Tag: Handball

  • Women’s Olympic Qualification Tournaments, Schedule and accreditation

    Women’s Olympic Qualification Tournaments, Schedule and accreditation

    Switzerland, April 27, 2012: Womens Olympic Qualification, After all participants of the Men’s Olympic Handball Tournament in London had been determined after the three Olympic Qualification Tournaments on the Easter weekend, now twelve women’s teams fight for the last six remaining places for the 2012 Olympic Games in London (28 July – 12 August) in…

  • Groups for the Women’s Junior World Championship are drawn

    Groups for the Women’s Junior World Championship are drawn

    April 19, 2012: The next step to the 2012 Women’s Junior World Championship in the Czech Republic was taken on Wednesday 18 April: In Ostrava, which is, beside Brno, one of the hosting cities from 1 to 15 July, the draw event for the groups of the preliminary rounds took place. Host Czech Republic had…

  • Seeding list for draw completed – three hosts win Qualifications

    Seeding list for draw completed – three hosts win Qualifications

    Switzerland, April 09, 2012: After the three Olympic Qualification Tournaments in Alicante, Gothenburg and Varazdin have come to an end on Sunday 8 April, all twelve teams participating at the Men’s tournament of the 2012 Olympic Games in London (28 July – 12 August) are known (Seeding list). In Alicante host Spain (winner) and Serbia…

  • Stage set for Qatar Schools Olympic Program Finals Festival

    Stage set for Qatar Schools Olympic Program Finals Festival

    Doha, Qatar, March 21, 2012: The fifth edition of the Qatar Olympic Committee’s (QOC) Schools Olympic Program is entering the final stages of the competition at the Aspire Academy of Sports Excellence, in Doha. Qatar Schools This year’s edition of the Schools Olympic Program has the theme ‘Sport and Family’ which sees school boys and girls…

  • Men’s Olympic Qualification Tournaments: Schedule and accreditation

    Men’s Olympic Qualification Tournaments: Schedule and accreditation

    Tournaments Schedule, Six participants of the Men’s Olympic Handball Tournament in London (28 July – 12 August) are already known after the 2011 World Championship and the continental qualification tournaments. The six missing teams will be decided in three Olympic Qualification Tournaments, played from 6 to 8 April (Easter weekend). Spain, Sweden and Croatia are…

  • The Road to London: www.ihf.info starts countdown for Olympic Games

    March 05, 2012: Starts Countdown, From 28 July to 12 August the whole world will look to London – when the 2012 Olympic Games are taking place. Currently half of the in total 24 participants of the Men’s and Women’s Olympic Handball Tournaments are known; the rest will follow from 6 to 8 April (Men’s Olympic…

  • Heidi Løke and Mikkel Hansen World Handball Players of the Year 2011

    Fans, media and an IHF expert group have decided: The male and female World Handball Players of the Year 2011 are from Scandinavia. Pivot Heidi Løke is the third Norwegian in five years (and the fifth in total) to be awarded with this title, whilst left back Mikkel Hansen is the first ever Dane to…