Women's field handball world championship 1960

3rd women's field handball world championship 1960
Number of nations	6th
World Champion	Romania (2nd title)
venue	Netherlands
Opening game	June 12, 1960
Endgame	June 19, 1960
Games	11
Gates	93   (∅: 8.45 per game)
←  World Cup 1956

Arrival of the all-German team on June 10, 1960 in Amsterdam

The 3rd women's field handball world championship took place from June 12th to 19th, 1960 in the Netherlands . The host was the International Handball Federation (IHF). Romania became world champion.

It was the last time a women's world championship was held on the large field. In 1957 and 1962 world championships were held on the small field according to indoor handball rules, which the IHF officially counts as the first women's handball world championship today.

Six teams took part in the competition: Denmark, Germany (represented by a joint selection of the Federal Republic and the GDR), the Netherlands, Austria, Poland and Romania.

It was played in a preliminary round with two groups of three, then crossover semi-finals and placement games for places 1 to 6.

mode

The game was played in two groups of three "everyone against everyone". The first two of these groups played two crossover semifinals, the winners for places 1 and 2, the losers for 3 and 4. The third group played for places 5 and 6.

Preliminary round

Group A

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
01.	Romania	02	02	00	00	0012: 3000	+9	04th
02.	Austria	02	00	01	01	0006:1000	−4	01
03.	Denmark	02	00	01	01	0005:1000	−5	01

Sunday June 12th 1960	Romania	6: 2	Austria	Zuiderpark Stadium , The Hague
		(3: 0)	Frieda Rychetzky (1) Gertrude Stepan (1)

Tuesday June 14, 1960	Austria	4: 4	Denmark	Eindhoven
	Helene Hoffer (3) Maly (1)	(3: 3)	Henny Marstrand Nielsen (3) Kirsten Nilsson (1)
		Match report

Thursday, June 16, 1960 7:00 p.m.	Romania	6: 1	Denmark	Achilles Stadium 1894 , Assen
		(3: 0)	Henny Marstrand Nielsen (1)
		Match report

Group B

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
01.	Germany	02	02	00	00	0013: 7000	+6	04th
02.	Netherlands	02	01	00	01	0008: 8000	± 0	02
03.	Poland	02	00	00	02	0006:1200	−6	00

Sunday June 12th 1960	Germany	6: 3	Netherlands	Zuiderpark Stadium , The Hague
	Brigitte Wacker (3) Eva Schulz (2) Hannelore Vetter (1)	(4: 2)

Tuesday, June 14, 1960 7:00 p.m.	Netherlands	5: 2	Poland	USV Elinkwijk stadium , Utrecht
		(4: 1)

Thursday, June 16, 1960 6:30 p.m.	Germany	7: 4	Poland	HV Sittardia Stadium , Sittard
	Gisela Danielczyk (2) Christa Warns (2) Inge Schanding (1) Eva Schulz (1) Edith Sonnemann (1)	(3: 0)

Final round and games for 5th place

Semifinals					final
A1	Romania	9
B2	Netherlands	4th			Endgame
					A1	Romania	10
					A2	Austria	2
B1	Germany	2
A2	Austria	3
					3rd place match
					B2	Netherlands	1
					B1	Germany	3
					Play for 5th place
					A3	Denmark	6th
					B3	Poland	3

Play for 5th place

Saturday, June 18, 1960 6:30 p.m.	Denmark	6: 3	Poland	Noordersportpark , Haarlem
	Kirsten Nilsson (3) Henny Marstrand Nielsen (2) Anna Hansen (1)	(3: 3)
		Match report

Semifinals

Friday, June 17, 1960 7:00 p.m.	Romania	9: 4	Netherlands	't Lansink, Hengelo
		(4: 1)

Friday, June 17, 1960 7:00 p.m.	Germany	2: 3	Austria	Nieuw Monnikenhuize , Arnhem Spectators: 1000
	12 ′ Gisela Danielczyk 1: 2 22 ′ Waltraud Kühl 2: 3	(0: 1)	3 ′ Waltraud Broz 0: 1  3 ′ Gertrude Stepan 0: 2 21 ′ Helene Hoffer 1: 3

3rd place match

Sunday, June 19, 1960 2:30 p.m.	Netherlands	1: 3	Germany	De Meer Stadium , Amsterdam
		(0: 2)	Ursel Burmeister (1) Inge Schanding (1) Brigitte Wacker (1)

final

Sunday June 19, 1960	Romania	10: 2	Austria	De Meer Stadium , Amsterdam spectators: 5000
		(7: 0)	Helene Hoffer (1) Frieda Rychetzky (1)

Final score

rank	country
1	Romania
2	Austria
3	Germany
4th	Netherlands
5	Denmark
6th	Poland

The world championship team in 1960: Romania

Aurora Bran-Popescu, Carolina Cirligeanu-Raceanu, Maria Constantinescu, Lucia Dobre, Victorița Dumitrescu , Irina Günther-Kün, Elena Jianu, Irina Nagy, Aurora Niculescu, Elena Pădureanu, Elena Rosu, Ana Starck, Iosefina Ştefănes- Ugrelia-Ugrönescu Salageanu and Antoaneta Vasile.

Individual evidence

• Workers newspaper
  • Austria in the heaviest group . With the defending champion Romania - Before the World Championships in women's handball. In: Socialist Party of Austria (ed.): Arbeiter-Zeitung . Central organ of the Socialist Party of Austria . No. 135 , June 11, 1960, OCLC 183401350 , ZDB -ID 820650-8 , p. 12 ( Online [accessed June 26, 2020]).
  • The expected defeat . In: Socialist Party of Austria (ed.): Arbeiter-Zeitung . Central organ of the Socialist Party of Austria . No. 137 , June 14, 1960, OCLC 183401350 , ZDB -ID 820650-8 , p. 14 ( Online [accessed June 26, 2020]).
  • A draw against Denmark . In: Socialist Party of Austria (ed.): Arbeiter-Zeitung . Central organ of the Socialist Party of Austria . No. 139 , June 16, 1960, OCLC 183401350 , ZDB -ID 820650-8 , p. 14 ( Online [accessed June 26, 2020]).
  • Austria in the semifinals . In: Socialist Party of Austria (ed.): Arbeiter-Zeitung . Central organ of the Socialist Party of Austria . No. 140 , June 18, 1960, OCLC 183401350 , ZDB -ID 820650-8 , p. 14 ( Online [accessed June 26, 2020]).
  • Austria handball players in the final . A surprise in the semifinals of the World Cup over Germany. In: Socialist Party of Austria (ed.): Arbeiter-Zeitung . Central organ of the Socialist Party of Austria . No. 141 , June 19, 1960, OCLC 183401350 , ZDB -ID 820650-8 , p. 27 ( online [accessed June 26, 2020]).
  • Second in world handball . In: Socialist Party of Austria (ed.): Arbeiter-Zeitung . Central organ of the Socialist Party of Austria . No. 142 , June 21, 1960, OCLC 183401350 , ZDB -ID 820650-8 , p. 14 ( Online [accessed June 26, 2020]).

swell

• IHF archive (PDF file; 79 kB)
• sport-komplett.de there: H \ Handball \ History / OVERVIEW \ World Championships - Field (women) places 1 - 3
• handballdaten.de