2013 World Men's Handball Championship

Venues

Games in Madrid were scheduled to be played in the Madrid Arena but on 1 November 2012, five young people were killed in a human stampede during a Halloween party. The venue was subsequently closed because of the judicial investigation and the IHF changed the location of games to Caja Mágica.

Broadcasting rights

• – Belarus 2
• – TV Esporte Interativo
• – HRT
• – DR, TV 2, TV3 Sport 1
• – Canal+, Canal+ Sport, Sport+
• – ARD, ZDF, Sport1, Sport1+
• – Sport 1
• – Stöð 2 Sport
• – Setanta Sports (later stages)
• Macedonia – Sitel TV
• – RTCG2
• – TVP
• – Sport TV
• – Al Jazeera Sports (for the Arab countries in the Near East and North Africa)
• – Dolce Sport, Dolce Sport 2, Dolce Sport HD
• – NTV Plus
• – RTS
• – RTV Slovenija, Šport TV
• – Teledeporte
• – TV4
• – beIN Sport

Qualification tournaments

http://teamhandballnews.com/wordpress/2013-mens-wc-qual/

Qualified teams

The qualification for the 2013 World Handball Championship took place in the calendar years of 2011 and 2012. As the host nation, Spain and as defending champions, France were automatically qualified for the tournament.

:1 Bold indicates champion for that year :2 Italics indicates host for that year :3 From both German teams only East Germany was qualified in 1990

Draw

The draw took place on 19 July 2012 in Madrid, Spain.

Seeding

The pots were announced on 9 July 2012.

Match officials

16 match official pairs were selected for the tournament.

Squads

Main article: 2013 World Men's Handball Championship squads

Preliminary round

The draw was held on 19 July 2012. The playing schedule was published on 5 August 2012. The throw-off times were published on 12 September 2012.

Twenty-four participating teams were placed in the following four groups. After playing a round-robin, the top four teams in each group advanced to the eighth-finals. The last two teams in each group will play placement matches.

Tie-breaking criteria

For the three game group stage of this tournament, where two or more teams in a group tied on an equal number of points, the finishing positions will be determined by the following tie-breaking criteria in the following order

1. number of points obtained in the matches among the teams in question
2. goal difference in the matches among the teams in question
3. number of goals scored in the matches among the teams in question (if more than two teams finish equal on points)
4. goal difference in all the group matches
5. number of goals scored in all the group matches
6. drawing of lots

All times are (UTC+1).

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Spain's 51–11 win over Australia has been the third highest scoring win at a world championship.

President's cup

17–20th place

Bracket

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Semifinals

19th place game

17th place game

21–24th place

Bracket

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Semifinals

23rd place game

21st place game

Knockout stage

Bracket

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| RD1-seed07=D1 | RD1-team07=**** | RD1-score07=33 | RD1-seed08=C4 | RD1-team08= | RD1-score08=24

| RD1-seed09=A1 | RD1-team09=**** | RD1-score09=28 | RD1-seed10=B4 | RD1-team10= | RD1-score10=23

| RD1-seed11=C3 | RD1-team11= | RD1-score11=20 | RD1-seed12=D2 | RD1-team12=**** | RD1-score12=31

| RD1-seed13=A3 | RD1-team13= | RD1-score13=26 | RD1-seed14=B2 | RD1-team14=**** | RD1-score14=27

| RD1-seed15=C1 | RD1-team15=**** | RD1-score15=31 | RD1-seed16=D4 | RD1-team16= | RD1-score16=26

| RD2-seed01=B1 | RD2-team01=**** | RD2-score01=28 | RD2-seed02=D3 | RD2-team02= | RD2-score02=26

| RD2-seed03=A2 | RD2-team03= | RD2-score03=23 | RD2-seed04=D1 | RD2-team04=**** | RD2-score04=30

| RD2-seed05=A1 | RD2-team05= | RD2-score05=24 | RD2-seed06=D2 | RD2-team06=**** | RD2-score06=28

| RD2-seed07=B2 | RD2-team07= | RD2-score07=27 | RD2-seed08=C1 | RD2-team08=**** | RD2-score08=28

| RD3-seed01=B1 | RD3-team01=**** | RD3-score01=30 | RD3-seed02=D1 | RD3-team02= | RD3-score02=24

| RD3-seed03=D2 | RD3-team03=**** | RD3-score03=26 | RD3-seed04=C1 | RD3-team04= | RD3-score04=22

| RD4-seed01=B1 | RD4-team01= | RD4-score01=19 | RD4-seed02=D2 | RD4-team02=**** | RD4-score02=35

| RD4-seed03=D1 | RD4-team03=**** | RD4-score03=31 | RD4-seed04=C1 | RD4-team04= | RD4-score04=26

Round of 16

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Third place game

Final

The final match, watched by 19,500 people, was played at the Palau Sant Jordi hall in Barcelona. Denmark entered the final as the only unbeaten team during the tournament, having won all eight matches they previously played. Host nation Spain won seven of their eight matches before the final, losing only to Croatia in the final match in the group phase.

Spain won their second World Men's Handball Championship, beating Denmark 35–19. While in the early minutes of the game the teams were closely matched, Spain played tough defense, limited Denmark's scoring chances and went on a scoring run to end the first half leading 18–10. The Spanish team then increased their lead in the second half, outscoring Denmark 17–9 to close out the game. It was the third World Championship final that Denmark lost, having also been defeated in 1967 and 2011.

Statistics

Final ranking

Teams 9 to 16 and 5 to 8 are ranked first by points, then by goal difference, then by plus goals from the preliminary round games against teams placed 1 to 4.

All-Star Team

All-Star Team of the tournament:

• Goalkeeper: Niklas Landin Jacobsen
• Left wing: Timur Dibirov
• Left back: Alberto Entrerríos
• Centre back: Domagoj Duvnjak
• Pivot: Julen Aguinagalde
• Right back: László Nagy
• Right wing: Hans Lindberg

Other awards

• Most Valuable Player: Mikkel Hansen

Top goalscorers

Source: IHF.info

Top goalkeepers

Source: IHF.info

References

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