The inaugural all-women’s Challenger Cup was held in Los Angeles in December. (FITEQ)The game, a mix of soccer and desk tennis performed with a soccer ball on a curved desk, was invented in 2012. It’s performed with both two (singles) or 4 (doubles) gamers.
The present sequence of Challenger Cups within the U.S., which started in September, are doubles occasions. Las Vegas hosted a males’s event in November 2020 and a blended doubles occasion earlier this month. In between, Los Angeles performed host to the first-ever all-women’s Challenger Cup in December.
Carolyn Greco and Margaret Osmundson received gold within the inaugural girls’s occasion.
“This event was such a big day. Personally, it was emotional for me to see this historic Challenger Cup come to fruition,” Greco mentioned.
The duo had completed runners-up within the males’s occasion in November and had been fourth on the earlier two males’s tournaments in San Diego in September and Houston in October.
The subsequent Challenger Cup is January 31 in Sacramento, California earlier than the sequence heads to the japanese a part of america with stops in New Jersey and Virginia subsequent month.
The rostrum for the FITEQ Challenger Cup blended doubles occasion in January (FITEQ)The efforts by USA Teqball usually are not misplaced on FITEQ, the Worldwide Federation of Teqball.
“We’re impressed with the latest Challenger Cups held within the US and we’re trying ahead to the occasions within the coming weeks,” FITEQ Normal Secretary Marius Vizer Jr. tells Across the Rings.
“We’re grateful for the efforts of USA Teqball in making certain the well being and wellbeing of everybody concerned within the event, with every occasion being organized inside the native security pointers of every metropolis.”
“The US market represents a big alternative for our sport to interact with thousands and thousands of passionate gamers and followers. USA Teqball is working extraordinarily onerous to develop teqball at each the grassroots {and professional} ranges and they’re offering increasingly alternatives for US gamers and followers to benefit from the world’s fastest-growing sport.”
It’s onerous to argue towards the declare that teqball is “the world’s fastest-growing sport”.
FITEQ was established in 2017 and was formally acknowledged by the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) in August 2018, and the Affiliation of Nationwide Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) in June 2019.
FITEQ is concentrating on IOC recognition for the game. (FITEQ)In January 2020, FITEQ was granted observer standing by the International Affiliation of Worldwide Sports activities Federations (GAISF) and in November grew to become the 96th full member of GAISF.
By April of 2020, FITEQ had grown from 4 members to 51 in two years. The variety of member federations has almost doubled to 95 since then.
FITEQ chairman Viktor Huszar, talking on the federation’s first digital annual meeting on Dec. 12, mentioned that creating the game and gaining IOC recognition are the principle objectives shifting ahead.
Given the meteoric rise of the game thus far, it seems a case of not if however when for IOC recognition.
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Written by Gerard Farek
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