World Ninepin Bowling Association

World Ninepin Bowling Association
(WNBA)

Formation	1973
Type	Federation of national associations
Headquarters	Vienna, Austria
Membership	26 national associations
President	Ludwig Kocsis
Website	WNBA

The Fédération Internationale des Quilleurs (FIQ) is the World Bowling Federation. The FIQ is subdivided into two disciplines, the World Ninepin Bowling Association (WNBA) and the World Tenpin Bowling Association (WTBA). Both organizations were founded by the FIQ in 1973 in London. The WNBA counts approximately 250.000 members in 26 countries on three continents (Europe, America and Asia). The Austrian Ludwig Kocsis was elected in 2007 as the President of the WNBA. He is the only Austrian currently leading an international sports federation. He is from Lackenbach in Mittelburgenland.

History

Because of different types of skittle alleys, the WNBA has three sections:

• Breitensport (NBBK)
• Classic (NBC)
• Schere (NBS)

The Classic section is the most popular of all sections.

The section of the WNBA organises World and Continental Championships for all age groups as well as for World and Continental Single and Team Competitions. Furthermore International Matches and International Competition Events regularly take place.

Over the course of the centuries Ninepin Bowling has developed to an accepted high-performance sport which highly requires technical skills and body condition. Pure playful element still attracts recreational sports people on skittle alleys.

Approximately 50 years ago, the pin was set up by hand. Today microprocessors steer high modern automatic machine which set up pins as well as display screens for results. Instead of wood-pin and wood-balls, plastic ones are made today. Bohle and Schere lanes require wood or plastic running surface. Classic ones have exclusively plastic running surfaces implemented by using plastic-coating or building material in form of segment-plates.

Skittle alleys suited for the ninepin bowling sport have to be built according to WNBA technical standards. Moreover they must undergo scrutiny of responsible sections or national associations of ninepin bowling sport. Therewith is provided that athletic competitions worldwide take place under same unitary conditions. Before use of automatic machine which set up pins, running surfaces, pins and balls internationally, it is necessary that they pass test procedure. This procedure should provide the accreditation of WNBA that is for all national associations of ninepin bowling sport obliged.

Position within the FIQ

The WNBA holds the position of a disciplinary association and is thus an independent organ within the FIQ. For all responsible in the WNBA one of the most important goals is to disseminate ninepin bowling all over the world and to win further nations as WNBA’s members.

Objectives and tasks

It is the objective and the task of the WNBA to

• oversee all national bowling sport associations that practise the bowling sport ninepin or, in some other form, as a competitive sport in its widest sense.
• establish contact with national associations that practise bowling sport in its widest sense in order to win them as new regular members of the FIQ and WNBA or as non-regular members of the WNBA.
• promote the bowling sport ninepin throughout the world by fostering international championships, competitions between teams as well as individuals and international matches between member associations as well as other sport encounters on all levels.
• organize international competitions and oblige the sections of the WNBA to conduct international competitions.
• ensure common standards in the practice of the sport and the regulations concerning the referees within the WNBA by publishing sets of regulations of the WNBA and its sections and make a standardized game system possible in sports events of the WNBA and its sections as well as in member associations. The sport itself will be regulated by the sections.
• guarantee common standards in the technical specifications for devices used in bowling and for bowling alleys as required by the practice of this sport as well as in licensing regulations within the WNBA and in all member associations of the WNBA and its sections by publishing technical specifications. This is to ensure equal conditions whenever sport events are organized within the WNBA and its sections as well as within member associations.
• guarantee the observance of regulations and provisions of the WNBA and its sections as well as the observance of decisions of the FIQ by all sections of the WNBA.
• give advice and information to all members of the FIQ in matters concerning the ninepin bowling sport.

WNBA members

Country	Name	Classic	Bohle	Schere
Argentina	Fédéracion Argentina de Bolos			X
Austria	Österreichischer Sportkegel- und Bowlingverband	X
Belgium	Königlicher Belgischer Keglerverband			X
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Kuglački savez Bosne i Hercegovine	X
Brazil	Confederacao Brasileira de Bocha e Bolao			X
Croatia	Hrvatski kuglački savez	X
Catalonia	Fédéració Catalana de Bitlles i Bowling	X
Czech Republic	Ceska Kuzelkarska Asociace	X
Denmark	Dansk Kegle Forbund	X	X
Estonia	Estonian Bowling Association	X
France	Fédération Francaise de Bowling et de Sport de Quilles	X	X	X
Germany	Deutscher Kegler- und Bowlingbund	X	X	X
Hungary	Magyar Bowling es Teke Szövetseg	X
Italy	Italienischer Sportkeglerverband	X		X
Luxembourg	Fédération Luxembourgeoise des Joueurs de Quilles			X
Macedonia	Kuglarska federacija na Makedonija	X
Montenegro	Kuglaški savez Crne Gore	X
Netherlands	Nederlandse Kegel Federatie			X
Poland	Polski Zwiazek Kreglarski	X	X
Romania	Federatia Romana de Popice Bowling	X
Slovenia	Kegljaška zveza Slovenije	X
Serbia	Kuglaški savez Srbije	X
Switzerland	Schweizerischer Sportkegler-Verband	X
Slovakia	Slovenský Kolkársky Zväz	X
Sweden	Asfalkägelsektionen SV Bowlingförbundet	X
Taiwan	Ninepin Bowling Sports Association			X

Presidency

President
Ludwig Kocsis		Austria
Vice-Presidents
René Petry		France
Veronika David		Hungary
Section-Presidents
Breitensport	Leopold Sitz	Austria
Classic	Siegfried Schweikardt	Germany
Schere	Dieter Kuke	Germany

External links

• Internet site of the WNBA