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Korfball - men and women in the same team
This cool sport was founded in 1903 in Holland by Amsterdam teacher Nico Broekhuijsen. It is the only team sport that up to its highest level is played with mixed teams: a team consists of 4 men and 4 women! In defense, men guard men and women guard women.
High speed, super agility and enormous endurance is needed to shoot the ball with two hands (!) through a cylindrical shaped basket, de korf (the Dutch word for basket), which is approximately 3,5 m (12 feet) up in the air and attached to a single freestanding wooden post, located in the middle of the attack zone. Basketball is a synch for korfball players, because the basket is at only 3,05 m (10 feet).
In korfball one may exclusively shoot at the korf when undefended, so you have got to move like heck to get open. Korfball is gaining popularity and is played in countries such as Germany, Belgium, England, Malaysia, Canada, Australia and South Africa.
Korfball - a furiously fast game!
Korfball is the only sport played with mixed teams, consisting of 4
men and 4 women.
In the 1999 World Championships, the Netherlands (orange shirts) beat
the Belgians to take the cup for a record 5th consecutive time.
Picture presented with kind permission by Rene Oosterom - De
Nederlandse Korfbalsite
International Korfball
Federation 
Basketball was played in Mayan times
