Men's handball world championship 2001

17th men's handball world championship 2001
17th Men's Handball World Championship
Number of nations	24
World Champion	France (2nd title)
venue	France
Opening game	January 23, 2001
Endgame	February 4, 2001
Games	80
Gates	4,004   (∅: 50.05 per game)
Top scorer	Eduard Koksharow , 61 goals
Best player	Stefan Lövgren (MVP)
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The 17th men's handball world championship was held from January 23 to February 4, 2001 in France . A total of 24 teams initially competed against each other in groups. This was followed by elimination games with round of 16 , quarter-finals , semi-finals and finals as well as placement games for places three to eight. France became world champions in 2001 after beating Sweden 28:25 in the final.

game schedule

Group stage

The preliminary round was held from January 23 to January 28, 2001. The first four in each group qualified for the round of 16.

Group A in Montpellier

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Sweden	147: 112	10
2	Egypt	124: 115	7th
3	Iceland	125: 119	5
4th	Portugal	122: 122	4th
5	Czech Republic	136: 136	4th
6th	Morocco	112: 162	0

	Tue, January 23, 2001, 2.30 p.m.	Egypt	- Morocco	28: 19 (14: 6)
	Tue, January 23, 2001, 6.30 p.m.	Portugal	- Czech Republic	29: 19 (14:10)
	Tue, January 23, 2001, 8.30 p.m.	Sweden	- Iceland	24: 21 (13: 9)
	Wed, January 24, 2001, 4.30 p.m.	Czech Republic	- Egypt	26: 26 (16:14)
	Wed, January 24, 2001, 6.30 p.m.	Iceland	- Portugal	22: 19 (10:11)
	Wed, January 24, 2001, 8.30 p.m.	Morocco	- Sweden	21: 33 (11:21)
	Thursday, January 25, 2001, 6:30 p.m.	Morocco	- Iceland	23: 31 (13:16)
	Thursday, January 25, 2001, 8:30 p.m.	Egypt	- Portugal	23: 19 (9:10)
	Thursday, January 25, 2001, 8:30 p.m.	Sweden	- Czech Republic	29: 22 (15:10)
	Sat, January 27, 2001, 2 p.m.	Czech Republic	- Morocco	40: 23 (22: 9)
	Sat, January 27, 2001, 4 p.m.	Portugal	- Sweden	25: 32 (12:16)
	Sat, January 27, 2001, 6 p.m.	Egypt	- Iceland	24: 22 (12: 7)
	Sun, January 28, 2001, 2 p.m.	Portugal	- Morocco	30: 26 (11:13)
	Sun, January 28, 2001, 4 p.m.	Iceland	- Czech Republic	29: 29 (15:12)
	Sun, January 28, 2001, 6 p.m.	Sweden	- Egypt	29: 23 (14: 7)

Group B in Nantes

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	France	132: 85	10
2	Yugoslavia	146: 89	8th
3	Algeria	107: 102	5
4th	Argentina	94: 118	5
5	Brazil	108: 124	2
6th	Kuwait	76: 145	0

	Tuesday, January 23, 2001, 2 p.m.	Argentina	- Kuwait	22: 16 (14: 9)
	Tue, January 23, 2001, 6 p.m.	France	- Algeria	23: 13 (10: 4)
	Tue, January 23, 2001, 8 p.m.	Yugoslavia	- Brazil	31: 23 (15:12)
	Wed, January 24, 2001, 4 p.m.	Brazil	- Argentina	19: 20 (10: 8)
	Wed, January 24, 2001, 6 p.m.	Kuwait	- France	14: 30 (8:14)
	Wed, January 24, 2001, 8 p.m.	Algeria	- Yugoslavia	20: 23 (7:14)
	Thursday, January 25, 2001, 4 p.m.	Kuwait	- Algeria	13: 26 (3:13)
	Thursday, January 25, 2001, 6 p.m.	France	- Brazil	29: 19 (14:10)
	Thursday, January 25, 2001, 8 p.m.	Argentina	- Yugoslavia	10: 32 (2:15)
	Sat, January 27, 2001, 2 p.m.	Argentina	- Algeria	23: 23 (8:11)
	Sat, January 27, 2001, 4 p.m.	Brazil	- Kuwait	27: 19 (15: 7)
	Sat, January 27, 2001, 6 p.m.	Yugoslavia	- France	20: 22 (8:13)
	Sun, January 28, 2001, 2 p.m.	Algeria	- Brazil	25: 20 (11: 8)
	Sun, January 28, 2001, 4 p.m.	Yugoslavia	- Kuwait	40: 14 (21: 6)
	Sun, January 28, 2001, 6 p.m.	France	- Argentina	28: 19 (14:11)

Group C in Besançon

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Spain	160: 105	8th
2	Germany	157: 100	7th
3	Croatia	154: 115	7th
4th	South Korea	145: 132	6th
5	Greenland	85: 140	2
6th	United States	80: 189	0

	Tue, January 23, 2001, 2.30 p.m.	Croatia	- Greenland	25: 15 (12: 6)
	Tue, January 23, 2001, 6.30 p.m.	Germany	- USA	40: 12 (19: 6)
	Tue, January 23, 2001, 8.30 p.m.	Spain	- South Korea	26: 17 (13: 9)
	Wed, January 24, 2001, 4.30 p.m.	Greenland	- Spain	16: 31 (10:17)
	Wed, January 24, 2001, 6.30 p.m.	United States	- Croatia	12: 41 (5:21)
	Wed, January 24, 2001, 8.30 p.m.	South Korea	- Germany	26: 33 (14:16)
	Thursday, January 25, 2001, 4.30 p.m.	Spain	- USA	45: 18 (19:10)
	Thursday, January 25, 2001, 6:30 p.m.	Greenland	- South Korea	20: 27 (10:11)
	Thursday, January 25, 2001, 8:30 p.m.	Croatia	- Germany	23: 23 (12:13)
	Sat, January 27, 2001, 2 p.m.	United States	- Greenland	18: 26 (8:11)
	Sat, January 27, 2001, 4 p.m.	Germany	- Spain	22:31 (11:15)
	Sat, January 27, 2001, 6 p.m.	Croatia	- South Korea	33: 38 (18:16)
	Sun, January 28, 2001, 2 p.m.	Germany	- Greenland	39: 8 (21: 5)
	Sun, January 28, 2001, 4 p.m.	South Korea	- USA	37: 20 (17: 9)
	Sun, January 28, 2001, 6 p.m.	Spain	- Croatia	27: 32 (9:16)

Group D in Dunkirk

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Russia	140: 120	9
2	Ukraine	134: 115	6th
3	Tunisia	116: 110	6th
4th	Norway	116: 127	5
5	Slovenia	145: 137	4th
6th	Saudi Arabia	92: 134	0

	Tue, January 23, 2001, 1.30 p.m.	Slovenia	- Ukraine	28: 24 (16: 8)
	Tue, January 23, 2001, 5.30 p.m.	Russia	- Tunisia	23: 20 (13:13)
	Tue, January 23, 2001, 7.30 p.m.	Norway	- Saudi Arabia	20: 14 (9: 8)
	Wed, January 24, 2001, 3:30 p.m.	Saudi Arabia	- Slovenia	22: 35 (13:17)
	Wed, January 24, 2001, 5.30 p.m.	Ukraine	- Russia	27: 30 (12:16)
	Wed, January 24, 2001, 7.30 p.m.	Tunisia	- Norway	28: 19 (17: 6)
	Thursday, January 25, 2001, 3:30 p.m.	Ukraine	- Tunisia	24: 18 (10:11)
	Thursday, January 25, 2001, 5:30 p.m.	Russia	- Saudi Arabia	29: 18 (17:10)
	Thursday, January 25, 2001, 7.30 p.m.	Slovenia	- Norway	29: 30 (12:18)
	Sat, January 27, 2001, 2 p.m.	Saudi Arabia	- Ukraine	17: 28 (9:14)
	Sat, January 27, 2001, 4 p.m.	Norway	- Russia	25: 25 (9:12)
	Sat, January 27, 2001, 6 p.m.	Slovenia	- Tunisia	23: 28 (10:13)
	Sun, January 28, 2001, 2 p.m.	Tunisia	- Saudi Arabia	22:21 (11:10)
	Sun, January 28, 2001, 4 p.m.	Norway	- Ukraine	22: 31 (9:14)
	Sun, January 28, 2001, 6 p.m.	Russia	- Slovenia	33: 30 (15:15)

Final round

Round of 16

Wed January 31, 2001, 5:00 p.m. in Albertville	France	- Portugal	23: 18 (10:10)
Wed, January 31, 2001 at 5.30 p.m. in Amnéville	Algeria	- Egypt	20: 25 (8:12)
Wed, January 31, 2001, 6 p.m. in Marseille	Croatia	- Ukraine	34: 37 n.2V. (33: 33/29: 29/11: 15)
Wed, January 31, 2001, 6 p.m. in Toulouse	Iceland	- Yugoslavia	27:31 (10:15)
Wed January 31, 2001, 7:30 p.m. in Albertville	Tunisia	- Germany	24: 26 (11:15)
Wed, January 31, 2001, 8.30 p.m. in Amnéville	Russia	- South Korea	28: 26 (11:12)
Wed, January 31, 2001, 8.30 p.m. in Marseille	Sweden	- Argentina	32: 23 (18:10)
Wed, January 31, 2001, 8.30 p.m. in Toulouse	Spain	- Norway	28: 23 (16:11)

Quarter finals

Thursday, February 1, 2001, 8:30 p.m. in Albertville	Germany	- France	23: 26 a.d. (22: 22/8: 11)
Thursday 1st February 2001 at 8.30 p.m. in Amnéville	Egypt	- Russia	21: 19 (9: 7)
Thursday, February 1, 2001, 8.30 p.m. in Marseille	Sweden	- Ukraine	34: 20 (14: 9)
Thursday, February 1, 2001, 8.30 p.m. in Toulouse	Spain	- Yugoslavia	24: 26 (10:11)

Placement games in Paris

The losers in the quarterfinals competed against each other in two games. The winners of the two games played for 5th place the next day, the two losers for 7th place.

Sat, February 3, 2001, 9:30 a.m.	Ukraine	- Spain	23: 24 (7:14)
Sat, February 3, 2001, noon	Germany	- Russia	29: 33 (16:17)

Semi-finals in Paris

Sat Feb 3, 2001	Sweden	- Yugoslavia	25: 24 (14: 9)
Sat Feb 3, 2001	France	- Egypt	24: 21 (8:10)

Game for 7th place in Paris

So, February 4, 2001	Germany	- Ukraine	24: 30 (8:17)

Play for 5th place in Paris

So, February 4, 2001	Spain	- Russia	40: 38 a.d. (35: 35/18:15)

Game for 3rd place in Paris

So, February 4, 2001	Yugoslavia	- Egypt	27: 17 (11: 8)

Final in Paris

So, February 4, 2001, 5 p.m.	Sweden	- France	25 28 n. V. (22: 22/10: 11)

The half-time results are in brackets. In the event of overtime, the scores after the end of regular playing time and after the end of the 1st overtime are also shown there.

Final placements

rank	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.
	France	9	9	0	0	233: 172	+ 061
	Sweden	9	8th	0	1	263: 207	+ 056
	Yugoslavia	9	7th	0	2	254: 182	+ 072
04th	Egypt	9	5	1	3	207: 206	+ 01
05.	Spain	9	7th	0	2	276: 215	+ 061
06th	Russia	9	6th	1	2	258: 236	+ 022
07th	Ukraine	9	5	0	4th	244: 231	+ 013
08th.	Germany	9	4th	1	4th	259: 213	+ 046
09.	Croatia	6th	3	1	2	188: 152	+ 036
10.	Tunisia	6th	3	0	3	140: 136	+ 04
11.	Iceland	6th	2	1	3	152: 150	+ 02
12.	South Korea	6th	3	0	3	171: 160	+ 011
13.	Algeria	6th	2	1	3	128: 126	+ 02
14th	Norway	6th	2	1	3	139: 155	- 016
15th	Argentina	6th	2	1	3	117: 150	- 033
16.	Portugal	6th	2	0	4th	140: 145	- 05th
17th	Slovenia	5	2	0	3	145: 137	+ 08
18th	Czech Republic	5	1	2	2	136: 136	± 00
19th	Brazil	5	1	0	4th	108: 124	- 016
20th	Greenland	5	1	0	4th	85: 140	- 055
21st	Saudi Arabia	5	0	0	5	92: 134	- 042
22nd	Morocco	5	0	0	5	112: 162	- 050
23.	Kuwait	5	0	0	5	76: 145	- 069
24.	United States	5	0	0	5	80: 189	- 0109

Awards

Allstar team

position	Surname	country
Best Player (MVP)	Stefan Lövgren	Sweden
goal	David Barrufet	Spain
Left winger	Eduard Koksharow	Russia
Back left	Stefan Lövgren	Sweden
Back center	Hussein Zaky	Egypt
Back right	Yoon Kyung-Shin	South Korea
Right winger	Žikica Milosavljević	Yugoslavia
circle	Bertrand Gille	France

statistics

Goal scorers

Pl.	player	team	Gates	FT	7 m
01.	Eduard Koksharow	Russia	61	35	26th
02.	Yuri Kostetskyi	Ukraine	60	34	26th
03.	Yoon Kyung-Shin	South Korea	55	45	10
04th	Stefan Lövgren	Sweden	47	39	8th
05.	Magnus Wislander	Sweden	46	46	0
06th	Markus Baur	Germany	43	16	27
07th	Vyacheslav Lotschman	Ukraine	42	40	2
08th.	Salim Nedjel-Hammou	Algeria	41	29	12
09.	Christian Berge	Norway	40	34	6th
	Mohammed Berrajaa	Morocco	40	15th	25th

FT - field gates; 7m - seven meters;

Best goalkeeper

Pl.	player	team	balls held [%]
1	Arpad Šterbik	Yugoslavia	45.5%
2	Peter Gentzel	Sweden	37.1%
3	David Barrufet	Spain	36.1%
4th	Pavel Sukosjan	Russia	34.4%
5	Cristian Canzoniero	Argentina	34.2%
6th	Jewhen Budko	Ukraine	32.5%
7th	Christian Ramota	Germany	32.1%
8th	Beno Lapajne	Slovenia	31.6%
9	Andrei Lavrov	Russia	31.4%
10	Manaf Alsaeed	Saudi Arabia	30.2%

Bids

Medalist

France	Sweden	Yugoslavia
Joël Abati Grégory Anquetil Patrick Cazal Didier Dinart Jérôme Fernandez Christian Gaudin Bertrand Gille Guillaume Gille Olivier Girault Andrej Golić Bruno Martini Daniel Narcisse Thierry Omeyer Stéphane Plantin Laurent Puigségur Jackson Richardson	Magnus Andersson Martin Boquist Christian Ericsson Jonas Ernelind Martin Frändesjö Magnus Wislander Mathias Franzén Peter Gentzel Ola Lindgren Stefan Lövgren Michael Pettersson Johan Petersson Thomas Sivertsson Tomas Svensson Staffan Olsson Ljubomir Vranjes	Mladen Bojinović Zoran Đorđić Goran Đukanović Ratko Đurković Ivan Lapčević Nebojša Golić Blažo Lisičić Zikica Milosavljević Nedeljko Jovanović Nenad Maksić Branko Kokir Nenad Puljezević Petar Kapisoda Dragan Skrbic Arpad Sterbik Vladan Matić
Daniel Costantini (trainer)	Bengt Johansson (coach)	Branislav Pokrajac (coach)

8th place: Germany

Christian Ramota Henning Fritz Chrischa Hannawald Stefan Kretzschmar Christian Schwarzer Mark Dragunski

Torsten Jansen Florian Kehrmann Mirko Bernau Jörg Kunze Christian Rose

Steffen Stiebler Markus Baur Steffen Weber Frank von Behren Jan-Olaf Immel

Trainer: Heiner Brand

Web links

• IHF statistics at www.ihf.info (PDF; 26 kB)
• Results of the 2001 Handball World Cup

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lövgren best World Cup player , accessed on November 1, 2014
2. ↑ Lovgren élu meilleur joueur du Mondial , accessed on November 1, 2014
3. ↑ "Handball World Championships since 1938" on www.welt.de