Eight-final

15.30: France – Algeria 32:26 (17:8)

France made it convincingly into the Quarterfinal

After a very strong and convincing performance the French team won against Algeria 32:26 and will meet in the quarterfinal Germany. The French team, who made a good progress during this Junior World Championship, played a very good first half. After twelve minutes the match was still open, led by France 7:6. But after that starting period France increased goal by goal. After scoring five goals in a row the equipe tricolore led 12:6 and after the first half, the match was almost pre-decided by a 17:8 score for France. After the break France controlled the match without spending too much power: A good reason for Algeria to reduce the gap to 24:29, even though they never had a real chance to win the eight-final. While France is facing the quarterfinal against Germany, Algeria will go to the placement matches for the places 9 to 16. Best scorers of the match were Hchem Daoud for Egypt and Valentin Porte for France, who both shot seven goals. 

15.30: Slovenia – Qatar 38:35, 32:32, 29:29 (17:14)

Slovenia win handball crime against Qatar

In a fantastic handball-crime with double overtime Slovenia beat Qatar 38:35 and qualified for the quarterfinal. Qatar, who was not the worse, but the more unfortunate team, will now play the placement matches 9 to 16. During the first half Slovenia was the stronger opponent. In the logical consequence the Slovenian led with 8:4, 9:5 and 17:14 at halftime. But things changed after the break. The Qatari caught up goal by goal and after really 60 exciting minutes the score changed to 29:29 in the last second of the match, when Musak Alkhalaf scored for Qatar. The winner had to be decided by overtime. But also the first ten minutes extra time didn´t lead to any decision, even though Qatar was leading by two goals in the meantime. But after 70 minutes it was still a draw (32:32). It took another tough ten minutes for both teams to determine the winner. In the last minutes of this match Slovenia made it clear, as Qatar did some mistakes in attack. But after all it was a hard piece of work for Slovenia to win this match and to qualify for the quarterfinal. Best scorer of the match was Gasper Marguc for Slovenia. The Qatari Gasper Marguc scored seven times.

Placement matches 21-24

16.00: Benin – Canada 22:23 (12:12)

Historical win for Canada

Proud Canada! In their first placement match the Canadians came to their first victory during this Junior World Championship with 23:22 against Benin. Two seconds before the end Casper Bilton made the decisive goal for his team, which afterwards was celebrating its first win ever at a World Championship. But the game was really tight all over the entire 60 minutes. Only once during the match one of the two teams had a three-goal advance (9:6 for Benin after 18 minutes). But after the first 30 minutes the score counted 12:12. The second half was even tighter. 13 seconds before the end El Bar Mama scored to 22:22 for Benin, eleven seconds later the match was decided by Casper Bilton, who had scored five goals and who was the best shooter of his team. For Benin it was again Patrick Quenum, who scored most of the goals (eight goals). Canada will play on Monday 25 July against Chile for the places 21 and 22, Benin will meet Venezuela and compete for the places 23 and 24.