IBOT 2003 - The Players' Party at the Abdera (Pictures by Weberberg.de, Biberach's international party picture website)

The Players' Party is not open to the public, it's for players only!

(Weberberg.de is the official unofficial website of Biberach/Riß)

Soon to come: Pictures of IBOT 2004

>>> IBOT 2004

Great fun for everybody.....
Just friends....
Don't try this on the playing field.
Holding your opponent like this could be against the rules.
Keep moving, because....
...it keeps you fit for the next match.
OK, not everybody can be all smiles...
...as this birthday girl.
Hands are so important in handball...
,,,and so are solid shoulders.
And the last match, the finals of group male A, made Benjamin Hert (shirt: Embe 91) think (left). Well, not really. We can't look into his mind. So we don't know whether he really intended to score the first point as he later did. Anyway, the match,...
was exciting to the max, ....
...but not for everybody. ;-)
TG Biberach won by one point in the last second.. (Looks like that team can really be a good example and doesn't have to serve as a terrible warning!)
But the boys from the Handball Akademie Göppingen were nevertheless happy about their prizes. (More winners here > Click on "Platzierungen" at the bottom of the page that opens.)

Here's how our man at the playing field experienced the final match:

With a bang ended the 6th International Biberach Handball Tournament (IBOZ) organized by the TG Biberach in which 81 Teams competed for the prizes of the Kreissparkassen-Cup. The male A-youth proved to be a "bad host" and won the match against the guests from the Handball Academy Göppingen, watched (and cheered by a lot of people) by about 500 viewers with a score of 14:13.

Captain Jürgen Dietrich showed great cool when he (at a score of 13:13 !) grabbed the ball in a confused situation after a free throw was awarded to the Biberach team and - wham! - nailed the ball into the goal seconds before the final whistle.

The Biberach team were the obvious underdogs against the "Academics" from Frischauf Göppingen. The TG team had already lost two matches in the tournament and was lucky to find themselves among the final eight teams. But they showed great fighting spirit and won deservedly.

Having dominated the game in the first fifteeen minutes they fell back after a series of mistakes but made ground again until the final victorious goal. Celebrating was next on the agenda, but not before the team had joined the other one hundred IBOT helpers in clearing the gym from the tournament equipment. Great show, lads!
(Based on a text from the TG Handball web site, which has more to say about the tournament albeit in German. P.S. What the heck is "Kreuzeck" in English?))

Not only because the boys from Göppingen carried their defeat in the final like real sportsmen do they deserve this extra picture.
Second place in group male A, first place in group male B and also the best player, Marc Hafner, in that group. What a great performance!
If any of the participating teams would like to use any of these pictures for their own handball website: Just go ahead and do it.
But please name the source: www.weberberg.de. Thank you.

Here, now, lots pictures of Biberach, host town of IBOT, so you can show your friends and family where you've been.

Hoping to see you all again in 2004! Whether you come from Romania, Lithuania, Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands or Germany

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