Men's handball world championship 1999

16th Men's Handball World Championship 1999
16th Men's Handball World Championship
Number of nations	24
World Champion	Sweden (4th title)
venue	Egypt
Opening game	June 1, 1999
Endgame	June 11, 1999
Games	80
Gates	4,044   (∅: 50.55 per game)
Top scorer	Rolando Uríos , 57 goals
Best player	Stefan Lövgren (MVP)
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The 16th men's handball world championship was held from June 1 to June 11, 1999 in Egypt . A total of 24 teams initially competed against each other in groups. This was followed by elimination games with round of 16 , quarter-finals , semi-finals and finals as well as placement games for places three to eight. Sweden became world champions in 1999 after beating Russia 25:24 in the final.

game schedule

Group stage

The preliminary round was held from June 1 to June 7, 1999. The first four in each group qualified for the round of 16.

The venues are given in brackets after the groups.

Group A ( Cairo , Police Hall)

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Spain	163: 101	10-0
2	Denmark	117: 108	8: 2
3	Tunisia	111: 118	5: 5
4th	Algeria	106: 120	3: 7
5	Morocco	100: 117	3: 7
6th	Argentina	96: 129	1: 9

	Wed, June 2, 1999, 4:30 p.m.	Tunisia	- Argentina	23: 19 (9: 8)
	Wed, June 2, 1999, 6:30 p.m.	Denmark	- Morocco	20: 19 (11: 7)
	Wed, June 2, 1999, 8:30 p.m.	Spain	- Algeria	34: 24 (20:11)
	Thursday, June 3, 1999, 4:30 p.m.	Morocco	- Tunisia	23: 23 (8:12)
	Thursday, June 3, 1999, 6:30 p.m.	Argentina	- Spain	19:31 (6:15)
	Thursday, June 3, 1999, 8:30 p.m.	Algeria	- Denmark	18: 28 (9:12)
	Fri, June 4, 1999, 4:30 p.m.	Spain	- Morocco	34: 18 (16: 9)
	Fri, June 4, 1999, 6:30 p.m.	Argentina	- Algeria	16: 25 (9:11)
	Fri, June 4, 1999, 8:30 p.m.	Tunisia	- Denmark	19: 23 (8:11)
	Sun, June 6, 1999, 4:30 p.m.	Tunisia	- Algeria	23: 20 (12:10)
	Sun, June 6, 1999, 6:30 p.m.	Morocco	- Argentina	21: 21 (10:12)
	Sun, June 6, 1999, 8:30 p.m.	Denmark	- Spain	17: 31 (8:16)
	Mon, June 7, 1999, 4:30 p.m.	Algeria	- Morocco	19: 19 (11:10)
	Mon, June 7, 1999, 6:30 p.m.	Denmark	- Argentina	29: 21 (12: 9)
	Mon, June 7, 1999, 8:30 p.m.	Spain	- Tunisia	33: 23 (16:13)

Group B ( Cairo , Cairo Stadium Indoor Halls Complex (main hall) )

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Germany	146: 100	10-0
2	Egypt	126: 111	8: 2
3	Cuba	153: 131	6: 4
4th	Brazil	108: 133	4: 6
5	Macedonia	122: 149	2: 8
6th	Saudi Arabia	101: 132	0:10

	Thursday, June 1, 1999, 8:30 p.m.	Egypt	- Brazil	28: 19 (16: 8)
	Wed, June 2, 1999, 6:30 p.m.	Saudi Arabia	- Macedonia	21: 28 (11:16)
	Wed, June 2, 1999, 8:30 p.m.	Germany	- Cuba	34: 25 (15:13)
	Thursday, June 3, 1999, 4:15 p.m.	Brazil	- Saudi Arabia	22: 21 (14:12)
	Thursday, June 3, 1999, 6:15 p.m.	Macedonia	- Germany	25: 36 (9:16)
	Thursday, June 3, 1999, 8:15 p.m.	Cuba	- Egypt	29: 31 (14:17)
	Fri, June 4, 1999, 4:15 p.m.	Germany	- Brazil	26: 13 (15: 7)
	Fri, June 4, 1999, 6:15 p.m.	Macedonia	- Cuba	18: 32 (10:16)
	Fri, June 4, 1999, 8:15 p.m.	Saudi Arabia	- Egypt	16: 19 (4:10)
	Sun, June 6, 1999, 4:30 p.m.	Saudi Arabia	- Cuba	24: 36 (10:17)
	Sun, June 6, 1999, 6:30 p.m.	Brazil	- Macedonia	30: 27 (15:15)
	Sun, June 6, 1999, 8:30 p.m.	Egypt	- Germany	18: 23 (7: 9)
	Mon, June 7, 1999, 4:30 p.m.	Cuba	- Brazil	31:24 (15:10)
	Mon, June 7, 1999, 6:30 p.m.	Germany	- Saudi Arabia	27: 19 (13:10)
	Mon, June 7, 1999, 8:30 p.m.	Egypt	- Macedonia	30: 24 (18: 8)

Group C ( Ismailia , Mubarak Hall)

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Russia	162: 106	10-0
2	Croatia	118: 115	7: 3
3	Hungary	134: 112	6: 4
4th	Norway	130: 129	5: 5
5	Kuwait	107: 147	2: 8
6th	Nigeria	112: 154	0:10

	Wed, June 2, 1999, 3 p.m.	Croatia	- Kuwait	25: 19 (15: 7)
	Wed, June 2, 1999, 5 p.m.	Hungary	- Nigeria	34: 25 (16: 9)
	Wed, June 2, 1999, 7 p.m.	Russia	- Norway	35: 27 (19:11)
	Thursday, June 3, 1999, 3 p.m.	Kuwait	- Hungary	16: 32 (8:15)
	Thursday, June 3, 1999, 5:00 p.m.	Nigeria	- Russia	23: 36 (11:17)
	Thursday, June 3, 1999, 7 p.m.	Norway	- Croatia	23: 23 (13:11)
	Fri, June 4, 1999, 3 p.m.	Russia	- Kuwait	35: 15 (20: 6)
	Fri, June 4, 1999, 5 p.m.	Hungary	- Croatia	19: 20 (8:10)
	Fri, June 4, 1999, 7 p.m.	Nigeria	- Norway	13: 27 (9: 8)
	Sun, June 6, 1999, 2:30 p.m.	Croatia	- Russia	23: 29 (7:13)
	Sun, June 6, 1999, 4:30 p.m.	Kuwait	- Nigeria	30: 26 (14:11)
	Sun, June 6, 1999, 6:30 p.m.	Hungary	- Norway	31: 24 (13:13)
	Mon, June 7, 1999, 3 p.m.	Croatia	- Nigeria	27: 25 (14:10)
	Mon, June 7, 1999, 5:00 p.m.	Russia	- Hungary	27: 18 (12:10)
	Mon, June 7, 1999, 7:00 p.m.	Norway	- Kuwait	29: 27 (18:14)

Group D ( Port Said , Mubarak Hall)

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Sweden	169: 105	9: 1
2	France	152: 114	8: 2
3	Yugoslavia	156: 120	7: 3
4th	South Korea	146: 118	4: 6
5	China	122: 193	2: 8
6th	Australia	97: 188	0:10

	Wed, June 2, 1999, 2:30 p.m.	Yugoslavia	- China	43: 25 (23:11)
	Wed, June 2, 1999, 4:30 p.m.	Sweden	- South Korea	25: 20 (14:13)
	Wed, June 2, 1999, 7 p.m.	France	- Australia	32: 15 (16: 9)
	Thursday, June 3, 1999, 2:30 p.m.	China	- Sweden	21: 42 (11:23)
	Thursday, June 3, 1999, 4:30 p.m.	Australia	- Yugoslavia	22: 40 (11:24)
	Thursday, June 3, 1999, 7 p.m.	South Korea	- France	25: 28 (12:13)
	Fri, June 4, 1999, 2:30 p.m.	Sweden	- Australia	49: 17 (22:10)
	Fri, June 4, 1999, 4:30 p.m.	China	- South Korea	23: 38 (12:18)
	Fri, June 4, 1999, 7 p.m.	Yugoslavia	- France	23: 26 (11:13)
	Sun, June 6, 1999, 2:30 p.m.	Yugoslavia	- South Korea	28:25 (10:13)
	Sun, June 6, 1999, 4:30 p.m.	France	- Sweden	25: 31 (13:13)
	Sun, June 6, 1999, 6:30 p.m.	Australia	- China	29: 33 (16:15)
	Mon, June 7, 1999, 3 p.m.	Sweden	- Yugoslavia	22: 22 (11:15)
	Mon, June 7, 1999, 5:00 p.m.	South Korea	- Australia	34: 14 (19: 9)
	Mon, June 7, 1999, 7:00 p.m.	France	- China	41: 20 (18: 7)

Final round

Round of 16

Wed, June 9, 1999, 8:45 p.m. in Cairo	Spain	- Brazil	27: 17 (15: 5)
Wed, June 9, 1999, 5:00 p.m. in Ismailia	Russia	- South Korea	31: 23 (16: 8)
Wed, June 9, 1999, 2 p.m. in Cairo	Cuba	- Denmark	32: 24 (13:14)
Wed, June 9, 1999, 7:30 p.m. in Ismailia	Yugoslavia	- Croatia	30: 23 (15: 9)
Wed, June 9, 1999, 8:45 p.m. in Cairo	Tunisia	- Egypt	22: 24 (13:14)
Wed, June 9, 1999, 5:00 p.m. in Port Said	Hungary	- France	23: 24 (11:14)
Wed, June 9, 1999, 4:15 p.m. in Cairo	Germany	- Algeria	28: 17 (14: 9)
Wed, June 9, 1999, 7:30 p.m. in Port Said	Sweden	- Norway	33: 26 (13:10)

Quarter finals

Fri, June 11, 1999, 2 p.m. in Cairo	Spain	- France	23:18 (12: 5)
Fri, June 11, 1999, 8:45 p.m. in Cairo	Russia	- Egypt	26: 20 (11: 8)
Fri, June 11, 1999, 4:15 p.m. in Cairo	Cuba	- Sweden	26: 33 (13:19)
Fri, June 11, 1999, 6:30 p.m. in Cairo	Yugoslavia	- Germany	22:21 (10:12)

Placement games

The losers in the quarterfinals competed against each other in two games. The winners of the two games played for 5th place the next day, the two losers for 7th place.

Sun, June 13, 1999, 4:15 p.m. in Cairo	Egypt	- France	25: 27 a.d. (22: 22/12: 13)
So, June 13, 1999, 2 p.m. in Cairo	Cuba	- Germany	22: 23 (11:12)

Semi-finals in Cairo

Sun, June 13, 1999, 8:45 p.m.	Spain	- Russia	21: 22 (9:11)
Sun, June 13, 1999, 6:30 p.m.	Yugoslavia	- Sweden	22: 23 (11: 9)

Game for 7th place in Cairo

Mon, June 14, 1999, 6 p.m.	Egypt	- Cuba	35: 28 (15:14)

Play for 5th place in Cairo

Mon, June 14, 1999, 8:30 p.m.	France	- Germany	21: 26 (10:14)

Game for 3rd place in Cairo

Tuesday, June 15, 1999, 6 p.m.	Spain	- Yugoslavia	24: 27 (14:12)

Final in Cairo

Tue, June 15, 1999, 8:30 p.m.	Russia	- Sweden	24: 25 (14:12)

The half-time results are in brackets. In the case of extra time, the scores after the end of regular playing time and possibly after the end of the 1st extra time are also shown there.

Final placements

rank	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.
	Sweden	9	8th	1	0	282: 202	+ 080
	Russia	9	8th	0	1	265: 195	+ 070
	Yugoslavia	9	6th	1	2	257: 211	+ 046
04th	Spain	9	7th	0	2	258: 185	+ 073
05.	Germany	9	8th	0	1	244: 182	+ 062
06th	France	9	6th	0	3	241: 210	+ 031
07th	Egypt	9	6th	0	3	230: 214	+ 016
08th.	Cuba	9	4th	0	5	261: 246	+ 015
09.	Denmark	6th	4th	0	2	141: 140	+ 01
10.	Croatia	6th	3	1	2	141: 145	- 04th
11.	Hungary	6th	3	0	3	157: 136	+ 021
12.	Tunisia	6th	2	1	3	133: 142	- 09
13.	Norway	6th	2	1	3	156: 162	- 06
14th	South Korea	6th	2	0	4th	169: 153	+ 016
15th	Algeria	6th	1	1	4th	123: 148	- 025
16.	Brazil	6th	2	0	4th	125: 160	- 035
17th	Morocco	5	0	3	2	100: 117	- 017th
18th	Macedonia	5	1	0	4th	122: 149	- 027
19th	Kuwait	5	1	0	4th	107: 147	- 040
20th	China	5	1	0	4th	122: 193	- 071
21st	Argentina	5	0	1	4th	96: 129	- 033
22nd	Saudi Arabia	5	0	0	5	101: 132	- 031
23.	Nigeria	5	0	0	5	112: 154	- 042
24.	Australia	5	0	0	5	101: 192	- 091

Awards

• Best Player (Most Valuable Player, MVP): Stefan Lövgren Sweden 

All-Star Team

position	Surname	country
Goal:	Andrei Lavrov	Russia
Left winger:	Rafael Guijosa Castillo	Spain
Back left:	Vasily Kudinov	Russia
Back center:	Nedeljko Jovanović	Yugoslavia
Back right:	Staffan Olsson	Sweden
Right winger:	Johan Petersson	Sweden
Circle:	Rolando Urios	Cuba

statistics

Goal scorers

Pl.	player	team	Gates	FT	7 m
01.	Rolando Urios	Cuba	57	36	21st
02.	Rafael Guijosa Castillo	Spain	50	31	19th
03.	Stefan Lövgren	Sweden	46	37	9
04th	Julio Fis	Cuba	43	43	0
	József Éles	Hungary	43	30th	13
06th	Nenad Peruničić	Yugoslavia	41	37	4th
	Stefan Kretzschmar	Germany	41	35	6th
	Mohamed Madi	Tunisia	41	32	9
	Yoon Kyung-shin	South Korea	41	30th	11
010.	Andrej Golić	France	38	37	9

FT = field gates; 7m = seven meters

Best goalkeeper

Pl.	player	team	balls held [%]
1	Christian Ramota	Germany	46.2%
2	David Barrufet	Spain	44.3%
3	Tomas Svensson	Sweden	42.9%
4th	Andrei Lavrov	Russia	41.1%
5	Peter Gentzel	Sweden	40.8%
6th	Toufik Hakem	Algeria	40.5%
7th	Zoran Đorđić	Yugoslavia	40.4%
8th	Søren Haagen Andreasen	Denmark	39.3%
9	Vladimir Rivero Hernández	Cuba	38.9%
10	Christian Gaudin	France	37.3%

Bids

Medalist

Sweden	Russia	Yugoslavia
Peter Gentzel Tomas Svensson Magnus Wislander Thomas Sivertsson Ola Lindgren Martin Boquist Martin Frändesjö Johan Petersson Stefan Lövgren Christian Ericsson Henrik Andersson Pierre Thorsson Staffan Olsson Magnus Andersson Mathias Franzén Ljubomir Vranjes	Dmitry Filippov Vyacheslav Gorpischin Oleg Grebnew Oleg Chodkow Eduard Kokscharow Denis Kriwoschlykow Vasily Kudinov Stanislaw Kulintschenko Andrei Lavrov Igor Lavrov Sergei Pogorelov Pawel Sukosjan Dmitri Torgowanow Alexander Tutschkin Lev Voronin Valeri Gopin	Zoran Đorđić Nebojša Golić Petar Kapisoda Branko Kokir Ivan Lapčević Blažo Lisičić Zikica Milosavljević Nedeljko Jovanović Nenad Maksić Dejan Perić Nenad Peruničić Vladimir Petrić Ratko Nikolić Dragan Škrbić Arpad Sterbik Vladan Matić
Bengt Johansson (coach)	Vladimir Maximov (coach)	Zoran Živković (coach)

5th place: Germany

Jan Holpert Christian Ramota Stefan Kretzschmar Stefan Krebietke Bogdan Wenta

Karsten Kohlhaas Frank von Behren Markus Baur Heiko Karrer Volker Zerbe

Bernd Roos Michael Menzel Christian Schwarzer Klaus-Dieter Petersen Mike Bezdicek

Trainer: Heiner Brand

Web links

• IHF statistics on www.ihf.info (PDF; 26 kB)
• Results of the Handball World Cup 1999 on handball-wm-statistik.de
• Results of the Handball World Cup 1999 at THW Kiel (archive)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Handball World Championships since 1938" on www.welt.de