International Federation of Teqball

The International Federation of Teqball (French: Fédération Internationale de Teqball) (FITEQ) is the governing body for the sport of teqball and para teqball. FITEQ was established in March 2017 following the sport's inception in 2014.

International Federation of Teqball
Fédération Internationale de Teqball
AbbreviationFITEQ
TypeSports federation
Location
Region served
Worldwide
President
Gábor Borsányi
Chairman
Viktor Huszár
Vice president
György Gattyán
General Secretary
Marius Vizer Jr
Websitewww.fiteq.org

(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] and Board Member Jason Kirkbride. The management team is led by Sport Director Matthew Curtain.[4]

Member federations

List of Member Federations

There are currently 96 national teqball member federations, across five continents.

Africa Asia Europe Oceania Pan America

Competitions
Teqball World Championships

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

2017 Teqball World Cup

The first edition of the event took place in Budapest, Hungary in 2017.[6]

2018 Teqball World Cup

The 2018 competition was held in Reims, France with 42 nations.

2019 Teqball World Championships

The 2019 event was held in Budapest with 58 nations[7] with a total of 160 athletes. Ádám Blázsovics won gold in both the singles and doubles competitions.[8] He won the doubles gold with Csaba Bányik. The 2019 World Championships mixed doubles competition was won by Brazilian pair Natalia Guitler and Marcos Viera.[9]

2020 Teqball World Championships

The 2020 World Championships were postponed due to the impact of COVID-19. The next edition of the event will be held in 2021.[10]

Singles
Year Place Final Bronze match Source
Winner Result Second place Third place Result Fourth Place
2017 Budapest Ádám Blázsovics 20–8, 20–9 Máté Szolga Zsolt Lázár 20–9, 20–5 Konstatinos Becas [11]
2018 Reims Barna Szécsi 20–11, 20–15 Árpád Sipos Adrian Duszak 20–12, 20–10 Bogdan Marojevic [12]
2019 Budapest Ádám Blázsovics 20–10, 20–9 Apor Györgydeák Zsolt Lázár 19–20, 20–5, 20–16 Bogdan Marojevic [13]

Doubles
Year Place Final Bronze match Source
Winner Result Second place Third place Result Fourth place
2017 Budapest Zsolt Lázár,Barna Szécsi 20–10, 9–20, 20–9 Balázs Imreh,

Róbert Szepessy

Milan Lukic,

Sasa Mirosavljevic

20–9, 20–5 Romain Gesmier,

Jonathan Siad

 [14]
2018 Reims Bogdan Marojevic,Nikola Mitro 19–20, 20–15, 22–20 Csaba Bányik,

Ádám Blázsovics

Szabolcs Ilyés,

Zsolt Lázár

20–11, 20–11 Natalia Guitler,

Marcos Vieira da Silva

 [15]
2019 Budapest Csaba Bányik,Ádám Blázsovics 20–9, 20–18 Bogdan Marojevic,

Nikola Mitro

 Szabolcs Ilyés,

Zsolt Lázár

20–13, 20–19 Julien Grondin,

Hugo Radeux

 [16]

Mixed doubles
Year Place Final Bronze match Source
Winner Result Second place Third place Result Fourth place
2019 Budapest Natalia Guitler,Marcos Vieira da Silva 20–15, 19–20, 20–14 Zsanett Janicsek,

Bányik Csaba

 Maja Umicevic,

Nikola Mitro

20–13, 20–14 Mitri Rita,

Zsolt Lázár

[17]

Other major teqball events
  • The Sanya 2020 Asian Beach Games[18]
  • 2021 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games [19]
  • The African Beach Teqball Cup was held on 18 June 2019 during the 1st African Beach Games in Sal, Cape Verde.[20]
  • The Asia-Pacific Beach Cup took place in November 2019 as part of the Chinese Corporative Beach Games in Sanya.[21]
  • The inaugural Teqball Masters was held from 17–19 December 2019 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia[22]
  • The Challenger Cup series began in September 2019 in Balassagyarmat, Hungary
  • The National Challenger Series[23]
  • The Teqball Grand Prix

World Rankings

Teqball world rankings[24] updated on 5 February 2021.

Place Singles Points
1. Adrian Duszak 16856
2. Ádám Blázsovics 15010
3. Apor Györgydeák 5418
4. Julien Arnaud Grondin 4936
5. Csaba Bányik 4579
6. Bogdan Marojevic 3580
7. Barna Szécsi 2757
8. Árpád Sipos 2556
9. Patryk Kaminski 2376
10. Fethi Larit 2092
Place Doubles Points
1. Csaba Bányik 21895
1. Ádám Blázsovics 21895
3. Bogdan Marojevic 10470
3. Nikola Mitro 10470
5. Szabolcs Ilyés 9043
6. Julien Grondin 7510
7. Adrian Duszak 7304
8. Hugo Rabeux 7126
9. Francisco Diaz 6816
10. Andres Berriel 5383
Place Mixed- doubles points
1. Marcos Viera da Silva 6855
1. Natalia Guitler 6855
3. Zsanett Janicsek 4782
3. Csaba Bányik 4782
5. Nikola Mitro 4045
5. Maja Umicevic 4045
7. Patryk Kaminski 3200
8. Ewa Krol 2560
9. Rita Mitri 2120
9. Zsolt Lázár 2120

International Partners

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