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“In view of the cancellation of the Men’s Fistball European Championships in June in Italy, we would like to emphasize once again that the Women’s World Championships in July in Switzerland and the U18 World Champs in Austria will be held regardless of whether spectators are allowed on site or not,” emphasized IFA Secretary General…

Birmingham Southern, Sloss Furnaces and Avondale announced as next set of competition venues BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (March 19, 2021) – The Birmingham Organizing Committee today announced the next three competition venues for The Games; Sloss Furnaces, Birmingham-Southern College, and Avondale Park. The World Games 2022 signage has been installed at all three venues. The World Games…

Kristof Lerch is elected as new President of the Fistball Association of Namibia. On the eve of the first match day of the 2021 Bank Windhoek Fistball League season in Cohen the Fistball Association of Namibia elected 28-year-old from Windhoek as its new President. IFA President Jörn Verleger said in a congratulation message “I am…

On Saturday 10 April at 2:00 (CET) the postponed 2nd IFA Athletes Forum on the main topic “Women in Fistball” will take place in virtual form. The forum will be live streamed on Fistball.tv. The forum will be very interactive, and viewers will have the opportunity to ask their questions. The IFA Athletes´ Commission under…

Ways to Fistball More than 25,000 girls and women train and play Fistball – how did they get into their favorite sport? We asked some of them. In addition, we wanted to know what they expect from the 2021 Women’s World Championship in Jona, Switzerland. The questions: 1. How did you get into Fistball? 2….

It is with greatest sadness that the International Fistball Association (IFA) has learnt that Ernesto Dohnalek, IFA Honorary President, passed away at the age of 70. Ernesto, born on May 13, 1950 was elected on August 27, 1995 in Windhoek (Namibia) as the fourth President of IFV (Internationale Faustballverband). He took over the office from…

In the shadow of the athletes They are the busy little bees in the background: 1400 volunteers ensure that everything runs as smoothly as possible at the Nordic World Ski Championships. Very close to the athletes at the Nordic World Ski Championships is IFA President Jörn Verleger. As anti-doping chaperone he becomes the shadow of…

The women’s fistball national league in Austria will be decided this weekend. After the last preliminary round matches on Saturday, the indoor state championship title will be awarded on Sunday. The defending champions from Nußbach, who were undefeated on the first weekend of competition, are already in the semi-finals. Behind them, Wels, Seekirchen, Laakirchen and…

The today´s IFA Board of Directors meeting heard reports on upcoming Fistball events, the inaugural World Fistball Day and approved several guidelines and regulations concerning Anti-Doping and financial matters. Furthermore, the board approved the 2020 Annual report of the President as well as the Financial Report 2020 and welcomed Morocco as 67th member federation. Morocco…

This month’s International Testing Agency (ITA) webinar will focus on the doping control process. IFA is working together with ITA in anti-doping issues. ITA will cover a variety of scenarios that can occur during sample collection – from delays to partial and diluted samples to modifications to the process. All these and other questions will…