Floorball

Floorball

Floorball is a type of floor hockey with five players and a goalkeeper in each team. Men and women play indoors with sticks and a plastic ball with holes. Matches are played in three twenty-minute periods. Floorball was included in the World Games for the first time in 2017 in Wrocław, Poland. Sweden were the first World Games gold medal winners.

The game was invented in Sweden in the late 1960s. The basic rules were established in 1979 when the first floorball club in the world, Sala IBK, from Sala, was founded in Sweden. Official rules for matches were first written down in 1981.

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Age categories

Men: 35+, 45+, 50+
Women: 35+

The age category you will compete in for Floorball will be determined as at 31 December of the year of the event. For example, if you are 34 during Games time but have turned 35 by 31 December, you would compete in the 35-44 age category. Competitors can compete in one age category per event.

Events and disciplines

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Athlete Comments & Reviews

“Sport gives you that united feeling”

“At some point sport doesn’t become team, it actually becomes family. It really is a united kind of feeling to come together to sweat, train and work hard for a goal and then be able to do that goal together creates that beautiful kind of team spirit and camaraderie that you can’t share in the office space or in daily life and that’s the beauty of what sport does.”

“Seeing the older athletes, I’m like, that’s what I want to do!”

“The inspiration watching those in their 70s/80s, still out there running, I’m like, that’s what I want to do. There’s just no giving up.”

“It’s the magic of the crowd, being with so many great people”

“I think just being part of the event has been the highlight of it all, winning would have been nice but didn’t really matter in the end. It’s just being there with everybody and meeting new people.”

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