Kin-Ball
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Kin-Ball is a team sport created in Quebec, Canada, in 1986 by Mario Demers, a physical education professor.
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Vinony's link graph records 262 inbound references to Kin-Ball, and connects out to Quebec, United States and Japan.
It is catalogued under topics including Ball games, Games and sports introduced in 1986 and Sports originating in Canada.
Vinony links it to 14 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Sport.name
- Kin-Ball
- Sport.image
- 20e journée du championnat de france 2013-2014 de Kin-Ball 081.jpg
- Sport.caption
- The black team is about to strike the ball.
- Sport.union
- International Kin-Ball Federation
- Sport.first
- in Québec
- Sport.country/region
- Worldwide
- Sport.mgender
- No, separate
- Sport.category
- Gym/court sport
- Sport.venue
- Gymnasium or court
- Sport.olympic
- No
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- team sport
- Country of origin
- Canada
- Image
- 20e journée du championnat de france 2013-2014 de Kin-Ball 009.jpg
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- Commons category
- Kin-Ball
- different from
- Kimball
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Game
- International competitions
- Men
- Women
- References
- External links
Kin-Ball is a team sport created in Quebec, Canada, in 1986 by Mario Demers, a physical education professor.
The main distinctive characteristics are the large size of the ball (1.2m (48 inches) in diameter) and that the matches are played by three teams at the same time. The International Kin-Ball Federation counts 3.8 million participants, primarily from Canada, the U.S., Japan, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Spain, Germany, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Malaysia, China and Hong Kong. The newest country is the UK with Kin-Ball UK having formed in 2018.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kin-Ball” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.