Handball in Austria

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The cradle of handball in Austria is the place of the Vienna Sports Club , where the first field games were played in 1921. The first indoor handball games were organized in the Wiener Konzerthaus in 1933 .

Austrian Handball Federation

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Association: Austrian Handball Federation (ÖHB)
Founding: 1925
IHF membership: 1946
EHF membership: 1991

The founding of the Austrian Handball Federation (ÖHB) in Vienna on January 25, 1925 can be described as the actual hour of birth .

However, as early as 1926 there was a political split. Clubs belonging to the workers ' sports associations resigned and played their own workers' championships for men and women. The worker handball players and also other branches such as athletics, swimming, weight training and gymnastics were extremely strong and well organized. This made it possible to organize a Workers' Olympiad in Vienna , which coincided with the opening of the Vienna Stadium . Austria won the handball final against Germany in front of around 60,000 spectators 10: 9.

In 1934 the workers' sports associations and clubs were officially dissolved. Other sports associations such as the ÖHB succeeded him, who was able to manage the sports business for the first time.

After the end of the Second World War, the workers' sports association and some civil associations jointly rebuilt the handball association system from May 1946, initially in Vienna and later in the federal states, followed by the sports union in 1947 .

The ÖHB currently has around 17,500 individual members in almost 110 clubs.

He has been a member of the IHF since 1946 and of the EHF since its founding in 1991.

The highlights in the history of the ÖHB were the hosting of the last field handball world championship in history in 1966 and the men's European championships in 2010 and 2020.

National championship

State championship men
1st state championship: Field: 1947 / Halle: 1961
1st state champion: Field & Halle: ATSV Linz
Record champions: Field: ATSV Linz (9 ×) / Hall: Bregenz Handball (9 ×)
State championship women
1st state championship: Field: 1947 / Halle: 1971/72
1st national champions: Field: Danubia Vienna / Halle: Union Admira Landhaus
Record champions: Field: unknown / Hall: Hypo Niederösterreich (42 ×)

In 1923 the first championships, limited to Vienna, were held on the large field . The first title holders were the teachers' sports association (men) and Danubia Wien (women).

In 1947 the first official Austrian State Championship was held in Graz, which Danubia Vienna won for women and ATSV Linz for men. Until 1965/66 the title of Austrian state champion in field handball was held, the record champions for men is the ATSV Linz with 9 titles.

As early as 1946 there was a first improvised indoor championship in Vienna in one round in the furniture hall of the Vienna Exhibition Center .

From 1961 the official title of Austrian State Champion was awarded in the hall, initially until 1969 in the form of a tournament in the Wiener Stadthalle . The first title holder was ATSV Linz.

The first actual national handball championship in league form was held in 1969/70. Since then, a multi-class league system has been established in Austria .

The first Austrian national champion title (league form, Halle) in the men's category was won by Union Edelweiß Linz in 1969/70 . The record champions are Bregenz handball with 9 league victories.

Union Admira Landhaus won the first title of an Austrian national handball championship (league form, hall) for women in 1971/72 . The women from Hypo Niederösterreich are record champions with 42 titles .

Cup competition

The ÖHB Cup has been held since 1987/88.

The first male title holder was UHC Stockerau . The most successful participant is the handball club Fivers Margareten with 7 wins from 10 finals.

Union Südstadt, whose successor club Hypo Niederösterreich is also the most successful participant with 30 titles, won the first women's cup.

International club competitions

For the men, a final participation of HC Hard in the EHF Challenge Cup 2007/08 represents the greatest international success of an Austrian handball club.

Among the women, 8 victories in the Champions League and 1 victory in the European Cup Winners' Cup by Hypo Niederösterreich are among the greatest successes at club level.

National teams

Men

Austrian men's national handball team
1st international match: September 13, 1925 in Halle (Saale) against Germany (3: 6)
1st  EM participation: 2010
1st  World Cup participation: 1938
1st  OL participation: 1936
Medals won:
EM: 0 × gold, 0 × silver, 0 × bronze

WM: 0 × gold, 1 × silver, 1 × bronze

OL: 0 × gold, 1 × silver, 0 × bronze

The history of the Austrian men's national handball team began on September 13, 1925, when they won the first international match in handball history in Halle (Saale) with 3: 6 (large field) against the German national team .

The great moments of Austrian men's handball include winning the silver medal at the Olympic Games in 1936 and the World Indoor Championships in 1938 (both in Berlin) as well as the bronze medal at the last field handball world championship in history in Austria in 1966 .

At the B-World Cup in 1992 in their own country, the national team took second place, in the same year the Austrian team won gold at the Student World Cup in Saint Petersburg .

This was followed by 4 qualifications for World Championship finals in 1993 (14th), 2011 (18th), 2015 (13th) and 2019 (19th) and 4 participations in the European Championship finals in 2010 (9th), 2014 (11th) .), 2018 (15th) and 2020 (8th).

Ewald Humenberger (246), Patrick Fölser (218) and Viktor Szilagyi and Andreas Dittert (203 each) played the most international matches . The most goals for the Austrian national team were scored by Andreas Dittert (1,089), Viktor Szilagyi (907 m goals in 203 games) and Robert Weber (801 goals in 183 games, as of February 2020).

Women

Austrian national women's handball team
1st international match: September 7, 1930 in Prague against Germany (4-5)
1st  EM participation: 1996
1st  World Cup participation: 1949
1st  OL participation: 1992
Medals won:
EM: 0 × gold, 0 × silver, 1 × bronze

WM: 0 × gold, 2 × silver, 1 × bronze

OL: 0 × gold, 0 × silver, 0 × bronze

The greatest successes of the Austrian women's national handball team were the silver medal at the field handball world championships in Hungary in 1949 and in 1960 in the Netherlands, the bronze medals at the 1999 world championship finals in Norway / Denmark and the 1996 European championship finals in Denmark as well as fifth place at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.

Most of the international matches were played by Barbara Freibauer (née Strass) (272), Natascha Rusnachenko (255) and Iris Morhammer (237). The most goals for the women's national team were scored by Jasna Kolar-Merdan (1,206 goals in 163 games), Ausra Fridrikas (1,059 goals in 133 games) and Stanka Bozovic (910 goals in 220 games).

Well-known players

The ÖHB has accepted 5 players and 7 players into its Hall of Fame.

Men

Women

In addition, every year the ÖHB honors handball player of the year as well as team, trainer, newcomer, legionnaire and Austrian legionnaire abroad of the year.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Handball Austria. In: https://www.oehb.at . Austrian Handball Federation, accessed on October 17, 2019 .
  2. ^ Associations in Austria. In: https://www.oehb.at . Austrian Handball Federation, accessed on October 21, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Hall of Fame Men. In: https://www.oehb.at . Austrian Handball Federation, accessed on October 21, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Hall of Fame Women. In: https://www.oehb.at . Austrian Handball Federation, accessed on October 21, 2019 .
  5. ^ History. In: https://www.oehb.at . Austrian Handball Federation, accessed on October 21, 2019 .