Salt Lake City, UT, WPH Press –
Enter the May 1-3, 2026 Aces Race 4 Eight Player’s Championship HERE
The 2026 WPH Race 4 Eight Salt Lake City Aces Player’s Championship, graciously sponsored and hosted by ACE Recycling & Disposal Inc., provides professional handball’s greatest showcase, featuring the R48, WR48, and SR48 battling for Player’s Championships, the most coveted prize in professional handball.
Top amateur and skill level players will join the world’s best professional players at one of the sport’s greatest events. The Aces Player’s Championship includes incredible hospitality, including a sensational Saturday night banquet with 3-Wall under the lights at the ACE headquarters following dinner.
“We point towards the Aces Player’s Championship all season,” stated WPH Executive Director David Vincent. “No detail is too small in preparing for this mega event, as the Aces Team, the WPH staff, the tremendous staff of Aces volunteers and our players work tirelessly to ensure this event is a massive success.”
2026 Race 4 Eight Aces Player’s Championship R48 Men’s Pro, WR48 and SR48
- Date: May 1-3, 2026
- Site: Sports Mall, 5445 S 900 E, Salt Lake City, UT, 84117
- Tournament directors: WPH, Lon Stalsberg, Matt Stalsberg
- Tournament sponsors: Ace Disposal, WPH, JR WPH
- Pro Events: R48 Small Ball Pro Singles, WR48 Singles, SR48 Singles
- Defending Race 4 Eight Player’s Champions: Lucho (R48), Heffernan (WR48), Lenning (SR48)
- All players entering the pro brackets must be current WPH members
Race 4 Eight Pro Player Bios HERE
WPH Coaching Centers HERE
Enter the May 1-3, 2026 Aces Race 4 Eight Player’s Championship HERE
David Fink
WPH Senior Writer
WPH RACE 4 EIGHT: The World Players of Handball’s Race 4 Eight Powered by ESPN features six Race 4 Eight stops around the country, all culminating with The Player’s Championship in Utah each May. Similar to NASCAR’s Nextel Cup and the FedEx PGA Playoffs, players earn points in the Race 4 Eight’s regular season stops to qualify for the season-ending Player’s Championship and bonus prizes. The top 8 elite men will receive bonus cash after the season-ending rankings are tallied up; meanwhile, the top 4 Sr 40+ and Women’s ‘Fab Four’ will also receive bonuses. The amount of these bonuses fluctuate from year-to-year… Please contact the WPH for this season’s bonus structure. Email the WPH for detailed explanations regarding the ranking system, seeds and bonus pay-outs at season’s end: info@wphlive.tv
For more information on the WPH Race 4 Eight title sponsor opportunity, please contact World Players of Handball Executive Director David Vincent at info@wphlive.tv or World Players of Handball Development Director David Fink at david.fink@wphlive.tv. For more information on the World Players of Handball, please visit wphlive.tv
Tournament seeds reflect rankings at the time of the event but are not the sole determining factor. The WPH retains the discretion to seed players based on their skill level, recent performance, and injury status.
The Executive Director will seed each tournament in a manner that respects the objectivity of the WPH rankings, while acknowledging that some unranked players are strong enough to disrupt the integrity of a draw if not seeded subjectively. Therefore, the seeding process will involve the objective constraint that no ranked player may be seeded ahead of a higher ranked player, while allowing for the subjective seeding of any unranked player the Executive Director deems strong enough to disrupt the draw.