19 Results for author: Seppe Hemerijckx

European Championship 2024 – Official Match Schedule

IPCH is excited to announce the official match schedule for the European Championship 2024. The Opening Ceremony will take place on October 23rd, at 2pm CET and will then be followed by two opening matches featuring Denmark vs Belgium at 3:15pm CET and the Netherlands vs Germany at 5:15pm CET. The remainder of the group stage matches will take place on ... More

IPCH Sports Congress 2024 rescheduled

The IPCH SEC has evaluated several date options for the 2024 Sports Congress. Due to a variety of conflicts including Sports Congresses for other sports our athletes may be involved in, AGMs for national organizations, and training weekends for national teams we have decided to postpone the IPCH Sports Congress to early January. New Date and Time:Janu... More

Powerchair hockey community, get involved!

The Sports Executive Committee invites all members of the Powerchair Hockey community to an online Zoom meeting on May 4th from 2 to 4 pm CET. Key agenda items include: Inclusion of Powerchair Hockey in the 2025 Guttmann Games Review of the World Championship qualification system Creation of a "Development Platform" initiative This meeting ... More

Everything you have to know about the Injet tournament

This Thursday, April 18th, teams will arrive in Jesolo, Italy ahead of the IN-JET Tournament, an international tournament sanctioned by IPCH and valid for World Rankings. Three teams, Finland, Switzerland and Italy, will compete in a total of 6 matches at PalaMarzotto in Villaggio Marzotto, throughout Friday, April 19th and Saturday, April 20th.  This ... More

IPCH Qualification Tournament 2023 in De Rijp has three nations battle for the final ticket to the EC2024.

From November 16th to 19th, International PowerChair Hockey (IPCH) welcomes para-athletes from Belgium, Czech Republic and Slovenia in Sporthal De Oosterven, De Rijp (The Netherlands). There they will compete for the 8th and final spot in the European Championship 2024 in Denmark. The Qualification Tournament 2023 is made possible thanks to strong ... More

The success of the one-on-one meetings

At the Sports Congress back in November 2022, we announced to the nations that we intended to invite every single powerchair hockey nation to a one-on-one meeting with us, IPCH. There were multiple reasons why we wanted to have those meetings. First of all, we wanted to be more visible and available for the nations simply because we rarely meet outside ... More

APRIL 7th: The International Powerchair Hockey Day

A day to celebrate our passion for Powerchair Hockey! It was March 2021 when Paul Desaulniers from Canada sent an email to the Sport Executive Committee of the International Powerchair Hockey Committee simply asking: why don't we designate a day to celebrate and show the world how beautiful, strong, powerful, dynamic Powerchair Hockey and all the people ... More

IPCH SPORT CONGRESS 2022 – INFORMATION

During the last months, the IPCH Sport Executive Committee has several times discussed the opportunity to move the IPCH Sports Congress that normally happens right after the big competitions. This topic was also raised a few times in the meetings with the LOC and with some National representatives. We know that having the Sport Congress right after a ... More

Groups for the ipch world championship 2022!

On 5th March in Nottwil, Switzerland, the drawing ceremony for the IPCH World Championship 2022 took place. The ceremony was conducted by the Local Organizing Committee and overlooked by two IPCH representatives: Fabio Rodo, IPCH Chairperson, and Anna Rossi, Technical, Classification and Competition Officier and appointed  Technical Delegate of the ... More

IPCH World Championship drawings ceremony – 5th March 2022 in Nottwill

The IPCH World Championship is approaching fast, after such a long period of inactivity we are all very eager to see some action on the international level again. In the meantime, preparations continue for both organizers and teams who are willing to be as ready as possible for the big competition Switzerland will host the next August for the first time. ... More