IHF Beach Handball World Championships
| Current season, competition or edition: Current sports event 2024 Men's Beach Handball World Championships 2024 Women's Beach Handball World Championships | |
| Sport | Beach Handball |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2004 |
| Founder | International Handball Federation |
| First season | 2004 |
| No. of teams | 16 |
| Continents | 5 |
| Most recent champions | File:Flag of Croatia.svg Croatia (men) File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany (women) |
| Most titles | File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil (men; 5 titles) File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil (women; 3 titles) |
The IHF Beach Handball World Championships is an international beach handball competition contested by the men's and women's national teams of the member federations/associations of International Handball Federation (IHF), the sport's global governing body.
The tournament was established in 2004, taking place every two years to allow continental tournaments to flourish without the burden of the World Championship qualifiers crowding the schedule every 12 months. The current tournament format lasts over approximately 6 days and involves 16 teams initially competing in four groups of four teams. The group winners and runners-up advance to a series of knock-out stages until the champion is crowned. The losing semi-finalists play each other in a play-off match to determine the third and fourth-placed teams.
Brazil is the most successful national team in the competition, having claimed 5 men's and 3 women's world titles.[1] The most recent edition took place in 2024 in China where the Croatian men's national team in the final defeated Denmark, while in the women's competition, Germany defeated Argentina in the final, both teams defending the title from Greece in 2022.
Men's tournament
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Medal table
[edit | edit source]| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 | File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil | 5 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 2 | File:Flag of Croatia.svg Croatia | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| 3 | File:Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | File:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | File:Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | File:Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | File:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | File:Flag of Qatar.svg Qatar | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 9 | File:Flag of Portugal (official).svg Portugal | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| File:Flag of Serbia.svg Serbia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (12 entries) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | |
Participating nations
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Women's tournament
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Medal table
[edit | edit source]| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 | File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 2 | File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 4 | File:Flag of Norway.svg Norway | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 5 | File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | File:Flag of Croatia.svg Croatia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| File:Flag of Greece.svg Greece | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 8 | File:Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | File:Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| File:Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| File:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 12 | File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 13 | File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (13 entries) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | |
Participating nations
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Overall medal count
[edit | edit source]| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 | File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil | 8 | 3 | 4 | 15 |
| 2 | File:Flag of Croatia.svg Croatia | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| 3 | File:Flag of Norway.svg Norway | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 4 | File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | File:Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| File:Flag of Greece.svg Greece | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 8 | File:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 9 | File:Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 10 | File:Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| File:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 13 | File:Flag of Qatar.svg Qatar | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 14 | File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| File:Flag of Serbia.svg Serbia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (15 entries) | 17 | 16 | 17 | 50 | |
See also
[edit | edit source]- Beach handball at the World Games
- Asian Beach Handball Championship
- European Beach Handball Championship (disambiguation)
- Oceania Beach Handball Championship
- Pan American Beach Handball Championship
- South and Central American Beach Handball Championship
- IHF Youth Beach Handball World Championship
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