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38 players from 2 countries (Ukraine and Russia) participated in Ukraine Cup 2013 and all three medals stayed in Ukraine. Mykhaylo Spivakovskyy won the tournament by beating Dmytro Kudrytsky 4-1 in the final.
Serhiy Tsyba got the bronze medal.
By winning the tournament Mykhaylo Spivakovskyy now has 2 gold and 2 bronze in the overall WTHT statistics.

World Tour standings.

Last Big Six World Tour tournament was held in the Czech Republic. There were 114 participants. The winner was Lukas Turon who beat Yevhen Levdansky (UKR) in the final. Bronze medal for Petr Tmej.

Complete results of the Czech Open.

In an exiting final in the World Tour in Detroit, Michigan, USA - also called Stiga North American Championships 2013 - Bjarne Axelsen (Denmark) won against Kenny Dubois (USA) with 2-1, 5-3, 3-1 and 3-2.
Nearly all the best players from USA and Canada and two players from Denmark participated in a very well organized tournament with excellent games prepared by John Medema.
Anette Engel (Denmark) won the bronze match with 5-0, 1-3 and 7-1 against Bernie Kunzler (Canada).

In spite of his great level of playing the winner of Moscow Open 2013 was a sensation.
Alexandr Miloradov (Russia) won his first World Tour ever by beating the defending World Champion Oleg Dmitrichenko (Russia) in the final while the defending European Champion Maxim Borisov (Russia) ended up 3rd. In the first 4 rounds of play off Alexandr Miloradov managed to beat Petr Tmej (Czech Republic) in the semifinal, Atis Silis (Latvia) in the quarterfinal, Vesa Huotelin (Finland) in the Round of 16 and Grigoriy Dubinin (Russia) in the Round of 32. Moscow Open 2013 was the first World Tour ever who decided to develope the play off stages with 32 players in play off.

With the 3rd position in Moscow Open 2013 Maxim Borisov also won the overall ITHF World Table Hockey Tour 2012/2013.

Yanis Galuzo (Russia) won Swedish Masters 2013 by beating Michal Hvizd (Czech Republic) in the final. The bronze medal was shared between Finn Fries (Sweden) and Jan Dryák (Czech Republic). The tournament was arranged in Malmo in the southern part of Sweden. According to news from the Swedish Table Hockey Federation the tournament will also be organized in Malmo in 2014 - probably the first weekend of January in connection with World Junior Championships in icehockey.

By winning the tournament Yanis Galuzo is having 2 gold, 4 silver and 5 bronze in the overall World Tour statistics.

The President of ITHF, Bjarne Axelsen, has published a New Year´s Speech. Among other things he is talking about WTHT Big6, the possibility of introducing play off for a larger group of players, payment to ITHF in future and the evaluation of tournaments belonging to World Table Hockey Tour.

You can find the New Year´s Speech on Youtube.

Riga Open was won by the young star from Russia - Maxim Borisov - who in this way ended the statistic in the season 2012/2013 of the ITHF World Table Hockey Tour where 12 different players won the first 12 tournaments.

In a tremendous final Maxim Borisov won against Edgars Caics (Latvia). Ahti Lampi (Finland) took the bronze medal in a battle with Atis Silis (Latvia). The tournament was extremely well organized and players from 10 different countries competed in a friendly and professional atmosphere.

Maxim Borisov is now having 4 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze medals in the World Tour-statistics.

On February 2nd 2013, for the 31st time since 1982, the world gathers to play one of the most prestigious tournaments of all. Welcome to the Swedish Masters in Malmö, Sweden, one of this season's Big Six tournaments in the World Table Hockey Tour.

Malmö is Sweden’s third largest city by population after Stockholm and Göteborg, and is one of the largest cities in Scandinavia. Malmö is located in the vibrant Oresund Region, 20 minutes by train from the Copenhagen Airport, Kastrup, the main international airport serving a large part of southern Sweden and Copenhagen, Denmark. The tournament venue is conference and sports centre, Kockum Fritid, less than ten minutes by bus from the Malmö Central Station.

The Swedish Masters 2013 is a one-day event were all non-Swedes participate for free. Spread the word, invite your friends, get engaged, be a part of something fun. Everyone’s invited!

Registration is now open. Tournament web page, facebook page.

We hope to see you in Malmö, SBHF through Karl Jönsson & Martin Lundén & BHK Möllan Rouge

Ahti Lampi (Finland) got his revenche from Helsinki Open this year even though he didn´t get the chance to beat Maxim Borisov (Russia) who was beaten by Edgars Caics (Latvia) in the quarterfinals. Ahti Lampi - however - managed to beat Edgars Caics in the final with 4-1. Atis Silis (Latvia) and Alexey Zakharov (Russia) shared 3rd place. With the victory to Ahti Lampi 12 different players have won the 12 different World Tours so far this season. Perhaps this will be changed in Riga at the beginning of December.

Kristijan Curkovic from Croatia won Slovenia Open 2012 by beating Bjarne Axelsen from Denmark with 4:1 in the final. Bronze medal went to Anze Bozic, in the match for the 3rd place he defeated Bernard Rjavec (both from Slovenia). Anze was very close to win the semifinal against Kristijan by leading 3:1 and then having an active result in the last two matches. But Kristijan was unstoppable with his center moves and he finally won with 4:3. The tournament was held in Kranj, Slovenia. There wewe 38 players from Slovenia, Croatia, Denmark and Italy.

The tablehockey environment in Toronto (Canada) organized for the first time a tournament belonging to World Table Hockey Tour. 33 players from 3 countries - USA, Canada and Denmark - participated in the tournament. The tournament was won by Bjarne Axelsen from Denmark. In play off he defeated Dave Kraehling (Canada), Mike Hubbard (USA), Paul Shabi (USA) and in the final Reggie Stefaniszyn (Canada) who won the silver medal. Anette Engel (Denmark) won the bronze by beating Paul Shabi (USA) in the bronze match. There were play off both in division A, B, C and D and trophies for the three best players in each division.

IV Saint-Petersburg Open
17.11.2012
Saint-Petersburg Open 2013 - the new, progressive stage of the World Tour. Modern technologies, geographical convenience, bright atmosphere, strong participants do this tournament one of the most attractive stages of the World Tour in the world. Come to Saint-Petersburg and struggle for prizes of Saint-Petersburg Open 2013!
XVI Saint-Petersburg Team Championship
18.11.2012

Tournament webpage.

In a very convincing way Maxim Borisov (Russia) won Helsinki Open. In the final he defeated Ahti Lampi (Finland) who ended the match by saying "I will try to give you a tougher match in Riga." In the previous rounds of play off Maxim Borisov won against Mykhaylo Spyvakovskyy (Ukraine), Petr Tmej (Czech Republic) and Santtu Sainio (Finland) However, Santtu Sainio was leading 2-0 in the semifinal before Maxim Borisov started to play in a real Maxim-style with a lot of beautiful goals. Kalle Bindekrans (Sweden) won the bronze match against Santtu Sainio (Finland) The tournament was arranged in the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki.

The best tablehockey player in Slovakia - Imrich Blasko - managed to win Kosice Open 2012. He played in a very convincing way the whole day and ended up winning the final with 4-2. Bjarne Axelsen (Denmark) got the silver medal. In the bronze match Tomas Zamutovsky (Slovakia) won against Miroslav Ramsak (Slovakia). With the victory Imrich Blasko has 3 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze in the overall World Tour statistic.

Atis Silis and Edgars Caics (both from Latvia) who have had so many interesting play offs against each other were in the middle of another fight when they played the final of Ventspils Cup 2012. After Edgars Caics leading 3-1 Atis Silis made a terrific comeback and won the final 4-3. In other words Atis Silis won Ventspils Cup 2012. Yevhen Levdansky (Ukraine) won the bronze match against Karl Bindekrans (Sweden). Atis Silis is now having 4 gold and 4 silver in the overall World Tour statistics.

Michal Hvizd from the Czech Republic won Swiss Open 2012 by beating Ladislav Tmej (Czech Republic) in the final of the tournament. Petr Tmej (Czech Republic) won the bronze medal. 23 players from Switzerland, Czech Republic, Denmark, Great Britain and Canada participated in the tournament in Ittigen near by the swiss capital, Bern. After winning the tournament Michal Hvizd has 7 gold, 3 silver and 1 bronze as no. 5 in the World Tour statistics.

Reggie Stefaniszyn from Canada repeated his victory in Edmonton Centennial Challenge from 2011 by winning the edition of 2012 in West Edmonton Mall.
In the final of the tournament he defeated Kent Richter - also from Canada. Match about third position was between Eric Krol (USA) and Dwayne Pankiw (Canada). Also here the canadian player won and in this way all three medals stayed in Canada. By winning the tournament Reggie Stefaniszyn is now no. 12 in the World Tour statistics with 2 gold, 4 silver and 7 bronze medals.

ITHF has published a statement - among other things telling about changes in final divisions and play off in the future World Championships and European Championships and about payment to ITHF for having a tournament belonging to ITHF WTHT. ITHF is moreover asking every organizer of a tournament belonging to ITHF WTHT to publish a webpage about the tournament at least one month before the tournament.

The no. 1 in Ukraine - Yevhen Levdansky - managed to handle the situation as the favourite in the World Tour in Mariupol, Ukraine by winning Azov Masters 2012.
In a very exiting final he defeated Alexey Titov (Russia) with 4-3. The bronze medal was won by Mykhaylo Spivakovskyy (Ukraine), who won 3-1 against Dmytro Kudrytsky (Ukraine). 51 players from Ukraine and Russia participated in the tournament.

The player from Latvia - Matiss Saulitis - won Norway Open 2012 in Bergen.
After beating his brother Mikus Saulitis in the first round of play off he won against Yngve Aasheim (Norway) in the quarterfinal, managed to beat the great surprise Espen Moe (Norway) in the semifinal and then afterwards took the biggest trophy by winning the final 4-2 against Thomas Petersson (Sweden).
The bronze was - according to the norwegian tradition - shared between the two players losing the semifinals - this time Jimmy Mardell (Sweden) and Espen Moe (Norway).

Maxim Borisov from Russia won the European Championships 2012. In the final he defeated Atis Silis from Latvia.
Ahti Lampi (Finland) won the bronze match against Peter Ostlund (Sweden)

The Open team competition was won by Russia. They won the final with 13-7 against Latvia. Czech Republic won the bronze medal.

Viktoria Laricheva won the ladies competition by beating Maria Saveljeva in the final. Marie Vargova (Czech Republic) took the bronze medal.
Ladies team competition was won by Russia

Jan Dryak (Czech Republic) went directly into the veterans scene in an amazing way by winning every match in play off and took the title by beating the defending champion Janne Kokko (Finland) in the final.
Veteran team was also won by the great team from Czech Republic.

As well as in the open single competition Maxim Borisov (Russia) also won the juniors single competition. Junior team was won by Russia who defeated Ukraine 7-2 in the final.

One of the young stars from Russia, Oleg Dmitrichenko, won the entire ITHF World Table Hockey Tour 2011/2012 with 450 points.
Edgars Caics (Latvia) finished 2nd with 415 points while Yanis Galuzo (Russia) gained the 3rd position with 410 points.
An overall number of 738 players participated in the ITHF World Table Hockey Tour this season.
The last tournament of this season - Canadian Masters 2012 - was won by Bjarne Axelsen (Denmark) who managed to win the final against Eric Desjardins (Canada). Reggie Stefaniszyn (Canada) finished 3rd and won the bronze medal in Canadian Masters 2012 in Montreal.

Final World Tour standings.

It went to sudden death in the 7th match, but Janne Kokko eventually beat Bjarne Axelsen in an exciting final with many twists and turns. Michal Zunka claimed 3rd place in the tournament, in which players from 8 countries took part. At the banquet afterwards, Kokko celebrated in style, filling the trophy with champagne and passing it around for the less successful players to drown their sorrows.

In the final of World Club Championships 2012 played in St. Petersburg BJC Laimite from Latvia won 7-6 against Galaktika from Russia.
Yanis Galuzo (Russia), Arturs Vercins (Latvia), Atis Silis (Latvia) and Carl Bindekrans (Sweden) played for BJC Laimite in the final while Oleg Dmitrichenko (Russia), Ahti Lampi (Finland), Alexey Titov (Russia) and Santtu Sainio (Finland) played for Galaktika.
Bagira from Russia won the bronze match 11-3 against THC Stiga Elites (Czech Republic)

The winners of the two play off groups for the 8 best players, Gerrit Janssen from Germany and Bjarne Axelsen from Denmark, also played the final in Trophy of Denmark 2012.
Bjarne Axelsen won the final with 4-2 in matches.
Anders Dodensig (Denmark) took the bronze medal beating Anette Engel (Denmark) 4-3 in matches. Mads Bodilsen (Denmark) won the B play off by beating Jacob Gade (Denmark) in the B-final. 22 players participated in the tournament.

Last Big Six World Tour tournament of the season 2011/2012 was held in Prague, Czech Republic. There were 109 participants from 12 countries. The winner is Edgars Caics (Latvia) who beat the best Czech player Lukas Turon 4-3 in the final series. Bronze medal came to another Czech player Zdenek Matousek ml.
Complete results.

The man who gave birth to the ITHF World Ranking is now working on another project that is collecting all results from play off in ITHF World Tours. Martin Arenlind has already found a lot of results from Play Off in tournaments belonging to ITHF World Table Hockey Tour but would like to make the statistics complete. At the link below you can see a lot of statistic already - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITHF_table_hockey#World_Table_Hockey_Tour

Players from Canada, USA, Denmark, Norway and someone with their roots in Slovakia participated in a well-organized World Table Hockey Tour in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Bjarne Axelsen (Denmark) won the final by beating Reggie Stefaniszyn (Canada) 8-0, 6-0, 0-2, 7-1, 3-4 and 4-1 while Tron Omland from Norway won the bronze match by beating Bernie Kunzler (Canada) Best player from USA this time was Kevin Rafferty who finished 5th.

The biggest star of international tablehockey right now - Oleg Dmitrichenko from Russia - did it again and won both Moscow Cup 2012 and therefore also the overall ITHF World Table Hockey Tour 2011/2012. In the final he defeated Edgars Caics from Latvia while Yanis Galuzo (Russia) won the bronze medal match against Alexei Zakharov (Russia).
By winning the tournament Oleg Dmitrichenko has within the last 12 months won the World Championship 2011 and the World Tours in Helsinki, Riga, Moscow and St. Petersburg.
235 players participated in the tournament which is a new world record while the ITHF World Table Hockey Tour has existed.
The tournament was extremely well organized in the great Arena Mytischi in Moscow Region where the icehockey club Atlant is also playing their home matches.
The ITHF representative made an evaluation of the tournament afterwards which you can see in the link.

Little bit unexpected for people and maybe even for himself, Kalle Bindekrans shows the best results in big tournaments among all other Swedes. We tried to understood why Kalle improve his results the same time as most of Swedish players lose the interest to the tablehockey. So today Kalle, being as always cheerful and communicable, answer on our questions about his work, passions and about the place of tablehockey in his life. Read the whole interview of Yanis Galuzo with Kalle Bindekrans on the site of Saint-Petersburg Federation.

Maxim Borisov from Russia (Saint-Petersburg) won Swedish Masters by beating Yanis Galuzo (Russia) at final match (4:2). Third place shared between Andrey Voskoboynikov (Saint-Petersburg, Russia) and Edgars Caics (Latvia).

The president of ITHF, Bjarne Axelsen, has published that he will resign as the president of ITHF after September 12, 2012 so the member federations of ITHF are going to find a new president in 2012. Read more in this letter.

A majority of the members of ITHF Executive Committee has decided to allow the organizers of Berlin Open 2012 to remove the tournament so it will now be organized Saturday the 26th of May 2012.

The president of ITHF Bjarne Axelsen is asking the national federations and organizers of tournaments belonging to ITHF World Tablehockey Tour to be aware of this: "Every time a tournament is removed in the middle of a season it is harming the federations and players who in decent time have planned their tablehockey season and their trips to and accomodation at the certain venues. I will kindly ask every organizer who this spring will apply for a tournament belonging to ITHF World Tablehockey Tour 2012/2013 to plan every detail before asking ITHF to sanction this tournament. With this I mean finding a playing venue, being totally sure about the date of the tournament, informing ITHF about the exact city of the tournament and - as much as possible - informing about the planned playing system and time schedule. If a national federation has already planned a national tournament the 26th of May 2012 they are not expected to remove this because of this change."

12th Moscow Cup opens registration and welcomes all table hockey players to compete for the biggest ever prize fund in table hockey history - 12 000 USD!
This year tournament has got mighty partner - popular Ice Hockey club of KHL (Continental Hockey League) "Atlant" from Moscow region. For more information, please visit Moscow Region Cup Atlant 2012 website.

The current World Champion - Oleg Dmitrichenko from Russia - did it for the 3rd time in this season of the ITHF World Tablehockey Tour. Earlier in season 2011/2012 he won Helsinki Open in Finland and St. Petersburg Open in Russia. This time he succeeded winning Riga Open in Latvia by defeating Yanis Galuzo (Russia) with 4-3 in a very exciting final. Petr Tmej (Czech Republic) won the bronze match with 2-1 against Alexey Titov (Russia) The victory to Oleg Dmitrichenko was his 3rd medal in the World Tour ever - and the 3rd one of gold.

Petr Tmej (Czech Republic) won his 7th gold medal ever in the ITHF World Tablehockey Tour when he in Hungarian Open in Budapest defeated his brother Ladislav Tmej in the final. Also the 3rd medal went to the Czech Republic since Vaclav Pikl won the bronze medal by defeating the local Gergely Regula (Hungary) in the bronze match. 20 players from Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Switzerland participated in the tournament.

The current star of international tablehockey - Oleg Dmitrichenko from Russia - did it again. In St. Petersburg Open 2011 he won the tournament by beating Matiss Saulitis from Latvia in the final. The bronze was won by Maxim Borisov (Russia). In the quarterfinal the audience saw a repeat of the final in the World Championships 2011 where Oleg Dmitrichenko defeated Roni Nuttunen (Finland) with 4-0. The tournament was extremely strong. As examples Yanis Galuzo finished as no. 4, Ahti Lampi 5th, Roni Nuttunen 6th and Edgars Caics 12th.

Bjarne Axelsen from Denmark won Slovenia Open for the 2nd year in a row. In the final he defeated Michal Zunka from the Czech Republic. Kristijan Curkuvic (Croatia) won the bronze match against Uros Matanovic (Slovenia) Though Uros Matanovic was very close to the final since the semifinal against Bjarne Axelsen was lost after sudden victory in the 7th and deciding match. The tournament was arranged in Kranj, Slovenia

In Finland the 2nd ITHF World Tour Big6 this season was played at the Olympic Stadium. Oleg Dmitrichenko (Russia) - the World Champion in the open cathegory from Turku, Finland 2011 - and Juha Eralaukko (Finland) both won their first medal ever in the ITHF World Tablehockey Tour. In the final Oleg Dmitrichenko (Russia) defeated Ahti Lampi (Finland) with 4-2 in matches. The result of the final was 3-2, 2-4, 2-4, 5-4ot, 3-0 and 4-0. Andrey Voskoboynikov (Russia) who lost the bronze match to Juha Eralaukko is now leading the total standings of the ITHF World Tablehockey Tour after 6 out of 18 tournaments with Alexey Titov (Russia) as the current no. 2 in the overall standings. Reggie Stefaniszyn (Canada) is no. 3 in the current standings.

The Executive Committee of ITHF has assigned Riga, Latvia the European Championships 2012. The tournaments will be arranged by LGHF which is the national tablehockey federation of Latvia. "We are very satisfied that LGHF who is well-known for their good organisation of the biggest international championships has decided to apply for and in this way help ITHF with the organisation of the European Championships 2012 after the abdication from Croatia", says Bjarne Axelsen, the president of ITHF. "Many of the players and international tablehockey leaders being present to Euro 2008 and many editions of Riga Cup will feel safe after this decision - now knowing that these championships are in good hands", says Bjarne Axelsen. The European Championships 2012 will be arranged from the 8th to the 10th of June 2012.

David Smid (Czech Republic) won Swiss Open 2011 by beating his club mate Michal Zunka (Czech Republic) in the final.
Bjarne Axelsen (Denmark) won the bronze by beating David Brdicek (Czech Republic). Players from Czech Republic, Denmark, Canada and Switzerland participated. Best player from the homeland Switzerland was Etienne Flore on place number 6.

European Championships 2012 in Croatia is cancelled.
The decision is made after communication between the organizer and the Executive Committee of ITHF. The Executive Committee of ITHF is planning an Extraordinary Delegates Conference in November where the member federations are going to vote about some present topics.
If a federation is interested in organizing European Championships 2012 then please contact ITHF before Sunday the 16th of October 2011.
The president of The Executive Committee of ITHF Bjarne Axelsen can be contacted directly through the mail bjarne@9700.dk for further information and questions.

Alexey Titov from Russia has again been active with the camera to the biggest and most prestigious tournaments in 2011. If using the links below you are able to watch the final from Swedish Masters 2011 between Roni Nuttunen (Finland) and Yanis Galuzo (Russia) and moreover you can watch the most important matches in the play off stage from World Championships 2011 in Turku, Finland.
Hans Osterman from Sweden is the commentator.

Press the links and enjoy tablehockey with some of the biggest stars in the world.
Swedish Masters videos.
World Championships videos.

The World Tour in Edmonton, Canada was won by the local favourite Reggie Stefaniszyn but not before he managed to win the exciting final with 4-3 against Kent Richter, also from Canada. The 3rd place also went to Canada since Philippe Majerech defeated Kevin Rafferty (USA) The tournament was placed in West Edmonton Mall in the state of Alberta, Canada.

In Oslo, Norway the first World Tablehockey Tour BIG6 of the season 2011/2012 took place and here Petr Tmej from the Czech Republic got his revanche after loosing to Alexey Titov (Russia) in 2010. Even though Andrey Voskoboynikov (Russia) won the first two matches in the final Petr Tmej was able to come back and ended up winning the final with 4-2.
According to the norwegian tradition the bronze medal was shared between the loosers of the semifinals which this time was Pavel Plesak (Czech Republic) and Ladislav Tmej (Czech Republic).
After winning Oslo Open Petr Tmej is leading the World Tablehockey Tour 2011/2012 after 2 tournaments.
The next tournament is the 17th of September in Edmonton, Canada.

With U. S. Open 2011 in Lemont, Illinois nearby Chicago the new season of ITHF World Tablehockey Tour has begun. The first final was between USA and Denmark and hear Bjarne Axelsen (Denmark) won with 4-0 in the final against Ron Marsik (USA) who - by the way - won the 1st edition of U. S. Open back in 2002.
In this 10th edition Reggie Stefaniszyn (Canada) managed to win the bronze medal.
35 players from USA, Canada and Denmark participated in the tournament.

For the first time ever a player from Russia is the World Champion in the open competition. Oleg Dmitrichenko from Russia won the final with 4-2 in matches against the World Champion from 2007 and 2009 - Roni Nuttunen from Finland. Yanis Galuzo took the bronze medal.
Open Team was won by Russia with silver to Finland and bronze to Latvia.
Maria Yalbacheva (Russia) won ladies championship by beating Maria Saveljeva (Estonia) in the final. Bronze to Minerva Martiskainen (Finland).
Finland won the ladies team competition with silver to Russia and bronze to Latvia.
In the junior competition Max Borisov (Russia) won the final against Oleg Dmitrichenko with bronze to a third player from Russia - Pavel Gorotnitskij.
Russia won junior team in front of Finland and Estonia.
Dmitriy Petrov (Russia) is the new World Champion for veterans while Janne Kokko took the silver medal with bronze to Alexander Kosyrev (Russia).
Veteran team was won by Russia in front of Sweden and Finland.

Congratulations to all the winners and participants in Turku, Finland.

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