IHF - NEWS
[2008-10-08]
Elite Referee Group and Referee Talent Group
The Playing Rules & Referees Commission (PRC) has concluded that the time is right to ‘resurrect' the concepts of IHF Elite Referee Group and IHF Referee Talent Group. Over the last few years,...
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[2008-10-02]
IHF Logo Contest: Leave your mark with Beach Handball
Ever since its first appearance in the IHF's event calendar in 2001, beach handball has become an integral part of the world of international handball. Just lately, the IHF boosted its efforts to...
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IHF Referee List 2008/09
The IHF Playing Rules and Referees Commission (PRC) has announced the referee couples included in the IHF Referee List 2008/09. The pool comprises 71 couples (coming from 47 countries) in total....
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[2008-09-24]
Referee Nominations for the 2009 Men's world Championship in Croatia
The IHF has now officially nominated the referees for the upcoming Men's World Championship in Croatia. A total of 16 couples from 4 continents will direct the games of the title contest.
The...
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[ 2008-09-11]
IHF and adidas honour
World Handball Players of the Year, Nikola Karabatic and Gro Hammerseng
adidas and the International Handball
Federation (IHF) are proud to present the new World Handball Players of the
Year 2007, Nikola Karabatic and Gro Hammerseng, with their awards at...
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[ 2008-09-04]
IHF
mourns passing of Alexander Kozhukhov
Today the
handball family lost its dearest friend Alexander “Sasha” Kozhukhov, member
of the IHF Executive Committee and President of the Commission of
Organizing and Competitions...
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[2008-08-29]
2009 Men's World Championship: Tournament website now available
With only a few months to go until the 2009 Men's World Championship the preparations for the title contest are already in full swing. The Croatian Handball Federation has meanwhile launched a...
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[2008-08-27]
Awarding of the 2011 Men's World Championship to be decided by IHF Council in October
As announced earlier, the International Handball Federation invited all of its member federations to hand in applications for the 2011 World Championships some time ago. The awarding of the 2011...
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[2008-08-26]
2008 Olympic Games ended: Good-bye beijing!
Accompanied by the highlight of two exciting finals the Olympic Handball Tournaments at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games came to an end on Sunday, 24 August. After 84 matches during sixteen days,...
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[2008-08-11]
IHF Executive Committee approves structural changes of the IHF Head Office
At their last meeting on 17 July 2008 in Bratislava, Slovakia, on the fringes of the Women's Youth World Championship, the Executive Committee of the International Handball Federation approved the...
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[2008-08-07]
2007 World Handball Players Of The Year: Gro Hammerseng (NOR) + Nikola Karabatic (FRA)
The readers of the World Handball Magazine and the IHF Web Site visitors had once more cast their vote and decided: Gro Hammerseng (NOR/Ikast-Bording) and Nikola Karabatic (FRA/THW Kiel) were...
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[2008-08-04]
Women's Junior World Champion 2008: Germany
After an extraordinarily exciting final and a rather charming closing ceremony, the XVI Women's Junior World Championship in FYRO Macedonia came to an end on Sunday. Germnay now is the 2008 Women's...
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[2008-07-20]
Russia earn Women's Youth World Championship title
Russia on top once again - this is a common news header in handball. The Russian girls overcame Serbia in Sunday's final of the II Women's Youth World Championship at the NTC hall in Bratislava,...
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[2008-07-13]
2008 Men's and Women's Beach Handball World Championship ended: Double World Champion Croatia
Just like two years ago, one country grabbed both titles in the Beach Handball World Championship, which came to an end on 13 July 2008 in Cadiz, Spain. However, it was not the host country this time,...
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[2008-07-10]
provisional Playing Schedule for the 2009 Men's World Championship in Croatia
After the draw of the preliminary round matches being held on 21 June in Zagreb Pan-America's representatives have now been established too as part of the Pan-American Championship held in Brazil. ...
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[2008-07-04]
2008 Women's Junior World Championship in FYRO Macedonia: Uruguay withdraws from the competition
Regarding the upcoming Women's Junior World Championship, which will take place from 21 July to 3 August 2008 in FYRO Macedonia, the IHF has been informed by the Federacion Uruguaya de Handball that...
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[2008-07-01]
2008 Men's and Women's Beach Handball World Championships in Cadiz: IHF Info Brochure available for download
With only a couple of days until the start of the 2008 Men's and Women's Beach Handball World Championships in Cadiz, the final preparations for the third official Beach Handball World Championships...
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[2008-07-01]
Brazil claims another Pan-American Championship title to qualify to the Men's World Championship 2009 in Croatia / Argentina and Cuba also earned qualification
Brazil won the Men's Pan-American Championship, which came to an end last weekend in Sao Carlos / Brazil. The "selecao" gained a narrow 27:24 victory over Argentina in the final. Despite the lost...
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[2008-06-25]
Beijing 2008 Olympic Handball Tournaments - Match Schedule released
In cooperation with the Beijing Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (BOCOG) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the International Handball Federation finalised the match schedule for...
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[2008-06-21 ]
Result of the Draw for the 2009 Men's World Championship
As previously announced, the official draw of the preliminary round groups for the 2009 Men's World Championsip was held today in Zagreb. In the presence of IHF-President Dr Hassan Moustafa and...
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