International Handball Federation (IHF), founded in Copenhagen in 1946; its amateur predecessor dates to 1928 Outdoor 11-a-side handball debuted in 1936; the indoor game has been Olympic since Munich 1972 for men and Montreal 1976 for women
The fastest scoring team sport on the planet: seven a side, thirty minutes a half, and a goal roughly every ninety seconds. Handball is the highest-scoring team sport played indoors. Seven against seven on a court 40 metres long and 20 wide, two halves of thirty minutes, and a final score that routinely passes sixty goals between the two sides.
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International Handball Federation (IHF), founded in Copenhagen in 1946; its amateur predecessor dates to 1928 Outdoor 11-a-side handball debuted in 1936; the indoor game has been Olympic since Munich 1972 for men and Montreal 1976 for women
The fastest scoring team sport on the planet: seven a side, thirty minutes a half, and a goal roughly every ninety seconds. Handball is the highest-scoring team sport played indoors. Seven against seven on a court 40 metres long and 20 wide, two halves of thirty minutes, and a final score that routinely passes sixty goals between the two sides.
Its heartland is continental Europe. Denmark, France, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Spain, Croatia and Hungary treat handball as a first-tier national sport, and the German Handball-Bundesliga fills arenas week after week. When Germany played Switzerland in Duesseldorf at the 2024 European Championship, 53,586 people came, a world record for the sport.
Athletically it sits somewhere between basketball and rugby. Backcourt players jump into contact to shoot from nine metres, pivots wrestle for position with their backs to goal, and wings finish from angles so tight that the geometry, not the goalkeeper, is the real opponent.
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