EUROPEAN BOWL HIT BY WITHDRAWAL OF ARMENIA: PLAYERS DENIED VISA

International Korfball Federation, Belgium
Oct 13 2005

The IKF has been informed by the Korfball Federation of Armenia that
six members of their delegation hoping to travel to participate in
the European Bowl have been refused a Visa.

The team had been planning to travel to the Netherlands and then
make onward travel from there to Catalonia. Such an occurrence as
the refusal of a Visa has never before happened in any IKF Tournament
anywhere in the world. We bitterly regret the situation and the IKF
has been forced to reluctantly accept the Armenian’s withdrawal from
the Tournament which is being used as the route to qualification
for the European Championships, scheduled for Budapest next April,
and the World Championships due to take place in 2007.

Matches schedule:

Day 1 Portugal vs. Poland (1845 hrs) Opening Ceremony (2000 hrs)
Catalonia (Spain) vs. Russia (2045 hrs)

Day 2 Russia vs. Portugal (1900 hrs) Poland vs. Catalonia (Spain)
(2045 hrs)

Day 3 Russia vs. Poland (1900 hrs) Catalonia (Spain) vs. Portugal
(2045 hrs)

Day 4 3rd vs. 4th (1100 hrs) 1st vs. 2nd (1245 hrs)

The first three days will have the pool matches and on the final day
matches based on the end of pool positions to decide the medal winners.

The European Bowl is a new IKF event being used as a qualification
event for the European Senior Championships 2006 to be held in Hungary
and the World Championships 2007 to be held in Czech Republic. The
inaugural edition will take place in Terrassa (Spain) from October
27-30, 2005.