1964 World Men's Handball Championship

The 5th World Handball Championship for men was held in Czechoslovakia from 6 to 15 March 1964. A total of 16 teams competed. For the first time presented in this tournament, the FRG and the GDR own teams. World Champion was Romania with a 25:22 victory in the final against Sweden. The Federal Republic of Germany occupied at the end of the fourth place, the GDR already retired from in the first round.

  • 4.1 world champion: Romania
  • 4.2 Second Place: Sweden
  • 4.3 Third Place: Czechoslovakia
  • 4.4 Fourth Place: Federal Republic of Germany
  • 4.5 Tenth Place: German Democratic Republic

Schedule

Preliminary round

In the preliminary round, the teams were divided into four groups of four teams against each other. The two top finishers from each group qualified for the main round, the left third and fourth place.

Group A

Venues for the Games of Group A were Zlín and Uherské Hradiště.

Group B

The Group B played in Bratislava.

Group C

All Group C matches took place in Prague.

Group D

Venue of Group D was Pardubice.

Main Round

The top two teams of each group reached the main round. The teams came from the qualifying groups A and B in group I, the teams from Groups C and D in the Group II The result from the direct competition of each of the two teams from the same preliminary group was taken over in the main round.

Group I

The games in Group I were held in Prague.

Group II

The matches of Group II also took place in Prague.

Final Games

The two first of the main round played out the final, the two runners-up the game for 3rd place, the third place play- 5 and the two last of the main round groups place play 7 matches of the finals were held in Prague.

Game for 7th place

Match for 5th place

3rd Place Match

Final

Full Time

Top scorers

Squad

World Cup: Romania

  • Ioan Bogolea
  • Michael Redl
  • Virgil Tale
  • Aurel Bulgaru
  • Mircea Costache I
  • Hans Moser
  • Cezar Nica
  • Olimpiu NODEA
  • Cornel Oţelea
  • Ioan Popescu

Coach: Art Ghermănescu Ioan Nicolae Nedef, Virgil Trofin

Second Place: Sweden

  • Rolf Almqvist
  • Per- Ove Arkevall
  • Lennart Augustsson
  • Gösta Carlsson
  • Hans Collin
  • Björn Danell
  • Leif Gustafsson
  • Kjell Jarlenius
  • Bengt Johansson
  • Kjell Jönsson
  • Gunnar Dahl Champs
  • Lennart Kärrström
  • Donald Lindblom
  • Bengt Nedvall
  • Stig- Lennart Olsson
  • Lennart ring

Coach: Curt Wadmark

Third Place: Czechoslovakia

  • František Arnost
  • Ladislav Beneš
  • František Brůna
  • Zdeněk Černý
  • Jiří Djakov
  • Vaclav Duda
  • Antonín Frolo
  • Rudolf Havlík
  • František Herman
  • Vojtech Mares
  • Zdeněk Rada
  • Jaroslav Rážek
  • Vladimír Seruga
  • Josef Trojan
  • Jiří Vícha
  • January Vitoslavský

Coach: Jaroslav Mráz, Bedřich King

Fourth Place: Federal Republic of Germany

  • Rudolf Delfs
  • Wolf -Dieter Roesner
  • Fritz Bahrdt
  • Werner Bartels
  • Hermann Graf
  • Wolfgang Struck
  • Gerhard Grill
  • Herbert Hönnige
  • Erich Kolb
  • Klaus Lange
  • Herbert Lübking
  • Bernd Luke
  • Bernd Mühleisen
  • Fritz Schillmann
  • Hinrich Swivel
  • Bernd Struck

Coach: Werner Vick

Tenth Place: German Democratic Republic

  • Waldemar Pappusch
  • Klaus Müller
  • Klaus Hebler
  • Reiner Leonhardt
  • Erwin Kaldarasch
  • Paul Tiedemann
  • Klaus Langhoff
  • Otto Hölke
  • Horst Pahlitzsch
  • Harry Zoernack

Coach: Heinz Seiler

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