World Cup (women's handball)
The World Cup is an annual handball tournament for women's national teams that has been held in Aarhus , Denmark since 2005 . It can be seen as a counterpart to the QS Supercup and Statoil World Cup for men.
At the World Cup women's eight best national teams take each part of the world: are invited every year, the reigning world and European champions and the last Olympic champions . The host country Denmark and its neighbors Sweden and Norway are permanent participants.
The sponsor has been the Danish insurance company GF-Forsikring A / S , after which the cup competition is currently called the GF World Cup .
Competition mode
The number of participants is eight teams. "Everyone against everyone" plays in two preliminary round groups. Placement games then take place:
- Either the first in the group fight for place 1 and 2 and the second for 3 and 4,
- or there are crossover semi-finals between the group first and second, followed by a small and a large final.
Winners
| year | 1st place | place 2 | place 3 |
| 2005 |
 Norway
|
 South Korea
|
 Russia
|
| 2006 |
Russia
|
 Romania
|
 Denmark
|
| 2007 |
Russia
|
 France
|
Norway
|
| 2008 |
Norway
|
Denmark
|
France
|
| 2009 |
Romania
|
Norway
|
 Germany
|
| 2010 |
Romania
|
Norway
|
France
|
| 2011 |
Russia
|
Norway
|
France
|
Medal table
| rank | country | gold | silver | bronze |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Russia
|
3 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 |
Norway
|
2 | 3 | 1 |
| 3 |
Romania
|
2 | 1 | 0 |
| 4th |
France
|
0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 |
Denmark
|
0 | 1 | 1 |
| 6th |
South Korea
|
0 | 1 | 0 |
| 7th |
Germany
|
0 | 0 | 1 |