Romania

Egypt and Korea in the President’s Cup final

Karolina Berg — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 17:34:27 +0000

The President’s Cup final contains two continents, as Egypt and Korea have won their opening matches in the President’s Cup and meet for the final on Monday.

President’s Cup, match day 1:

Group I:

Egypt – Japan 34:28 (17:14)

The Egyptians needed some time to cope with the speedful match play of the Japanese, but after the 8:8 they had found their pace and extended the gap to 12:8 and 17:12 right before the break. Even as Egypt had gone away to a six goal distance twice, Japan was strong enough to close the gap again in the middle of the second half. But by extending the lead from 27:24 to 32:26 the Northern Africans decided the match and reached the final, which will be played on Monday in Skövde. Top scorers were Belal Mabrouk (8 goals for Egypt) and Makuoto Suematsu with seven goals for Japan.

Algeria – Korea 24:29 after extra time (12:17, 23:23)

Thrilling draw in the final duel of group A

Karolina Berg — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:25:53 +0000

France and Spain tied in a high tensioned final match of group A. So everything is decided concerning the Main Round after 60 matches of the Preliminary Round. Iceland and Denmark are the only teams taking 4:0 points to the next stage. The starting composition is like this:

Group I in Jönköping:

Iceland 4 points, France 3 points, Spain 3 points, Hungary 2 points, Germany 0 points, Norway 0 points.

Group II in Malmö/Lund:

Denmark 4 points, Sweden 2 points, Poland 2 points, Argentina 2 points, Croatia 1 point, Serbia 1 point

Group A:

France – Spain 28:28 (18:13)

Denmark, Serbia and Spain go on to Main Round

Karolina Berg — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:23:27 +0000

The next contenders made their way to the Main Round: As Denmark (against Algeria) and Spain (against Egypt) took their each fourth victory in their fourth match of the Preliminary Round they qualified for the next stage with now eight points. But both have real clashes ahead, as Denmark meet Croatia and Spain play against France on Thursday. Those both games will decide about the winners of Groups A and C. Thanks to the Danish victory also Serbia booked the ticket to the Main Round. Romania won their first match in this WCh.

After Match Day 4 is completed, those are the teams already qualified for the Main Round:

Group A: France, Spain

Group B: Iceland, Hungary, Norway

Group C: Denmark, Croatia, Serbia

Group D: Poland, Sweden

Group A:

Spain – Egypt 31:18 (14:9)

Algeria pull the Romanian teeth, Spain win World Champion’s duel

Karolina Berg — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:50:06 +0000

After Slovakia was defeated by Argentina earlier, the next Eastern European team was surprised on Monday evening: Romania lost against Algeria after scoring only four goals in the second half. Croatia and Poland secured their third victories. In the first “clash of the titans” in Group A Spain was the lucky winner against Germany.

Group A:

Spain – Germany 26:24 (13:13)

We welcome nine more teams!

Ola Richardsson — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:03:00 +0000

We welcome another nine teams to Sweden in January next year.

After the European qualification matches this weekend the nations in bold text have won their tickets to Men's Handball World Championship 2011.

Austria - Nehterlands 31-15, 28-34
Norway - Lithuania 27-19, 24-21
Slovenia - Hungary 27-25, 25-28
Germany - Greece 25-20, 27-20
Slovakia - Ukraine 25-30, 30-21
Serbia - Czech Republic 27-23, 22-25
Romania - Russia 28-32, 37-32
Denmark - Switzerland 32-27, 34-29
Portugal - Spain 26-27, 25-33

Now 21 of 24 teams are qualified. The three last nations will qualifiy during the Pan American qualification in Chile 22-26 June.

Picture: The Danish fans, and another eight nation's fans, are celebrating their team's ticket to Sweden 2011.