1996 European Men's Handball Championship
The 2nd European Handball Championship for men was held from 24 May to 2 June 1996, Spain held. The title of the Russian national handball team was able to secure that could barely beat with 23:22 in the final of Spain. The German team finished in eighth place; Austria and Switzerland failed to qualify for the finals themselves.
- 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: Russia
- 8.2 Second Place: Spain
- 8.3 Third Place: Yugoslavia
- 8.4 Eighth Place: Germany
Participant
Venues
- Ciudad Real
- Seville
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
Group B
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
Final
Full Time
Top scorers
All-Star Team
Squad
European Championship: Russia
- Andrei Lavrov
- Pawel Sukosjan
- Igor Lavrov
- Stanislaw Kulintschenko
- Oleg Kuleshov
- Denis Kriwoschlykow
- Lev Voronin
- Valery Gopin
- Vasily Kudinov
- Dmitri Torgowanow
- Vyacheslav Atawin
- Oleg Grebnew
- Oleg Kisseljew
- Sergei Pogorelov
- Dmitry Filippov
Coach: Vladimir Maximov
Second Place: Spain
- Talant Dujshebaev
- Salvador Esquer
- Aitor Etxabura
- Jesús Fernández
- Jaume Fort
- Demetrio Lozano
- Mateo Garralda
- Jordi Nunez
- Iosu Olalla
- Raúl González
- Rafael Castillo Guijosa
- Arturo Hombrados
- Juan Pérez
- Enric Masip
- Alberto Urdiales
Coach: Juan de Dios Roman
Third Place: Yugoslavia
- Nikola Adžić
- Igor Batolija
- Aleksandar Blagojevic
- Zoran Đorđić
- Nedeljko Jovanović
- Aleksandar Knežević
- Jovan Kovačević
- Žikica Milosavljevic
- Dragan Momic
- Dejan Peric
- Nenad Peruničić
- Predrag Peruničić
- Dragan Škrbić
- Rastko Stefanović
- Goran Stojanović
- Veselin Vujović
Coach: Zoran Zivkovic
Eighth Place: Germany
- Andreas Thiel
- January Holpert
- Henning Fritz
- Stefan Kretzschmar
- Christian Scheffler
- Thomas Knorr
- Karsten Kohlhaas
- January Fegter
- Daniel Stephan
- Vigindas Petkevičius
- Volker Zerbe
- Martin Schwalb
- Holger Löhr
- Martin Schmidt
- Christian Schwarzer
- Klaus -Dieter Petersen
Coach: Arno Ehret
Weblink
- Tournament on eurohandball.com
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