Kuwaiti men's national handball team
The Kuwaiti men's national handball team represents Kuwait in international tournaments in Men Handball .
The team was a total of three Asian champions (most recently in 2004 ) and has taken part in handball world championships seven times . The best placement was achieved with 15th place at the 1982 World Cup in Germany .
At the handball world championship 2009 in Croatia the team finished 6th in group B in the preliminary round. In the President's Cup 1, the team finished 5th with a win against Australia (27:24). Then it was about 21st place against Brazil . Kuwait lost this game 24:27 and finished 22nd.
The team is trained by Nabeel Alshehab .
Successes at championships
Handball world championship
- best placement: 15th place in 1982
Handball Asian Championship
- Gold: 1995, 2002, 2004
- Silver: 1993
- Bronze: 1979, 1983, 1987, 1989
Olympic games
no participation so far
Squad
No. | Surname | position |
---|---|---|
16 | Hamad Al Rashidi | TW |
12 | Torki Alkhalidi | TW |
1 | Mahdi Husian | TW |
2 | Hasan Al Shatti | LA |
3 | Ibrahim Sanquor | RA |
7th | Husain Al Shamari | RA |
8th | Fahad Mohammad | RL |
11 | Abdullah Al Theyab | KR |
13 | Mohammed Al Gharaballi | KL |
14th | Abdulaziz Al Anezi | RL |
15th | Abdulaziz Ahmad | RM |
17th | Meshari Al Otaibi | LA |
18th | Sameh Al Hajeri | KR |
19th | Ali Abdulredha | RR |
20th | Faisal Al Shamari | RM |
Source: sportal.de
Web links
- Portrait of the Kuwaiti team on www.handball-wm-2007.de ( Memento from May 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive )