Men's handball world championship 1970

7th men's handball world championship 1970
Number of nations	16
World Champion	Romania (3rd title)
venue	France
Opening game	February 26, 1970
Endgame	March 8, 1970
Games	42
Gates	1,262   (∅: 30.05 per game)
Top scorer	Vladimir Maximov , 31 goals
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The 7th men's handball world championship took place in France from February 26 to March 8, 1970 . A total of 16 teams took part in the tournament. Romania secured the world championship title , which won the final with 13:12 after the second extra time against the GDR team . The team from the Federal Republic of Germany finished fifth.

game schedule

Preliminary round

In the preliminary round, the teams competed in four groups with four teams each. The two best placed in each group qualified for the main round, the third placed played in a group for places 9 to 12, the fourth placed were eliminated.

Group A

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Sweden	3	2	0	1	30:27	4: 2
2	GDR	3	2	0	1	32:30	4: 2
3	Soviet Union	3	2	0	1	33:33	4: 2
4th	Norway	3	0	0	3	23:28	0: 6

02/26/1970, in Saint-Nazaire	GDR	-	USSR	13:11 (8-6)
February 26, 1970, in Quimper	Sweden	-	Norway	8: 6 (5-2)
February 28, 1970, in Rennes	USSR	-	Norway	10: 9 (5-4)
February 28, 1970, in Rennes	Sweden	-	GDR	11: 9
03/01/1970	GDR	-	Norway	10: 8 (5-3)
March 1st, 1970, in Nantes	USSR	-	Sweden	12:11 (6-5)

Group B

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Czechoslovakia	3	3	0	0	58:33	6-0
2	Yugoslavia	3	1	1	1	66:41	3: 3
3	Japan	3	1	1	1	47:51	3: 3
4th	United States	3	0	0	3	32:78	0: 6

February 26, 1970, in Bayonne	Czechoslovakia	-	Japan	19: 9 (8-1)
February 26, 1970, in Angoulême	Yugoslavia	-	United States	34: 8 (22-3)
February 28, 1970, in Agen	Czechoslovakia	-	United States	23: 9 (13-5)
February 28, 1970, in Agen	Yugoslavia	-	Japan	17:17 (10-8)
03/01/1970	Japan	-	United States	21:15 (10-7)
March 1st, 1970, in Toulouse	Czechoslovakia	-	Yugoslavia	16:15 (8-11)

Group C

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	BR Germany	3	3	0	0	41:36	6-0
2	Romania	3	2	0	1	48:31	4: 2
3	France	3	1	0	2	36:39	2: 4
4th	Switzerland	3	0	0	3	29:48	0: 6

February 26, 1970, in Paris	Romania	-	France	12: 9 (7-2)
February 26th, 1970, in Rouen	BR Germany	-	Switzerland	11:10 (7-3)
February 28, 1970, in Amiens	Romania	-	Switzerland	22: 7 (9-6)
February 28, 1970, in Évreux	BR Germany	-	France	15:12 (10-6)
March 1st, 1970, in Caen	France	-	Switzerland	15:12 (7-3)
March 1st, 1970, in Caen	BR Germany	-	Romania	15:14 (5-9)

Group D

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Hungary	3	3	0	0	58:37	6-0
2	Denmark	3	2	0	1	61:53	4: 2
3	Iceland	3	1	0	2	43:56	2: 4
4th	Poland	3	0	0	3	43:59	0: 6

02/26/1970, in Longwy	Denmark	-	Poland	23:16 (10-6)
February 26th, 1970, in Mulhouse	Hungary	-	Iceland	19: 9 (9-3)
February 28, 1970, in Hagondange	Denmark	-	Iceland	19:13 (11-9)
February 28, 1970, in Strasbourg	Hungary	-	Poland	15: 9 (4-4)
March 1st, 1970, in Metz	Iceland	-	Poland	21:18 (14-9)
March 1st, 1970, in Metz	Hungary	-	Denmark	24:19 (13-6)

Placement rounds 9-12 in Paris

The third-placed teams in the preliminary round played in a second group stage for places 9 to 12.

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
9	Soviet Union	3	3	0	0	72:41	6-0
10	Japan	3	2	0	1	54:60	4: 2
11	Iceland	3	1	0	2	53:56	2: 4
12	France	3	0	0	3	44:66	0: 6

03/03/1970	USSR	-	France	25:14
03/03/1970	Japan	-	Iceland	20:19 (12-9)
03/04/1970	USSR	-	Iceland	19:15 (12-8)
05.03.1970	Japan	-	France	22:13 (13-7)
03/06/1970	USSR	-	Japan	28:12 (11-6)
03/06/1970	Iceland	-	France	19:17 (12-10)

Main round

The two best-placed teams in each preliminary group reached the main round, which was held as the quarter-finals. The teams from groups A and C or B and D played against each other in crossover games (second in one group against winners in the other group). The respective winners reached the semi-finals, the losers played in the placement round for places 5 to 8.

Quarter finals

03.03.1970, in Paris	Romania	-	Sweden	15:13 (10-6)
03.03.1970, in Orléans	GDR	-	BR Germany	18:17 a.d. (16-16) (8-11)
03.03.1970, in Besançon	Denmark	-	Czechoslovakia	18:16 (10-7)
03.03.1970, in Grenoble	Yugoslavia	-	Hungary	11:10 (5-6)

Placement round

Placement round places 5–8

March 5th, 1970, 8.30 p.m., in Évreux	Sweden	-	Czechoslovakia	12:11 (5-7)
March 5th, 1970, 8.30 p.m., in Troyes	BR Germany	-	Hungary	15:13 (8-7)

Game for 7th place in Paris

March 8, 1970

Czechoslovakia

-

Hungary

21:14

Play for 5th place in Paris

07.03.1970, 7.30 p.m.

BR Germany

-

Sweden

15:14 (8-8)

Final round

Semifinals

March 5th, 1970, 8.30 p.m., in Lyon	Romania	-	Denmark	18:12 (9-6)
March 5th, 1970, 8.30 p.m., in Bordeaux	GDR	-	Yugoslavia	17:13 (8-6)

Game for 3rd place in Paris

07.03.1970

Yugoslavia

-

Denmark

29:12 (13-6)

Final in Paris

March 8, 1970, 4.30 p.m.

Romania

-

GDR

13:12 a.d. (12-12, 11-11, 10-10) (4-5)

Final placements

rank	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.
	Romania	6th	5	0	1	94: 68	+ 026
	GDR	6th	4th	0	2	79: 73	+ 06
	Yugoslavia	6th	3	1	2	119: 80	+ 039
04th	Denmark	6th	3	0	3	103: 116	- 013
05.	BR Germany	6th	5	0	1	88: 81	+ 07
06th	Sweden	6th	4th	0	2	69: 68	+ 01
07th	Czechoslovakia	6th	4th	0	2	106: 77	+ 029
08th.	Hungary	6th	3	0	3	95: 84	+ 011
09.	Soviet Union	6th	4th	0	2	105: 74	+ 031
10.	Japan	6th	3	1	2	101: 111	- 010
11.	Iceland	6th	2	0	4th	96: 112	- 016
12.	France	6th	1	0	5	80: 105	- 025
13.	Norway	3	0	0	3	23:28	- 05th
14th	Poland	3	0	0	3	43: 59	- 016
15th	Switzerland	3	0	0	3	29:48	- 019th
16.	United States	3	0	0	3	32: 78	- 046

statistics

Goal scorers

Pl.	player	team	Gates
01.	Vladimir Maximov	Soviet Union	31
02.	Gheorghe Gruia	Romania	30th
03.	Karlheinz Rost	GDR	29
04th	Hans Jørn Graversen	Denmark	27
05.	Zlatko Žagmešter	Yugoslavia	22nd
	Branislav Pokrajac	Yugoslavia	22nd
07th	Nobuyuki Iida	Japan	21st
08th.	Bjorn Andersson	Sweden	20th
	Minoru cinema	Japan	20th
	Jaroslav Konečný	Czechoslovakia	20th
	Michel Richard	France	20th

Bids

Medalist

Romania	GDR	Yugoslavia
Alexandru Dincă Ștefan Orban Cornel Penu Ștefan Birtalan Cristian Gațu Gheorghe Goran Gheorghe Gruia Roland Gunesch Gabriel Kicsid Gheorghe Licu Mihai Marinescu Titus Moldovan Cezar Nica Cornel Oțelea Ion Popescu Valentin Samungi	Reiner Frieske Klaus Prüsse Reiner Ganschow Klaus Langhoff Gerhard Gernhöfer Wolf-Dietrich Neiling Werner Senger Rainer Zimmermann Klaus Petzold Wolfgang Lakenmacher Josef Rose Karlheinz Rost Harry Zörnack Horst Jankhöfer Peter Randt Klaus Franke	Abas Arslanagić Boris Kostic Dragutin Mervar Miroslav Pribanić Zlatko Žagmešter Branislav Pokrajac Hrvoje Horvat Djordje Lavrnić Čedomir Bugarski Milorad Karalić Nebojša Popović Slobodan Mišković Milan Lazarević Marijan Jakšeković Milan Krstić Petar Fajfrić Josip Milković
Eugen Trofin (trainer)	Heinz Seiler (trainer)	Vlado Stenzel (trainer)

5th place: Federal Republic of Germany

Hans-Jürgen Bode Klaus Hangover Uwe Rathjen Jochen Brand Peter Bucher Jochen Feldhoff

Diethard Finkelmann Peter Goertz Herbert Lübking Heiner Möller Max Muller Bernd Munck

Peter Neuhaus Herbert Rogge Hans-Günther Schmidt Herbert Wehnert Gerd Welz

Trainer: Werner Vick

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Web links

• Statistics on the 1970 Handball World Cup (PDF file; 95 kB)
• Results of the 1970 World Handball Championship