Women's Handball World Championship 1978

7th Women's Handball World Championship 1978
7th Women's Handball World Championship
Number of nations	12
World Champion	DDR (3rd title)
venue	Czechoslovakia
Opening game	November 30, 1978
Endgame	December 10, 1978
Games	33
Gates	1,025   (∅: 31.06 per game)
Top scorer	Milena Foltynova Kristina Hochmuth (41 goals)
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The 7th handball world championship for women was held from November 30th to December 10th 1978 in Czechoslovakia . A total of twelve teams competed in the preliminary round in three groups. This was followed by the final round, in which places 1–6 were played in a group, as well as placement games in a group for places 7–9. The GDR was able to successfully defend its title from 1975 and again relegated the Soviet Union and Hungary to their places.

Attendees

Europe (9 participants)
Czechoslovakia	host
GDR	Qualified by the 1975 Handball World Championship
Soviet Union
Hungary
Yugoslavia	Qualified by the handball B-WM 1977
Poland
Romania
BR Germany
Netherlands

Asia (1 participant)

South Korea

Africa (1 participant)

Algeria

America (1 participant)

Canada

Preliminary round

The best two teams in each group qualified for the final round and the third for the placement round.

Group A

Group A games were played in Gottwaldov .

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	GDR	3	3	-	-	57:35	6-0
2	Yugoslavia	3	2	-	1	58:50	4: 2
3	Romania	3	1	-	2	43:41	2: 4
4th	South Korea	3	-	-	3	45:77	0: 6

November 30, 1978, 5:00 p.m.	Yugoslavia	-	South Korea	28:21 (14:10)0
November 30, 1978, 6:30 p.m.	GDR	-	Romania	13: 9 (7: 6)00
0December 1, 1978, 5:00 p.m.	Yugoslavia	-	Romania	16:14 (11: 6)0
0December 1, 1978, 6:30 p.m.	GDR	-	South Korea	29:12 (12: 6)0
0December 3, 1978, 3:30 p.m.	Romania	-	South Korea	20:12 (11: 6)0
0December 3, 1978, 5:15 p.m.	GDR	-	Yugoslavia	15:14 (7: 7)0

Group B

Group B games were played in Trnava .

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Czechoslovakia	3	3	-	-	62:28	6-0
2	Soviet Union	3	2	-	1	59:28	4: 2
3	Netherlands	3	1	-	2	51:50	2: 4
4th	Algeria	3	-	-	3	14:80	0: 6

November 30, 1978, 5:00 p.m.	Czechoslovakia	-	Algeria	31: 5 (19: 1)00
November 30, 1978, 6:30 p.m.	Soviet Union	-	Netherlands	26:12 (15: 7)0
0December 1, 1978, 5:00 p.m.	Czechoslovakia	-	Netherlands	20:13 (12: 4)0
0December 1, 1978, 6:30 p.m.	Soviet Union	-	Algeria	23: 5 (13: 1)00
0December 3, 1978, 3:30 p.m.	Netherlands	-	Algeria	26: 4 (13: 0)00
0December 3, 1978, 5:15 p.m.	Czechoslovakia	-	Soviet Union	11:10 (5: 5)0

Group C

The group C games were played in Cheb .

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Hungary	3	3	-	-	72:37	6-0
2	Poland	3	2	-	1	58:52	4: 2
3	BR Germany	3	1	-	2	48:47	2: 4
4th	Canada	3	-	-	3	32:74	0: 6

November 30, 1978, 5:00 p.m.	Poland	-	Canada	28:16 (14: 4)0
November 30, 1978, 6:30 p.m.	Hungary	-	BR Germany	25:13 (10: 5)0
0December 1, 1978, 5:00 p.m.	Poland	-	BR Germany	16:15 (5: 8)0
0December 1, 1978, 6:30 p.m.	Hungary	-	Canada	26:10 (15: 6)0
0December 3, 1978, 3:30 p.m.	BR Germany	-	Canada	20: 6 (10: 2)00
0December 3, 1978, 5:15 p.m.	Hungary	-	Poland	21:14 (12: 9)0

Placement round (places 7–9)

The placement round matches were played in Bratislava .

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
7th	Romania	2	2	-	-	35:26	4-0
8th	BR Germany	2	1	-	1	27:27	2: 2
9	Netherlands	2	-	-	2	36:45	0: 4

December 5, 1978, __: __ am	Romania	-	BR Germany	10: 7 (6: 3)00
December 6, 1978, 2:30 p.m.	BR Germany	-	Netherlands	20:17 (13: 8)0
December 7, 1978, __: __ am	Romania	-	Netherlands	25:19 (14: 8)0

Final round (places 1–6)

In the final round held in Bratislava , the results of the direct duels of the preliminary round groups were adopted. After that, all teams played against each other that were not in the same preliminary group.

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	GDR	5	4th	-	1	82:55	8: 2
2	Soviet Union	5	4th	-	1	75:52	8: 2
3	Hungary	5	3	-	2	67:72	6: 4
4th	Czechoslovakia	5	2	1	2	71:60	5: 5
5	Yugoslavia	5	1	1	3	68:71	3: 7
6th	Poland	5	-	-	5	050: 103	00:10

Group A	GDR	-	Yugoslavia	15:14 (7: 7)0
Group B	Czechoslovakia	-	Soviet Union	11:10 (5: 5)0
Group C	Hungary	-	Poland	21:14 (12: 9)0
0December 5, 1978, 3:30 p.m.	GDR	-	Poland	25:10 (11: 4)0
0December 5, 1978, 6:30 p.m.	Yugoslavia	-	Czechoslovakia	13:13 (8: 7)0
0December 5, 1978, 8:00 p.m.	Soviet Union	-	Hungary	19:13 (9: 5)0
0December 6, 1978, 4:00 p.m.	Yugoslavia	-	Poland	18:14 (8: 4)0
0December 6, 1978, 6:30 p.m.	Hungary	-	Czechoslovakia	14:13 (9: 5)0
0December 6, 1978, 8:00 p.m.	Soviet Union	-	GDR	14:12 (10: 5)0
0December 8, 1978, 4:00 p.m.	GDR	-	Hungary	14: 5 (7: 2)00
0December 8, 1978, 6:30 p.m.	Czechoslovakia	-	Poland	22: 7 (10: 4)00
0December 8, 1978, 8:00 p.m.	Soviet Union	-	Yugoslavia	15:11 (10: 5)0
December 10, 1978, 10:30 a.m.	Hungary	-	Yugoslavia	14:12 (8: 7)0
December 10, 1978, 3 p.m.	Soviet Union	-	Poland	17: 5 (7: 1)00
December 10, 1978, 4:30 p.m.	GDR	-	Czechoslovakia	16:12 (8: 5)0

Placements

The teams in places 1-5 qualified for the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow .

space	country
	GDR
	Soviet Union
	Hungary
4th	Czechoslovakia
5	Yugoslavia
6th	Poland
7th	Romania
8th	BR Germany
9	Netherlands
10	South Korea
	Canada
	Algeria

Team squad

World Champion: German Democratic Republic

Player (club)	Player (club)	Player (club)
goal	Back room	Outside / circle
Hannelore Zober ( SC Leipzig )	Waltraud Kretzschmar (SC Leipzig)	Marion Tietz (TSC Berlin)
Hannelore Burosch ( SC Empor Rostock )	Evelyn Matz (TSC Berlin)	Eva Langenberg (SC Leipzig)
Renate Rudolph ( TSC Berlin )	Kristina Richter (TSC Berlin)	Christina Rost (SC Leipzig)
	Kornelia Elbe ( SC Magdeburg )	Claudia Wunderlich (SC Magdeburg)
	Roswitha Krause (TSC Berlin)	Petra Uhlig (SC Leipzig)
	Sabine Röther (SC Empor Rostock)	Birgit Heinecke (SC Magdeburg)
	Katrin Krüger ( ASK Forward Frankfurt )
Trainer : Peter Kretzschmar
Co-Trainer : Klaus Franke

Eighth place: Federal Republic of Germany

Player (club)	Player (club)	Player (club)
goal	Back room	Outside / circle
Renate Schulzki ( Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	Anni Placht ( DJK Würzburg )	Ursula Gertz ( SC Greven 09 )
Karin Wagner ( TuS Eintracht Minden )	Bärbel Bock (Holstein Kiel)	Petra Platen (Bayer 04 Leverkusen)
Petra Sasse ( Holstein Kiel )	Veronika Maaß (TuS Eintracht Minden)	Sigrid Bierbaum (TuS Eintracht Minden)
	Britta Vattes (Bayer 04 Leverkusen)	Ottrun Weber (PSV Grünweiß Frankfurt)
	Sigrid Berndt (Bayer 04 Leverkusen)	Ilona Sundermeier (TuS Eintracht Minden)
	Dagmar Stelberg ( VfL Engelskirchen )	Renate Wolf (Bayer 04 Leverkusen)
	Hannelore Koch ( PSV Grünweiß Frankfurt )
Trainer : Werner Vick

literature

• Manfred Seifert: The year of sport 1980 . Sportverlag Berlin, 1980, ISSN  0232-2137 , p. 180-181 .
• Foosball sports magazine . Week 48-49, No. 96 -98 (November-December). Olympia-Verlag , Nuremberg 1978.
• New Germany . No. 283-292 . Socialist Unity Party of Germany, 1978, ISSN  0323-3375 .

Web links

• Statistics WM 1978. (PDF; 82 kB) International Handball Federation , accessed on February 19, 2012 . 
• Statistics World Cup women. German Handball Federation , accessed on February 19, 2012 (English). 
• Todor Krastev: 1978 Women's World Cup. Accessed February 19, 2012 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 7th indoor handball world championship for women 1978. In: Frauenhandball-archiv.jimdo.com . Retrieved October 1, 2019 .