A fitting end for handball's goalkeeping GOAT

Captain Henny Reistad asked Katrine Lunde to join her when the trophy of the 2025 IHF Women’s World Championship was handed to Norway after the 23:20 win against Germany in the final in the Ahoy Arena in Rotterdam.

It was a small gesture, but the symbolism of it al…

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…