Sportfive has now set up an English language site for watching the World Championships on line.

videosport.com http://www.videosport.com/ihf2007/index.php

Options for purchase:
All 92 Matches: 19.99 Euros
Single Match: 2.99

Notes:
– Commentary for many of the matches will be in English and you will be able to select your preferred language.
– The start times for the matches posted on the videosport website are UK local. This is one hour earlier than Central European Time, which is the time listed in most IHF schedules.

[b]Torneo Internacional de Espana[/b]
Brazil – Poland 28-29
Spain – Russia 39-28

[b]Club Selestat 40th Anniversary Tournament[/b]
Qatar – Greenland 36-35

[b]Umbro Cup [/b]
Norway – Sweden 22-35 (12-18) http://www.handball.no/kamp.asp?KampId=368128

Argentina vs. Dessau-Roslauer HV
Iceland vs. Czech Republic 27-29 (15-16) http://www.hsi.is/default.asp?cat_id=49&module_id=220&element_id=2936

[b]Torneo Internacional de Espana[/b] http://www.ademar.com/torneo/resultados.html
Russia – Poland 30-32
Spain – Brazil 41-19 (20-12)

[b]Club Selestat 40th Anniversary Tournament[/b]
SC Sèlestat – Greenland 28 – 18 (18-11)
TSV Bayer Dormagen – Qatar 33 – 29

[b]Umbro Cup (Norway)[/b] http://www.handball.no/kamper.asp?AvdId=6048
Norway – Portugal 33-24 (15-12) http://www.handball.no/kamp.asp?KampId=368127

Germany – Egypt 29-30 (14-16) http://www.handball-world.com/o.red.c/news.php?GID=1&auswahl=6936

[b]Torneo Internacional de Espana[/b]
Russia – Brazil 34-32 (18-16)
Spain – Poland 27-25 (14-10) http://es.sports.yahoo.com/12012007/21/27-25-espana-logra-victoria-mas-apurada-previsto.html

[b]Club Selestat 40th Anniversary Tournament[/b]
TSV Bayer Dormagen – Greenland 34-21 (16-12)
Selestat (France) – Qatar 32-31

Argentina – Angola 25-19 (15-8) http://www.handball-world.com/o.red.c/news.php?GID=1&auswahl=6933

As previously reported, the upcoming Handball World Championships will be broadcast via the internet. This article details how Sportfive has teamed up with both German Handball and Basketball leagues to broadcast matches over the internet: http://www.sportbusiness.com/news/161035/german-handball-and-basketball-team-up-online

At the Sportdigital.tv website www.sportdigital.tv the options for the upcoming World Championships are detailed:

19.99 Euros- All 92 World Championship Matches with most streamed live.
2.99 Euros- Single Match

Note: All 92 matches includes President Cup and placement games. Highlights of matches will be available for free after site registration

After the World Championships, the Handball Bundesliga (HBL) will web broadcast matches. A new website, hbl.tv www.hbl.tv has been set up and there will be 3 options available:

24.99 Euros- Remainder of the season to include 80 live matches
8.99 Euros- Monthly subscription
2.99 Euros- Single match

[b]Lauritz Knudsen Cup (Denmark) [/b] http://sportsresultater.tv2.dk/index.php?stats=true&g=hb&tp=all&lid=278
Denmark – Iceland (28-28)
Poland – Norway (30-34)

Final Standings
Win Tie Loss Goals For-Goals Against Goal Differential Points
1) Norway 3 0 0 96-78 18 6
2) Iceland 1 1 1 90-101 -11 3
3) Poland 1 0 2 100-100 0 2
4) Denmark 0 1 2 80-87 -7 1

[b]Challenge Marrane (France) [/b]
5th Place Match) Qatar – Ukraine (18-26) http://www.hand-ivry.org/marrane/pdf/2007/feuilles_match/finales_feuille1.pdf
3rd Place Match) Ivry – Czech Republic (25-31) http://www.hand-ivry.org/marrane/pdf/2007/feuilles_match/finales_feuille2.pdf
1st Place Match) France – Tunisia (35-26)

[b]Slovenia-Croatia Cup[/b] http://www.rokometna-zveza.si/default.asp?l=2&n=517
Bosnia & Herzegovina – Greece
Slovenia – Croatia (29-32)

Hungary – Germany (23-23)
http://de.sports.yahoo.com/07012007/14/dhb-team-test-ungarn-remis.html

Brazil – Dominican Republic (38-19) http://espnbrasil.uol.com.br/scripts/noticia/artigo.asp?idArtigo=104863

All results posted and updated regularly at this page: https://teamhandballnews.com/page.php?11

Lauritz Knudsen Cup (Denmark) http://sportsresultater.tv2.dk/index.php?resmenu&g=hb&stats=true&tp=all&lid=278
Denmark – Norway (26-28)
Poland – Iceland (39-40)

Challenge Marrane (France)
Qatar – Czech Republic (27-35) http://www.hand-ivry.org/marrane/pdf/2007/feuilles_match/journee3_feuille0.pdf
Tunisia – Ivry (38-33) http://www.hand-ivry.org/marrane/pdf/2007/feuilles_match/journee3_feuille2.pdf

Slovenia-Croatia Cup http://www.rokometna-zveza.si/default.asp?l=2&n=517
Croatia – Bosnia & Herzegovina (34-17)
Slovenia – Greece (37-27)

Hungary – Germany (20-23) http://de.sports.yahoo.com/06012007/14/dhb-auswahl-gewinnt-wm-test-ungarn.html

Lauritz Knudsen Cup (Denmark)
Denmark – Poland (26-31)
Norway – Iceland (34-22)

Challenge Marrane (France) http://www.hand-ivry.org/affiche_journee_marrane_2007.php?id_rubrique=103
France – Czech Republic (38-25)
Tunisia – Ukraine (33-27)

Slovenia-Croatia Cup
Slovenia – Bosnia & Herzegovina (35-33)
Croatia – Greece (28-23)

Brazil – Dominican Republic (34-20) http://espnbrasil.uol.com.br/scripts/noticia/artigo.asp?idArtigo=104773

Big surprise of the evening was Poland beating Denmark in Denmark. The Polish Backcourt players were very effective from 9 Meters and they were able to keep the Danish fast breaks to a minimum. The Czech Republic played France even in the first half, 15-15, but could not withstand a French onslaught in the 2nd half. Barring another Ivry upset, France will play Tunisia in the Challenge Marrane final on Sunday.

France – Qatar (32-28)
Ivry – Ukraine (27-25)
Spain – Norway (39-25)

An uninspired French side held off a pesky Qatari team that never let the game get out of hand. Although the outcome was never in real doubt, the 4 goal margin of victory is clearly a morale victory for a Qatari team which lost 4 games by much larger margins in a recent International tournament in Italy against far weaker teams. France rested many of their top players, but still had an overwhelming advantage in terms of talent.

Ukraine, arguably the weakest European side to make the World Championships had an embarrassing loss to Ivry, the French club team that is hosting the tournament. While Ivry is one of the top clubs in France, they are missing two of their best players, Luc Abalo, who’s playing with the French National Team and Ragnar Oskarrson, who is training with the Iceland National Team.

Spain walloped Norway, 39-25, in another tune-up match. Spanish News Write-up: http://es.sports.yahoo.com/04012007/2/balonmano-amistoso-cronica-espana-noruega-39-25.html

We’ll continue to post the results of all the matches in our links page on the right hand side of the screen. If you are aware of any matches not listed, feel free to drop us a line at editors@teamhandballnes.com

According to Sven Harke, SPORTFIVE's TV Rights Product Manager for Handball, the upcoming Men’s Handball World Championships will be available for viewing on the internet. Preliminary plans are to provide an internet option to all nations that will not have TV coverage. Different packages (entire tournament, single match, highlight) will me made available for purchase. More information will be provided on the IHF Official website, www.ihf.info shortly before the Championships start on 19 January 2007.

SPORTFIVE Inc Website: http://www.sportfive.com/index.php?id=122

The Official Website for the 2007 Women's World Championship has been launched.
http://www.handball2007.fr/cm/

The English portion of the site is still in development. One interesting piece of news that I learned is that the African and Asian qualifying nations have already been determined: http://www.handball2007.fr/cm/spip.php?article26

[link=coachingclinic07] [img]{E_IMAGE}newspost_images/wm07.jpg[/img] Handball World Championships Coaching Clinic – click here to enter[/link]

The IHF website has updated the competition archive at their website to include results and some statistics. If you look at World Championships sections you can see how some nations that didn’t fare as well in the past (Danish Women, French Men) have improved over the years.

Women: http://www.ihf.info/front_content.php?idart=443
Men: http://www.ihf.info/front_content.php?idart=440

One interesting tidbit that I learned was that American Steve Goss was the 4th leading scorer at the 1985 B World Championships in Norway. Steve is one of the few Americans to ever play professionally overseas and I would expect that a performance like this helped make that happen.