Men's handball world championship 1954

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2nd men's handball world championship 1954
Number of nations 6th
World Champion SwedenSweden Sweden (1st title)
venue SwedenSweden Sweden
Opening game January 13, 1954
Endgame 17th January 1954
Games   9
Gates 274   (∅: 30.44 per game)
Top scorer Otto Maychrzak , 16 goals Germany BRBR Germany
Best player Bernhard Kempa Germany BRBR Germany
←  WM 1938

The 2nd handball world championship took place from January 13th to 17th, 1954 in Sweden . The tournament took Denmark , the Czechoslovakia , the Switzerland , the Federal Republic of Germany , France and hosts Sweden in part.

The game was played in two preliminary round groups, the respective group winners reached the final. There the team of hosts under Curt Wadmark prevailed against the German team with 17:14 (8: 5).

Group A

Pl. team Sp. S. U N Gates Pt.
1 SwedenSweden Sweden 2 2 0 0 39:22 4th
2 CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 2 1 0 1 32:36 2
3 DenmarkDenmark Denmark 2 0 0 2 21:34 0
January 13, 1954, in Gothenburg SwedenSweden Sweden - DenmarkDenmark Denmark 16: 8 (7: 5)
January 14, 1954, in Jönköping CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia - DenmarkDenmark Denmark 18:13 (9: 8)
January 15, 1954, in Örebro SwedenSweden Sweden - CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 23:14 (10: 6)

Group B

Pl. team Sp. S. U N Gates Pt.
1 Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany 2 2 0 0 47:13 4th
2 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 2 0 1 1 20:31 1
3 FranceFrance France 2 0 1 1 15:38 1
January 13, 1954, in Kristianstad Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany - FranceFrance France 27: 4 (12: 1)
January 14, 1954, in Malmo FranceFrance France - SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 11:11 (3: 2)
January 15, 1954, in Lund Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany - SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 20: 9 (10: 5)

Final round

Play for 5th place in Växjö

January 16, 1954 DenmarkDenmark Denmark - FranceFrance France 23:11 (9: 3)

Game for 3rd place in Gothenburg

17th January 1954 CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia - SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 24:11 (13: 4)

Final in Gothenburg

17th January 1954 SwedenSweden Sweden - Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany 17:14 (8: 5)

Final placements

rank team Sp. S. U N Gates Diff.
gold SwedenSweden Sweden 3 3 0 0 56:36 + 020
silver Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany 3 2 0 1 61:30 + 031
bronze CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 3 2 0 1 56:47 + 09
04th SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 3 0 1 2 31:55 - 024
05. DenmarkDenmark Denmark 3 1 0 2 44:45 - 01
06th FranceFrance France 3 0 1 2 26:61 - 035

Awards

statistics

Goal scorers

Pl. player team Gates
01. Otto Maychrzak Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany 16
02. Per Theilmann DenmarkDenmark Denmark 15th
03. Hans-Jacob Bertschinger SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 12
04th Jiří Korbel CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 11
05. Horst Käsler Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany 10
Oldřich Spáčil CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 10
Carl-Erik Stockenberg SwedenSweden Sweden 10
08th. Rolf Almqvist SwedenSweden Sweden 9
Svend Aage Madsen DenmarkDenmark Denmark 9
010. Lindqvist rune SwedenSweden Sweden 8th

Bids

Medalist

Gold medal icon.svg
SwedenSweden Sweden 		Silver medal icon.svg
Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany 		Bronze medal icon.svg
CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia
Gunnar Brusberg
Roland Mattsson
Sten Åkerstedt
Rolf Almqvist
Kjell Jönsson
Per-Olof Larsson
Rune Lindqvist
Åke Moberg
Hans Olsson
Bertil Rönndahl
Ewerth Sjunnesson
Carl-Erik Stockenberg
Rolf Zachrisson 		Harry Kamm
Fredi Pankonin
Markus Bernhard
Heinrich Dahlinger
Adolf Giele
Karl Hebel
Horst Käsler
Bernhard Kempa
Otto Maychrzak
Herbert Podolske
Wolfgang Schütze
Hinrich Schwenker
Werner Vick 		Miloš Bačák
Miroslav Baumruk
Karel Čermák
Jiří Klemm
Jiří Korbel
Bedřich King
Alois Navrátil
Vladimír Nykl
Zdeněk Pešl
Dušan Ruža
Oldřich Spáčil
Josef Trojan
Jiří Vícha
Curt Wadmark (trainer) Fritz Fromm (trainer) Jan Voreth (trainer)

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Individual evidence