European handball championship 1996

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2nd European men's handball championship 1996
Number of nations 12
European champion RussiaRussia Russia (1st title)
venue SpainSpain Spain
Opening game May 24, 1996
Endgame June 2, 1996
Games   38
Gates 1,815   (∅: 47.76 per game)
Top scorer Thomas Knorr Germany , 41 goals GermanyGermany 
Best player Talant Dujshebaev Spain (MVP) SpainSpain 
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The 2nd European Men's Handball Championship took place from May 24th to June 2nd, 1996 in Spain . The Russian national handball team was able to secure the title, defeating Spain just under 23:22 in the final . The German team took eighth place; Austria and Switzerland could not qualify for the European Championship finals.

Attendees

Venues
Group A Group B
RussiaRussia Russia SpainSpain Spain
Yugoslavia Federal Republic 1992Yugoslavia Yugoslavia SwedenSweden Sweden
CroatiaCroatia Croatia Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic
GermanyGermany Germany FranceFrance France
HungaryHungary Hungary RomaniaRomania Romania
SloveniaSlovenia Slovenia DenmarkDenmark Denmark

Venues

Preliminary round

In the preliminary round, the twelve qualified teams played in two groups of six teams each. Within a group, each team competed once against each other team. The two best teams in each group qualified for the semi-finals.

Group A

Pl. team Sp. S. U N Gates Pt.
1 RussiaRussia Russia 5 4th 1 0 125: 098 9
2 Yugoslavia Federal Republic 1992Yugoslavia Yugoslavia 5 4th 1 0 117: 110 9
3 CroatiaCroatia Croatia 5 3 0 2 127: 125 6th
4th GermanyGermany Germany 5 1 1 3 110: 111 3
5 HungaryHungary Hungary 5 1 1 3 117: 130 3
6th SloveniaSlovenia Slovenia 5 0 0 5 093: 115 0
May 24, 1996
17:00 CroatiaCroatia Croatia - HungaryHungary Hungary 30:27 (17:13)
19:00 Yugoslavia Federal Republic 1992Yugoslavia Yugoslavia - GermanyGermany Germany 23:22 (10: 9)
21:00 RussiaRussia Russia - SloveniaSlovenia Slovenia 22:18 (10: 7)
May 25, 1996
17:00 GermanyGermany Germany - CroatiaCroatia Croatia 21:26 (10:11)
19:00 SloveniaSlovenia Slovenia - Yugoslavia Federal Republic 1992Yugoslavia Yugoslavia 20:21 (10:10)
21:00 HungaryHungary Hungary - RussiaRussia Russia 21:33 (10:16)
May 26, 1996
17:00 HungaryHungary Hungary - GermanyGermany Germany 24:24 (12:11)
19:00 CroatiaCroatia Croatia - SloveniaSlovenia Slovenia 26:22 (13: 9)
21:00 RussiaRussia Russia - Yugoslavia Federal Republic 1992Yugoslavia Yugoslavia 20:20 (11: 8)
May 28, 1996
17:00 Yugoslavia Federal Republic 1992Yugoslavia Yugoslavia - CroatiaCroatia Croatia 27:24 (14:11)
19:00 RussiaRussia Russia - GermanyGermany Germany 22:18 (11: 9)
21:00 SloveniaSlovenia Slovenia - HungaryHungary Hungary 17:21 (7:10)
May 29, 1996
17:00 Yugoslavia Federal Republic 1992Yugoslavia Yugoslavia - HungaryHungary Hungary 26:24 (12:14)
19:00 GermanyGermany Germany - SloveniaSlovenia Slovenia 25:16 (10: 5)
21:00 CroatiaCroatia Croatia - RussiaRussia Russia 21:28 (11:13)

Group B

Pl. team Sp. S. U N Gates Pt.
1 SpainSpain Spain 5 4th 0 1 124: 116 8th
2 SwedenSweden Sweden 5 4th 0 1 124: 106 8th
3 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 5 3 0 2 129: 125 6th
4th FranceFrance France 5 3 0 2 130: 120 6th
5 RomaniaRomania Romania 5 1 0 4th 117: 134 2
6th DenmarkDenmark Denmark 5 0 0 5 108: 131 0
May 24, 1996
17:00 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic - RomaniaRomania Romania 32:25 (17:13)
19:00 SwedenSweden Sweden - SpainSpain Spain 23:24 (11:14)
21:00 DenmarkDenmark Denmark - FranceFrance France 22:25 (11:12)
May 25, 1996
17:00 SpainSpain Spain - DenmarkDenmark Denmark 28:22 (12: 8)
19:00 FranceFrance France - Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 29:31 (11:16)
21:00 RomaniaRomania Romania - SwedenSweden Sweden 24:28 (14:14)
May 26, 1996
17:00 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic - SpainSpain Spain 21:25 (10:11)
19:00 SwedenSweden Sweden - DenmarkDenmark Denmark 23:21 (12: 8)
21:00 RomaniaRomania Romania - FranceFrance France 20:27 (11:13)
May 28, 1996
17:00 DenmarkDenmark Denmark - Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 22:28 (9:12)
19:00 SpainSpain Spain - RomaniaRomania Romania 26:21 (15:10)
21:00 SwedenSweden Sweden - FranceFrance France 26:20 (13:12)
May 29, 1996
17:00 DenmarkDenmark Denmark - RomaniaRomania Romania 21:27 (10:15)
19:00 FranceFrance France - SpainSpain Spain 29:21 (16:13)
21:00 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic - SwedenSweden Sweden 17:24 (7:13)

Placement games

In addition to the best two teams in each group that contested the semi-finals, the other teams played placement games. The equally ranked teams of the two groups played against each other.

Game for 11th place

May 31, 1996
17:00 SloveniaSlovenia Slovenia - DenmarkDenmark Denmark 27:24 (12:11)

Play for 9th place

May 31, 1996
19:00 HungaryHungary Hungary - RomaniaRomania Romania 27:28 (13:12)

Game for 7th place

May 31, 1996
17:00 GermanyGermany Germany - FranceFrance France 21:24 (9:13)

Play for 5th place

May 31, 1996
21:00 CroatiaCroatia Croatia - Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 27:25 (14: 7)

Final round

Semifinals

May 31, 1996
19:00 SpainSpain Spain - Yugoslavia Federal Republic 1992Yugoslavia Yugoslavia 27:23 (12: 7)
21:00 RussiaRussia Russia - SwedenSweden Sweden 24:21 (11: 8)

3rd place match

June 2, 1996
11:30 Yugoslavia Federal Republic 1992Yugoslavia Yugoslavia - SwedenSweden Sweden 26:25 (13:15)

final

June 2, 1996
13:30 RussiaRussia Russia - SpainSpain Spain 23:22 (13: 9)

Final score

Pl. team
1. RussiaRussia Russia
2. SpainSpain Spain
3. Yugoslavia Federal Republic 1992Yugoslavia Yugoslavia
4th SwedenSweden Sweden
5. CroatiaCroatia Croatia
6th Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic
7th FranceFrance France
8th. GermanyGermany Germany
9. RomaniaRomania Romania
10. HungaryHungary Hungary
11. SloveniaSlovenia Slovenia
12. DenmarkDenmark Denmark

List of goalscorers

Pl. player team Gates
1 Thomas Knorr GermanyGermany Germany 41
2 Patrik Ćavar CroatiaCroatia Croatia 40
3 Stéphane Stoecklin FranceFrance France 38
Talant Dujshebaev SpainSpain Spain 38

Allstar team

position Surname country
Goal: Jaume Fort Mauri SpainSpain Spain
Left winger:
Back left:
Back center:
Back right:
Right winger:
Circle:
Most Valuable Player (MVP): Talant Dujshebaev SpainSpain Spain

Team squad

European champion: Russia

Coach: Vladimir Maximov

Second place: Spain

Coach: Juan de Dios Román

Third place: Yugoslavia

Coach: Zoran Živković

Eighth place: Germany

Trainer: Arno Ehret

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