Hungarian-developed Teqball to become Olympic sport soon?! – PHOTOS

Teqball, a Hungarian-developed sport that aspires to become an Olympic sport, already has 138 national associations.

Goals

As HellóMagyar reported, Gergely Murányi, the Head of Diplomatic Relations of the International Teqball Federation (Fédération Internationale de Teqball, FITEQ), and Dániel Gyurta, a member of the International Olympic Committee, spoke about this on the M1 news channel.

Gergely Murányi stressed that the organisation of the World Championships was an important milestone on the road to the Olympic programme, especially in view of the increasingly crowded field.

“At the first World Championships in Budapest, 20 countries took part, and when it came back again, 68 countries took part, which shows the exponential growth in the number of athletes. In any case, the important thing for us is to reach the Olympics,”

said Murányi.

Rising popularity

He said that the recognition by the Global Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF), without which no sport could be included in the Olympic programme, was an important milestone (at the organisation’s general assembly, the Olympic and non-Olympic international sports federations voted in favour of full membership of FITEQ). He stressed that “the Olympic programme will include those sports that have the potential to become mass sports”.

“Currently, there are nearly 10,000 certified players worldwide and 138 national federations. There is still room for improvement, but the fact that the number of national federations has already grown to over 100 is a testament to the strength of teqball,” said Murányi.

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