AIMS Mourns The Loss of Ernesto Dohnalek
AIMS family mourns the loss of Ernesto Dohnalek. The honorary President of the International Fistball Federation (IFA). Ernesto was a man of sport and was President of IFA from 1995 to 2011, a native of Argentina. AIMS is sending their thoughts to his wife Andrea, his children and all family members. Certainly, our thoughts also […]
IFA celebrates inaugural World Fistball Day on 30 January
IFA celebrates inaugural World Fistball Day on 30 January This Saturday the International Fistball Association (IFA) is celebrating the inaugural World Fistball Day 2021 with many activities like the challenge “Fistball Clean Out”, a movie premiere “The Mighty Fist documentary”, an IFA Entourage Workshop on Safe Sport and Anti-Doping and an „Ask the Presidents“ session. […]
Winner of the IFA 2020 Awards
The International Fistball Association (IFA) awarded its IFA 2020 SPORT FOR GOOD AWARD to United Through Sports President Stephan Fox and CEO Julia Govinden representing the world’s first ever United Through Sports World Virtual Youth Festival. With the IFA 2020 WOMEN IN SPORT AWARD the world governing body for Fistball honored all female sportswomen, who are […]
IFA ANNIVERSARY PODCAST #10 WITH SPECIAL GUEST STEPHAN FOX IS ONLINE
In our anniversary episode #10 we are welcoming a special guest: our dear friend Stephan Fox, President of United Through Sports and AIMS, former World Champions of Muaythai and Secretary General of the International Federation of Muaythai Associations (IFMA). “Fistball Inside” is the podcast magazine of the International Fistball Association. IFA President Joern Verleger and […]
AIMS President visited IFA
AIMS President, Stephan Fox, had the honour to visit the 2019 Fistball World Championships and also the IFA Awards Ceremony and United by Sports conference. President Fox congratulated the outgoing IFA President, Karl Weiss, on all his achievements over his 8 years of Presidency from 27 to 61 national federations. He also honoured Mr Weiss […]
Germany Fistball World Champion 2019 – Jörn Verleger (Germany) elected new IFA President – IFA Fistball Men World Cup 2023 in the SAP Arena Mannheim
The final attended by AIMS President Stephan Fox and AIMS Secretary General Gerhard Zimmermann as well as by GAISF Director Philippe Gueisbuhler, Andrew Hofer from the IOC Sports Department, IWGA board members Lukas Hinder, Volker Bernardi and IWGA CEO Achim Gossow was a demonstration of strength: With a 4-0 victory (11:4, 11:4, 11:9, 11:5) against Austria, […]
Congratulations to Jorn Verleger
The AIMS family would like to congratulate Jorn Verleger as the 6th President of the International Fistball Associations. Mr Verleger has been the General Secretary of IFA since 2015 and has now replaced the former President, Karl Weiss. AIMS is looking forward to continuing the close cooperation with IFA with Mr Verleger and Mr Weiss, […]
Winterthur is ready for the Fistball World Championship
WINTERTHUR. Every four years the Men’s Fistball world championships take place. This year they are being held in Winterthur, Switzerland. From 11 to 17 August, 18 of the world’s best men’s fistball teams are playing for the coveted World Championship title. The event is also Qualifier for The World Games 2023. Furthermore, IFA will elect […]
AIMS President invited for Fistball Thailand Conference
Fistball is a very popular sport governed by the International Fistball Association (IFA) with national federations in around 60 countries. IFA is a member of GAISF, AIMS, IWGA and a full medal sport in The World Games. Bangkok hosted the 2018 Sport Accord Convention and history was made with the Bangkok Sport Festival under patronage […]
IFA FISTBALL WORLD TOUR STARTS – SPORTASTIC FIRST PARTNER
On March 31, 2017, the “IFA Fistball World Tour“ is taking off in Porto Alegre, Brazil – a brand new global tournament series for fistball club teams, which will replace the current World Cup from 2018. In total, 101 teams will compete in 21 venues on five continents for points at the World Tour. The […]