IHF_World_Women's_Handball_Championship

IHF World Women's Handball Championship

IHF World Women's Handball Championship

International handball tournament for women's national teams

This article is about Indoor Championship. For Outdoor Championship, see IHF World Women's Outdoor Handball Championship.
For the men's tournament, see World Men's Handball Championship.

The IHF Women's Handball World Championship has been organized by the International Handball Federation since 1957. European teams have won every time except 1995 where South Korea won as the first team outside Europe and 2013 where Brazil won as the first American team. The biggest winners are Russia and Norway with four titles each.

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Nine teams participated in the first championship, this number has grown in steps to 32 (from 2021). In 1977 a B-tournament was introduced and later in 1986 a C-tournament which served as qualification for the real championship or A-tournament. The B- and C-tournament qualifications were replaced by the present qualification system based on continental confederations in 1993.[1]

From 1993 it has been held every other year. Between 1978 and 1990 it was held every fourth alternating with the Olympic tournament (introduced for women handball in 1976). The first five tournaments were held in the summer or early fall whereas the rest has been held in November or December.[1]

Tournaments

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Medal table

IHF only includes medals won at the indoor championships.[2]

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Participation nations

Main article: National team appearances in the World Women's Handball Championship

Source: IHF official site.[2]

Legend
  • 1st – Champions
  • 2nd – Runners-up
  • 3rd – Third place
  • 4th – Fourth place
  • 5th – Fifth place
  • 6th – Sixth place
  • 7th – Seventh place
  • 8th – Eighth place
  • 9th – Ninth place
  • 10th – Tenth place
  • 11th – Eleventh place
  • 12th – Twelfth place
  • MR – Main round
  • GS – Group stage
  • Q – Qualified for upcoming tournament
  •  ••  – Qualified but withdrew
  •  •  – Did not qualify
  •  ×  – Did not enter / Withdrew from the World Championship / Banned
  •    – Hosts

For each tournament, the number of teams in each finals tournament (in brackets) are shown.

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Since first entering the tournament in 1957, Romania are the only team to have appeared in all 26 tournaments to date.

Most successful players

Boldface denotes active handball players and highest medal count among all players (including these who not included in these tables) per type.

Multiple gold medalists

The table shows players who have won at least 3 gold medals at the World Championships.

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** including two medals won at the 1956 and 1960 World Outdoor Field Handball Championships

Multiple medalists

The table shows players who have won at least 4 medals in total at the World Championships.

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Top scorers and best players by tournament

The record-holder for scored goals in a single World Championship is Bojana Radulović. She scored 97 goals for Hungary at the 2003 World Championship.

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Largest winning margin

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Source: TV2Sporten.no

See also

Notes

  1. Russia's total includes one appearance as Russian Handball Federation in 2021.

References

  1. [1]
    "Women's World Championships". IHF. Retrieved 5 December 2013.
  2. [2]
    IHF official site (ihf.info): Page 51: MEDALS TABLE Archived 16 February 2020 at the Wayback Machine
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