in front of the enthusiastic supporters. The pressure is on and the expectations are high. They hope to be able to become IKF World Korfball Champion as they became in 1991 in Antwerp!

Many millions of people are able to see the the IKF WKC final on their TV at home. The Dutch team is the favorite for another title. Are they capable under the new coach Mr Wim Scholtmeijer to cope with the pressure of being favorite?

In Chinese Taipei TV coverage of the seven home team matches is predicted as well. So the Chinese Taipei crowd can see if their team can even improve their bronze medal place from the previous IKF WKC in 2011 in China

The German TV station WDR will produce a program of around 30 minutes around the German team during the IKF WKC.

Live web casting IKF World Korfball Championship

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All matches in the 10th IKF World Korfball Championship (IKF WKC) you can follow LIVE at any place in the world.

From 30 October till 8 November 2015 16 teams from all over the world compete in Belgium to become the next world korfball champion.

How can you watch IKF WKC korfball LIVE?

All url links to the ikfchannel are in the table below as well

First round matches  Links to the ikfchannel; IKF Channel
BEL-AUS 14:00 30-okt Ghent, Bourgoyen BEL – AUS
NED-CZE 14:00 30-okt Tielen, Tielenhei NED – CZE
HKG-POL 16:00 30-okt Ghent, Bourgoyen HKG – POL
CHN-RSA 16:00 30-okt Tielen, Tielenhei CHN – RSA
RUS-BRA 18:00 30-okt Ghent, Bourgoyen RUS – BRA
GER-HUN 18:00 30-okt Tielen, Tielenhei GER – HUN
TPE-CAT 20:00 30-okt Ghent, Bourgoyen TPE – CAT
POR-ENG 20:00 30-okt Tielen, Tielenhei POR – ENG
AUS-BRA 14:00 31-okt Ghent, Bourgoyen AUS – BRA
CZE-HUN 14:00 31-okt Tielen, Tielenhei CZE – HUN
CAT-POL 16:00 31-okt Ghent, Bourgoyen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGnq5XAl1es
POR-CHN 16:00 31-okt Tielen, Tielenhei https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkC4QLRRmgY
BEL-RUS 18:00 31-okt Ghent, Bourgoyen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqjOcBYAxuU
NED-GER 18:00 31-okt Tielen, Tielenhei https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6dmcgKXqWs
TPE-HKG 20:00 31-okt Ghent, Bourgoyen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNjRY1z03dw
ENG-RSA 20:00 31-okt Tielen, Tielenhei https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLdstRLQSAo
TPE-POL 14:00 1-nov Ghent, Bourgoyen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxbDljvcWyM
POR-RSA 14:00 1-nov Tielen, Tielenhei https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_34phFFRVA
BEL-BRA 16:00 1-nov Ghent, Bourgoyen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqmdYXIH5QM
NED-HUN 16:00 1-nov Tielen, Tielenhei https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL1q8XKj7t0
CAT-HKG 18:00 1-nov Ghent, Bourgoyen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWTxx1ww47U
ENG-CHN 18:00 1-nov Tielen, Tielenhei https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qp2uUpGx84
AUS-RUS 20:00 1-nov Ghent, Bourgoyen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FucxZogBJw8
CZE-GER 20:00 1-nov Tielen, Tielenhei https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSeq4rE7fJA

10th IKF World Korfball Championship to start this week

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Belgium will be the world’s hotspot for korfball for the next 10 days, with the 10th IKF World Korfball Championship being hosted in Turnhout-Tielen, Ghent and Antwerp. 16 countries from all five continents have qualified for the Championship, after four regional championships with a total of more than 40 countries taking part.

The Netherlands, who won 8 out of 9 previous World Korfball Championships, are the clear favorite for the title, with Chinese Taipei and host country Belgium the likely contenders for a place in the final. The Belgian national coach Elewaut announced his team is committed the regaining the world title. Belgium won the IKF World Korfball Championship in 1991, coincidentally the last time that the Belgians were the host. The dramatic last few minutes of that match are in the minds of all Dutch and Belgian korfball fans. This year’s final will be played on 8 November at 15:30 CET and will be broadcasted live on multiple TV channels in Europe and Asia. All matches can be watched live at the IKF Channel.

Brazil will make its debut at the IKF World Korfball Championship, and will be the first Latin American country to qualify since Aruba took part in 1991. The full list of countries and the match schedule is available online.

Eight countries at the IKF WKC 2015 will have the opportunity to qualify for The World Games 2017. Poland, as host country of TWG 2017, has qualified automatically. Due to the dominance of European countries in the IKF World Ranking, and the desire to increase the global participation at The World Games, the IKF Council has determined that any non-European country that finishes in the top-11 of this WKC would qualify, with the remaining countries coming from Europe. Currently, 3 non-European countries are ranked in the world’s top-11, being Chinese Taipei (3), Australia (8), and China (10).

Past results and the full history of the previous IKF World Korfball Championships are available in detail, while the current IKF World Korfball Ranking is also available.

IKF WKC Final sold out

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The LOTTO Arena in Antwerp, Belgium is sold out for the 10th IKF World Korfball Championship (IKF WKC) finals Sunday 8 November 2015.

Three weeks before the finals day of the IKF WKC no more tickets available shows the interest in these matches and the Championship match in particular. The IKF WKC matches start Friday 30 October.

Which team will be the 10th IKF World Korfball Champion. The Dutch after winning eight out of nine championships? The Belgian team – the Diamonds – in front of their home crowd and winner in 1991 as well in front of their home crowd? Or a big surprise as Chinese Taipei, Portugal, England, Czech Republic or …?

Anyway if you have no ticket for Sunday 8 November you may follow all matches thru the ikfchannel on YouTube. All IKF WKC matches are live on the ikfchannel on You Tube. We provide all links later.

Further all matches are available – game results plus statistics and the live webcasting – thru worldkorfball.org and the App ‘Korfball’.

IKF World Korfball Championship website launched

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The Koninklijke Belgische Korfbalbond (KBKB – Royal Belgian Korfball Federation) and students of the Karel de Grote-Highschool (KdG) launched recently www.ikf-wkc-2015.be as result of a unique collaboration project that started end of January 2015.

About 40 KdG-students presented on June 11 their project results to a jury that consisted of mentors of the KdG and a representation of the KBKB.  Sam Schuddinck, Félix Rijkers, Mike Van den Heuvel and Yannis Tack, forming the BePro team, made most impression with their interactive website and integrated computer game.

“We closely followed the different teams during their preparations”, tells Eric Duchesne, IKF WKC project manager at the KBKB. “We were really impressed by the results and the level of expertise these students have shown after a relative short period of time. The BePro-team (see picture) could convince us with their proposal and together we started working to finalize everything in time. We are very pleased to be able to launch the website and korfball game 50 days before the actual start of the World Korfball Championship.”

“The web application contains all required functionalities”, continues Eric Duchesne, “it offers a public part where the visitor can find all information about the tournament and it also gives the opportunity to pick your favorite team and to leave reactions or to cheer via the integrated social media functions. In the private part, athletes and officials will find all the information they need about the practicalities before and during the tournament and they can communicate with the organisation in a direct and uniform way.”

“The icing on the cake is the korfball game that has been developed”, concludes Eric Duchesne. ”The game is in the High5 korfball theme, a low profile korfball product that aims at korfball initiation for all ages. The combination of the web application and the computer game is really unique in history of korfball and we are glad that we launch this as a leading korfball nation together with the students of KdG. “

Hungary confirms participation in the IKF World Championship 2015

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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.

Mady Tims IWGA athlete of the month

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Today the International World Games Association published the announcement:

Congratulations to Mady Tims, IWGA Athlete of the Month for April 2015. The Korfball player (38) from the Netherlands gave her farewell at the Dutch Korfball League Finale on 11 April. More than 10,000 spectators at the sold-out Ahoy arena in Rotterdam experienced the touching goodbye.  She left the court right after her PKC/SWK Groep teammate, Johannis Schott, scored four seconds before the end the winning point.

With a huge cheer from her fans, white tulips from her teammates, and tears in her eyes, it was a moment to be cherished. Her club, PKC, won the final match against TOP by a score of 22 to 21. Mady Tims left the court as a champion. She helped to make it happen by scoring a point  in the final. It was the 500th korf in her career as a player for PKC.

The English commentator of the match described her as the “most fantastic player in the world of Korfball”. Jan Fransoo, President of the International Korfball Federation, called her, “a korfball icon”. She said after the match and her emotional farewell, “Korfball is my passion”. She added, “There are so many great moments I can look back to.”

Indeed, “Lady” (her nickname) Tims is a three-time European Champion, and three-time World Champion with the national team of the Netherland. The Dutch team, with her help, won the TWG 2005 Gold Medal in Duisburg, Germany.

“Winning the title with PKC made my last match so special”, she said after the match in Rotterdam in April. That’s the way she likes to step down. In 2011 when she retired from the Dutch national team, it was the final of the World Korfball Championship in China. The title match against the archrival Belgium was her final international competition. She scored three times for her team, which won 32:26. 
Watch her last match and the emotional moment of her substitution four seconds before the end of the final on The World Games Channel.

Learn more about Korfball on The World Games Channel.

The full article plus photos follow the link: Link to the article on Mady Tims

Photo credits: http://www.actiefotografie.nl/

IKF World Korfball Championship match schedule

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Today – 22 March 2015 – the IKF publishes the match schedule for the 10th IKF World Korfball Championship; IKF WKC 2015 full match schedule click here.

The first round pools A, B, C, and D were published earlier; 7 February 2015.

 

Virtual reality and the IKF World Korfball Championship

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From 29 October till Sunday 8 November 2015 the IKF WKC takes place in Belgium.

The Royal Belgian Korfball Federation (KBKB) and the Karel de Grote-Hogeschool (KdG) – see the KdG website: https://www.kdg.be/international/kdg-in-english – entered into an unique project. Around 40 bachelor students of KdG will develop and program various projects;

  • An interactive IKF WKC 2015 website
  • An attraction for the visitors of the various IKF WKC venues
  • A virtual reality game.

The virtual reality game will be integrated in the specific IKF WKC 2015 website.

Groups of students “Multimedia Technology” will compete to deliver the best projectplan in combination with the best virtual reality game design.

The project name is : “TOGETHER FOR KORFBALL”.

The winner is selected in June 2015.

The KdG and the KBKB have high expectations. The website and the social media are the main distribution channels for people all around the world. The virtual reality game is innovative and sets a new landmark in korfball and Internet communication.KdG school

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