Norwegian Handball Federation
Norges Håndballforbund (short NHF ) is the national sport governing body for the sport of handball in Norway. The association founded in 1937, has its headquarters at the Ullevaal Stadium in Oslo. He is the umbrella organization for 714 teams (as of 31 December 2011), spread across seven regions. About two -thirds of its over 107,000 members are female, because Handball established in Norway from the beginning as a woman sport.
The NHF is one of about 54 sports federations of the Norwegian Sports Association, Norges idrettsforbund og og olympiske paralympiske Komite, and a founding member of the International Handball Federation (IHF ) of 1946 and the European continental federation, the EHF in 1991.
Structure
Norges Håndballforbund is divided into seven regions:
- Region Innlandet based in Lillehammer
- Region Midt -Norge, based in Trondheim
- Northern Region based in Tromsø
- Region Øst based in Strømmen, Skedsmo
- Region Sør headquartered in Drammen
- Region Sørvest based in Stavanger
- Region Vest, headquartered in Bergen
History
While initially only by an embossed football Handball Match was practiced in schools, won the seriously -powered sport of handball in Norway until after the Olympic handball tournament of 1936 in Berlin importance. The following year, when on May 2, 1937, the establishment of Norges Håndballforbund, handball was played in only two clubs: the Sportsklubben Arild and in Ullern Skiklubb from Oslo Ullern. To promote awareness of the sport in the country, was previously organized on October 11, 1936 game in a Oslo tennis hall in which two teams competed against each other, which were formed from the Swedish club success Redbergslids IK. The game inspired both the 200 spectators and journalists present people who are " real mass sports, especially for girls and women " saw a handball. Even before the men of the first Norwegian Handball Championship for Women was held in 1938, when the team of North beach Idrettsforening from Oslo emerged as the winner. A year later, the team of the Oslo club Sportsklubben Arild won the first championship of men. One of the key figures who helped to establish handball as a sport woman in Norway, was the top athlete Laila Schou Nilsen. Another central role occupied the Norwegian media, the headlines in 1939, with " handball, football women " ( Urd ), "finally the right sport for women " ( Tidens Tegn ) have been found.
Field handball, in Norway, in contrast to eg Germany has always played in the 7- team, 1955 abandoned in favor of the hall handball.
With the advent of television in the early 1960s begged for another way to increase the popularity of the increasingly kommerzialisierenden handball in the country. It initially set for the otherwise free advertisement broadcaster NRK who owned the broadcasting monopoly until the introduction of commercial television, the shirt sponsorship of clubs represents a problem
Handball World Cup and European Championships in Norway
1993 Norway was the first time host the Handball World Championship for women and a second time together with Denmark in 1999. The country also hosted the European Championships for men in 2008 and, together with Denmark, the Women's EURO 2010. In Larvik also the Beach Handball European Championship for Men was organized in 2009.
Best Merits
- The Norwegian men's national handball team won a medal so far neither at World Championships, European Championships or at the Olympic Summer Games.
- The Norwegian women's handball team won the world title in Denmark and Norway in 1999 and Brazil 2011 In addition, the team was already five times European champion. 1998 in the Netherlands, in 2004 in Hungary, 2006 in Sweden, 2008 in Macedonia and 2010 in Denmark and Norway. As an Olympic champion, the team showed in Beijing in 2008 and London 2012.