04.05.2008

Croatia Challenge Cup 2008

With Croatia Challenge Cup 2008 tournament ends the first SLO-CRO INTERLEAGUE. The overall winner is Bernard Rjavec, the second is Uros Matanovic, and the third place goes to Kristijan Curkovic who again won the Croatian Season 2007/08

19.04.2008

Croatia Challenge Cup 2008

The last table hockey tournament of this season will be held on May 04th 2008, in the near surroundings of Zagreb, Croatia. Please, register as soon as possible on e-mail tablehockey@email.htnet.hr; more information on web pages Croatia Challenge Cup 2008.

The tournament will be interesting because the places in BEST in CROATIA will be finally known; who will end as second between Marko Curkovic and Vjekoslav Kufrin, who is slightly better positioned before the last tournament. Kristijan Curkovic is the almost certian winner this year also.

The torunament will be also counted for the SLO-CRO Intercup where the winner is still not known. The fight will be between Bernard Rjavec and Uros Matanovic. The interesting thing is who will be among the first three places, and good chances for that have four players. Besides the two mentioned, there are also Kristijan Curkovic and Nejc Skrlep. The tournament is the second last tournament in Slovenian cup, so a lot of interesting matches are expected.

26.01.2008

Sevnica 2008

The third in a row Slo-Cro Intercup tournament was won by a young Slovenian player Uros Matanovic, while Bernard Rjavec took the second place and thus established the leading position in the series.

The third Vjekoslav Kufrin was the best of five Croatian players who participated on the tournament greatly organized by the Društvo Salezijanski mladinski Center Sevnica sponsored by "Kolesarski center Sevnica", the importers of Stiga hockey in Slovenia.

The best Croat, Kristijan Curkovic, didn't manage to get into the fight for a medal after the great game in the league; he lost to the young Anze Bozic and with this lost his chance for the overall victory, but he could still be the second or the third.

We are waiting for the final tournament on May 4, 2008 in Zagreb with graet anticipation.

16.12.2007

Podsused Challenger 13 - a middle season explosion

(Vjekoslav)

An explosion in the middle of season called Vjekoslav hit the Curkovic brothers.
With great play Vjekoslav beat Kristijan in semi-finals, and confirmed his victory by beating Marko in the finals.
Everything got complicated in the Croatian season 2007/2008, so we are anticipating how the season will continue.Results(xls)

28.10.2007

Zagreb Open 2007

(Kristijan : Jaka)

A long tabelhockey weekend that was held in Slovenia and Croatia has ended. Among 24 players in Zagreb, the winner was Papp Magor, and in Slovenia the day before Bernard Rjavec took the first place. The best Croat was Kristijan Curkovic with the 3rd place in Kranj, and 4th in Zagreb. These two tournaments have opened the Sportmaster 07/08 season and SLO-CRO Intercup. Bjarne Axelsen, the last year winner, currently leads in the Sportmaster Series. In Croatia there are no changes on the top, but things have become complicated around the 2nd place (The best in Croatia).

08.10.2007

Zagreb Open 2007

A first greater tournament in season 2007/08. in Croatia will be held on 28th October 2007 at 10.00 A day before, on Saturday, Slovenia Open 2007 is being held, so these two tournaments will have a common winner. (The best one according to a formula 1+3 is better than 2+2).

The season in Croatia has started, and Kristijan Ćurković is in the leading position; he is also one of the favourites on the above mentioned tournaments, which he has also proved with the first place on this year first greater tournament in Slovenia for their Menges Open 2007

01.07.2007

The end of the first tablehockey season in Croatia

(Nejc Skrlep : Jari Sahlgren)

The first tablehockey season in Croatia ended with the Summer Cup 2007, and it was also the end of the first season of European Sportmaster Challenge Tour. The representatives of Slovenia, Hungary, Denmark, Finland and Croatia met in Podsused, Zagreb in the Elementary School Ban Josip Jelacic. The winner was Jari Sahlgren from Finland.

Kristijan Curkovic is the winner of the Croatian season, who is also the best Croatian player on the Summer Cup (4th place). The overall winner of the Sportmaster Tour is Bjarne Axelsen, Denmark; he took the third place on the Summer Cup. Silver medal went to Nejc Skrlep from Slovenia. The overall second place on the Sportmaster Tour goes to Bernard Rjavec from Slovenia, and the third to Rolf Locher from Switzerland.

17.06.2007

Summer Cup 2007

The world table hockey championship has finished. The winner is Roni Nuttunen from Finland who took the overall first place on the ITHF ranking list, but the season has not finished yet, the last Sportmaster series tournament is going to take place in Zagreb on 1st July 2007; it is also the first major, but at the same time the last in the first season, Croatian tournament.

All information and registration on http://www.stolnihokej.com/SummerCup/

19.05.2007

Kranj Open 2007

The first appearance of SHK Kit on a club tournament ended with the good second place. On the first was the host team Kranj 1, and on the third ended the favourized Menges.
The last was the Kranj team 2.
In the individual competition the favourite ones were a disappointment, and the one who surprised us all was Vjekoslav who ended on the excellent fifth place.

24.03.2007

One of the most original trophies in Croatian hands

Bembel Cup 2007 is the first tournament outside the borders of Croatia which was taken by a Croat, Kristijan Curkovic.On a tournament in Rodgau, Germany, there were thirteen nations and 45 players. Kristijan won in the finals against the best Danish - Bjarne Axelsen. ( Bembel Cup 2007 winner)

25.02.2007

Good results

(Winter cup in Menges) On the last three international tournaments good results for Croats. On Winter Cup in Slovenia held on 10 February 2007, M. Curkovic took the 7th place.

(Croats are warming up in Budapest) K. Curkovic was a sensation in Budapest on a tournament in February, 25th, but, unfortunately, he lost a game by sudden death against one of the best Slovenian players J.Skrlep, and he couldn't make it among the best 16, but the 23. place is a fairly good result. With quite a good placement in Bratislava a day before for both players, it makes a significant step ahead on the world ranking list.

(Speed is virtue in table hockey)

A third player V. Kufrin didn't make any significant results, but he managed to change his ranking position well ahead so he also did well in both tournaments.

The eighth Podsused Challenger took place, on which Kristijan took the leadership from Marko in Croatia by winning the first place.

13.01.2007

Best in Croatia

A pointing system has been arranged in which all the tournaments played in Croatia will have their number of points. Four tournaments have been played till now, and the final one will be the Summer Cup.(More)t)

(Tournament in a Climbers' Lodge "Japetić")

The tournament in a Climbers' Lodge "Japetić" was also held. There were no greater surprises, and the winner was Kristijan ahead of Marko and Vjekoslav; Goran was the fourth who managed to win over the veteran rival Zoran. The season in Croatia is on its peak, and the situation has not cleared yet. The best position hold Kristijan and Bernard, although both Marko and Vjekoslav lead at the moment. To be continued...

16.12.2006

Velebit Challenger

It was held on 16th December 2006 in a Climber's Lodge on VelebitIn Baske Ostarije. The winner was Zoran Miric and with this victory he positioned himself among the five best Croatian players!SHK KIt Zagreb grew stronger for seven new players! Table 1.Zoran Miric 2.Goran Seremet 3.Amir Karamehmedovic 4.Damir Curic 5.Zeljko Solomun 6.Mladen Smiljanic 7.Hrvoje Klaric 8.Neven Hitrec Results(xls)

Points for Croatia on St. Nicola's tournament!

On 09th December 2006 another Slovenia championship tournament in table hockey was held.There were thirty players from Slovenia and Croatia and the winner was Jaka Skrlep. The Second place was taken by Bernard Rjavec, while Nejc Škrlep, who beat a club colleague Bernard Skrlep, was the third.
The most interesting event was the semifinals where B. Rjavec won over B. Škrlep with sudden death 3:2 and thus went to the finals. The results are on:NHZS

Croatia, with M.Curkovic on the 7th and V.Kufrin on the 11th position, will gain enough points to get among the group of countries with more than 1000 points on the world ranking list.Table hockey ranking - national teams

The third member of SHK Kit zoran Miric was placed on the 15th position, and we soon expect him among the first five Croatian players. He will probably manage to do that the next weekend on Velebit where he organizes "Velebit Challenger" tournament.

For the first time there was a player from Split on the tournament - Veselko Jovic. He, actually, played table hockey for the first time on the tournament, and during the game he was constantly looking for the right (rod). As was expected, he finished last, but congratulations on the courage - we hope to find in him a new competitive force in Croatia.

11.11.2006

The first Slovenia Open

The first Slovenia Open in table hockey was held on 11th November 2006 in Kranj. The Hungarian Papp Magor won over the Slovenian Jaka Skrlep, and the Hungarian B.Nagy won the third place.
The best Croat was Marko Curkovic who ended up on, for him, the poor 14th place. But the other two Croatian players, V. Kufrin and Zoran Miric, did very well - the 19th and 31st place.
The tournament marked the beginning of the international tour - the Sportmaster tour - that consists of five tournaments held in Slovenia, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark and Croatia.
Our, Croatian, tournament will be held on 30th June 2007 and it will be the closing tournament of the season and the first bigger table hockey tournament in Croatia.(Sportmaster tour)

21.10.2006

Glavica 2006. without surprises

(Vjekoslav : Sasa)

The first tournament in the season 2006/07 has finished without surprises with the victory of a player from Kranj, Slovenia - Bernard Rjavec. The second was his club colleague Andrej Oblak who in a dramatic semi finals won against Marko Curkovic 3:2 in the last seconds of the game. (Results)

08.10.2006

The beginning of table hockey season in Croatia

The season will begin with the first tournament which will take place in Climbers' lodging «Glavica» on 21st October 2006 at 11.00 a.m.This is the first announced open tournament in Croatia so everyone who knows how to play or would just try playing it, is invited to join us.The medals await for the three best players!

To register for the tournament please send an e-mail to : tablehockey@email.htnet.hr

fair-play, please :-)

27.08.2006

Blast from the past

(Old Stiga from 1980's)

Until now, Croatia has not had any significant results in table hockey.
But, to this date Croatian players have been to three tournaments out of the Croatian
borders: Budapest, Hungary; European Championship in Skalica, Slovakia; and Menges, Slovenia.
You can find more details on Marko's blog (in Croatian).
In Croatia, two international tournaments were organized.
The first one was in Opatija in 2005, organized by Slovenian and Danish table hockey players,
but, unfortunately, without Croatian participants; and the second one was Podsused Challenger No4 that took place in Zagreb in July 2006, with Croatian and Danish participants. (Results)

The first official tournament with Croatian players organized in Croatia was Podsused Challenger
NO1, although in the early 1980's there must have been organized a smaller tournament in
Croatia, played on Stiga Play-off table hockey, but, unfortunately, we do not have the exact
results.

Besides the Croatian players, there was, a few years earlier, another Croatian player who played
in Sweden where he probably lives - Patrick Provci.

25.08.2006

Croatian table hockey sites are now active on the Web: www.stolnihokej.com

Finally, the Croatian table hockey has its own web pages!

We hope that all visitors would find every information they want to know about table hockey in Croatia and in the world here on our site.

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