The Best: Main Round, President’s Cup: Group Phase
14 Dec. 2021
Throughout the 2021 IHF Women’s World Championship Main Round and President’s Cup: Group Phase a total of 46 matches were played with some impressive individual and team performances, statistically-speaking.
Every single match - like all at Spain 2021 - saw fans have the opportunity to help decide the ‘hummel Player of the Match’ award, via the IHF Official App with the IHF Analyst on site nominating a shortlist of three influential players with five minutes remaining and getting fans to vote.
Four teams have perfect records in the Main Round and President’s Cup: Group Phase with Cameroon, Denmark, Spain and Romania all taking three awards from their three matches but just Spain and Denmark can boast a perfect record at Spain 2021 with both teams taking six awards from their six games so far, although Cameroon have impressed with five awards in total.
Just three teams have failed to win an award so far, but two are still in action, with Tunisia, along with Uzbekistan, having one game left to play on Wednesday (15 December). People’s Republic of China leave the competition without taking one home.
With 20 awards out of a possible 94, goalkeepers top the chart, followed by centre back (17) and the other backcourt players, on the right and the left (15 each) in third spot.
But one player stands head and shoulders over everyone else – Republic of Korea centre back Lee Migyeong. The OMRON club player in Japan has won the individual award four times, two ahead of her nearest rivals. She wears the famous ‘Michael Jordan’ shirt #23, and along with the goalkeeper #12 jersey, they are the most common award winners, with seven each, 14 in total.
hummel Player of the Match awards – Spain 2021
(Main Round, President's Cup: Group Phase – 46 games played)
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Per Team
3 – Cameroon (CMR), Denmark (DEN), Spain (ESP), Romania (ROU) – 4 teams
2 – Austria (AUT), Brazil (BRA), Congo (CGO), France (FRA), Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), Republic of Korea (KOR), Norway (NOR), Paraguay (PAR), Poland (POL), Russian Handball Federation (RHF), Serbia (SRB), Slovakia (SVK), Sweden (SWE) – 13 teams
1 – Angola (ANG), Argentina (ARG), Germany (GER), Hungary (HUN), Japan (JPN), Montenegro (MNE), Netherlands (NED), Puerto Rico (PUR) – 8 teams
0 – People’s Republic of China (CHN), Slovenia (SLO), Tunisia (TUN), Uzbekistan (UZB), Croatia (CRO), Kazakhstan (KAZ), Czech Republic (CZE) – 7 teams
Per Confederation
African Handball Confederation (CAHB) – 6 awards
Asian Handball Federation (AHF) – 5 awards
European Handball Federation (EHF) – 29 awards
North America and the Caribbean Handball Confederation (NACHC) – 1 award
South and Central America Handball Confederation (SCAHC) – 5 awards
Per Position
8 – Goalkeeper
6 – Right Back
9 – Centre Back
7 – Left Back
4 – Left Wing
8 – Line Player
4 – Right Wing
Per Player
2 – Althea Rebecca Reinhardt (DEN), Cyrielle Ebanga Baboga (CMR), Ines Ivancok (AUT), Migyeong Lee (KOR), Pauletta Foppa (FRA)
1 – 36 players
Per Shirt Number
4 – #26
3 – #12, #16, #23
2 – #2, #18, #19, #24, #29, #33, #78, #96
1 – #1, #5, #7, #8, #10, #11, #13, #17, #20, #21, #27, #36, #39, #51, #66, #79, #91
Per Game
| Match | Player | Country | Position | Shirt # |
| SVK vs TUN | Réka Bíziková | SVK | Left wing | 91 |
| CZE vs KOR | Migyeong Lee | KOR | Centre back | 23 |
| CRO vs ARG | Malena Cavo | ARG | Right back | 17 |
| PAR vs CHN | Jazmin Mendoza | PAR | Right wing | 26 |
| GER vs CGO | Fanta Diagouraga | CGO | Centre back | 78 |
| BRA vs AUT | Tamires de Araujo | BRA | Line player | 7 |
| DEN vs HUN | Althea Rebecca Reinhardt | DEN | Goalkeeper | 16 |
| ESP vs JPN | Martine Echeverria | ESP | Right wing | 18 |
| ANG vs CMR | Cyrielle Ebanga Baboga | CMR | Left back | 19 |
| RHF vs SLO | Iuliia Managarova | RHF | Right wing | 36 |
| NED vs ROU | Crina-Elena Pintea | ROU | Line player | 21 |
| IRI vs UZB | Elnaz Ghasemi | IRI | Line player | 78 |
| MNE vs SRB | Itana Grbic | MNE | Centre back | 96 |
| NOR vs PUR | Sanna Solberg-Isaksen | NOR | Left wing | 24 |
| FRA vs POL | Paulette Foppa | FRA | Line player | 26 |
| KAZ vs SWE | Emma Lindkvist | SWE | Right back | 23 |
| SVK vs PAR | Barbora Lancz | SVK | Right back | 11 |
| KOR vs GER | Emily Bölk | GER | Left back | 20 |
| ARG vs BRA | Barbara Arenhart | BRA | Goalkeeper | 12 |
| TUN vs CHN | Match cancelled* | |||
| HUN vs CGO | Viktória Lukács | HUN | Right wing | 66 |
| JPN vs AUT | Ines Ivancok | AUT | Left back | 29 |
| CZE vs DEN | Sandra Toft | DEN | Goalkeeper | 1 |
| CRO vs ESP | Irene Espinola Perez | ESP | Right back | 51 |
| ANG vs IRI | Fatemeh Khalili Behfar | IRI | Goalkeeper | 12 |
| MNE vs RHF | Antonina Skorobogatchenko | RHF | Right back | 39 |
| ROU vs PUR | Lorena-Gabriela Ostase | ROU | Line player | 27 |
| CMR vs UZB | Laeticia Petronie Ateba Engadi | CMR | Right back | 33 |
| SRB vs FRA | Tamara Radojevic | SRB | Centre back | 18 |
| KAZ vs NED | Tess Wester | NED | Goalkeeper | 33 |
| SLO vs POL | Dagmara Nocun | POL | Left wing | 96 |
| SWE vs NOR | Jamina Roberts | SWE | Left back | 8 |
| CHN vs SVK | Match cancelled* | |||
| CGO vs CZE | Sharon Lea Dorson | CGO | Line player | 79 |
| ARG vs JPN | Natsuki Aizawa | JPN | Centre back | 26 |
| TUN vs PAR | Fatima Acuña | PAR | Left wing | 2 |
| KOR vs HUN | Migyeong Lee | KOR | Centre back | 23 |
| AUT vs CRO | Ines Ivancok | AUT | Left back | 29 |
| DEN vs GER | Althea Rebecca Reinhardt | DEN | Goalkeeper | 16 |
| ESP vs BRA | Silvia Navarro Gimenez | ESP | Goalkeeper | 12 |
| UZB vs ANG | Albertina da Cruz Kassoma | ANG | Line player | 10 |
| POL vs MNE | Adrianna Placzek | POL | Goalkeeper | 16 |
| PUR vs KAZ | Nathalys Ceballos | PUR | Centre back | 5 |
| CMR vs IRI | Cyrielle Ebanga Baboga | CMR | Left back | 19 |
| SRB vs SLO | Jovana Kovacevic | SRB | Left back | 24 |
| SWE vs ROU | Cristina Laslo | ROU | Centre back | 13 |
| RHF vs FRA | Pauletta Foppa | FRA | Line player | 26 |
| NED vs NOR | Henny Reistad | NOR | Centre back | 2 |
*Due to the withdrawal of People’s Republic of China, their games against Tunisia and Slovakia were forfeited with no hummel Player of the Match award given.
hummel Player of the Match awards – Spain 2021
(all matches – 94 played)
Per Team
6 – Denmark (DEN), Spain (ESP) – 2 teams
5 – Cameroon (CMR), Romania (ROU), Sweden (SWE) – 3 teams
4 – Brazil (BRA), France (FRA), Hungary (HUN), Republic of Korea (KOR), Norway (NOR), Poland (POL) – 6 teams
3 – Argentina (ARG), Austria (AUT), Congo (CGO), Germany (GER), Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), Japan (JPN), Montenegro (MNE), Netherlands (NED), Paraguay (PAR), Russian Handball Federation (RHF), Serbia (SRB) – 11 teams
2 – Puerto Rico (PUR), Slovenia (SLO), Slovakia (SVK) – 3 teams
1 – Angola (ANG), Croatia (CRO), Czech Republic (CZE), Kazakhstan (KAZ) – 4 teams
0 – People’s Republic of China (CHN), Tunisia (TUN), Uzbekistan (UZB) – 3 teams
Per Confederation
African Handball Confederation (CAHB) – 9 awards
Asian Handball Federation (AHF) – 11 awards
European Handball Federation (EHF) – 62 awards
North America and the Caribbean Handball Confederation (NACHC) – 2 awards
South and Central America Handball Confederation (SCAHC) – 10 awards
Per Position
20 – Goalkeeper
17 – Centre Back
15 – Right Back
15 – Left Back
10 – Line Player
9 – Right Wing
8 – Left Wing
Per Player
4 – Lee Migyeong (KOR)
3 – No players
2 – Aleksandra Rosiak (POL), Althea Rebecca Reinhardt (DEN), Antonina Skorobogatchenko (RHF), Cristina Laslo (ROU), Cyrielle Ebanga Baboga (CMR), Emma Lindkvist (SWE), Fatemeh Khalili Behfar (IRI), Ines Ivancok (AUT), Jamina Roberts (SWE), Marina Rajcic (MNE), Natahalys Ceballos (PUR), Natsuki Aizawa (JPN), Pauletta Foppa (FRA), Silvia Navarro (ESP)
1 – 62 players
Per Shirt Number
7 – #12, #23
5 – #1, #16, #26
4 – #2, #10
3 – #18, #19, #21, #22, #24, #33, #39
2 – #4, #5, #7, #8, #11, #13, #29, #78, #96
1 – #3, #6, #15, #17, #20, #25, #27, #36, #42, #44, #45, #51, #62, #66, #79, #90, #91, #98