Unicycle Hockey Final Today

The final game of the unicycle hockey tournament at Unicon XV will take place on Tuesday 5 January at 1pm at TSB Arena, Wellington.

The final teams are: Swiss Team and Deserteure, representing Switzerland and Germany respectively.

Swiss Team earned their place in the final by coming top of their group in the round-robin stage (Group Stage), and then beating Team Great Britain in their quarter-final, and contenders RSD United, from Germany, in the semi-final.

Deserteure also topped their group, and preceded to the final via comfortable quarter- and semi-final wins over surprise Group Stage qualifiers Frederiksberg Unicykel Klub of Denmark and Blau Weiss Bavaria of Germany.

Swiss Team took third place at the previous Unicon, two years ago at Frederiksberg in Denmark, and was world champion on the previous two occasions.  Deserteure have achieved second- and third-placed finishes over the last three championships.

Top scorer for Deserteure, Sonja Theiss, had to leave the rink in the semi-final, after suffering a bloodied face in a collision with an opposition player but she is expected to be fit for the final.

Twenty-three teams competed in the tournament, from New Zealand, Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, France, Denmark, Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Germany had the strongest contingent, with seven teams, drawn mostly from the formidable German Unicycle Hockey League, where more than 50 teams compete weekly in this little-known sport.

Teams

Deserteure

Christoph Verholt, Gaby Scherer, Holger Summer (capt), Maximiliane Jaik, Rolf Sander, Sonja Theiß, Linda Theiß,

Swiss Team

Alexandros Coutsikos, Janis Coutsikos (capt), Helen Iten, Ives Metry, Pascal Metry, Martin Schmid,

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