Women's U-20 World Handball Championship

This article covers the U-20 Women's Handball World Championship . See also U-21 men's handball world championship and other handball world championship competitions (disambiguation) .

Women's U-20 World Handball Championship
Full name	IHF Women's Junior World Championship
Association	IHF
First edition	1977
Teams	24
Game mode	Round-robin tournament (8 groups of 4 teams each) / Knockout system (from round of 16)
Title holder	Hungary (1)
Record winner	Russia (11)
Website	www.ihf.info

The Women's U-20 Handball World Championship (officially IHF Women's Junior World Championships ) is the official handball competition of the best national teams for female handball players under the age of 20. It has been organized by the International Handball Federation (IHF) since 1977 and has taken place every two years since then.

The current U-20 women's handball world champion is Hungary . The team was able to successfully prevail in the final against the Norwegian selection in Hungary in 2018 and thus won their first world title. The next women's handball world championship will take place in Romania in 2020 .

Tournaments at a glance

year	Host country	gold	Result	silver	bronze
1977	Romania	Yugoslavia	16:13	USSR	Romania
1979	Yugoslavia	USSR	no final 14	GDR	Yugoslavia
1981	Canada	USSR	no final 14	Yugoslavia	GDR
1983	France	USSR	22:17	GDR	South Korea
1985	South Korea	USSR	27:24	South Korea	Poland
1987	Denmark	USSR	24:15	Denmark	GDR
1989	Nigeria	USSR	26:23	South Korea	Bulgaria
1991	France	USSR	26:25	South Korea	Denmark
1993	Bulgaria	Russia	24:17	Bulgaria	South Korea
1995	Brazil	Romania	28:24	Denmark	Norway
1997	Ivory Coast	Denmark	29:26	Russia	Romania
1999	People's Republic of China	Romania	25:20	Lithuania	Denmark
2001	Hungary	Russia	33:32	Germany	Hungary
2003	Macedonia	Russia	26:24	Hungary	Norway
2005	Czech Republic	Russia	30:25	Norway	South Korea
2008	Macedonia	Germany	23:22	Denmark	South Korea
2010	South Korea	Norway	30:21	Russia	Montenegro
2012	Czech Republic	Sweden	29:22	France	Hungary
2014	Croatia	South Korea	34:27	Russia	Denmark
2016	Russia	Denmark	32:28	Russia	Romania
2018	Hungary	Hungary	28:22	Norway	South Korea
2020	Romania		-: -
2022	Slovenia		-: -
2024	North Macedonia		-: -

^14th At the World Championships in 1979 and 1981, the title was not decided in a final game, but in a final group.

Ranking list

rank	country	World Champion	Second	Third	total
1.	Russia / USSR	11	5	-	16
2.	Denmark	2	3	3	8th
3.	Romania	2	-	3	5
4th	South Korea	1	3	5	9
5.	Germany 15 / German Democratic Republic	1	3	2	6th
6th	Norway	1	2	2	5
7th	Hungary	1	1	2	4th
8th.	Yugoslavia 16	1	1	1	3
9.	Sweden	1	-	-	1
10	Bulgaria	-	1	1	2
11.	Lithuania	-	1	-	1
	France	-	1	-	1
13.	Poland	-	-	1	1
	Montenegro	-	-	1	1
	total	21st	21st	21st	63

^15th FRG

¹⁶ including Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (until 1992)

Web links

• Women's Handball Junior World Championship on the side of the International Handball Federation (IHF)