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Martin Weiß (AUT) won over 10 national championships, 8 continental title, and 3 World Tour titles during his carrier. At The World Games 2001 and 2005, Weiss´s team won the first international titles for Faustball Austria with Weiss as their no. 1 striker. In 2007 his team claimed Austria´s only World Championship title to this…

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…

A working group chaired by IFA-Anti-Doping-Administrator Teresa Eidenhammer has drafted the new IFA Anti-Doping rules based on the 2021 code, which were approved by the IFA Board of Directors in its meeting on 10 October 2020.. These Anti-Doping Rules shall especially apply to athletes who compete in any of the following IFA International Events: The…

Dear Fistball friends, 2020 was a challenging year. At the beginning of the year we hoped to strengthen our position within the sports family by: – World Class Events – Global Growth – Women in Sports – Teaming up – Showing our great media potential But it looked different to what we had hoped: Lockdown….

Five questions: What was the best thing about the sporting year of 2020? What about the year gives us courage? Finally: Why will 2021 definitely be better? Lockdown. Training ban. Hygiene concepts everywhere. No spectators in the venues. Canceled championships. Broken dreams. Season resumptions. Season reductions. The COVID-19-year 2020 has also confronted sport – at…

We know that the pandemic has had an enormous impact on both, our private lives and our Fistball lives. As we have recognized throughout the last 3 years, the IFA Fistball World Tour has made a huge contribution to international cooperation and solidarity. And as solidarity being a central issue for the upcoming year we…

IFA is proud to announce that we are partner of the TAFISA project “International and European Sport Organisations Activate Citizens” which has been selected by the European Commission and will be co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European union in 2021 – 2022. The project aims to gather International and European Sport Organisations (IESOs)…

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has published its 2019 Testing Figures Report (2019 Report), which summarizes the results of all the samples WADA-accredited Laboratories analyzed and reported in WADA’s Anti-Doping Administration and Management System (ADAMS) in 2019 (see: https://wada-ama.org/en/resources/laboratories/anti-doping-testing-figures-report). “IFA is glad to see that also in 2019 no doping case had to be reported…

Yesterday in its 8th meeting the IFA Board of Directors approved the IFA Budget 2021 including a upgraded IFA Development Program and new established IFA Youth Program each worth 25,000 € for 2021. This was approved unanimous also as a result of the COVID-19 crisis and the problems the member federation currently face to support…