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DIBF in conjunction with the FIBA, Kenya Deaf Sports Association and Confederation of African Deaf Sports, is pleased to announce the 1st DIBF African Deaf Basketball Championships for men and women.
Dates and location:
28 October - 1 November 2008 at Arap Moi International Sports Centre in Nairobi, Kenya. Possible reduction or extension of dates depending on number of participating countries, but the finals is to be played on 1 November 2008.
Preliminary entry for African countries:
National deaf basketball teams from any African countries are welcome with preliminary entry made on or before 1 August 2008 - this can be done by contacting Secretary General - see contact page. Please note, there is no preliminary entry fee exclusively for African countries.
Definitive entry:
Definitive entry and confirmation of participation must be done by 1 October 2008 at the latest. In case of withdrawal after definitive entry a penalty fee of $500 USD will be imposed.
DIBF Africa Zone:
During the tournament a special meeting will be held in which the DIBF Africa Zone will be founded with a provisional board members elected from African countries. More information to follow later.
If there are any questions please do not hesitate to contact Secretary General.
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International Committee of Sports for the Deaf (ICSD) will be holding an Extraordinary Congress to be held in Bratislava, Slovakia - just day after the conclusion of EDSO Congress. The President of DIBF - Lyndon Borrow will be officially attending at the expense of DIBF.
The ICSD Extraordinary Congress will be mainly to converse about the Deaf Sports Reform on revised draft from the Deaf Sports Reform Symposium held in Zagreb, Croatia in July 2007. The aims is to restructure the ICSD into International Deaflympic Committee (IDC) and to form the Deaflympic Branch, World Sports Branch and Youth Sports Branch in order to increase the standard of deaf sports around the world.
An ICSD Deaf Sports Reform Revised draft is available to download in PDF (1.69MB). |
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The open meeting was held at 6pm on Wednesday 25 June 2008 at conference room of Center Hotel MainFranken in Bamberg, Germany during the free day of European Deaf Basketball Championships. This was an opportunity for European basketball countries to get together to discuss about establishing a provisional zone organisation for the deaf basketball of Europe in order to focus the core of European deaf basketball and lifting the standards.
There were a number of European member countries and observers attended and the meeting was led by Secretary General – Kjell Gunna. A lengthy discussions and views exchanged were made by members. It was decided that to possibly elect and establish a provisional executive committee consisting of President, Treasurer and Secretary General in 2009 at DIBF Conference during the 21st Deaflympic Games in Taiwan. Eventually to be made official during the DIBF Congress during the 2011 DIBF World Deaf Basketball Championship in Italy.
DIBF Central Board will continue to establish other three regional zones – firstly DIBF Africa Zone in end of October 2008 during the 1st DIBF African Deaf Basketball Championships. The DIBF Asia-Pacific and DIBF Americas zones will follow within the next two years.
The formation of DIBF Zones will ensure a good pace, growth and lifting the standards of deaf basketball, deaf referees and coaches around the world. |
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Deutsche Gehorlosen-Sportverband (German Deaf Sports Association) are hosting the 2008 European Deaf Basketball Championships to be held in Bamberg, Germany. There are 14 countries made in the final entry, see group listing as follows:
Men:
BLR, ESP, GER, GRE, ISR, ITA, LAT, LTU, RUS, SLO, TUR, UKR
Women:
BLR, GER, GRE, LTU, POL, RUS, SWE, UKR
For more information, update and results - see the championships' web site: www.basketball-em2008.dg-sv.de
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Saturday 3 May:
Roma vs Olimpija Belgrade |
90:81 |
Silent Warriors vs Olimpija Belgrade |
73:33 |
Silent Warriors vs Padua |
107:29 |
Roma vs Padua |
82:58 |
Sunday 4 May:
Olimpija Belgrade vs Padua |
73:58 |
Silent Warriors vs Roma |
89:55 |
Final placing:
1st |
Silent Warriors - Zagreb, Croatia |
3-0 |
269 : 117 |
6 |
2nd |
Roma - Roma, Italy |
2-1 |
227 : 228 |
5 |
3rd |
Olimpija Beograd - Belgrade, Serbia |
1-2 |
187 : 221 |
4 |
4th |
Padua - Padua, Italy |
0-3 |
145 : 162 |
3 |
MVP: Jurišic Jurica - Silent Warriors (statistics)
The Best Player: Pignataro Dario - Roma (coaches' vote)
The President of the Silent Warriors Deaf basketball club, Goran Cehic and his fellow members and associates were proud to have hosted the deaf basketball club tournament for Europe. They felt that there are several clubs of players who may have missed the spot for the national deaf team and/or the team were not able to go to the European Deaf Basketball championships or the Deaflympic Games. This give the clubs and players the opportunity to continue playing and keep their basketball going by participating in this clubs tournament.
This European Deaf Basketball Club tournament was made possible with the support of:
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Logistic - support: |
- Croatia insurance
- Lagermax AED Croatia
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- Croatian Basketball Federation
- Basketball Federation of Zagreb
- Zagreb Tourist Board
- Croatian Verbotonal Association, Youth Club of Deaf
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Two men basketball clubs for the deaf - Hrvatska and Ljubljana have played a friendly game in Zagreb, Croatia on 19 April 2008. Ljubljana, as better known as 'Slovenia deaf basketball team' won the game by 17 points. The game was a valuable experience and learning curve for the new Croatian deaf basketball players. This game would have not been made possible without the hard work of Goran Cehic, President of the Silent Warriors Deaf basketball club and his local associates in Zagreb. Goran has been helping several Croatian deaf basketball players to form, to experience and to pursue their dream.
See official score sheet image for full results - click here to download. |
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On behalf of DIBF Central Board and members, with our sorrow to inform that Jerald M. Jordan, the 5th president of International Committee of Sports for the Deaf (CISS/ICSD/Deaflympics) between 1971 to 1995, has passed away peacefully on Wednesday 26th March, 2008 at home in Maryland , USA.
Jerald has been an extraordinary leader and devotee to CISS/ICSD; it will be a big loss to the Deaf sporting world whom he loves. Nevertheless he would desire for everyone in Deaf sports to continue and prosper.
We wish to express our deepest condolences to his wife Shirley, the family and the CISS/ICSD/Deaflympics.
Lyndon Borrow
President
Deaf International Basketball Federation |
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DIBF would like to announce the launching of www.wdbc2007.org, the official website for the 2nd DIBF World Deaf Basketball Championships that will take place in the Guangzhou, China, from 22nd June to 30th June 2007.
www.wdbc2007.org includes all-event related information on this international Deaf basketball championships for men and women and will feature daily results with photos itself, and during the finals on 30th June, a live television will be broadcasted via online by DeafNation.
High quality photos are added and updated on gallery daily from this world Deaf basketball championships. They are available for purchase online - please visit this website: www.deafbasketball.se |
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Arizona Desert Fire /Gallaudet’s basketball camp is a one-week experience designed for deaf and hard-of-hearing youth ages 10-18. The main focus of instruction is set with the development of playing skills and an overall improvement of the understanding of basketball in mind.
One of Camp Directors - Coaches - David Hamilton has been involved in basketball for more than 20 years. He is a five-time gold medalist with the men’s Deaflympics basketball team, and earned his first gold as a coach at the 2005 Games in Australia.
Click here to download the brochrue and form to enroll. |
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 The first, in all deaf sports history at all, deaf basketball referee clinic in Stockholm, Sweden gathered a sum of 11 deaf referees from Europe, Chinese Taipei, New Zealand and USA and was a real hit. The Deaf International Basketball Federation, DIBF, called for this clinic and arranged it together with Stockholm Basketball Association and FIBA. The participants all hold referee licences of different levels from their home countries. >> more> |
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Official results and awards report now available to download (PDF):
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The DIBF is planning to arrange the first International Deaf Youth Basketball Camp in Africa to be arranged in Nairobi, Kenya. All details are not clear yet but participation with five girls and five boys of age 14 - 18 year plus 2 leaders from each country participated in the clinic/seminar in February 2007 is expected. Altogether the DIBF count of about 50-60 participants. The Camp will be arranged after FIBA model "Basketball Without Borders" and in same style like in Vilnius, Lithuania June 2005. |
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Postponed until September/October 2007. |
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 DIBF Central Board sent our Secretary-General, Kjell Gunna to Warsaw, Poland to meet the members of Poland Deaf Sports Federation and Polish Deaf Basketball clubs to provide an introduction to DIBF and to give management consultancy and counsel.
Secretary-General has submitted the report of the meeting with photo gallery – click here to view. |
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 In co-operation with the Lithuania Deaf Sports Federation and with economical contribution from the FIBA, the Deaf International Basketball Federation arranged an International Deaf Youth Basketball Camp in Vilnius, Lithuania 21-26 June 2005. Participants were youngsters of age 14-18 years, boys and girls from Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Sweden and Ukraine. Conductors of the youth camp were... click here for more.
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DIBF has conducted a successful coaches clinic and development seminar in Philippines during 7-10 September 2006.
DIBF has conducted a successful coaches clinic and development seminar in Kenya during 26-29 January 2006.
