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Name

World Womens Handball Championship

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Established
1938 (88 years old)

First Recorded Event
2021-03-19

Current Season
2025

Current Round
200

Sport
Handball

Location
Worldwide

Gender
Female

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		Results
14 Dec 25	Germany HGermany Handball Women	20 - 23	Norway HaNorway Handball Women
14 Dec 25	France HaFrance Handball Women	33 - 31	NetherlanNetherlands Handball Women
12 Dec 25	NetherlanNetherlands Handball Women	25 - 35	Norway HaNorway Handball Women
12 Dec 25	France HaFrance Handball Women	23 - 29	Germany HGermany Handball Women
10 Dec 25	Denmark HDenmark Handball Women	26 - 31	France HaFrance Handball Women
10 Dec 25	Croatia HCroatia Handball Women	41 - 22	China HanChina Handball Women
10 Dec 25	NetherlanNetherlands Handball Women	28 - 23	Hungary HHungary Handball Women
10 Dec 25	Paraguay Paraguay Handball Women	30 - 28	Egypt HanEgypt Handball Women
10 Dec 25	Uruguay HUruguay Handball Women	33 - 27	Cuba HandCuba Handball Women
10 Dec 25	Iran HandIran Handball Women	19 - 24	KazakhstaKazakhstan Handball Women

Description

The IHF World Women's Handball Championship has been organized by the International Handball Federation since 1957. European teams have won every time except 1995 where South Korea won as the first team outside Europe and 2013 where Brazil won as the first American team. The biggest winner is Russia with four titles.

Nine teams participated in the first championship, this number has grown in steps to 32 (from 2021). In 1977 a B-tournament was introduced and later in 1986 a C-tournament which served as qualification for the real championship or A-tournament. The B- and C-tournament qualifications were replaced by the present qualification system based on continental confederations in 1993.

From 1993 it has been held every other year. Between 1978 and 1990 it was held every fourth alternating with the Olympic tournament (introduced for women handball in 1976). The first five tournaments were held in the summer or early fall whereas the rest has been held in November or December.


Seasons

Teams

Angola Handball		Argentina Handb		Austria Handbal
Belarus Handbal		Belgium Handbal		Brazil Handball
Bulgaria Handba		Cameroon Handba		China Handball
Congo Handball		Croatia Handbal		Cuba Handball W
Czech Republic		Denmark Handbal		Egypt Handball
Estonia Handbal		Faroe Islands H		France Handball
Germany Handbal		Great Britain H		Greece Handball
Greenland Handb		Hungary Handbal		Iceland Handbal
Iran Handball W		Israel Handball		Italy Handball
Japan Handball		Kazakhstan Hand		Kosovo Handball
Lithuania Handb		Luxembourg Hand		Mexico Handball
Montenegro Hand		Netherlands Han		North Macedonia
Norway Handball		Paraguay Handba		Poland Handball
Portugal Handba		Puerto Rico Han		Romania Handbal
Russia Handball		Senegal Handbal		Serbia Handball
Slovakia Handba		Slovenia Handba		South Korea Han
Spain Handball		Sweden Handball		Switzerland Han
Tunisia Handbal		Turkey Handball		Ukraine Handbal
Uruguay Handbal		USA Handball Wo		Uzbekistan Hand

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Last 5 winners
France Handball Women (2023)
Norway Handball Women (2021)
Netherlands Handball Women (2019)
France Handball Women (2017)
Norway Handball Women (2015)

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