Petr Tmej from the Czech Republic was the big favourite in the Budapest Open in Hungary and he managed to show the world that he this day also was the best player. He won against Imrich Blasko from Slovakia 4-1 in the final matches. Imrich Blasko beat Vaclav Pikl from Czech Republic while Petr Tmej defeated Bjarne Axelsen from Denmark in the semifinals. Bjarne Axelsen won the bronze match against Vaclav Pikl.

Complete results of the tournament.

World Tour standings

Pontus Eriksson from Umea and Sweden won his first BIG6 in Olso Open. In the final he managed to win 4-3 against Stefan Edwall after beatening Kalle Bindekrans with 4-2 in the semifinal. In the other semifinal the best Norwegian Yngve Aasheim was defeated by Stefan Edwall.

The veteran series was won by Jari Eskelinen from Finland and the junior series by Nicolai Dahl Jeppesen from Denmark.

Play-off results

World Tour standings.

Kalle Bindekrans from BHK Möllan Rouge and Sweden won Oresund Cup in Copenhagen. In the final he played against Martin Arenlind from Fremad Eagles and Sweden and won 4-0 in matches. Though Kalle Bindekrans had some difficulties in the three other round of play off where he only won 4-3 against Dan Engdahl, Rickard Sjöstedt and David Nordström.

22 players from 4 countries participated in the tournament.

Oresund Cup – is one of the oldest and most prestigeous table hockey tournaments in the world. The tournament was played for the first time in 1985 and has since been a part of the national Swedish table hockey league (SBL). Today OC is also one of the events in the World Table Hockey Tour, authorized by ITHF.

Oresund Cup 2008 will take place at Osterbrohuset in Copenhagen the 13th of September. All additional information you will find at the tournament webpage.

Registration: Send an e-mail to carl.bindekrans(at)gmail.com.
Do not forget to specify if you also want to attend the banquet held afterwards. The last day of admission is Tuesday 9th of September!

Hope to see you there!

Rob Chargo of Gurnee, IL won the 7th annual U.S. Open in Lemont near Chicago, beating Reggie Stefaniszyn of Edmonton, AB in five games. This is Chargo's second U.S. Open title. He also won the Las Vegas tournament in January. Taking third in the top group was Bernie Kunzler of Kitchener, ONT over Bruce Turner of Peru. The second group was won by Tim Walker of the Detroit, MI area and the third group was won by 15-year-old Sean Rafferty of Laguna Hills, CA

Open: 1. A. Lampi (FIN), 2. R. Nuttunen (FIN), 3. Atis Silis (LAT)
Juniors: 1. A. Lampi (FIN), 2. A. Miloradov (RUS), 3. P. Tmej (CZE)
Veterans: 1. P. Plesak (CZE), 2. D. Petrov (RUS), 3. A. Kosyrev (RUS)
Ladies: 1. M. Yalbacheva (RUS), 2. M. Martiskainen (FIN), 3. M. Miloradova (RUS)


Teams: 1. Finland, 2. Sweden, 3. Czech Republic
Veteran Teams: 1. Sweden, 2. Russia, 3. Czech Republic
Ladies Teams: 1. Russia, 2. Finland, 3. Latvia


Tournament webpage

Pictures by Timo Toivonen
Pictures by Kraus bros. & Intars Zubeckis

Roni Nuttunen (Finland) has won the World Table Hockey Tour 2007/2008. Roni won the Big6 tournaments in Helsinki and Moscow. He got the second place at the Swedish Masters.



832 players from 22 nations participated at the WTHT 2007/2008. The new WTHT season will start on 26th July at Lemont, USA

Some of the top players in tablehockey were asked 10 questions. Not only about tablehockey but also about their own thoughts and opinions about things. Here you can read about their greatest memories, their favourite opponents and what they think shall be done in order to develope tablehockey as a sport.

Questions to top players.

David Smid (Czech Republic) took his second victory in the Berlin Open history after 2005. David defeated Andreas Andersson from Sweden in the final. Andreas together with Martin Arenlind who came third leaded a strong Swedish squad which fought against David Smid's fellow countrymen a kind of international match. The Swedes and Czechs reached 10 of the first 14 places.

Roni Nuttunen (Finland) wins the whole World Tour season, 2nd is Ivan Zaharov and 3rd Alexey Zaharov (both Russia). Congratulation!
Final World Tour standings.

The schedule of the World Table Hockey Tour 2008/2009 was released:

USA Lemont 26.7.2008
DEN Oresund Cup, Copenhagen 13.9.2008
NOR Oslo Open 27.9.2008, Big6
HUN Budapest Open 11.10.2008
FIN Helsinki Open 8.11.2008, Big6
SLO ? Slovenia Open 22.11.2008
LAT Riga Open 6.12.2008, Big6
EST Tallinn 10.1.2009
USA Las Vegas 26.1.2009
SWE SM, Överum 14-15.2.2009, Big6
SUI Bern 7.3.2009
RUS Moscow Cup 21-22.3.2009, Big6
USA NYC 18.4.2009
CZE Plzen / Prague 25.4.2009, Big6
UKR Ukraine Cup, Kiev 9.5.2009
GER Berlin, 16.5.2009

SLO ? - not a member of ITHF yet. The tournament will be confirmed till 24th August.

73 players from 7 countries participated at the first World Tour tournament in Estonia. Edgars Caics won Atis Silis (both Latvia) in the finals. The biggest surprise was Bjarne Axelsen (Denmark) who lost to Edgars Caics with 3-4 in the semifinal, but managed to win the bronze series over Karlis Balodis (Latvia).

Edgars Caics also received the main prize: the SonyEricsson mobile phone.

Complete tournament results

World Tour standings after the Tallinn Cup.

110 players from 8 countries participated at the last Big Six World Tour tournament of this season - the Czech Open 2008 held in Pilsen. Ivan Zakharov (Russia) beat in the play-off both best Czech players Lukas Turon and Petr Tmej and won the whole tournament. 2nd was Petr Tmej and 3rd Alexey Zakharov.
Results of the tournament.

World Tour standings after the Czech Open.

27 participants enjoyed a fun-filled day of table hockey competition at this year’s edition of the Boston Challenge 2008. Lars Fridell (Sweden) won the prestigious trophy beating Kenny Dubois (USA), 4-1 in a very competitive and entertaining finals series. Reggie Stefaniszyn (Canada) and Matt Rogers (USA) were the semifinalists. Russ Guertin (USA) won the B Group finals over Dana Rogers (USA) and 8 years old Luke Kiballa (USA) wins the C Group over Derek Koplin (USA).

This year’s tournament also featured some other very good and developing junior talent in the names of Cameron and Max Bernstein, Andrew Caponetti, Zak Kiballa (finished 14th in the Elite group! And brother of Luke) and Alexander Sobrinski.

The final Big Six tournament of the World Table Hockey Tour 2007/2008 will be held in Plzen, Czech Republic on 26th April. You are welcome to join this tournament with all the best Czech table hockey players. The top Russian players including Alexey Zakharov are registered for this tournament as well.

The nice trophies are ready for the winners of all divisions and categories at the tournament. The winner will get 77 cm height trophy. Twenty eight Skoda cars also wait for their new owners.

Welcome to Plzen! The after party is also something you can be also interested in. The very cheap accommodation right at the tournament venue is still available for you.

The tournament webpage

There were 86 participants in both Danube tournaments. In Budapest the medallists were: 1st Michal Hvizd (CZE), 2nd Miroslav Ramsak (SVK) and 3rd Imrich Blasko (SVK). Complete results of Budapest Open 2008.

In Bratislava all medallists were from the Czech Republic: 1st Michal Hvizd, 2nd David Smid and 3rd Leos Hvizd. Complete results of Slovak Open 2008.

World Tour standings after the Danube weekend.

192 players have participated at the Moscow Cup 2008. Roni Nuttunen (Finland) has repeated his victory from the last season of this tournament. Roni beat Atis Silis (Latvia) at finals. Ahti Lampi (Finland) has finished at the third place.

The tournament was held in the famous sportcenter Dinamo. Results of the tournament, final groups + play-off.

Short description about all known champions of the year 2007 is available! Find out how for example Edgars Caics won the Latvian championship or read description of the Croatian championship written by Kristijan Curkovic - see more....

Michal Hvizd - the big favourite from the Czech Republic won the first World Tour in Switzerland ever. He beated Bjarne Axelsen from Denmark in the final and the local Jean-Claude Klaus in the semifinal. Vaclav Pikl who lost the semifinal against Bjarne Axelsen won the bronze medal match against Jean-Claude Klaus. 21 Players from 3 different countries participated in a very well organised tournament in Hotel Novotel near the famous Wankdorf Stadium in Bern.

Results can be found at the tournament web page.

After the World Championships 2003 in Zurich Switzerland now also has its own tournament of the World Table Hockey Tour. The Swiss Table Hockey Association invites you to the first Swiss Open, which will be held on March 1st close to the famous Wankdorf Football Stadium in the capital Bern.

For more information, please visit Swiss Open homepage.

See you soon in Bern!

The world of table hockey reached new frontiers in the fall of 2007 when the first Antarctic Open tournament registered to world ranking was played in the Finnish Antarctic Research Station called Aboa (73°03'S, 13°25'W) at western Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica. While the nearest permanent settlements are thousands of kilometres away, Antarctic Open was presumably also the first table hockey tournament, which included all the people in the radius of 300 kilometres. Second tournament was also organized during the spring 2008. PÖLY association, which is responsible for organizing the famous Helsinki Open tournament in Finland annually, donated the table used in the tournaments. Organizers apologize that they didn't inform rest of the world about the tournament beforehand, but due to unstable weather conditions and other logistical limitations, possible long-distance travellers would have been more than disappointed if the games would have had to be cancelled.

There were 11 attendants in both tournaments consisting of Finnish (9) and Swedish (2) scientists and logistic personnel. Everybody had had some experience with table hockey before the expedition took place. First unofficial Antarctic champion was geologist Jussi Heinonen, who is a member of PÖLY and has, at his best, competed at the final series of Finnish national ranking tournaments. Silver medal was won by the expedition cook Teppo Mäkelä, who has practiced with Kristian Iso-Tryykäri when he was still a little boy (long ago). Third place went to mechanical engineer Jari Pitkänen. Same three contestants were successful also in the 2nd tournament. This time the weather was so good that the finals were played outside on Basen nunatak, in a temperature of -5 C and under clear sunny sky.

Hans Österman comments his victory at the Swedish Masters:

"I thought I was too old to win titles nowadays, but apparently I was mistaken. It seems that this was my lucky day. The turnover against Alexey in the semis was almost too much for my heart. When 3-1 turns 3-3 and your opponent is 2-0 up in the 7th game it is really hard to keep faith. But somehow I managed to focus on the effort, rather than the standings. That, and a good piece of luck, was the key to my win. Then beating wonder kid Roni in the final was really special. Maybe my age and experience turned out to be an advantage. It actually seemed like Roni was a bit nervous.
Finally: big hand for the organizers. SM 2008 belongs to best tournaments ever."

Hans Österman managed what nobody else during last two years - he won play-off series against Roni Nuttunen. They met in the final of the Swedish Masters held this weekend in Göteborg. Third place was shared by Edgars Caics and Alexey Zaharov.

Results can be found at the tournament web page.

Now it’s time for the Swedish Masters. 184 players representing 14 different nations have registered for the open category, among them 12 of the top 15 players of the world. The Swedes will do their absolute best to win back the SM trophy from Finland, but it will be a tough battle.

If you cannot go to the arena in Göteborg, you can follow the tournament on the web: www.bordshockey.net. All results will be published within 5 minutes, and in the play-offs every goal will be reported instantly. So welcome to Swedish Masters 2008 in Göteborg, Sweden, or at your computer!

Rob Chargo from the northern suburbs of Chicago won the Let's Play Hockey International Table Hockey Championships. He defeated Kent Richter of Edmonton 4-1 in the finals. Jeff Thill of South Holland, IL upended Bernie Kunzler to take third place. The B Pool featured tournament organizer Jim Rzonca of Lemont, IL over Len Mecca of Cherry Hill, NJ. And in the C Pool, Jay Petrick of Las Vegas defeated Rich Thill, the father of Jeff Thill.

Next years event is set for January 26th 2009!

9th Riga Open, the third of Big Six tournaments of World Table Hockey Tour this season is finished. 122 participants from 8 countries were trying to win 32" SONY LCD TV.

Results: 1st Atis Silis (LAT), 2nd Alexey Zaharov (RUS), 3rd Raivis Pukinskis (LAT).
Riga Open results, World Tour standings after the Riga Open.

The second Big Six World Tour tournament of WTHT season 2007/2008 took part in Helsinki today. 107 participants tried to stop the World Champion Roni Nuttunen. The biggest opponents were the Russian players: 3 of them took places among best five players of the tournament.

Results: 1st Roni Nuttunen (FIN), 2nd Ivan Zakharov, 3rd Yanis Galuzo (both RUS). Complete results.

The Oresund Cup 2007 held in Helsingor (Denmark) welcomed 40 players at another stage of the WTHT series.

Results: 1st Finn Fries (SWE), 2nd Trygve Lie (NOR), 3rd Kalle Bindekrans (SWE) + Arne Mahatma Solberg (NOR). Complete results, World Tour standings after the Oresund Cup.

The Canada Challenge 2007 took place in Gatineau.

43 players from Canada and United States participated at the tournament belonging to the World Table Hockey Tour 2007/2008.

Results: 1st Kenny Dubois (USA), 2nd Hugues Dery (CAN), 3rd Bernie Kunzler (CAN). Complete results, World Tour standings after the Canada Challenge.

The first WTHT tournaments ever took place in Kyiv, Ukraine. 46 participants arrived to fight for points into the WTHT series.

Results: 1. Alexey Titov (RUS), 2. Vitaliy Sapojnikov (UKR), 3. Alexander Kosyrev (RUS). Complete results, World Tour standings after the Ukrainian Cup.

The biggest international table hockey tournament in Ukraine — the first Ukrainian Cup, will be held in Kyiv on October 13th. It is organized by the Board Hockey Federation of Ukraine and it is one of the tournaments of the World Table Hockey Tour and also one of the Ukrainian Ranking Tournaments.

For more information, please visit Ukrainian Cup website and take a look at list of pre-registered players

You are welcome to Kyiv!

The first World Club Championship (WCC) in table hockey was organized on 23rd September 2007 in Oslo. Twenty clubs from seven nations have participated at this tournament. The World Club Champion became: Enköpings HSC (Sweden). The second place was taken by BHK Möllan Rouge (Sweden), third place by TK Tigers (Sweden). Complete results.

Oslo Open 2007 took place at the Norwegian capitol this Saturday. 101 players have arrived to Oslo to play at the first Big6 WTHT tournament of the new season 2007/2008. Hans Österman (Sweden) won the first place. He beat Edgars Caics (Latvia) in the finals. Bronze medal was divided between Edgars Saulitis (Latvia) and Petr Tmej (Czech Republic). Complete results.

Oslo in comments.

Five top players from different nations bring you their opinion about the World Championship 2007. The questions were posed by Bjarne Axelsen.

WCh reviews in PDF, WCh reviews in HTML.

The first World Club Championship (WCC) in table hockey will be organized on 23rd September 2007 in Oslo. The prior day, Saturday 22nd September will belong to the Oslo Open. 32 teams with 4 players and up to 2 substitutors can participate at WCC.

Each nation represented in the ITHF is invited to send its best team. The registrations of the teams should be send to the mail executive.committee@ithf.info till 30th June. Starting 1st July the registration will be open also for the other teams (not registered by the ITHF members). Please find more information about the great table hockey weekend in Oslo at: www.spjass.com.

156 players from 19 nations have participated at 10th Table Hockey World Championship. The tournament was held at a beautiful skating arena Krylatskoe in Moscow, Russia.

Winners of all WCh categories:
Open category: 1st Roni Nuttunen (FIN), 2nd Aleksey Zakharov (RUS), 3rd Hans Osterman (SWE).

Team category: 1st Sweden, 2nd Finland, 3rd Russia.

Junior category: 1st Roni Nuttunen (FIN), 2nd Edgars Caics (LAT), 3rd Atis Silis (LAT).

Veteran category: 1st Pavel Plesak (CZE), 2nd Lars-Erik Svensson (SWE), 3rd Aleksandr Kosyrev (RUS).

Ladies category: 1st Alexia Belavina (RUS), 2nd Minerva Martiskainen (FIN), 3rd Maria Miloradova (RUS).

Ladies teams category: 1st Russia, 2nd Finland, 3rd Czech Republic.

Complete results of the World Championship. Pictures by Timo Toivonen, pictures by the Czech players.

The next World Championship will be organized in Budapest, Hungary in 2009. The European Championship 2008 will be held in Latvia.

The invitations needed for getting the visa to Russia will be send by the Russian organizers as they will receive the invitations from the Russian authorities. The first invitations will be send today, the others tomorrow and the final part on 21st May.

See you soon in Moscow at the biggest World Championship ever!

May 10th is an important date in table hockey history. On this day in 1987, the first table hockey federation ever, SBHF, was founded in Goteborg, Sweden. Lars-Erik Svensson from Umea in north Sweden was elected as the first, historical chairman. One of the most important tasks for the newly founded federation was to make table hockey international. Already in 1986, Swedish Masters had its first foreign participant, Shigeru Kamegaya from Tokyo, Japan. In 1989, SBHF organized the first World Championship ever, in the Globe Arena, Stockholm. That tournament was the start of international table hockey.

Ahti Lampi (Finland) won the last stage of the World Tour 2006/2007 - Czech Open. Second was Atis Silis (Latvia) and third was Lukas Turon (Czech Republic). Tough battle was held for getting a direct nomination to the World Championship - Michal Hvizd beat Alexandr Miloradov by a single point!
Complete results and pictures from the Czech Open.
117 participants from 9 countries came to Plzen which means that 797 players played at least one World Tour tournament this season!
Roni Nuttunen (Finland) is the winner of the World Tour after winning each from four World Tour tournaments he played during this season. Daniel Wallen (Sweden) is the second thanks to three second places. Ivan Zaharov (Russia) is the third. You can take a look at the final standings of the World tour 2006/2007.

Congratulation to all and hope to see you at the World Tour tournaments during next season!

The Executive Committee of the ITHF announces the schedule for the World Table Hockey Tour 2007/2008:

28th July ... Stiga US Open, Lemont
22nd + 23rd September ... Oslo Open + World Club Championship
13th October ... Kiev
20th October ... Canada Challenge, Gatineau
27th October ... Oresund Cup, Copenhagen
10th November ... Helsinki Open
1st December ... New York
8th December ... Riga Open
28th January ... International Table Hockey Championships, Las Vegas
9th + 10th February ... Swedish Masters, GOTHENBURG
1st March ... Bern
22nd + 23rd March ... Moscow Cup
5th + 6th April ...Danube
19th April ... Czech Open, Prague / Plzen / Pribram
3rd May ... Tallinn Cup
17th May ... Berlin Open

13th-15th June - European Championship

60 players from 14 countries participated at the Berlin Open 2007. The best were the young Czech players: Lukas Turon, Petr Tmej and Michal Hvizd. Turon has proved once again that he is ready to win the international tournaments.
Complete results, WTHT ranking after the Berlin Open.

The last tournament of the World Table Hockey Tour 2006/2007 will be held in Plzen on 5th May: Czech Open.

The Organizing Committee of the World Championships recommends you to contact "Monomax Congresses and Incentives Llc" concerning the hotel Salut reservation. Please, contact Rybalov Alexey tel./fax +7-495-726-51-35, mail: arv@monomax.org. The deadline for hotel booking and making payment for the accommodation is 21 May, 2007. The price for a person is 55 EUR for a night. The Russian organizers will refund 5 EUR to each person to get the previously announcement price 50 EUR. Detail information.

The schedule of the tournament was announced.

See you in Moscow on 8th - 10th June 2007!

In one of the most exciting Elites finals to date, Herman Steen (Sweden) bested Kenny Dubois (USA) 4 games to 3, to win the 2007 Boston Challenge Stiga Table Hockey Championships. To reach the finals, Steen beat fellow Swedish countryman and 2005 Boston champion, Pontus Eriksson. That series also went the distance, with game 7 going into overtime. Kenny Dubois beat 2003 Boston Challenge winner, Junior Gelinas of Canada, 4 games to 1.

Tournament webpage

Moscow is going to be ready for the Table Hockey World Championship 2007 soon. The hotel Salut is pre-reserved for the participants of the tournament. The final reservation will be accessible through the WCh webpage from 11th April

The schedule of the competitions at the World Championships is planned to be announced on 16th April.

Good luck to all players all around the world to get the national nomination for the tournament on 8th - 10th June 2007!

The tenth World Table Hockey Championships will be held in Moscow 8th - 10th June 2007. More information at the official webpage. The participanting nations are asked to send the number of their players going to Moscow till the end of March 2007!

The Executive Committee has agreed on awarding additional nominations places for those nations which have their players among top 10 at the WTHT 2006/2007 final ranking. This rule was set before the beginning of the current season. This rule says that up to THREE players from a nation can get the direct WCh nomination. The rule also says that the champion from the last WCh is not counted among top 10 for awarding the direct nominations.

As we can see from the current WTHT ranking the direct nomination would be awarded to: Finland (2 players ... also thanks to 11th place), Sweden (3 players + Hans Österman as the reigning World Champion), Latvia (2 players), Russia (2 players) and the Czech Republic (1 player). Three more WTHT tournaments are scheduled for this WTHT season which means the final ranking can be changed and awarded additional WCh nominations as well. The scheduled tournaments are: Boston Challenge on 14th April, Berlin Open on 21st April and the Big6 tournament Czech Open in PLZEN on 5th May.

Good luck to everybody at the final 3 WTHT 2006/2007 tournaments!

Roni Nuttunen (Finland) has won his fourth Big6 WTHT tournament this season. After winning in Helsinki, Riga and Göteborg he won also in Moscow! Daniel Wallén (Sweden) was at 2nd place and Lukas Turon (Czech Republic) was third.

Results, World Tour standings after the Moscow Cup.

Ukraine has became the 17th member of ITHF. It was decided during the current ITHF extraordinary Delegate‘s Conference.

The Danube Weekend was won by Michal Hvizd, although he did not win either of the tournaments. There were 104 participants in Bratislava, the winner was Lukas Turon, Michal Hvizd was 2nd and Jakub Sladek 3rd. 82 players came to Budapest on Sunday. Turon did not participate though neither of the medallists from Bratislava was able to gain the gold medal - Jan Dryak won Budapest Open, 2nd was Michal Hvizd and 3rd Jakub Sladek. More information can be found at tournaments web pages - Bratislava Open and Budapest open.

World Tour standings after the Danube weekend.

Update of questions on 21st February! The Executive Committee of the ITHF has released an important document setting the list of questions for the forthcoming Delegates' Conference. All the ITHF members are asked to study this document.

The Extraordinary Delegates' Conference is scheduled for 5th – 11th March 2007.

The Danube Weekend 2007 will take place in Bratislava and Budapest this week. The trophy for the best player of this event will be awarded. The hottest candidates for the trophy are the Czech players Jakub Sládek, Michal Hvižď, David Šmíd and Jan Dryák and Janne Kokko from Finland. If you are interested to achieve the title you still have the possibility to register for both tournaments. You can watch the live results from the Bratislava Open 2007 at the tournament web pages. Be with us!

Roni Nuttunen (17 years old, Finland) won one of the best tournament in last years - Swedish Championships 2007. 2nd was Finn Fries (Sweden) and third place was shared by Edgars Caics (Latvia) and Ivan Zaharov (Russia). It was Roni's third Big 6 tournament victory in a row and he is very close to become the first winner of Göran Agdur Table Hockey Trophy!
Complete results can be found at the tournaments webpage.

ITHF proudly presents the Göran Agdur Table Hockey Trophy, the prestigous award for the winner of the World Tour. With this prestigious trophy, ITHF wishes to honour not only the World Tour winner, but also Göran Agdur, known as “the first emperor” of table hockey. The very first, historical Göran Agdur Table Hockey Trophy will be presented during the World Championships in Moscow, June 2007. Hopefully, Mr. Agdur will be present at the ceremony.

The World Table Hockey Tour tournament was organized in Las Vegas. Kenny Dubois won and proved once again that he is the best U.S. Stiga table hockey player. Rob Chargo was 2nd and Reggie Stefaniszyn third.

Las Vegas hosted the WTHT tournament for 2nd season in a row. Detail information about the tournament.

The Executive Committee of the ITHF has released an important statement. The Extraordinary Delegates' Conference is called. There are also a lot of suggestions / impulses for discussion in the ITHF. The discussion has already started at the Discussion Board on these pages - so please, publish you comments too!

The EC statement

We are in the middle of a media revolution. All you need to make your own movie is a computer and a small digital camera. Through various web sites you can get a big audience for free.

For the moment www.youtube.com is the leading site. Every day a large number of new, short movies are published here. Actually, some of the clips are about table hockey. The offered format is perfect for a table hockey match – or just some minutes for nice tricks and moves. Here you can see some spectacular world class tricks by Roni Nuttunen. And here is one of the final matches from Oresund Cup 2006 with Finn Fries and the world champion, Hans Osterman. And here, an unknown master of the game is training, inspired by some Pink Panter music

Of course, this is only the beginning. www.youtube.com is a great possibility for any table hockey federation or club to reach new, young table hockey players. Join the web revolution and become youtubers!

Modern competitive table hockey started with the Swedish Championships in 1982. Now it's time to celebrate the sport's 25th anniversary, and nothing could be more suitable than doing it by playing the 25th edition of the world's most prestigous tournament - nowadays internationally more known as the Swedish Masters.

And where would be more appropriate to party than in the city where the world's oldest table hockey organization will celebrate it's 20th anniversary? The Swedish table hockey association SBHF was established in 1987 in Göteborg, the second city of Sweden, which will be the centre of the whole table hockey world the first weekend of February.

The Swedish table hockey association and Atletico Göteborg welcomes the table hockey world to party! For more information, please visit tournaments webpage.

Roni Nuttunen (Finland) won the strongest ever Riga Open beating Daniel Wallen (Sweden) 4-1. 3rd place award also went to Finland as Janne Ollila gained victory over host Edgars Caics. 132 players from 9 countries participated at 8th Riga Open.

Complete results can be found at the tournaments webpage.

The Executive Committee of the ITHF has released a new statement concerning the Tournament Rules Document. The updated version of the draft was released. The Executive Committee asks all table hockey players to send their comments for this document.

The biggest international table hockey tournament in Latvia - the Riga Open, will be held in Riga on December 2nd. It is organized by the Latvian Table Hockey Federation and it is one of the Big Six tournaments of the World Table Hockey Tour and also one of the Latvian Ranking Tournaments. The best players of the tournament will receive prizes from SONY.

For more information, please visit Riga Open website. List of pre-registered players.

You are welcome to Riga!

The official multilingual forum of the World Championship 2007, the best place for all discussions connected with the tournament, has been opened. Welcome!

The Organizing Committee of the 2007 World Championships asks all national table hockey federations to confirm the number of the players in their respective teams by 30th March 2007 and to send the official applications giving the names of their team members and the breakdown of the players by categories of competitions by 15 May 2007.

Roni Nuttunen took his third consecutive title in Helsinki Open beating Ivan Zaharov (Russia) 4-0 in the finals. Bronze medal was won by Konsta Jukka. There were 116 participants in the tournament, which is a new Finnish record.

There was a short report in the Finnish television - take a look. Moreover you can get a magazine (pdf) which was made by the organizers of this tournament.

Complete results can be found at the tournaments webpage.

Pontus Eriksson from Sweden won Canada Challenge 2006 which was held this Saturday in Gatineau. There were 50 participants. Pontus lost only two matches during the whole tournament and approve position of the big favourite of the tournament. Silver medal was won by Junior Gelinas from Canada and third was Kenny Dubois from the USA.

All results can be found at the tournament web page.

On this Saturday two Swiss players set an unofficial world record in playing seven hours nonstop tablehockey. Rolf Locher and Beat Wildi from Switzerland played seven hours nonstop against passers-by in a toy store in Bern.
Maybe this world record spurs on some other countries to beat it. These two crazy Swiss players will repeat that record on the 28th of October 2006.

On October 28th there will be most likely played the biggest and toughest table hockey tournament ever organized in Finland. Helsinki Open 2006 has already 100 players registered. Vafa Hamdamov from Estonia got the honor to be 100th pre-registered player. If Helsinki Open reaches 117 players it will be the biggest ever tournament organized in Finland.

So far the name list for Helsinki Open looks impressive. Five out of ten best players in the world will be present at Helsinki. Among the 100 so far registered players there are combined 24 world championships. Six out of nine Finnish World Team Champions are present.

In last three Helsinki Opens there has always been a Finnish champion. Will there be one this time? Daniel Wallén, Alexey Zaharov, Stefan Edwall and Edgars Caics will do their best to beat previous winners Roni Nuttunen and Kristian Iso-Tryykäri.

Join the fun in Helsinki!

101 players from 10 countries took part in the 11th edition of Oslo Open, the first WTHT Big Six tournament this season. Last two World Champions met in the final - Hans Österman beat Daniel Wallén in six games. Third place was shared by Lars Fridell and Pontus Eriksson, who was beaten by Wallén in semifinal after sudden death in the 7th match. The winning goal was scored on a new move - named Mupp.
Interestingly this was the first time in WTHT that a player wins two consecutive tournaments, even the first time a player wins two tournaments in one season.
Details can be found at the tournament web page.

Next WTHT tournament will be held in Gatineau on 21st October.

The Executive Committee of the ITHF has released the statement concerning the Tournament Rules Document and the candidatures for the next World Championship and the European Championship. The statement also announces that the Czech Open 2007, a part of the WTHT 2006/2007 will be held in Plzen, Czech Republic.

Just like 2005 Hans Österman, BHK Mollan Rouge, won Öresund Cup, this year for the first time ever played in the Danish capital, Copenhagen. Österman relativly easy (4-1) defeated his club rival Finn Fries in the final. The legendary Thomas Peterson, probably the fastest player in the world, almost beat Osterman in the semifinal, forcing the reigning champion to a tight seventh match. Together with Pontus Eriksson, another veteran, Petersson ended up as bronze medalist. Jonas Bergstrom and Kalle Bindekrans, both former Swedish junior champions, made strong come backs. Especially Bergstrom impressed with massive attack play; he quite sensational ended up as number five after scoring more goals than all other particapants. 53 players from 8 countries participated in the 23rd edition of Oresund Cup, the biggest tournament ever played in Denmark.

Complete results can be found at tournament page.

The new season of the World Table Hockey Tour started with the Stiga U.S. Open in Lemont, USA last week. Kenny Dubois won this tournament for the third time in last 4 years. Bernie Kunzler was second and Rob Chargo was third. 42 players participated at the opening WTHT event for the 2006/2007 season.

The second WTHT 2006/2007 tournament will be held on 16th September in Copenhagen, DEN. 50 players from 8 nations are already registered for the Öresund Cup.

The Official Table Hockey World Ranking was changed! A new algorithm is used for the distribution of the points for the particular tournaments now. The points will be distributed with respect to the quality of the players who are placed behind you. Therefore, if you are not placed before anybody better than you (with respect to this ranking), you will get only a few ranking points. Also other less important changes were made.

The new season of the World Table Hockey Tour will start in few weeks. Even if outside is hot weather, table hockey has not a long break...

The first tournament will be held in Lemont, USA on 29th July 2006. You can check the list of already registered participants at the Stiga U.S. Open.

The first European tournament of the WTHT 2006/2007 will be organized on 16th September in Copenhagen, DEN. 39 players are already registered for the Öresund Cup.

The Latvian Table Hockey Federation has announced that the date for the Riga Open must be moved to December 2nd.

150 players from 17 countries came to Skalica, Slovakia to play more than 6 000 matches! It was the highest count of matches ever played at a table hockey tournament.

18 medals were awarded during the weekend. Czech Republic won 8 medals, Russia 5, Latvia 4 and Hungary 1 medal. The medal candidates from Finland and Sweden unfortunately didn’t arrive to Skalica.

List of medallist:
Open category: 1st Alexey Zakharov (RUS), 2nd Lukas Turon (CZE), 3rd Edgars Caics (LAT),

Team category: 1st Czech Republic, 2nd Russia, 3rd Latvia,

Junior category: 1st Edgars Caics (LAT), 2nd Lukas Turon (CZE), 3rd Michal Hvizd (CZE),

Ladies category: 1st Alexandra Belavina (RUS), 2nd Marie Vargova (CZE), 3rd Tereza Krausova (CZE),

Veteran category: 1st Pavel Plesak (CZE), 2nd Alexander Zaytsev (RUS), 3rd Alexander Kosyrev (RUS),

Ladies teams category: 1st Czech Republic, 2nd Latvia, 3rd Hungary.

ECh 2006 webpage, results of the European Championship, pictures from ECh, pictures at the Czech website.

The World Table Hockey Tour 2005/2006 is over! 798 players have participated at 13 tournaments in 12 countries during the first season of the WTHT. There were 13 different players who won a WTHT tournament this season. It means no player has won at two tournaments!

The winner of WTHT 2005/2006 is Stefan Edwall (SWE). Second is Edgars Caics (LAT) and third Roni Nuttunen (FIN). All of them have won one Big 6 Tournament (6 biggest tournaments in the WTHT season). Final WTHT standings.

The schedule of WTHT 2006/2007 was announced by the Executive Committee:

2006
29th July, Lemont, USA
16th September (changed from 2nd Sep!), Copenhagen, DEN
30th September, Oslo, NOR
21st October, Gatineau, CAN
28th October, Helsinki, FIN
2nd December (changed from 9th Dec!), Riga, LAT

2007
29th January, Las Vegas, USA
3rd – 4th February, Göteborg or Eskilstuna, SWE
24th February, Bratislava, SVK
25th February, Budapest, HUN
17th – 18th March, Moscow, RUS
14TH APRIL (changed from 7th April!), Boston, USA
21st April, Berlin, GER
5th May, Prague, CZE

8th – 10th June, Moscow, RUS, World Championship

Playing system of the WTHT 2006/2007

51 players from 6 nations participated in Berlin Open 2006, the last tournament of this season's World Table Hockey Tour. Norway's Øyvind Hansen defeated Sweden's Björn Söderström in an even and well-played final. In the semi-finals, Hansen defeated Pål Bakken, while Berlin's Soderstrom outplayed favourite Tore Lie.

Complete results can be found at tournament page.

World Tour standings after the Berlin Open.

An opportunity to play table hockey for all accredited journalists at the IIHF World Championship 2006 in Riga. This will be a restoration of previously traditional table hockey tournaments sponsored by Skoda Auto. This time Skoda Auto + Philips + Stiga Games will participate at this event. The tournament will be organized by the Latvian Table Hockey Federation and the International Table Hockey Federation. Information about the tournament.

There was held the IIHF World Championship 2006 Division 1 in Tallinn, Estonia. National ice hockey teams from six nations participated at this tournament played at the largest complex in Estonia – at the arena Saku Suurhall in April 2006. Thousands of hockey fans had an opportunity not to only watch ice hockey but also to get know Stiga table hockey. More details.

Another two parts of the World Table Hockey Tour were held this weekend - Budapest Open and Bratislava Open. Juniors won five of six medals available during the weekend! Petr Tmej (CZE) won in Budapest and Ivan Zaharov (RUS) in Bratislava. Two medals gained Jakub Sladek (CZE) who was 2nd in Budapest and 3rd in Bratislava. Silver medal in Bratislava was won by Lukas Turon (CZE), and bronze medal from Budapest belongs to David Smid (CZE) - the only medallist older than 18 years of age. Details can be found at tournament pages - Budapest Open and Bratislava Open.

Last WTHT tournament in this season will be held on 20th May in Berlin.

The Latvian Table Hockey Federation (LTHF) published the information that they have obtained the certificate of recognized sport federation from National Sport Council, The Office of Sport of the Ministry of Education and Science. The details can be found in the press release (pdf).

117 participants from 10 nations came to Prague to play at the Czech Open, the final Big Six tournament of 2005/2006 season of WTHT. Jan Suchy proved who the best player in the Czech Republic right now is as he won at second Czech Cup tournament in a row. He also beat the winner from Moscow Cup Michal Hvizd 4:0 in quarterfinals. Stanislav Kraus took 2nd place and Lukas Turon (a leader of Czech Cup 2005/2006) was third in Prague. An interesting fact is that 5 Czech juniors finished among the best 8 players. Details can be found at the tournament web page.

The next World Tour event is the Danube weekend - on 29th April Budapest Open and on 30th April Bratislava Open.

There was a thrilling conclusion to an awesome event on Saturday. 66 players battled and many new faces lit up with the thrill of North American tournament table hockey. A smooth, calculating and precise Kristian Iso-Tryykari beat Americas best Kenny Dubois in 6 games to once again bring the Boston Challenge Trophy home to Finland. Two years ago it was Markus Laakso. Lars Fridell from Sweden finished third. Details can be found at the tournament web page.

The next World Tour tournament is held on 8th April in Prague.

Quite a surprising final was played at the end of another Big Six Tournament - the Moscow Cup. Michal Hvizd played against Yanis Galuzo. Hvizd beat both the winners of the last two Big Six Tournaments - Alexey Zaharov and Stefan Edwall - during the play-off. He also succeeded in the final after that. The medallists were: 1st Michal Hvizd, 2nd Yanis Galuzo and 3rd Stefan Edwall. The complete results can be found at the tournament web page.

The next World Tour tournament is held on 1st April in Boston.

Stefan Edwall won Big Six Tournament held in Oslo. Other medals remained at Norway thanks to Tore Lie and Daniel Remmem. 72 players from eight countries participated. Complete results can be found at tournament web page.

Next World Tour tournament will be held on 18th March in Moscow.

Organizers of the European Championship 2006 published new information about this event - take a look at pdf file to find more about participants and schedule. Moreover advertising poster is available.

Detail information about the championship can be found at tournament web page.

Alexey Zaharov became the first non-swedish player who won the Swedish Masters. Alexey beat in the play-off four of the favorites of the whole tournament - Roni Nuttunen, Edgars Caics, Hans Osterman and in the final Stefan Edwall. Bronze medal is shared by Hans Osterman and Finn Fries. Complete results can be found at tournament web page.

Next World Tour tournament will be held on 25th February in Oslo.

Jacob Lindahl won World Table Hockey Tour Tournament held at Las Vegas. The second was Peter Ostlund and the third Pontus Eriksson. Complete results can be found at tournament page.

Next World Tour tournament will be held on 28th January at Eskilstuna. It is highly probably the most prestigious Wolrd Tour tournament - Swedish Masters.

Edgars Caics won the Riga Open - the second Big Six World Tour tournament. The second was Pontus Eriksson and the third Kristian Iso-Tryykari.
104 players participated at Riga! Photo of medallists. Complete results can be found at tournament web page.

Next World Tour tournament will be held on 9th January at Las Vegas.

The youngest member of the ITHF has a new home page. All information about table hockey events in the Switzerland can be found at www.sthv.ch.

Steve Bernstein won the Gatineau Challenge. 41 players participated.

Complete results can be found at tournament web page. Also a lot of photos is availabe.

Next (2nd Big Six) World Tour tournament will be held on 10th December at Riga.

Hans Osterman won the Oresund Cup - the second stage of the World Table Hockey Tour. The second was Petter Bengtsson and the third Peter Ostlund.
45 players from 6 countries arrived to Helsingor.

Complete results can be found at tournament web page.

Next World Tour tournament will be held on 22nd October at Gatineau.

Roni Nuttunen won the first World Table Hockey Tour Big Six Tournament ever played. He beat Kristian Iso-Tryykari at final of Helsinki Open although he lost the first three final games!
Bronze medal came to Russia thanks to Ivan Zakharov.
86 players from 7 countries arrived to Helsinki.

Complete results can be found at tournament web page.

Next World Tour tournament will be held on Saturday at Helsingor.

New season will start with two tournaments of the World Table Hockey Tour scheduled on September. First Finland - country of current world champions - will welcome the first World Table Hockey Tour Big Six Tournament played ever. And Denmark will host World Table Hockey Tour Tournament only one week after. Complete schedule of World Tour can be found at Tournaments page. Final tournament of this international season will be European Championship. It will be held at Slovakia, at Skalica on 2nd - 4th June 2006. Detail information will be published soon.

Switzerland became the 16th member of ITHF. It was decided during summer extraordinary Delegate‘s Conference.

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