2009 World Men's Handball Championship

The 21st World Handball Championship for men was held in Croatia from 16 January to 1 February 2009. A total of 24 teams entered in the preliminary round and main round, first in groups against each other. After qualifying matches followed by the semifinals and finals and placement matches for positions 3 to 24 world champions, the team of France against Croatia and Poland.

The Handball World Championship Men was first held on Croatian soil; in the land of the Handball World Championship of the women had already taken place in 2003. One of the greatest successes of the host include the 1996 and 2004 Olympic gold medals, the 2003 World Cup, the Vice World Championships in 1995 and 2005 and European vice- championship in 2008. These successes helped that the country could align this competition. Also one was at the International Handball Federation (IHF ) this time gone a special way, because at the time the award was in the host country, none of the halls host the main round. Six modern and large halls were built for the World Cup. Due to the well-organized Women's World Cup, Croatia had acquired confidence, and the application of the country was awarded the contract.

A total of six cities hosted the World Cup 2009. It was mainly made ​​to the size and the sporting success of the regions in Germany consideration. In addition, good coverage was achieved through the distribution of the venues. The World Cup final was held in Zagreb.

  • 4.1 Draw the preliminary groups
  • 4.2 Preliminary 4.2.1 Group A (Osijek, Dvorana Gradski vrt )
  • 4.2.2 Group B (Split, Spaladium Arena)
  • 4.2.3 Group C ( Varaždin, Varaždin gradska dvorana )
  • 4.2.4 Group D ( Poreč, Sportski centar Žatika )
  • 4.3.1 Group I (Zagreb, Arena Zagreb)
  • 4.3.2 Group II (Zadar, Dvorana Krešimira Cosica )
  • 4.6.1 Group PC I ( Poreč, Sportski centar Žatika )
  • 4.6.2 Group PC II (Pula, Dom sportova Mate Parlov )
  • 4.6.3 Placement matches (seats 13-24 )
  • 6.1 All- Star team
  • 7.1 Statistic
  • 7.2 Best Goalkeeper
  • 8.1 medalist
  • 8.2 5th Place: Germany

Venues

Qualification

Europe ( 14 participants )

Set were:

  • Croatia to host
  • Germany Germany as defending

As well as the top three (and not pre-qualified ) participants in the 2008 European Championship:

  • Denmark Denmark as European champions in 2008
  • France France as EM- third
  • Sweden Sweden as EM- fifth

In addition, more qualified the following nine teams in the qualifying round:

  • Macedonia Macedonia
  • Norway Norway
  • Poland Poland
  • Romania Romania
  • Russia Russia
  • Serbia Serbia
  • Slovakia Slovakia
  • Spain
  • Hungary Hungary

Qualifying round

In the qualifying round, first played the 21 European teams that have qualified for the European Handball Championship 2008, not in seven groups against each other. This group phase took place from January 20, 2008 from 2. The group winners (after return match against each group opponent on points included the direct comparison) reached the playoffs, which took place in June 2008. There, they met in return game on the eleven teams which took part in the European Championship, but could not there to qualify for the World Cup finals.

On the playoff games took the winners of the seven Vorqualifikationsgruppen and the eleven participants in the 2008 European Championships, which were not already qualified for the World Cup, in part.

1 Serbia qualified due to the away goals. 2 The return match was canceled for Hungary at the score of 24:27 in the 49 minute mark, after several objects were thrown onto the field by the spectators. The EHF Disciplinary Committee decided to evaluate the result at the time of the crash as the official final score. Thus, Hungary qualified due to the overall score of 54:49 for the World Cup. In addition, the Handball Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina was imposed a fine of 7,500 euros and a sentence of two home games behind closed doors.

Africa (3 participants)

For the World Cup, the three best teams in the Handball African Cup of Nations 2008, which until January 20, 2008 took place from 7 in Angola qualified. Qualified for the World Cup are thus:

  • Egypt Egypt
  • Tunisia Tunisia
  • Algeria Algeria

Asia (3 participants)

For the World Cup, the three best teams in the Asia Handball Championship 2008, which was held from 17 to 26 February 2008 at Iran qualified. Qualified for the World Cup are thus:

  • Flag of South Korea South Korea
  • Kuwait Kuwait
  • Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia

Pan - America (3 participants)

The top three teams in the Pan-American Championship in 2008 qualified for the World Cup. The tournament took place from 24 to 28 June 2008 held in Brazil:

  • Brazil Brazil
  • Argentina Argentina
  • Cuba Cuba

Oceania ( 1 participant )

For the World Cup, the winner of the Oceania - elimination tournament, which took place from 7th to 10th April, 2008 Wellington ( New Zealand) qualified. Qualified for the World Cup is thus:

The tournament also served as Oceanic Nations Cup and was won by the team of New Caledonia. These started out of competition, as the country does not belong to the IHF.

Referee

As referee were used:

Schedule

In the preliminary round à six teams was played in four groups. The teams that places 1 to 3 occupied in their group after the preliminaries, moved into the main round. The teams ranked 4-6 were playing in the President's Cup on.

From the main round then each best two teams qualified for the semifinals.

In case of equality of two or more teams, the following criteria on the placement decision:

Draw for the preliminary round groups

The draw for the preliminary round groups of the Handball World Championship 2009 was held in Zagreb on 21 June 2008. The 24 qualified teams were divided into four groups of six teams:

  • France France
  • Hungary Hungary
  • Slovakia Slovakia
  • Romania Romania
  • Argentina Argentina
  • Australia Australia
  • Croatia Croatia
  • Sweden Sweden
  • Spain
  • Flag of South Korea South Korea
  • Kuwait Kuwait
  • Cuba Cuba
  • Germany Germany
  • Poland Poland
  • Macedonia Macedonia
  • Russia Russia
  • Tunisia Tunisia
  • Algeria Algeria
  • Denmark Denmark
  • Norway Norway
  • Egypt Egypt
  • Brazil Brazil
  • Serbia Serbia
  • Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia

Preliminary round

Group A (Osijek, Dvorana Gradski vrt )

Group B (Split, Spaladium Arena)

Group C ( Varaždin, Varaždin gradska dvorana )

Group D ( Poreč, Sportski centar Žatika )

Main Round

The main round of the 2009 World Cup was played in two groups. In group 1, each played the first three teams in the preliminary round group A and B, in group 2, respectively, the first three teams in the preliminary round groups C and D. The game results achieved against each other from the first round were incorporated into the main round. The first two teams from Group 1 and 2 contested the semi-finals, the remaining teams played the slots 5 through 12. The winners of the semi-finals to determine the world champion in 2009, the losers will play for third place tournament.

Group I (Zagreb, Arena Zagreb)

Group II (Zadar, Dvorana Krešimira Cosica )

Placement games ( places 5-12)

Final Round (Zagreb, Split)

The mid-term results are given in brackets.

President's Cup (seats 13-24 )

The seats 13-24 were determined in the President's Cup. The respective fourth, fifth and sixth placed teams from the preliminary round groups were divided into two groups of six, with the teams from the qualifying groups A and B in PC group I, the teams of the groups C and D were playing in group II PC. The game results achieved against each other from the first round were incorporated into the President's Cup.

PC group I ( Poreč, Sportski centar Žatika )

Group II PC (Pula, Dom sportova Mate Parlov )

Placement games (seats 13-24 )

Final placements

Awards

  • Best player ( MVP, MVP): Igor Vori Croatia Croatia
  • Best Attack: Spain 308 Goals in 9 matches
  • Best defense: France France 211 goals in 10 games

All- Star team

Statistics

Statistic

FT - Field Goals; 7m - seven meters; T / S - Goals per game

Best Goalkeeper

Banns

Medalist

5th Place: Germany

  • Martin Strobel
  • Lars Kaufmann
  • Michael Müller
  • Sebastian Preiss
  • Michael Haass

Coach: Heiner Brand

Entrance fees, attendance figures

The prices of the cards totaled between 300 and 700 Croatian kunas, the equivalent of about 40 to 100 euros.

One of the matches of the German team in the group stage 1500-3500 spectators came to Varaždin Arena, the match against Serbia in the Dvorana Krešimira Cosica Zadar were 5000 spectators. The games of the host Croatia were mostly sold out, 12,000 spectators came and in the Arena Zagreb 15,000 spectators in the Spaladium Arena.

TV broadcasts

The television broadcasts of matches of the German national team were first taken not by the public broadcasters and the German Sports Television (DSF ). The commercial broadcaster RTL Television (RTL) broadcast rights secured in the free television at the 2009 World Cup and sent in addition to the games with German participation, including the final and highlights further encounters. DSF rendered games without German participation. In addition to all the games of Sportdigital.tv were broadcast live or delayed.

All games were broadcast live on the Internet ( chargeable). TV broadcasts were in the following countries:

  • Egypt: Nile Sports
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina: BHT 1
  • Denmark: TV 2, TV 2 Sport
  • Germany: RTL, DSF
  • France: Sport
  • Croatia: RTL Televizija
  • Kuwait: Kuwait Sports Channel 3, Kuwait Sport
  • Macedonia: Sitel
  • Middle East: ( الجزيرة الرياضية, Al Jazeera Sports)
  • Norway: TV 2
  • Poland: Polish Television ( TVP HD, TVP2, TVP Sport)
  • Romania: Română Televiziunea, Sport 1
  • Russia: НТВ - Плюс ( NTV Plus)
  • Saudi Arabia: ( الجزيرة الرياضية, Al Jazeera Sports)
  • Sweden: TV 4
  • Serbia: Радио - телевизија Србије (Radio Televizija Srbije )
  • Slovenia: Radio Televizija Slovenija ( RTVS )
  • Spain: TVE ( TVE2, Teledeporte )
  • Tunisia: Tunis 7
  • Hungary: Sports TV

Mascot

Ruksi is the official mascot of the World Handball Championship 2009 in Croatia.

Criticism

On the edge of the Handball World Championship, there was criticism and calls for his resignation over Hassan Moustafa, President of the IHF. The Secretary-General of the IHF Peter Mühlematter, criticized Moustafa's leadership style and publicly demanded his resignation: Moustafa prevents the criteria of WADA appropriate doping controls have a dictatorial leadership style, was directly responsible for the manipulation in the qualifiers and expect from their own service flights without a receipt. In turn, demanded Moustafa, Mühlematter excluded because of his criticism.

At the World Handball Championship took place in Zadar to attacks by Croats to Serbian supporters. The mayor of the city of Zadar, Živko Kolega, let the 24 flags of the participating nations to lose weight because there was citizen protests against the Serbian flag hoisted. A bomb threat went to the hotel where all the teams were staying, a. A car with Belgrade number burned down and a Macedonian supporter was beaten and seriously injured .. Previously, nor was a Serbian flag in Zagreb, which was located at Ban Jelacic Square, lit by two drunk Croatian fans.

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