Goalball World Championships
The IBSA Goalball World Championships is an international goalball tournament held every four years, since 1978, between Paralympic Games goalball tournaments. It is organised by the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) Goalball Subcommittee.
Finalists of the women's division of the 2018 IBSA Goalball World Championships in Malmö, Sweden. Shows gold medal Russia (mid), silver medal Turkey (right), and start of bronze medal Brazil (left).
Goalball is a team sport designed specifically for athletes with a vision impairment. Participants compete in teams of three, and try to throw a ball that has bells embedded inside of it into the opponents' goal. The ball is thrown by hand and never kicked. Using ear-hand coordination, originating as a rehabilitation exercise, the sport has no able-bodied equivalent. Able-bodied athletes are also blindfolded when playing this sport.
The Swedish goalball team at the 2004 Athens Paralympic games
A game of goalball in progress (2012).
Goalball court at the Future Arena in Rio de Janeiro (2016).
Goalballer Sarah Kennedy (Qld) makes a save for Australia at the Atlanta 1996 Paralympic Games.