African Championships

Handball World Championship 2011 on the tracks with Öresundståg

Thu Dec 30 2010

A train - all dressed in the Handball World Championship's colors - runs now in southern Sweden and in Denmark. "The train consists of three cars. The first and the last is blue and yellow, while the middle one is Danish red and white. The Handball World Championship is the biggest thing happening in Scandinavia in 2011 and we'd love to find some unusual ways to market the championship. The Arenas is located in southern parts of Sweden and a large part the WCh arenas is reached in a fast and environmentally friendly way with Öresundståg . It is particularly gratifying that the WCh 2011 and Öresundståg together have been able to "dress up" a train in the Handball World Championship's colors and style," says Ola Richardsson, Marketing and Communications manager for the Handball World Championships 2011. It is the first time a Öresundståg is "dressed" in this way.

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African Championship: Gold for Tunisia and Angola

Mon Feb 22 2010

Angola’s women and Tunisia’s men stood on top of the podium at the 19th African Championships in Egypt. As it was the tenth African Nations title for Angola, Tunisia won Gold for the eight time.

Angola beat Tunisia in a high tensioned women’s final which was decided only ten seconds before the end, 31:30. Tunisia won against the men’s team of host nation Egypt 24:21. As those four teams had been qualified for the next World Championships before, the men from Algeria and the women from Ivory Coast snatched the last tickets to Sweden (men) and Brazil (women) and took the Bronze medals. Algeria had no problems in winning against DR Congo 30:22, Ivory Coast finished the hopes of the Algerian women to qualify for WCH’s with both national teams by winning 32:28.

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