International Teqball Federation

The International Teqball Federation (FITEQ, French: Fédération Internationale de Teqball) is the governing body for the sport of teqball and para teqball. FITEQ is responsible for the organisation of teqball's major international tournaments, notably the Teqball World Championships.

International Teqball Federation

Fédération Internationale de Teqball
Abbreviation	FITEQ
Type	Sports federation
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Region served	Worldwide
Membership	124 member federations
President	Gábor Borsányi
Chairman	Viktor Huszár
Vice president	György Gattyán
General Secretary	Marius Vizer Jr
Website	FITEQ.org

FITEQ was founded in March 2017 following the sport's inception in 2014. Headquartered in Budapest, its membership now compromises 124 national federations.

FITEQ is responsible for the governance and management of teqball at the international level; the development and promotion of teqball globally; the codification of the official rules and regulations of teqball; supporting the establishment of National Federations; the education and development of athletes, coaches and technical officials; sanctioning national and international competitions and events; establishing and maintaining world-ranking statistics; and the governance, management and development of para teqball.

Board

The FITEQ Board consists of FITEQ President Gábor Borsányi,^[1] who is the inventor of the sport, fellow co-founder and FITEQ Vice-President György Gattyán, teqball co-founder and FITEQ Chairman Viktor Huszár,^[2] General Secretary Marius Vizer Jr^[3].The management team is led by Sport Director Matthew Curtain.^[4]

Member federations

List of Member Federations

There are currently 130 national teqball member federations, across five continents.

Africa (39)	Asia (31)	Europe (30)	Oceania (8)	Pan America (22)
Algeria  Benin  Burkina Faso  Burundi  Cameroon  Cape Verde  Central African Republic  Chad  Democratic Republic of the Congo  Djibouti  Equatorial Guinea  Eswatini  Gabon  Gambia  Ghana  Guinea  Guinea-Bissau  Ivory Coast  Lesotho  Liberia  Madagascar  Malawi  Mali  Mauritania  Mauritius  Namibia  Niger  Nigeria  Rwanda  Sao Tome and Principe  Senegal  Seychelles  Sierra Leone  Somalia  South Africa  Togo  Tunisia  Zambia  Zimbabwe	Afghanistan  Bahrain  Brunei  Cambodia  East Timor  Hong Kong  India  Indonesia  Iran  Iraq  Japan  Jordan  Kazakhstan  Kuwait  Kyrgyzstan  Lebanon  Malaysia  Mongolia    Nepal  Pakistan  Palestine  Philippines  South Korea  Singapore  Sri Lanka  Syria  Tajikistan  Thailand  Turkmenistan  Uzbekistan  Yemen	Albania  Armenia  Austria  Belgium  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Bulgaria  Croatia  Czech Republic  Estonia  France  Georgia  Hungary  Israel  Italy  Kosovo  Lithuania  Luxembourg  Malta  Moldova  Montenegro  North Macedonia  Norway  Poland  Portugal  Romania  Serbia  Slovakia  Slovenia   Switzerland  Ukraine	American Samoa  Cook Islands  Guam  New Caledonia  New Zealand  Papua New Guinea  Tuvalu  Vanuatu	Antigua and Barbuda  Bahamas  Belize  Bermuda  Bolivia  Bermuda  Canada  Chile  Costa Rica  Dominican Republic  Guatemala  Guyana  Haiti  Jamaica  Panama  Peru  Saint Kitts and Nevis  Saint Lucia  Trinidad and Tobago  United States  Uruguay  Venezuela

Competitions

Teqball World Championships

Main article: Teqball World Championships

The annual Teqball World Championships (formerly Teqball World Cup) is the flagship teqball competition.^[5]

Other major teqball events

• The Sanya 2020 Asian Beach Games^[6]
• 2021 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games ^[7]
• The African Beach Teqball Cup was held on 18 June 2019 during the 1st African Beach Games in Sal, Cape Verde.^[8]
• The Asia-Pacific Beach Cup took place in November 2019 as part of the Chinese Corporative Beach Games in Sanya.^[9]
• The inaugural Teqball Masters was held from 17 to 19 December 2019 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia^[10]
• The Challenger Cup series began in September 2019 in Balassagyarmat, Hungary
• The National Challenger Series^[11]
• The Teqball Grand Prix
• 2023 European Games^[12]

World Rankings

FITEQ has World Rankings for singles, doubles and mixed doubles, based on World Ranking points attained in official FITEQ events. FITEQ publishes regular updates to its World Rankings, which are used determine the seeding of players into tournaments. Last updated on: 12 May 2022

Place Men's Singles[13] Points 1. Ádám Blázsovics 41977 2. Apor Györgydeák 38693 3. Julien Grondin 26696 4. Csaba Bányik 15798 5. Adrian Duszak 15660 6. Bogdan Marojević 10380 7. Hugo Rabeux 10358 8. Balázs Katz 10192 9. Szabolcs Ilyés 9532 10. Yassine Sahli 8608

Place Men's Doubles[14] Points 1. Nikola Mitro 67498 2. Bogdan Marojević 66058 3. Csaba Bányik 49198 4. Ádám Blázsovics 48672 5. Szabolcs Ilyés 43112 6. Apor Györgydeák 43046 7. Dennis Correia 39746 8. Luka Pilic 39193 9. Hugo Rabeux 35574 10. Julien Grondin 35574

Place Mixed Doubles[15] Points 1. Zsanett Janicsek 55516 1. Csaba Bányik 55516 3. Vania Moraes Da Cruz 33496 3. Leonardo Lindoso De Almeida 33496 5. Maja Umićević 21122 5. Nikola Mitro 21122 7. Apor Györgydeák 18102 8. Tünde Miklós 16950 9. Amélie Julian 12946 10. Hugo Rabeux 12552

Place Women's Singles[16] Points 1. Anna Izsák 19380 2. Paulina Łeżak 11644 3. Carolyn Greco 8044 4. Natalia Guitler 5988 5. Amélie Julian 4310 6. Maria Chedid 4084 7. Pernille Ingvaldsen Smith 3732 8. Ekaterina Poteshkina 3624 9. Kateryna Fesenko 1800 10. Zsanett Janicsek 1670

Place Women's Doubles[17] Points 1. Carolyn Greco 36363 2. Margaret Osmundson 35846 3. Rafaella Fontes 26452 4. Natalia Guitler 26452 5. Lea Vasas 22318 6. Zsanett Janicsek 21646 7. Kinga Barabási 10822 8. Katalin Dakó 9286 9. Anna Izsák 9108 10. Stephanie Brito 6350

International Partners

• Recognised by the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) in August 2018^[18]
• Recognised by the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) in June 2019.^[19]
• Recognised by Organisation of Sports Federations of Oceania (OSFO)^[20]
• Signatory of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ^[21]
• Global Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF) Full Member ^[22]
• Partner of the International Testing Agency^[23]
• Partner with the International School Sport Federation (ISF)^[24]
• Signatory of the World Anti-Doping (WADA) Code ^[25]
• Content partner with the Olympic Channel^[26]
• Media partner with Eurosport^[27]
• Partnership with the Hungarian Paralympic Committee (MPB)^[28]
• Recognised and endorsed by TAFISA^[29]

References

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15. "Mixed doubles". 7 September 2021.
16. "Women's singles World Ranking".
17. "Women's Doubles World Ranking".
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21. "FITEQ become signatory of UNFCCC's Sports for Climate Action initiative". 14 Sep 2020.
22. "GAISF » GAISF family welcomes three new Members".
23. "FITEQ signs landmark agreement with ITA for doping control". aroundtherings.com. Retrieved 2020-03-16.
24. "International Teqball Federation signs MoU with International School Sport Federation". 8 July 2019.
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28. "FITEQ partner with Hungarian Paralympic Committee to develop para teqball". 2 March 2020.
29. "International Teqball Federation strengthens diversity commitment". 22 November 2019.

External links

• International Teqball Federation
• FITEQ Online Education