FITB President Chris Huang was recently awarded the Best Presentation award at the International Conference on Education Sciences (ICES) in The Netherlands. Chris's research into the promotion, development, ethics and science of play within tchoukball has been gained over the last 20 years as a keen student of the sport.
Tchoukball came to beautiful Sri Lanka recently as Tchoukball Sri Lanka Coordinators Wijeanama Wijesingh and Jonathan Wijeasingh invited Faisal Asad, Joint Secretary of the Pakistan Tchoukball Federation and FITB development representative, to Sri Lanka from 26 May to 1 June 2016. Promotional activities were organised in 3 different districts of Sri Lanka: Galle, Matra and Kandy.
The African Tchoukball Championships took place on 21-22 August in Kenya. It was attended by 5 countries: Cameroon, Kenya (with 2 teams), Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. Read about the competition from the President of the Kenyan Tchoukball Association, Kennedy Miruka.
The 4th Asia Pacific Youth Tchoukball Championships (APYTC) was hosted by Taiwan in Taoyuan City from 19 to 21 August, 2016. 34 teams from 8 countries participated in the competition: China, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines, Republic of China, Singapore, and Thailand.
The European Tchoukball Championship for 2016 took place in central Europe in Jičín, Czech Republic from 2nd to 7th August 2016. 4 playing days full of thrilling games brought many great tchoukball moments and experience to all participants. 9 countries participated in the men's category and 8 in the women's category. Together over 250 players came to play their best tchoukball to win the title of European Champions.