1994 European Men's Handball Championship
The first European Handball Championship for men was held in Portugal from 3 to 12 June 1994. Twelve teams were qualified for the final round. Sweden won the tournament by a 34:21 against Russia in the final. Third place went to the team of Croatia, located in the third-place match won against Denmark with 24:23. The German team ended at the end of the ninth, Austria and Switzerland did not qualify for the finals.
- 4.1 Third place match 11
- 4.2 place play- 9
- 4.3 Game for 7th place
- 4.4 Match for 5th place
- 4.5 Semi-finals
- 4.6 3rd place match
- 4.7 final
- 8.1 European champion: Sweden
- 8.2 Second Place: Russia
- 8.3 Third Place: Croatia
- 8.4 Ninth Place: Germany
Participant
Venues
- Almada
- Postage
Preliminary round
In the preliminary round, the twelve qualified teams played in two groups of six teams. Within a group, each team met once against any other team. The top two teams in each group qualified for the semi-finals.
Group A
The group A wore their games from Almada.
Group B
All matches in Group B were held in Porto.
Classification matches and finals
Next to the current best two teams of each group contested the semi-finals, contributed from other teams in the classification matches. In each case, the equal -placed teams of the two groups played against each other.
Place play- 11
Place play- 9
Game for 7th place
Match for 5th place
Semifinal
3rd Place Match
Endgame
Full Time
Top scorers
All-Star Team
Squad
European Championship: Sweden
- Ola Lindgren
- Per Carlen
- Erik Hajas
- Jerry Hallbäck
- Stefan Lovgren
- Robert Andersson
- Pierre Thorsson
- Staffan Olsson
- Magnus Andersson
- Tommy Suoraniemi
- Mats Olsson
- Tomas Svensson
- Robert Hedin
- Magnus Wislander
- Martin Frändesjö
Coach: Bengt Johansson
Second Place: Russia
- Andrej Antonevitj
- Dmitry Filippov
- Valery Gopin
- Vyacheslav Gorpischin
- Oleg Grebnew
- Dimitri Karlov
- Oleg Kiselyov
- Vasily Kudinov
- Stanislaw Kulintschenko
- Andrei Lavrov
- Pawel Sukosjan
- Dmitri Torgowanow
- Igor Vasiliev
Coach: Vladimir Maximov
Third Place: Croatia
- Zvonimir Bilic
- Patrik Ćavar
- Darko Franović
- Bruno Gudelj
- Vladimir Jelcic
- Nenad Kljaić
- Valter Matošević
- Alvaro Nacinovic
- Ivica Obrvan
- Tonči Peribonio
- Goran Perkovac
- Iztok Puc
- Zlatko Saračević
- Irfan Smajlagic
- Vlado Šola
- Ratko Tomljanović
Coach: Velimir Kljaić
Ninth Place: Germany
- January Holpert
- Stefan Hecker
- Christian Ramota
- Stefan Kretzschmar
- Christian Scheffler
- Jürgen Hartz
- Thomas Knorr
- Christian Schwarzer
- Klaus -Dieter Petersen
- Frank Schmitt
- Mike Fuhrig
- Daniel Stephan
- Volker Zerbe
- Martin Schwalb
- Bernd Roos
- Holger Winselmann
Coach: Arno Ehret
Weblink
- Tournament on eurohandball.com
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