CHANIA PETANQUE CLUB

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MÖLKKY CHANIA
The Mölkky Team of Chania on Crete is created in 2022 as part of the Petanque Club of Chania. We are a growing group from Chania, Crete, Greece, interested in joining the world of Mölkky.  Rules of Molly can be read at https://www.molkky.com/wp/rules/.
The first Cretan Mölkky International tournament will be organzed in Chania, Crete, Greece at he the seaside park  of Agioi Apostoloi in May 6-8, 2025.

REGISTRATION – ΔΗΛΩΣΗ ΣΥΜΜΕΤΟΧΗΣ: 
Andrianos Louk: Tel.: 6972414489, e-mail: luc_andrian@yahoo.gr 
Bachas Ioannis: Tel.: 6946792573, e-mail: hellasbachas@gmail.com

COLLABORATING HOTELS – ΚΑΤΑΛΥΜΑΤΑ 
SYRIOS VILLAGE: 
www.siriosvillage.gr 
CAMPING CHANIA: www.camping-chania.gr

 "Silver medals for the second place in doublette petanque tournament at the 1st Balkan Cup in Thessaloniki, September 30-October 1st, 2023 with the two international players Antonis Glampedakis and Louk Andrianos". Με «παρακαταθήκη» τους επιτυχημένους Παγκόσμιους Αγώνες Εργασιακού Αθλητισμού του 2021 και του 2022, οι παίκτες του συλλόγου Πετάνκ χανίων Αντώνης Γλαμπεδάκης και Λουκ Ανδριανός κατέκτησαν την δεύτερη θέση στο διεθνές Βαλκανικό Κύπελλο στη Θεσσαλονική στις 30/09-01/10/2023. Επίσης διακρήθηκαν οι παίκτες Σταύρος Τσότρης με τον Αλέξανδρο Μοραϊτη, και ο Ιωάννης Αποστολάκης με τον Νικό Ψαρουδάκη για την πρώτη και τη δεύτερη θέση στην Β' κατηγορία. 

Silver medal at the Balkan Cup, Thessaloniki 2023

 "Golden medals for the first place in doublette petanque tournament at the 10th Hellenic Sports Company Games in Athens, October 7-9/2022 with the brand name of the Botanical Garden and parks of Crete, and the two international players of Chania Petanque club: Antonis Glampedakis and Louk Andrianos". Με «παρακαταθήκη» τους επιτυχημένους Παγκόσμιους Αγώνες Εργασιακού Αθλητισμού του 2021, ο Ελληνικός Οργανισμός Άθλησης και Υγείας διοργάνωσε από τις 7 έως τις 9 Οκτωβρίου 2022, τους 10ους Εθνικούς Αγώνες Εργασιακού Αθλητισμού Το Βοτανικό Πάρκο & Κήποι της Κρήτης (www.botanical-park.com) σε συνεργασία με το Σύλλογο Πετανκ Χανίων, συμμέτειχε στον αγώνισμα εδαφοσφαίριση (Πετανκ- Petanque) με 6 αθλητές: οι Ανδριανός Λουκ, Γλαμπεδάκης Αντώνης, Γιώργος Χατζησωτηράκης, Τσότρης Σταύρος, Αποστολάκης Ιωάννης, και ο Ψαρουδάκης Νικόλαος. Οι αθλητές συμμετείχαν στην κατηγορία «ντομπλέτες» και «τριπλέτες». Στις ντουμπλέτες διακρίθηκαν με χρυσά μετάλλια στην πρώτη θέση οι ομάδες με τον Ανδριανός Λουκ, και Γλαμπεδάκης Αντώνης με την φανέλα του Βοτανικό Πάρκο & Κήποι της Κρήτης. 

Golden medal at the 10th Hellenic Company Sport Games, Athens 2022

 From May 2022, Chania Petanque club has 4 official trainers/coaches recognised by the FIPJP-CIEP: Andrianos Loukas, Antonis Glampedakis, John Apostolakis, and Nicolas Psaroudakis. We are grateful to Mr Claude Raluy, president of the CIEP-FIPJP, for coming to Crete and having offered the international coaching seminar in Chania after the invitation of our club, in collaboration with the Hellenic clubs Federation of Petanque. This is a continuation of the first certification of petanque referee, by Mr Alin Julia, in 2017 to promote the petanque as sport in Greece. 

From May 2022, Chania Petanque club has 4 official trainers/coaches recognised by the FIPJP-CIEP:
From May 2022, Chania Petanque club has 4 official trainers/coaches recognised by the FIPJP-CIEP:
 

 Our Chania Petanque Club won the National Cup of Greece of the year 2021, in petanque sport! 

Golden National Cup of Greece winners for 2021
Golden medals at the interclub competition in Athens

 Classification of Louk Andrianos and Dimitrios Sakkalis for the World Championship Petanque singles and doublettes in Denmark, May 12-15.2022 

Classification of Louk Andrianos for the World Petanque Championship in Denmark, May 12-15.2022
After Nice France (2015), Ghent Belgium (2017), Almeria Spain (2019), the Doublets Mixed World Championships will take place from 12 to 15 May 2022 in Karlslunde, Denmark.. Louk Andrianos won the 2nd place in the ranking tournament for representing Greece at the world championship. The ranking tournament took place in Athens, Dafni, March 5&6, 2022

 We are proud to participate in the third edition of the World Company Sport Games that took place in Athens, Greece in 6-10 October, 2021. Our Chania Petanque Club won the third place (bronze medal) in the petanque sport with participants from 25 countries. 

Bronze medal at World Company Sport Games
3rd place in triplets

 The 11th International Chania Open Tournament (Petanque) was successfully held in the Ag. Apostolous park, from 14 to 16 May. The tournament was organized by the Chania Petank Club with the participation of Petanque club of Vouliagmeni, Galatsi, Filothei, Blue bell, Palio Faliro and anonymous. 

Silver medal at 11th Chania Open Tournament
2nd place in doublets and triplets

 Participation at the CEP 5th European championship Mens Triples & Shooting, Albena, Bulgaria, September 19-22, 2019 

Andrianos Louk , shooting precision and Triple Men competition with Antonis Glampedakis, Stavros Stavridis and Christos Mavreas
Hellenic Petanque Clubs Federation. Coach 1 Nicolas Psaroudakis, Coach 2 George Chatzisotirakis, Head of delegation John Apostolakis
Petanque history

Petanque history

Originally, in ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, the balls were probably made of stone.

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Petanque Glossary

Petanque Glossary

Like any sport, petanque has its own special vocabulary. The following are a list of common phrases with explanations.

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Petanque rules of the game

Petanque rules of the game

These rules have been approved by the Executive Committee of the FIPJP - December 2020

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European Championship Regulations 2023-24

European Championship Regulations 2023-24

As adopted by the Directors - April 2023

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Petanque Equipment specifications

Petanque Equipment specifications

Competition jacks and boules must have secured confirmation by the F.I.P.J.P. that they comply exactly with the relevant specification.

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Precision Shooting competition

Precision Shooting competition

The competition is a combined event (like a decathlon) with five different individual events (ateliers). The competitors throw at targets located inside a target circle (cible) that is one meter in diameter. In each atelier competitors throw four boules— one boule from each of four distances— 6, 7, 8, and 9 meters.

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Strategy and terminology

Strategy and terminology

In French ‘tirer’ has two meanings: to pull and to shoot. Why to shoot? It comes from to pull the trigger of a rifle. And that’s shooting! In Dutch ‘to pull’ is ‘trekken’. And ‘to shoot’ is ‘schieten’. But the Flemish petanque players follow the French meaning of ‘tirer’ and they say ‘trekken’ if they want to shoot a boule. In The Netherlands we don’t say that, we say always ‘schieten’. Or, sometimes, a Dutch kind of corruption of the French ‘tirer’: ‘tireren’.

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2013 CHANIA OPEN SINGLE Tete A Tete

With the presence of the Mayor of Platanias Municipality Mr Malandrakis Ioannis, in Kolymvari (Orthodox Academy of Crete seaside), Chania.

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2014 CHANIA OPEN TOURNAMENT

CHANIA OPEN TOURNAMENT 2014

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2015 CHANIA OPEN WITH DANISH

This is the third Chania Open tournament in the park of Agious Apostolous

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2016 ATTICA MARATHON TOURNAMENT

2016 ATTICA MARATHON TOURNAMENT

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2016 CHANIA OPEN

2016 CHANIA OPEN

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2017 CHANIA OPEN

2017 CHANIA OPEN

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2017 PLATANIAS REFEREES UMPIRE SEMINAR

PLATANIAS REFEREES UMPIRE SEMINAR

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2018 CHANIA OPEN

CHANIA OPEN

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2018 CORFU MONDIAL PETANQUE TOURNAMENT8

CORFU MONDIAL PETANQUE TOURNAMENT

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2018 FRANCE TOULOUSE educnautes TOURNAMENT

FRANCE TOULOUSE TOURNAMENT

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2018 CHANIA OPEN WITH UK (HEART OF ENGLAND)

2018 CHANIA OPEN WITH UK (HEART OF ENGLAND)

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2019 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP BULGARIA CEP ALBENA

2019 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP BULGARIA CEP ALBENA

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2020 CHANIA OPEN WITH DANISH

CHANIA OPEN DANISH

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2021 CHANIA OPEN WITH GREECE MAINLAND

2021 CHANIA OPEN WITH GREECE MAINLAND

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2021 WORLD COMPANY SPORT GAMES ATHENS

2021 WORLD COMPANY SPORT GAMES ATHENS, THIRD PLACE IN TRIPLETTE (LOUK, ANTONIS, STAVROS)

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2021 GRAND PRIX OF CHANIA AND SEMINAR WITH REMY GALLEAU

2021 GRAND PRIX OF CHANIA AND SEMINAR WITH REMY GALLEAU

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2021 WORLD PETANQUE CHAMPIONSHIP SPAIN TRIPLE SANTA SUSANA

2021 WORLD PETANQUE CHAMPIONSHIP SPAIN TRIPLE SANTA SUSANA

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2022 CIEP-FIPJP RALUY CLAUDE SEMINAR AND CHANIA OPEN

2022 CIEP-FIPJP RALUY CLAUDE SEMINAR AND CHANIA OPEN

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2022 WORLD PETANQUE CHAMPIONSHIP DENMARK KARLSLUNDE SINGLE AND DOUBLE

2022 WORLD PETANQUE CHAMPIONSHIP DENMARK, SINGLE AND DOUBLE

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2022 GRAND PRIX OF CHANIA AND SEMINAR WITH REMY GALLEAU

2022 GRAND PRIX OF CHANIA AND SEMINAR WITH REMY GALLEAU AND PENIN TANGUY

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2022 HELLENIC COMPANY SPORT GAMES ATHENS

2022 HELLENIC COMPANY SPORT GAMES ATHENS, GOLDEN MEDALS- FIRST PLACE DOUBLE PETANQUE (LOUK AND ANTONIS)

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2023 BALKAN CUP THESSALONIKI

2023 BALKAN CUP INTERNATIONAL IN THESSALONIKI- SILVER MEDALS-SECOND PLACE DOUBLE PETANQUE (LOUK AND ANTONIS), FIRST PLACE IN GROUP B (STAVROS AND ALEXANDROS), SECOND PLACE IN GROUP B (JOHN AND NIKOS)

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2024 CHAMPIONNATS D’EUROPE DE PÉTANQUE du 19 au 23 juin 2024 à Martigny

Martigny will become the epicenter of pétanque for 5 days. From June 19 to 23, the distinctive tinkle of metal balls will echo through the CERM, as the continent's best players vie for glory and the title of champion. The public can of course watch these sporting jousts from bleachers set up for the occasion. Martigny looks forward to hosting this exceptional event, where passion for the game, camaraderie and top-level competition come together. The program includes Wednesday June 19, from 15:00: qualifying rounds Thursday June 20, from 9.00 am: qualifying rounds Friday June 21, from 9:00 am: qualifications Saturday June 22, 1/8 and 1/4 finals Sunday June 23, 1/2 and finals RATES Rates for one qualifying day (Wednesday, Thursday or Friday) -1 qualifying day: CHF 8.00 -Children under 11: free (please reserve ticket in advance) -Group price for 10 people or more: CHF 7.00 (per person) Prices for one day of finals (Saturday or Sunday) -Finals day: CHF 16.00 -Children under 11: free (please reserve ticket in advance) -Group price for 10 people or more: CHF 15.00 (per person)

19/6/2024
  • Άγιοι Απόστολοι, Δαράτσος, Χανιά, Ελλάδα
  • Every weekend from 15 pm in the park, next to kindergarden

Our club constructed the first permanent Petanque playing arena in the grounds of the beautiful Agious Apostolous Park, the arena has seven individual playing strips along with seats and tables for spectators.


CONFÉDÉRATION EUROPÉENNE DE PÉTANQUE (CEP)

The Continental Confederation for the sport of pétanque in Europe.

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Fédération Internationale de Pétanque et Jeu Provençal (FIPJP)

Fédération Internationale de Pétanque et Jeu Provençal (FIPJP)

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Hellenic Petanque Clubs Federation (HPCF)

Hellenic Petanque Clubs Federation (HPCF)

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CHANIA MOLKKY TEAM

https://www.facebook.com/molkkyteamchania/

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LIVE INTERVIEW AT NEA TV SPORT MAGAZINE ON 21/03/2022 ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL COACHING CERTIFICATION BY MR RALUY CLAUDE - CIEP/FIPJP IN CHANIA - FOR THE FIRST TIME IN GREECE- : (IN GREEK) PETANK: ΠΡΟΠΟΝΗΤΙΚΟ ΣΕΜΙΝΑΡΙΟ 28 ΩΣ 30 ΑΠΡΙΛΙΟΥ. ΔΙΕΘΝΕΣ ΤΟΥΡΝΟΥΑ OPEN 30 ΑΠΡΙΛΙΟΥ ΚΑΙ 1 ΜΑΪΟΥ

Louk Andrianos

President, player, official FIJPJ coach and referee. Molkky player

Founder and player, official FIJPJ coach and referee, Molkky player

Giorgos Chatzisotirakis

Vice- President, player, referee. Molkky player

Vice President, player, referee. Molkky player

Antonis GLAMPEDAKIS

Treasurer, player, official FIJPJ coach and referee

Treasurer, player, official FIJPJ coach and referee. Molkky player

John Apostolakis

Secretary, player, FIJPJ official coach, Mollky player

Secretary, player, FIJPJ official coach, Mollky player

Peter Ward

Board member, player, designer

Board member, player, designer

Nicolas Psaroudakis

Board member, player, FIJPJ official coach, Mollky player

Board member, player, FIJPJ official coach, Mollky player

Monica Ward

Player

Player

Georgia Glampedaki

Board member, player

Board member, player

Joanna Janssens

Player

Player

Evy Konstantinidi

Player

Player

Giannis Dimitropoulos

Board member, player

Board member, player

Stavros Tsotris

Player

Player

Alexandros Moraitis

Player

Giannis Verykokidis

Player

Player

Costas Chrysikopoulos

Player

Player

Giorgos Nikolarakis

Player

Player

Christos Xristopoulos

Player

Player

Giannis Andrianos

Player

Player

Giannis Xristopoulos

Player

Player

Christina Douka

Player

Player

Vassilis Raptis

Player

Player

Konstantinos Chatzidakis

Player

Marc Amaral

Player

Elena Amaral

Player

Dimitrios Digalas

Player

Giannis Tsontos

Player