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This is the official homepage for the European Minigolfsport Federation (EMF).

On this page you will find all information about EMF and also about the various tournaments such as the European Championships, the Nations Cup and the European Cup.

If there is any information you are missing, please do not hesitate to contact us. We will do our best to answer your questions.

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2008/07/09 Entries for the european championships

The entries for the european championships can be seen here, for the general classes, as well as for the seniors.

2008/05/20 Updates

On the documents page, you may find info from the last board meeting, as well as the invitation for the delegates conference and an updated address list for the board and the committes.

Martin Lundell, webmaster EMF

2008/03/31 Election information from the board

The persons elected to the board of EMF has given the following statement before the elections in August 2008.

Hans Bergström, Sweden, President, Can accept to run for another 2 year period.
Victor Condeco, Portugal, General Secretary, Can accept to run for another 2 year period.
Reinhard Neitzke, Germany, Sport Director, Can accept to run for another 2 year period.
Michael Soelling, Denmark, Cashier, Can accept to run for another 2 year period, but don't mind to resign either.
Markus Janssen, Germany, Media Manager, Will resign.

Hans Bergström, EMF-President

2008/02/27 Invitations

On the documents page and in the event calendar, the invitations for the NC, SNC, EC, SEC and E-Cup are available.

Martin Lundell, Webmaster EMF

2008/02/06 Contract signed for SNC and SEM in Predazzo, Italy

Today we can announce that the contract for SNC and SEM 2008 in Predazzo, Italy have been signed. The tournaments will be played on a newly build Ethernit course together with the existing Concrete course. More information about accommodations will be found shortly on the organization website www.minigolf-predazzo.com

Hans Bergström, EMF-President

2008/01/13 Sponsors

We welcome SV Golf and Infinite Sports as new gold sponsors of EMF.

Roger Cadosch, EMF

2008/01/13 Board meeting

Minutes from the last board meeting is now available at the documents page.

Victor Condeco, EMF

2007/10/30 Uppsala won the European Cup

The Swedish champions, Uppsala BGK, won the titles as the European Cup was finished. Read all about the competition and watch pictures on the special EC-homepage.

Martin Lundell, webmaster EMF

2007/10/24 European Cup starts on thursday

On thursday, october 25th, this years European Cup will start. The tournament will be played on a indoor felt course in Eskilstuna, Sweden and you can follow the results live on the EC-homepage, ec07.se.

Martin Lundell, webmaster EMF

2007/09/13 Minutes from board meetings

Minutes from the last 2 board meetings, during the World Championships, can now be found on the documents page.

Victor Condeco, EMF

2007/09/06 EC 2008 website

The organizers of the 2008 European Championships in Tampere, Finland, have now launched the official website. The address is www.minigolf2008.com.

Martin Lundell, webmaster EMF

2007/08/23 World Championships 2011 in Sweden

The 2011 WC will be played in Stockolm, as a combination of eternit and concrete, There was a tight voting that decided, 23-22 in Stockholms favour against Wien.

Hans Bergström, President EMF

2007/08/11 Seniors EC finished today

Germany (men) and Austria (women) won the team titles on friday, while Annalisa Aghito from Italy today won the womens individual title and Alfred Curda from Austria won the mens title.

Results on the SEC-site.

Martin Lundell, webmaster EMF

2007/08/11 YEC 2007 individual champions

The individual cup competition of YEC2007 is now finished.

The results can be found on the JEM cupfinal result site.

We got a quite surprising girl champion in Latvija's Madara Kirsa beating the Czech girl Jana Nakládalová in the final.

Germany's Max Hermann after beating Sweden's Martin Sjöberg in the final. Max played very good on the felt course in the final.

Per Olsson, press and media responsible for YEC 2007

The team medalists

2007/08/10 YEC, team competition ended

The team competition of YEC2007 is now finished. Here are the results:

Youth boys:
1 Sweden 1320
2 Germany 1351
3 Czech Rep 1371
4 Austria 1426
5 Finland 1435
6 Switzerland 1488
7 Denmark 1639

Youth girls:
1 Czech Rep 738 SD
2 Sweden 738
3 Germany 759
4 Switzerland 764
5 Austria 812

Complete results could be found on the JEM result site.

The Swedish boys wonn the goldmedals today eventhough they lost 9 strokes to Germany on the first ethernit round today. However they made a good felt round toped by Tim Hansson who made an outstanding 22 round on the felt course, equall to the felt course world record! Germany was 14 strokes better than the Czech Republic today so the wonn the silvermedals.

The German girls started with a very poor felt round that made it impossible for them to catch up with the Swedish and Czech girls. The Swedish team had some problems on the felt round as well and they decided to substitute Louise Hagesjö for Malin Jacobsson after 6 lanes. Malin played good but she ended the round with 7 strokes on lane 18. Even the Czech struggled on their felt round and as a consequense of that and Frida Elmdahl's 26 round the Swedish girls were in the lead by 8 strokes before the last ethernit round. But the Swedish girls made a poor ethernit round so when the last players of the teams came to lane 18 the Swedish lead was down to 1 stroke. Simona Handlová started to play and she missed twice! Frida Elmdahl then had the chance to make Sweden winn but she missed 3 strokes and we had a sudden death situation!

In the sudden death started on the pyramid lane with Jana Nakládalová striking an ace. Malin Jacobsson responded with an ace. Silvie Svehlíková put pressure on Sweden when she stroke an ace and then Emma Löf missed so it was up to Simona Handlová to strike an ace to winn the gold medals for the Czech Republic and she did it! Great play from the Czech girls who came to the championship without substitute player and winn!

Per Olsson, press and media responsible for YEC 2007

2007/08/09 YEC, second day of competition

The second day of the YEC 2007 competition is now completed. Here are the standings in the team competition after 6 of 8 rounds:

Youth boys:
1 Sweden 994
2 Germany 1025
3 Czech Rep 1029
4 Austria 1075
5 Finland 1082
6 Switzerland 1138
7 Denmark 1250

Youth girls:
1 Sweden 548
1 Czech Rep 548
3 Germany 556
4 Switzerland 578
5 Austria 604

Complete results could be found on the JEM result site.

The Swedish boys made an impressive felt round today, 177 strokes! Martin Sjöberg's score 25 strokes is equall with the felt course record. With 31 strokes lead the Swedish team has a good position to winn the gold medals. It looks like Germany and the Czech Republic will fight for the silver medals.

The girls team competition is a really tight match between Sweden, the Czech Republic and Germany. Also in the girls team competition Sweden gains strokes on the felt course. But yesterday the Czech Republic made a very good felt round and if they can play like that tomorrow I think they will winn. The German girls still have the chance to winn but they need to play at their best both rounds tomorrow. It will be very exiting to follow the girls team competition to the end tomorrow!

Per Olsson, press and media responsible for YEC 2007

2007/08/07 European Seniors Championships

Please note that also the SEC will start on wednesday, follow the results via the offical SEC homepage.

Martin Lundell, webmaster EMF

2007/08/07 European Youth Championship starts on wednesday, august 8th

Follow the results from YEC here. This site will be updated with live results.

There will also be a live Web-TV broadcast from the championships, which you
can watch via this link. The broadcast will start at 08:00 each competition day. Since we are limited
to only one camera we can not cover all players. During the final cup on
Saturday, we will try to cover some of the matches entirly and of course the
entire final matches.

You'll find the official homepage for the championships here.

Per Olsson, press and media responsible for YEC 2007

2007/07/11 Follow the Swedish Championships live

Today the Swedish Championships 2007 started. This year it's a combi of 6+6 felt and ethernite. The competition that is played in the northern part of Sweden in Umeĺ is also a important competition for those who wants to be part of the Swedish Team in Canegrate in August. Follow the results live here.
Live reults

Hans Bergström

2007/07/02 Board meeting

Minutes from the last board meeting can be found on the documents page.

Victor Condeco

2007/07/02 Info concerning YEC 2007

On request of the organizers and after discussion and unanimous acceptance of teams leaders at YNC 2007 WMF has decided to change the time of the opening ceremony of the YEC 2007.

The opening ceremony will be held 12.30 pm on Monday 6th August in the city centre of Södertälje. With this change the organizers believe to have larger audience than at usual time in the evening.

The change causes a complete restructuring of Monday's practice schedule. Here you can find Monday's new schedule and the complete invitation in its updated version will be found on the documents page.

Reinhard Neitzke, Sport Director EMF

2007/05/13 Call for EMF organisers for 2008

Dear Members

This is a urgent call for organisers of the European Championships in Senior and General class for 2008. As of today 2007-05-12 there is no organisers appointed and no one even have applied for. The seniors European Championship for 2008 was previously appointed to the Netherlands and Geldrop but they have recently draw back their application due to lack of manpower for organising.

Please investigate within your countries if any club is interested in organising an European Event for 2008. We need answers by the latest of August 20 this year, though rather sooner otherwise we will have to cancel the seniors and general class competitions next year.

If you have any questions about practicalities in organising these events contact our Sports-Director Reinhard Neitzke on his email sport-director@europeanminigolfsport.com.

Hans Bergström, President EMF

2007/04/19 Interview with "Wally"

An interview with Walter Erlbruch is placed on "Spiegel online". Insider already found out that the video actually shows Harald Erlbruch....

Markus Janssen, EMF

2007/04/18 Participation at Nations Cups 2007 of all categories

YNC Södertälje / Sweden
Participating countries (7): Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden
Number of teams: 8
Number of players: 36

NC Canegrate / Italy
Participating countries (10): Austria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Slovenia, Switzerland, Slovakia, Sweden
Number of teams: 16
Number of players: 66

SNC Vienna / Austria
Participating countries (7): Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland
Number of teams: 10
Number of players: 43

Following active members are not obliged to start in any nations cup, because they didn't fulfill their duties towards WMF:
Cyprus, Estonia, Latvia, Moldova, Norway, Romania, Serbia&Montenegro, Singapore, Ukraine and Poland.

Dr. Gerhard Zimmermann, WMF

2007/04/18 Minigolf on the AGFIS homepage

The international championships of WMF are now also published in the sport calender of AGFIS. Please take a look at http://www.agfisonline.com , chapter "calendar"

Dr. Gerhard Zimmermann, WMF

2007/04/13 YEC 2007 homepage

The official homepage of YEC 2007 Södertälje is now online at http://www.yec2007.se.

Please spread this link to all interested parties and add it to your national and private homepages, so that we can guarantee largest possible attention for this tournament.

If you miss something on the page, please inform me.

Pasi Aho, WMF

2007/03/28 Player transfers

Alex Lang from Italy was part of the Italian National Team at the
European Championships in Geldrop last year. The 31 year old father of
a child, living in Meran, plays minigolf since he was 9 years old.

Csaba Palinkas from Hungary is currently the number 1 player in his country.
The 20 year old student of architecture is living in Budapest. 2005 he became 2nd in the Youth European Championships.

The goal for "WAT21" this year is, to become Austrian Champions for the
5th time in a row. Both new players will surely be helpful to reach that goal.

Markus Janssen, EMF / Willy Bauer, WAT 21

2007/03/28 New chairman in Sweden

At the Swedish Minigolf Federation annual meeting the 17th of March there was a change in leadership. The president since 4 years (also the president of EMF), mr Hans Bergström was resigning due to lack of time and was replaced by Stig Pettersson, Stora Tuna BGK. Stig Pettersson is well known in amongst the senior players in Europe since he has been the coach of the Swedish seniors team since many years. New in the Board was also Thomas Damberg, Uppsala BGK, Hans Olofsson, Kungälv BGK and Magnus Lundin, Sundbybergs BGK.

Hans Bergström, EMF

2007/03/28 Suspending of active members for tournaments

The following active members did not submit the members declaration: Cyprus, Estonia, Latvia, Moldova, Norway, Romania, Serbia&Montenegro, Singapore, Ukraine and Poland. In case of non-submission of statistics by March 31, 2007 players from the countries listed are not allowed to participate in any nations cup. In case the declaration is not handed in by May 31, 2007 players from the countries listed are not allowed to participate in any event in 2007.

Roger Cadosh, WMF

2007/03/14 News from Germany

On the 4th March 2007 the german federation had his yearly membership council. Three new board members have been elected. Reinhard Neitzke as a vice president, as we have already mentioned here. In addition the sports director is now Günter Schwarz. He is the sucessor of Peter Uhl.

The new media manager in the german
federation is now Walter Teupe, normally well known from the "AUWI Forum", nowadays the biggest minigolf forum in the world. For further details about the
german board, see the homepage (www.minigolfsport.de).

Markus Janssen, EMF

2007/03/11 Info from WMF

The Executive Committee of WMF has decided to terminate the agreements with selected ball producers for the approval of their minigolf balls. The termination will be effective as per December 31, 2008. The Board is currently negotiating new contracts for the prolongation of the approval. Furthermore, the following procedure for the approval of balls has been established:

balls released to the market prior to October 1, 2006 are allowed without any restriction (apart from the technical attributes as listed in the handbook WMF);
balls released to the market on or after October 1, 2006 must be approved and listed in an official list of WMF (published on website and attached to this e-mail)
only balls are approved which bear an official logo or brand of a contracting party to WMF
the technical attributes of the balls are not checked.

This procedure has been approved by the Technical Commission WMF.
The updated list of approved balls is always available at the WMF homepage.

Roger Cadosh, WMF

2007/03/11 New German vice president

Reinhard Neitzke, EMF Sport director is been elected as vice president top
sport within the german federation. His additional new job in DMV board will not
influence his activities within the european federation, Neitzke said.

Markus Janssen, EMF

2007/03/11 Invitation for the SEM 2007

The invitation for the Seniors European Championship in Vienna, Austria, is available at the documents page.

Reinhard Neitzke, EMF

Jasper to play for Brechten

2007/03/05 International transfer / Alex Jasper

During the dutch open, held in Veldhoven / Nederlands, the german club MGC Brechten presented a new player for the upcoming season.

On the picture you see Alexander Junkermann (Teamcaptain of MGC Brechten) and Alex Jasper (former MGC Leuurwaarden) by the Shirt ceremony.

"We are happy to get Alex Jasper playing for us next season. He is one of the best dutch players.", Teamcaptain Aleander Junkerman said.

Details of the tournement, you´ll find in this page.

Markus Janssen, EMF