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- The Men’s Handball World Championship is played 13-30 January 2011.
- 24 teams from all the world's continents are participating.
- The Championship begins with preliminary round – four groups of six teams each. Sweden will play their five first matches in Gothenburg.
- Continuing are two main round groups.
- Finals, and one of two semi-finals, are going to be hosted in Malmö Arena in the southernmost of Sweden. The other semi-final is to be played in Kristianstad.
- One of the objectives of the championship is to create a multi-cultural party, which extends far outside the handball arenas.
- The WCh-cities are Malmö, Lund, Kristianstad, Göteborg, Skövde, Jönköping, Linköping and Norrköping.
- Buy tickets on www.ticnet.se.
- During the last men's World Championship in Croatia in 2009, was 1 568 media representatives accredited. Television broadcasts reached far over 1.5 billion viewers in 150 countries.
- The Men’s Handball World Championship is the largest event in Scandinavia in 2011.
