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Christoph Krenn (AUT), World Champion 2009

Rules of Racketlon

• You play your opponent in the order Tabletennis, Badminton, Squash and Tennis

• Four sets (one in each sport) first to 21 points (two points difference at 20:20)

• Running score, each rally counts• Gummiarm (one single serve in Tennis) decides in Tennis

if score is equal after four sets• Lots are drawn once before the match who serves in

Tabletennis and Squash. Opponent serves in Badminton and Tennis

• Each player serves twice in all sports before change of service

• Change ends when one player has 11 points in each set• All other rules of the individual sports apply

History/Organization of FIR

• 1988/89 Racketlon tournaments in Finland and Sweden

• 2001 First World Championships in Gothenburg• 2003 FIR World Tour started• IRF founded in 2005 Gothenburg, Sweden• FIR established in Austria• FIR head office in Vienna• FIR has 40 member countries• FIR Council with 9 members from 9 countries• FIR Executive-President Marcel Weigl• Annual General Meeting with all the member

countries• Around 2500 players on FIR World Rankings

40 FIR member countries (1.12.2014)27 EUROPEArmeniaAustriaBelgiumBulgariaCzech RepublicDenmarkEnglandEstoniaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryIrelandItalyLatviaLiechtensteinMacedoniaNetherlandsPolandRomaniaRussiaScotlandSlovakiaSloveniaSwedenSwitzerland

6 ASIAHong Kong, ChinaIndiaIraqIsraelMalaysiaTurkey

2 AFRICAGhanaSouth Africa

3 AMERICABrazilCanadaUSA

2 OCEANIAAustraliaNew Zealand

Potential new membersChinaEgyptIcelandLuxemburgMaltaPortugalUkraineZimbabwe

Aims for the future and 2015

• A recognized worldwide sport• SportAccord member• The game also attracts the world class stars of the

individual racket sports• World Tour 2015 with 16 tournaments in 14

countries• 1st European Championships, November 2015

• 1st European University Championships in Szombathely/Hungary from 16 – 18 June 2015

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Racketlon– One Game, Four Sets,

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Copyright: FIR December 2014