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1962 World Women's Handball Championship

1962 edition of the World Women's Handball Championship

Field	Value
image	1962 World Women's Handball Championship logo.png
country	Romania
country-flagvar	1952
dates	7 July – 15 July
num_teams	9
champion_other
count	1
second_other
third_other
matches	21
goals	316
top_scorer	CZE Marie Mateju
ROMAna Starck (14 goals)
previous	1957 World Women's Handball Championship
next	1965 World Women's Handball Championship

| country-flagvar= 1952 ROMAna Starck (14 goals)

The 1962 World Women's Handball Championship was the second Women's Handball World Championship. It took place in Romania in 1962.

As five years earlier, the competition was played with only seven players on the field, outdoor, on clay, in broad daylight and in two 20-minutes half-times. For the first time a non-European team, namely Japan, entered the competition.

Preliminary round

Group A

****	16–5

Group B

****	12–7

Group C

	3–3

Main round

	Team will compete for Places 3–4

Group I

****	7–3

Group II

****	7–5

Classification round

****	5–4

Finals

1/2	****	8–5

Final standings

Rank	Team
[[File:gold medal icon.svg]]
[[File:silver medal icon.svg]]
[[File:bronze medal icon.svg]]
4
5
6
7
8
9

1962 Women's World Champions

References

"Weltmeister Frauen (Kleinfeld / Halle)". [[Handball-Bundesliga]].
"1962 World Women's Handball Championship". [[International Handball Federation]].
(February 1977). "Palmarès des Championnat du monde". [[French Handball Federation]].
(June 2011). "Reconstrucție-Consolidare-Glorie 1946-1962". [[Romanian Handball Federation]].

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