Fistball: Top Five Qualify for TWG2017

published on 13 November, 2015

Fistball: Top Five Qualify for TWG2017

From 14 to 22 November the best national teams in Fistball will compete against each other at the Men's World Championship in Córdoba, Argentina. For the very first time in history teams from six continents compete for the medals.

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The winners of the previous three World Championships, Brazil (1999 / 2003), Austria (2007) and Germany (2011 / TWG2013), stand the best chances of winning the title again. The Argentinian hosts and the Swiss team are considered close runner-ups, while Namibia, USA, Italy and Chile might have an outside chance of winning.

Sports fans are looking with great anticipation towards the opening game on Saturday between host Argentina and the Team USA, right after the opening ceremony.

The best five teams of this World Championship automatically qualify for the World Games 2017 in Wroclaw, Poland. The Polish team receives the wild card spot for being the hosting country and therefore also automatically qualified for the World Games.

These are the three pools of Men's World Championship:

Pool A

Germany

  • Argentina
  • Switzerland
  • Namibia
  • USA

Pool B:

  • Austria
  • Brazil
  • Chile
  • Italy
  • Czech Republic

Pool C

  • Australia
  • Colombia
  • India
  • Pakistan
  • South Africa

The International World Games Association (IWGA) is a non-profit-making international sports organisation recognised and supported by the International Olympic Committee. The IWGA comprises 40 International Member Sports Federations. It administers and promotes The World Games (TWG), a multi-sport event held every four years that features around 35 sports on its programme. The next edition of TWG will be in Chengdu (CHN) from 7-17 August 2025. 5,000 participants from more than 100 countries are expected to take part in this 12th edition. The latest Games were hosted by Birmingham, Alabama (USA).

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