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Within Vinony's link graph, sepak takraw is referenced by 683 other articles, and connects out to polo, SEA Games and Malay Annals.
Vinony files it under Association football variants, Ball games and Hybrid sports.
Its subject is documented across 49 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Highest governing body
- International Sepaktakraw Federation
- Nicknames
- kick volleyball
- Standardized
- 1960, Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia
- Contact
- No
- Mixed sex
- No
- Type
- outdoor, indoor, beach
- Equipment
- synthetic plastic or rattan ball, net
- Venue
- Sepak Takraw court
- Country or region
- Southeast Asia
- Olympic
- No
- Paralympic
- No
- World games
- No
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- type of sport
- Subclass of
- ball game
- Image
- Sepak Takraw.jpg
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- Commons category
- Sepak Takraw
- topic's main category
- Category:Sepak takraw
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Encyclopedic overview
A play of Sepak takraw Sepak takraw, or Sepaktakraw, is a Southeast Asian team sport. It is played with a ball made of rattan or plastic between two teams of two to four players on a court resembling a badminton court. It is similar to volleyball and footvolley in its use of a rattan ball and players using only their feet, knees, shoulders, chest, and head to touch the ball. Sepak takraw is often referred to as a mixture of volleyball, for its use of a net, and association football, as players use their feet.
The sport's modern version was introduced, developed, and standardised in 1960 when officials from Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Myanmar met in Kuala Lumpur to agree on a name and standard rules for it. It was previously known as Sepak Raga Jaring and was first exhibited in Penang in 1945. It was introduced in the 1965 Southeast Asian Peninsular Games in Kuala Lumpur as a medal event. Sepak takraw is considered Malaysia's national sport.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “sepak takraw” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.