European fistball championship 2012

Willy Sachs Stadium in Schweinfurt, venue of the 2012 European Fistball Championship

The 2012 European Fistball Championship was held from August 17th to August 19th in Schweinfurt .

venue

The European Fistball Championship was held in the Willy Sachs Stadium . Only the main grandstand was used for match days, and additional grandstands were set up on the opposite side and on both sides behind the field, which allowed a higher audience capacity. The gymnastics club Schweinfurt-Oberndorf 1862 eV (TVO) was responsible for the organization and implementation of the games.

Tournament mode

A total of six nations competed, in the preliminary round each team played against every other team. The four best teams qualified for the semi-finals, the winners from the two semi-finals played the final among themselves and the losers the game for third and fourth place. The fifth and sixth place players played a game for places five and six.

Tournament participant

Germany : Christoph Johannes (Ahlhorner SV), Lukas Schubert (VfK Berlin), Patrick Thomas (TSV Pfungstadt), Nick Trinemeier (TSV Pfungstadt), Ajith Fernando (TSV Pfungstadt), Christian Kläner ( TV Brettorf ), Olaf Machelett ( TSV Hagen ) , Michael Marx ( TV Vaihingen / Enz ), Fabian Sagstetter (TV Schweinfurt-Oberndorf), Sebastian Thomas (TSV Pfungstadt)

Italy : Sebastian Pertinger , Armin Runer , Moritz Scherer , Thomas Vonmetz , Jolin Cont , Thomas Meran , Fabian Obexer , Simon Prudenziati , Florian Rottensteiner , Christian Scartezzini , Valentin Schwarz , Felix Weger (all players SSV Bozen )

Austria : Dietmar Weiss (FG Grieskirchen / Pötting), Patrick Schartmüller ( Sportunion Münzbach ), Michael Feichtenschlager (Union Tigers Vöcklabruck), Jean Andrioli ( Union Schick Freistadt ), Siegfried Simon ( FBC ASKÖ Linz-Urfahr ), Stefan Winterleitner (TUS Raiffeisen Kremsmünster ), Manuel Helmberger (Askö Laakirchen), Klaus Thaller (Union Schick Freistadt), Béla Gschwandtner (FBC ASKÖ Linz-Urfahr), Thomas Leitner (Union Schick Freistadt)

Switzerland : Cyrill Schreiber (Novo Hamburg BRA), Yannick Signer (STV Wigoltingen), Raphael Schlattinger (SV Diepoldsau), Ueli Rebsamen (FG Elgg-Ettenhausen), Pascal Iseli (STV Wigoltingen), Fabian Marthy (SVD Diepoldsau), Martin Dünner ( STV Wigoltingen), Kevin Usefuli (FB Neuendorf), Silvan Jung (FG Rickenbach-Wilen), David Berger ( STV Schwellbrunn )

Serbia : Ivan Milenkovic (FB Beograd), Dusan Zezelj (FB Dunav), Vojislav Skoric (FB Dunav), Dusan Ilic (FB Dunav), Milan Kavaric (FB Dunav), Milos Milurovic (FB Beograd), Nikola Biberovic (FB Beograd) , Zoran Cvetkovic (FB Dunav), Mirko Neskovic (FB Beograd), Aleksandar Milojevic (FB Beograd)

Czech Republic : Michal Krajíček (FaC Zdechovice), Petr Kuna (FaC Zdechovice), Vladimír Foist (SK Poběžovice), Michal Beck (FaC Zdechovice), Martin Živný (FaC Zdechovice), Robert Forman (FaC Zdechovice), Jan Forst (FaC Zdechovice) , Ctirad Grüner (DjK South Berlin),

referee

The chairman of the IFA referees committee, Karl Hinterreiter, nominated six referees from three nations for the world championships. These were:

Wolfgang Roschitz, Austria  Wolfgang Weiß, Austria

Daniel Meier, Switzerland  Daniel Müller, Switzerland

Mario Lancioni, Germany  Karsten Weinberger, Germany

game schedule

Preliminary round

Pl.	team	Sp.	sentences	Ballverh.	Pt.
1	Austria	5	15: 2	183: 93	10
2	Germany	5	12: 4	167: 91	8th
3	Switzerland	5	12: 6	169: 131	6th
4th	Italy	5	6: 9	99: 123	4th
5	Czech Republic	5	3:12	80: 155	2
6th	Serbia	5	0:15	60: 165	0

17th August	Germany	-	Italy	3: 0 (11: 5, 11: 3, 11: 2)
	Switzerland	-	Czech Republic	3: 0 (11: 6, 11: 4, 11: 4)
	Germany	-	Czech Republic	3: 0 (11: 4, 11: 5, 11: 2)
	Austria	-	Serbia	3: 0 (11: 4, 11: 2, 11: 2)
	Italy	-	Austria	0: 3 (1:11, 2:11, 3:11)
	Switzerland	-	Serbia	3: 0 (11: 4, 11: 3, 11: 4)
	Serbia	-	Czech Republic	0: 3 (7:11, 7:11, 9:11)
	Italy	-	Switzerland	0: 3 (7:11, 4:11, 6:11)
	Germany	-	Austria	0: 3 (11:13, 8:11, 9:11)
18th of August	Switzerland	-	Austria	2: 3 (9:11, 4:11, 11: 6, 12:10, 6:11)
	Italy	-	Czech Republic	3: 0 (11: 4, 11: 3, 11: 6)
	Germany	-	Serbia	3: 0 (11: 3, 11: 2, 11: 2)
	Austria	-	Czech Republic	3: 0 (11: 5, 11: 2, 11: 2)
	Switzerland	-	Germany	1: 3 (3:11, 11: 7, 6:11, 8:11)
	Italy	-	Serbia	3: 0 (11: 2, 11: 7, 11: 2)

Semifinals

Semifinals
18th of August	Austria	-	Italy	3: 0 (11: 7, 11: 5, 11: 7)
	Germany	-	Switzerland	0: 3 (11:13, 8:11, 6:11)

Placement games

Game for fifth and sixth

Game for fifth and sixth
August 19th	Czech Republic	-	Serbia	3: 1 (11: 9, 11: 9, 8:11, 11: 7)

Game for third and fourth place

Game for third and fourth place
August 19th	Italy	-	Germany	0: 4 (7:11, 0:11, 5:11, 5:11)

final

final
August 19th	Austria	-	Switzerland	0: 4 (7:11, 2:11, 9:11, 8:11)

Bottom line

space	country	flag	code
1.	Switzerland		SUI
2.	Austria		AUT
3.	Germany		DEU
4th	Italy		ITA
5.	Czech Republic		CZE
6th	Serbia		SRB

Web links

• Official website of the event
• Schedule of the European Championship as a PDF file

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.faustballem2012.de/index.php/spielort Overview of the sports area, faustballem2012.de (accessed on June 21, 2012).