Lady and Men Intercup

The Tournament

In the year 2000 the international goalballtournament “Malmö Lady Intercup” started by the previous goalballplayer from Malmö and the coach for Sweden Henrik Bergkvist. Henrik meant that there were too few good competitions for woman’s national teams in the world and he thought that the goalballclub in Malmö would take initiatives to such a competition. His thought was that the tournament should be a stem competition to the Paralympics in Sydney.



The first year of the tournament became a large success and all of participation countries, as the first year was seven, was very grateful about the tournament. The organizers idea was to do an occasion of the competition and to take the arrangement to a new level, with sounds- and light shows and other things as not where so common in competitions at that time. The year 2016 sixteen different nations from all over the world participated and that is the record so far. Seven different nations have won the competition over the years. Finland won the first edition and has afterwards been followed of Denmark, Sweden, USA, Canada, Russia, Japan and Turkiye. USA is the champions all time with their nine victories.



Champions

2000

Finland

2001

Denmark

2002

Sweden

2003

USA

2004

USA

2005

USA

2006

Canada

2007

USA

2008

USA

2009

USA

2010

Canada

2011

Russia

2012

Finland

2013

USA

2014

USA

2015

USA

2016

Russia

2017

Russia

2018

Russia

2019

Russia

2020

-

2021

-

2022

Japan

2023

Turkiye

2024

Japan




Medal-leauge

 

Years

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Total

USA

21

9

2

4

15

Canada

12

2

4

2

8

Russia

11

4

3

0

7

Finland

18

2

3

2

7

Sweden

19

1

2

3

6

Turkiye

8

2

2

1

5

Japan

9

2

1

2

5

Brazil

7

0

2

3

5

Israel

10

0

2

2

4

Denmark

19

1

0

2

3

China

2

0

1

1

2

Netherlands

12

0

1

0

1

Germany

11

0

0

1

1

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