The IFA Athletes´ Commission under the leadership of chairwomen Katharina Lackinger today prepared the 2nd IFA Athletes´ Forum on next Saturday 9th January, 2021 at 13:30 (European Time). Main topic will be “Women in Fistball”. The forum will be covered on www.fistball.tv as well as the IFA social media channels. At the beginning of the Forum IFA will announce the winners of the IFA 2020 Awards in different categories.

Questions like “Do you think there are disadvantages for women in Fistball?” and “How do you think we could improve women´s participation in Fistball?” are questions to be raised at the forum.

“The main question of this year´s forum is how we can make Fistball more attractive for especially girls/women”, said IFA Athletes´ Commission chairwomen Katarina Lackinger. “I am happy that the members of the IFA Athletes´ Commission agreed to make a point of statement on the questions raised during the forum”, the Austrian added.

“The work of our athletes´ commission is very valuable for IFA”, said IFA President Jörn Verleger, who announced also an interactive tools for all Fistball players worldwide to give their input for this virtual congress. Via www.slido.com under #IFA as well as on several IFA social media channels and an “audience advocate” the audience can comment on the topics. Listeners who would like to give their statements live e.g. as video message will be connected to the broadcasting team via MS Teams.

At the beginning of the Forum IFA will announce the winners of the IFA 2020 Awards in the categories:
– IFA WOMEN IN SPORTS AWARD
– IFA ACTIVITY AWARD
– IFA SPORT FOR GOOD AWARD
– IFA MEDIA AWARD
– IFA LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD