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[vc_row content_placement=”middle” css=”.vc_custom_1708015323525{margin-bottom: 34px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]It’s hard to trace the beginnings of broomball, as the sport has no precise, documented history. However, recent research points to a cousin of broomball, knattleikr, played in Iceland in the 18th century.<\/p>\n

Knattleikr, practiced by the Vikings, was not a sport at all, but a war between villages to impose superiority over territory. In those days, a knattleikr game lasted several days and occasionally resulted in deaths. Writer Hors Grimkellson described a game between the villages of Strand and Botn as follows: “Before dusk, six players from Strand lay on the ground, while none from Botn had suffered such atrocities”.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”2231″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][stm_spacing lg_spacing=”10″ md_spacing=”10″ sm_spacing=”0″ xs_spacing=”0″][stm_spacing lg_spacing=”10″ md_spacing=”10″ sm_spacing=”0″ xs_spacing=”0″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”2232″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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In France, broomball has remained a recreational sport for many years. In many parts of France, it was played at student parties, group cohesion meetings and on the bangs of ice hockey clubs.<\/p>\n

In modern history, the first descriptions of broomball games date back to the 1900s in North America, mainly in the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Ontario. They’re the result of experimenting with ice hockey games simply equipped with shoes.<\/p>\n

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From the 1960s onwards, broomball crossed the border into the United States, where it became very popular in the province of Minnesota. In the following decades, and particularly in the 80s, broomball became popular on an international scale, with games organized in Australia, Japan, Sweden, Italy, Germany and Switzerland.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Broomball in France is still in its infancy. It is the result of a meeting in August 2015 between Emmanuel Elineau (now President of the French Broomball Association) and Marc Desparois, President of the International Broomball Federation (IFBA). From this meeting, on the terrace of a caf\u00e9 on rue Sainte Catherine in Montreal, was born the “crazy” idea of creating the French Broomball Association.<\/p>\n

Then, from September 2015, everything accelerated. The first French broomball team is built around a core of Anjou ice hockey players. From October onwards, this team takes part in the European Broomball Championships in Lausanne, Switzerland. A unique experience! Although last in the competition, the results were unexpected and in keeping with this crazy project. The president of the international federation himself described them as exceptional.<\/p>\n

Since then, the French team has taken part in 3 world championships (Regina – Canada – 2016; Minneapolis – US – 2018; Kingston – Canada – 2022), 4 European championships (Lausanne – Switzerland – 2015; Egna – Italy – 2017; Angers – France – 2019; Lausanne – Switzerland – 2023).[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”2214″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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1st French team at the European Championship – Lausanne (2015)<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2015 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP – LAUSANNE (SWITZERLAND)<\/span><\/h3>\n

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