European Women's Handball Championship 1996

2nd European Women's Handball Championship 1996
1996 Women's EHF European Handball Championship
Number of nations	12
European champion	Denmark (2nd title)
venue	Denmark
Opening game	December 6, 1996
Endgame	December 15, 1996
Games	38

The 2nd European Women's Handball Championship took place from December 6th to 15th, 1996 in Denmark . The team from Denmark secured the title, Austria came third and Germany came fourth.

Attendees

Group A	Group B
Austria	Germany
Croatia	Norway
Denmark	Lithuania
Hungary	Romania
Poland	Russia
Sweden	Ukraine

Brøndby Vejle Fredericia Herning

Venues

Venues

The European Championship games were played in the following four cities:

• Brøndby
• Fredericia
• Herning
• Vejle

Preliminary round

Group A

Group A games were played in Brøndby and Herning.

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Pt.
1	Denmark	5	5	0	0	148: 101	+47	10
2	Austria	5	4th	0	1	125: 105	+20	8th
3	Croatia	5	3	0	2	121: 120	+ 01	6th
4th	Sweden	5	2	0	3	114: 139	−25	4th
5	Hungary	5	1	0	4th	109: 127	−18	2
6th	Poland	5	0	0	5	107: 132	−25	0

December 6, 1996
17:00	Hungary	-	Poland	21:19 (10:10)
19:00	Denmark	-	Sweden	30:13 (13: 6)
21:00	Croatia	-	Austria	21:25 (9:12)
December 7, 1996
15:00	Sweden	-	Hungary	31:26 (13:13)
18:00	Poland	-	Croatia	21:25 (11:11)
19:00	Austria	-	Denmark	16:29 (6:14)
December 8, 1996
15:00	Sweden	-	Austria	18:31 (9:13)
17:00	Hungary	-	Croatia	19:24 (11:13)
19:00	Denmark	-	Poland	33:22 (14: 9)
December 10, 1996
17:00	Poland	-	Sweden	23:24 (7:16)
19:00	Croatia	-	Denmark	22:27 (10:14)
21:00	Hungary	-	Austria	15:24 (7:11)
December 11, 1996
17:00	Croatia	-	Sweden	29:28 (15:14)
19:00	Denmark	-	Hungary	29:28 (14:14)
21:00	Austria	-	Poland	29:22 (15:10)

Group B

Group B games took place in Vejle and Fredericia.

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Pt.
1	Norway	5	3	2	0	134: 106	+28	8th
2	Germany	5	4th	0	1	124: 111	+13	8th
3	Romania	5	3	1	1	132: 122	+10	7th
4th	Russia	5	2	1	2	132: 119	+13	5
5	Ukraine	5	1	0	4th	114: 122	- 08	2
6th	Lithuania	5	0	0	5	97: 153	−56	0

December 6, 1996
17:00	Norway	-	Lithuania	36:18 (17: 9)
19:00	Russia	-	Ukraine	30:23 (14:13)
21:00	Germany	-	Romania	22:21 (12:11)
December 7, 1996
14:00	Ukraine	-	Norway	19:23 (11:14)
16:00	Lithuania	-	Germany	17:27 (7:13)
18:00	Romania	-	Russia	29:26 (15:14)
December 8, 1996
14:00	Russia	-	Norway	22:22 (12: 9)
16:00	Germany	-	Ukraine	25:23 (13:10)
18:00	Romania	-	Lithuania	32:26 (16:12)
December 10, 1996
17:00	Ukraine	-	Romania	22:24 (13:13)
19:00	Russia	-	Lithuania	31:16 (14: 8)
21:00	Norway	-	Germany	27:21 (11: 7)
December 11, 1996
17:00	Norway	-	Romania	26:26 (12:16)
19:00	Lithuania	-	Ukraine	20:27 (12:16)
21:00	Germany	-	Russia	29:23 (14:11)

Placement games

Game for 11th place

December 13, 1996
17:00	Poland	-	Lithuania	30:27 a.d. (23:23, 11:11)

Play for 9th place

December 13, 1996
16:00	Hungary	-	Ukraine	22:27 (14:14)

Game for 7th place

December 13, 1996
18:00	Sweden	-	Russia	28:32 (15:18)

Play for 5th place

December 13, 1996
20:00	Croatia	-	Romania	17:23 (10: 9)

Final round

The games of the final round took place in Herning.

	Semifinals				final
	December 13, 1996, Herning
	Denmark	24
	Germany	22nd
					December 15, 1996, Herning
					Denmark	25th
					Norway	23
					Game for third place
	December 13, 1996, Herning				December 15, 1996, Herning
	Norway	22nd			Austria	30th
	Austria	20th			Germany	23

Semifinals

December 13, 1996
19:00	Denmark	-	Germany	24:22 (13:10)
21:00	Norway	-	Austria	22:20 (11:11)

3rd place match

December 15, 1996
14:00	Austria	-	Germany	30:23 (18: 8)

final

December 13, 1996
16:00	Denmark	-	Norway	25:23 (10:10)

Final score

Pl.	team
01.	Denmark
02.	Norway
03.	Austria
04th	Germany
05.	Romania
06th	Croatia
07th	Russia
08th.	Sweden
09.	Ukraine
10.	Hungary
11.	Poland
12.	Lithuania

Web links

• Tournament on eurohandball.com