Women's field handball world championship

This article covers the women's field handball world championships. See also World Men's Field Handball Championship and other World Handball Championship competitions (disambiguation) .

The women's field handball world championship was a field handball tournament for women's national teams organized three times by the International Handball Federation (IHF) in 1949, 1956 and 1960 .

The tournaments at a glance

year	Host country	World Champion	Result	Vice world champion	Third
1949	Hungary	Hungary	Final round a	Austria	Czechoslovakia
1956	BR Germany	Romania	6: 5	BR Germany	Hungary
1960	Netherlands	Romania	10: 2	Austria	Germany

^a At the 1949 World Cup, the title was not decided in a final game, but in a final group of four teams.

Medal table

rank	country
1	Romania	2	-	-	2
2	Hungary	1	-	1	2
3	Austria	-	2	-	2
4th	Germany (including BR Germany )	- (-)	1 (1)	1 (-)	2 (1)
5	Czechoslovakia	-	-	1	1

Eternal table

rank	team	Participation	Games	S.	U	N	Goal difference	Points
1.	Romania	2	6th	6th	0	0	36:13	12: 00
2.	Hungary	2	6th	5	1	0	35:20	11: 01
3.	Federal Republic of Germany (1956) Germany (1960)	2	6th	4th	1	1	30:20	09: 03
4th	Austria	3	9	2	2	5	32:45	06:12
5.	Denmark	1	3	1	1	1	11:13	03: 03
6th	Yugoslavia	1	3	1	0	2	16:13	02: 04
7th	Netherlands	1	3	1	0	2	09:11	02: 04
8th.	Czechoslovakia	1	3	1	0	2	07: 09	02: 04
9.	France	2	6th	0	1	5	15:38	01:11
10.	Poland	1	3	0	0	3	09:18	00: 06