Machine-like Norway chase new records in crunch final

There are teams which won the IHF Women’s World Championship without dropping a match. In the past 25 years, Russia have done it twice, in 2001 and 2005, and France did it in the previous edition of the competition.

But no team has been so dominant as Norway was at…

"Heart, life and love": Capitan Döll, on Germany's first Women's World Championship final since 1993

When Germany last qualified for the final of the IHF Women’s World Championship, in 1993, winning the title in extra-time against Denmark, only one of the current players of the Germany women’s senior national team, captain Antje Döll, was born.

Emily Vogel’s mothe…

"They will have no choice but to say: Hatadou is really, really, really strong”

There are players who shine from an early age and there are late bloomers. France goalkeeper Hatadou Sako is definitely in the latter camp, as she was hardly earmarked as one of the best in the world on her position early on in her career.

15 years later, Sako is definitely a mainstay b…

Ten Holte: "It’s a once in a lifetime experience"

“Oh, Yara ten Holte. Oooooh, Yara ten Holte.”

9,500 spectators joined in singing the Netherlands’ goalkeeper name during the quarter-finals of the 2025 IHF Women’s World Championship, when the Dutch shot stopper provided some excellent saves to lift her side to a 2…