IHF - NEWS
[2010-02-09]
Asian Men’s Championship: Syria beat China
Three match days have been played at the 14th Asian Men’s Championship taking place in Beirut, Lebanon. And the first big surprise of the Preliminary Round has occurred in group A, as Syria beat...
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[2010-02-08]
Handball Photo of the Year
The IHF would like to revive an old tradition: We search for the Handball Photo of the year 2009. Handball is a global sport that was played all over the world also last year and it is a very...
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[2010-02-08]
IHF meets other team sports federations to discuss about CAS
Several International team sports Federations, including the International Handball Federation, and the International Olympics Committee (IOC) discussed issues concerning the collaboration with the...
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[2010-02-02]
IHF supports Haiti
After the earthquake in Haiti, the building of the Fédération Haitienne de Handball is inoperative. To help with the restructure and to encourage everyone to do so as well, the IHF decided on...
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[2010-02-01]
Asian Men’s Championship: Three tickets to Sweden
14 teams and three „tickets“ to Sweden: From 6 February to 19 February the 14th Asian Men’s Championship will be played in Beirut, Lebanon. The three medalists will qualify directly for the 2011 World...
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[2010-02-01]
France has written history: “Les Bleus” are European Champions
France has written handball history on Sunday evening in Vienna: As the first team ever the “Bleus” are now Olympic, World and European Champions at the same time. In the final of the 9th...
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[2010-01-29]
African Championship starts on 11 February in Egypt
20 nations will meet from 11 to 20 February in Egypt for the 19th Men’s and Women’s African Championship. All matches will take place in Cairo and Suez. The three top ranked teams of the men’s...
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[2010-01-29]
Crunch time at the EURO 2010: Croatia - Poland and Iceland - France in the semifinals
The 9thEHF EURO has reached it’s final stage and destination in Vienna – and four of the leading handball nations have reached the semifinals after highly dramatic main round matches....
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[2010-01-29]
Historical moment for Handball
On the fringes of the 9th Men’s European Championship in Austria a high potential working group met in Vienna on 28 January. On initiative of the IHF President Dr Hassan Moustafa,...
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IV Super Globe 2010 in Qatar
In view of the 2010 Super Globe in Qatar, the International Handball Federation received the Qatar Handball Association and Al Sadd Club Qatar at the Head Office in Basle on Saturday 23 January....
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[2010-01-25]
Oleg Velyky passes away
Handball is mourning the loss of German national team player, Oleg Velyky. The HSV Hamburg player passed away in Ukraine on Saturday night after a long battle with skin cancer. He was 32. On Monday he...
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[ 2010-01-23]
New distribution of tasks at the IHF Head Office
After the resignation of the former Head of Sports, Mr. Ekkehard Hoffmann, the IHF implements with immediate effect the proposal made by the working group for the revision of the IHF Bylaws and...
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[ 2010-01-22]
Meeting of calendar working group in Vienna
On the occasion of the 9th Men’s European Championship in Austria a high potential working group for calendar of events will meet in Vienna on 28 January. IHF President Dr. Hassan Moustafa will host...
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[2010-01-19]
From Austria to Sweden – EURO 2010 starts on Tuesday
The host Austria promises “Magic Moments”; and – at least - the three top ranked teams are qualified directly for the World Championship in Sweden 2011. The EURO 2010 is the first continental...
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IHF President awards the World Handball Player in Paris Bercy
Big stage for Linn- Kristin Riegelhuth and Thierry Omeyer: On the fringes of the 23rd handball tournament Paris Ile de France, the two World Handball Player of the Year 2008 were awarded by the IHF on...
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[ 2010-01-12]
The IHF suspends handball in Kuwait
Following the IOC decision to suspend the NOC of Kuwait which came in force on 1 January 2010, the International Handball Federation decided to suspend handball in Kuwait in all categories...
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[2010-01-05]
Handball is free of doping
Following the provisions of the WADA-Code, the Anti-Doping Unit (ADU) of the International Handball Federation conducted 38 no-advance notice out-of-competition tests in 2009 in the approach to the...
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[2009-12-20]
Russia again! Trefilow team defends title by beating France 25:22 in the final
They danced
on the field, as they did in 2001, 2005 and 2007: Again Russia became
Women’s World Champion and was awarded by IHF President Hassan Moustafa with
the winner’s trophy...
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[2009-12-18]
The IHF Head Office will close during Christmas and New Year
Dear Handball friends,
Kindly be informed that the Head Office of the international Handball Federation will close for Christmas from 24 to 27 December 2009 and New Year from 31 December 2009 to 3...
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[2009-12-07]
Jiangsu 2009 WebTV live on http://handball2009.videosport.com/
Handball fans around the world can follow the 2009 Women's World Championship in Jiangsu (China) live on the internet as usual. IHF, together with its partner SPORTFIVE, will once again stream all...
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[ 2009-12-05]
International Handball Federation assigns the TV rights until 2013 to UFA Sports - signing of the contact before the official beginning of the Women's WCh in China
On the fringes of the opening press conference of the Women’s Handball World Championship on Saturday the world handball federation IHF...
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[ 2009-12-04]
USA Team Handball at the IHF head office in basle
Before departure to China Dr Moustafa received in the Head Office in Basle Mr Dieter Esch, President of the USA Team Handball to discuss methods of developing the handball sport in the...
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[ 2009-12-03]
Release for publication
The responsible IHF bodies approved these disciplinary measures.The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) advised the following disciplinary measures for doping violation in accordance with the IHF...
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