Handball world championship
| Men's handball world championship | |
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| Full name | IHF Men's World Championship |
| Association | IHF |
| First edition | 1938 |
| Teams | 24 |
| Game mode |
Round tournament (4 groups of 6 teams each) |
| Title holder |
 Denmark (1)
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| Record winner |
 France (6)
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| Website | www.ihf.info |
The men's handball world championship (officially IHF Men's World Championship ) is a handball tournament to determine the best national handball team in the world. The organizer is the International Handball Federation (IHF). For the first time in 1938 world championships for men in field handball and indoor handball were held. After the end of World War II , the two tournaments took place at irregular intervals, usually every three or four years. The last field handball world championship was held in Austria in 1966 . The tournament has been held every two years since 1993.
The current handball world champion in the hall is Denmark . France is the record world champion with six titles. The last handball world championship took place in Denmark and Germany in 2019.
The tournaments at a glance
The German Reich at the time secured its first indoor handball world title in 1938. The world championship tournaments were only resumed after the end of the Second World War. At the 1954 World Cup, host country Sweden won the World Cup. By the fall of 1989, the Federal Republic had once achieved the world championship title. Germany was last world champion at the World Cup in its own country in 2007. This title win under coach Heiner Brand was referred to in the media as a "winter fairy tale". With a total of six world championship titles, one second place and four third places, the French team leads the ranking in men's handball.
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Medal table
Status after 26 World Championships, including 2019.
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| 1 |
France
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6th | 1 | 4th | 11 |
| 2 |
 Sweden
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4th | 3 | 4th | 11 |
| 3 |
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4th | - | 2 | 6th |
| 4th |
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3 (0) |
4 (2) |
3 (2) |
10 (4) |
| 5 |
 Russia (of which Soviet Union ) 
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3 (1) |
3 (2) |
- (-) |
6 (3) |
| 6th |
 Spain
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2 | - | 1 | 3 |
| 7th |
 Croatia
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1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
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Denmark
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1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | |
| 9 |
 Czechoslovakia
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1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 10 |
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1 (1) |
1 (1) |
4 (2) |
6 (4) |
| 11 |
 Norway
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- | 2 | - | 2 |
| 12 |
 Poland
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- | 1 | 3 | 4th |
| 13 |
 Hungary
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- | 1 | - | 1 |
 Austria
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- | 1 | - | 1 | |
 Qatar
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- | 1 | - | 1 | |
| 16 |
 Slovenia
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- | - | 1 | 1 |
Placements of the German-speaking countries at world championships
| 1938 | 54 | 58 | 61 | 64 | 67 | 70 | 74 | 78 | 82 | 86 | 90 | 93 | 95 | 97 | 99 | 2001 | 03 | 05 | 07 | 09 | 11 | 13 | 15th | 17th | 19th | |
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| Germany | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 4th | 6th | 5 | 9 | 1 | 7th | 7th | / | 6th | 4th | / | 5 | 8th | 2 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 7th | 9 | 4th |
| GDR | - | 9 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6th | 3 | 8th | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Austria | 2 | / | V | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | 14th | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | 18th | / | 13 | / | 19th |
| Switzerland | / | 4th | / | V | V | V | V | / | / | 12 | 11 | 13 | 4th | 7th | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / |
| Luxembourg | / | / | 16 | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / |
- At the World Championships in 1958 and 1961, a joint team from the GDR and the Federal Republic of Germany competed.
- / = did not participate or did not qualify; V = eliminated in the preliminary round (without placement)
Varia
| competition | places | Stages | Messages | Teams | Games |
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| 2001 | 8th | 8th | 24 | 80 | 4,004 | 55.05 | |||||||||
| 2003 | 9 | 9 | 24 | 84 | 4,638 | 55.21 | |||||||||
| 2005 | 6th | 6th | 24 | 86 | 4,825 | 56.10 | 516 | 6.00 | 912 | 10.60 | 51 | 0.59 | |||
| 2007 | 12 | 12 | 24 | 92 | 5,325 | 57.88 | 514 | 5.59 | 751 | 8.16 | 33 | 0.36 | |||
| 2009 | 7th | 7th | 24 | 110 | 6,090 | 55.36 | 392,550 | 3,569 | 673 | 6.12 | 874 | 7.95 | 29 | 0.26 | |
| 2011 | 8th | 8th | 68 | 24 | 98 | 5,390 | 55.00 | 399.019 | 4,072 | 583 | 5.95 | 798 | 8.14 | 31 | 0.32 |
| 2013 | 6th | 6th | 68 | 24 | 84 | 4,529 | 53.92 | 514 | 6.12 | 667 | 7.94 | 22nd | 0.26 | ||
| 2015 | 1 | 3 | 67 | 24 | 88 | 4,805 | 54.60 | 306.100 | 3,478 | 528 | 6.00 | 871 | 9.90 | 38 | 0.43 |
| 2017 | 8th | 8th | > 74 | 24 | 84 | 4,643 | 55.30 | 551.879 | 6,570 | 403 | 4.8 | 615 | 7.32 | 20th | 0.24 |
| 2019 | 8th | 8th | > 83 | 24 | 96 | 5,239 | 54.57 | 906.283 | 9,440 | 318 | 3.31 | 774 | 8.06 | 26th | 0.27 |
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Participant overview
B and C world championships
As qualifying tournaments for the handball world championship, B and C world championships took place from 1977 to 1992, the first and second placed in the next higher division and the last two placed in the lower group:
- B World Cup for men in the odd years from 1977 to 1989 and 1992,
- C-World Cup for men in the even years from 1976 to 1990.
Web links
- The history of the sport of handball
- German Handball Federation
- International Handball Federation (IHF)
Germany 1938 | Sweden 1954 | GDR 1958 | Federal Republic of Germany 1961 | Czechoslovakia 1964 | Sweden 1967 • QF | France 1970 • QF | GDR 1974 • QF | Denmark 1978 • QF | Federal Republic of Germany 1982 • QF | Switzerland 1986 • QF | Czechoslovakia 1990 • QF | Sweden 1993 • QF | Iceland 1995 • QF | Japan 1997 • QF | Egypt 1999 • QF | France 2001 • QF | Portugal 2003 • QF | Tunisia 2005 • QF | Germany 2007 • QF | Croatia 2009 • QF | Sweden 2011 • QF | Spain 2013 • QF | Qatar 2015 • QF | France 2017 • QF | Denmark / Germany 2019 • QF | Egypt 2021 • QF | Poland / Sweden 2023 • QF | Croatia / Denmark / Norway 2025 • QF | Germany 2027 • QF