While no teams are making their debut at the 2023 IHF Women’s World Championship, no side between the 32 lining up at the start of the competition has waited more than Greenland to return to the world handball flagship competition.

After a 14-year wait, Ukraine finally return to the world stage at Denmark/Norway/Sweden 2023. In the early years of the 2000s, they had a good run in all major international competitions, finishing second at the EHF EURO 2000 in Romania and fourth at the 2003 IHF World Championship in Croatia. Their efforts were crowned at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, where they won the bronze medal.