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Although in 2013, four official national Ultimate championships took place, in 2014, two new ones were added. Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Cup All Japan Ultimate Championships. This is the largest national championship in Japan. The winner of this championship is the best of Japan. Divisions: open and women.
Henry Callahan (1957–1982) was a player and ambassador of Ultimate and helped bring the sport to the University of Oregon, formally establishing a team in 1978. [1] In 1982, he was murdered during a robbery while working in Boulder, Colorado. [2]
Ultimate frisbee (officially simply called ultimate) is a non-contact team sport played with a disc flung by hand. Ultimate was developed in 1968 by Joel Silver in Maplewood, New Jersey . [ 5 ] Although ultimate resembles many traditional sports in its athletic requirements, it is unlike most sports due to its focus on self-officiating, even at ...
USA Ultimate is a not-for-profit organization that serves as the governing body of the sport of ultimate (also known as ultimate Frisbee) in the United States. It was founded in 1979 as the Ultimate Players Association , but rebranded itself as USA Ultimate on May 25, 2010.
Ultimate Club Vesontio — Friz'Bisontins (Besançon, France) ZIGGLES (Antibes, France) Ultimate Frisbee Club Heraklion (Heraklion, Crete, Greece) Ultimate Frisbee Club Athens (Athens, Greece) Flying Moussakats (Athens, Greece) Discs In Turmoil (Dublin Institute of Technology) Chilli-O (University College Dublin) Trinity College, Dublin
On January 17, 2024 the league announced it was rebranding the Ultimate Frisbee Association (UFA). The league partnered with Sport Dimension Inc. (SDI), owner of the Wham-O brand family which includes the Frisbee trademark to license the name for use across the league. Multiple new logos were designed as part of the league's new brand identity.
Which team begins play is determined "flipping the disc", an action similar to a coin toss, but using the disc itself. One member of the team is then selected to start play. Guts Frisbee is the oldest disc sport (1957) That member then raises an arm to indicate readiness to throw, at which point the members of the opposing team freeze in position.
2010 - Inducted into the Inaugural Class of the Toronto Ultimate Club Hall of Fame. [2] 2011 - Inducted into the Inaugural Class of the Ultimate Canada Hall of Fame. [7] 2012 - Featured in a flying disc film documentary called The Invisible String, made by a Berlin film group in Germany. [62] 2013 - Inducted into the World Disc Golf Hall of ...