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This year, the fourth season of the IFA Fistball World Tour starts into a new round with a total of 27 tournaments on five continents. A record number of 124 teams will fight for the club-fistball crown and the title of the best team in the world. The tournament kicks off at the beginning of…

Congrats to The World Games Athlete of the Year Rani and congrats to our Mateus Kuntzler who finished 7th place with very honorable 28.529 votes. We are very proud of you. Thanks to all who voted for him and Fistball! Mateus Kuntzler started with Fistball when he was 10 years old. Sport has always been…

The 3rd Olympic Winter Youth Games, the Youth Olympic Games, took place in Lausanne from January 9 to 22, 2020. 1,880 athletes between the ages of 15 and 18 from more than 70 nations fought for medals in 8 sports. For the first time in Olympic history, the best young winter athletes in 3 regions,…

IFA would like to ask all members of the Fistball family to join us in supporting Australia as they endure the horrific fires that are currently ravaging so much of the country. We are grateful that none of our Fistball family have lost their homes, but we ask for your support for the many families…

Congrats to The Alliance of Independent Recognised Members of Sport (AIMS) and especially to AIMS President Stephan Fox as AIMS received unanimously full recognition by the IOC at the IOC Session in Lausanne on 10 of January. “Although this does not mean that individual AIMS members such as IFA are recognized, it is a tribute…

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More than 115 registered club teams and 29 hosts from 5 continents prove that the IFA Fistball World Tour was very successful in its third year. As we try to improve the World Tour step by step and year by year, we once again offer an adopted version to the Fistball community for 2020. We…

It is with greatest sadness that the International Fistball Association (IFA) has learnt that Dr. Hans Christian Kollmann, IFA Honorary Member in Austria, passed away at the age of 79. Our sympathy goes to his family. From 1986-1995 Hans Kollmann was president of IFA and celebrated its 30th anniversary during the 1990 World Championship in…

Katharina Lackinger (AUT) is elected as new chairwomen of the IFA Athletes´ Commission – Eric Kindler continues as deputy chair The members of the IFA Athletes´ Commission elected a new leadership after Ines Mayer step back. The members decided that Katharina Lackinger (AUT) will chair the commission until the end of 2020 (when her term…

In preparation of the World Games 2021 in Birmingham, IFA was part of The World Games Media Workshop in Madrid at the Olympic Channel (OC) headquarters. We got a first glimpse of the production plan for TWG21 in the US and held fruitful talks with our partners including OC and Sportradar concerning our future development…