At the University World Cup in Rotterdam (Netherlands) Russian team “Oryol-STU” has won the first place. The coach of this team is Nikolay Podrezov (the vice-president of Russian Korfball Federation and the chief coach of the national team). On the first day of the championship our team fell within Group “A”. Russian team won the match with Spain by score 12:4. In the match with Germany the score was 18:13 to Russia. The only match that our team lost was the one with Holland (10:11). In playoff Russia had a match with Belgium, in which our team defeated Belgian one by 15:12.
In the final match Russia had to play with the team of China and our korfball players gained the victory again (11:12). In the contest for the third place the Netherlands defeated Belgium by 15:9. In such a way, the development of korfball in the world becomes natural for any sport because the founders of korfball, the Dutch, appeared the third and Russia and China took the first and second prizes.
