Beach Handball World Championships

IHF Men's & Women's Beach Handball World ChampionshipsCurrent season, competition or edition:
2022 Men's Beach Handball World Championships
2022 Women's Beach Handball World Championships

Sport| Beach Handball
Founded| 2004
Founder| International Handball Federation
Inaugural season| 2004
No. of teams| 16
Continents| 5
Most recent
champion(s)|  Croatia (men)
Germany (women)
Most titles|  Brazil (men; 5 titles)
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.

The most recent edition was held in Kazan (Russia), and crowned Brazil as champions defeating defending champions Croatia by 2–0 in the final of men's category. Debutants Greece claimed title in women's category by defeating Norway in the final by 2–1.[1]

## Contents

* 1 Men's tournament
* 1.1 Summary
* 1.2 Medal table
* 1.3 Participating nations
* 2 Women's tournament
* 2.1 Summary
* 2.2 Medal table
* 2.3 Participating nations
* 3 Overall medal count
* 4 See also
* 5 References

## Men's tournament[edit]

### Summary[edit]

Year  | Host  |  | Final  |  | Bronze match

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Gold  | Score  | Silver  | Bronze  | Score  | Fourth place
2004
Details |
El Gouna |
Egypt | 2–1  |
Turkey |
Russia | 2–1  |
Croatia
2006
Details |
Rio de Janeiro |
Brazil | 2–0  |
Turkey |
Spain | 2–1  |
Egypt
2008
Details |
Cadiz |
Croatia | 2–1
(p.s.)  |
Brazil |
Serbia | 2–0  |
Egypt
2010
Details |
Antalya |
Brazil | 2–0  |
Hungary |
Turkey | 2–1  |
Egypt
2012
Details |
Muscat |
Brazil | 2–1  |
Ukraine |
Croatia | 2–0  |
Russia
2014
Details |
Recife |
Brazil | 2–1  |
Croatia |
Qatar | 2–1  |
Denmark
2016
Details |
Budapest[2] |
Croatia | 2–0  |
Brazil |
Qatar | 2–1  |
Hungary
2018
Details |
Kazan[2] |
Brazil | 2–0  |
Croatia |
Hungary | 2–0  |
Sweden
2020
Details |
Pescara[3] | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic[4] | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2022
Details |
Crete[5] |
Croatia | 2–0  |
Denmark |
Brazil | 2–0  |
Greece

### Medal table[edit]

Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Brazil| 5| 2| 1| 8
2|  Croatia| 3| 2| 1| 6
3|  Egypt| 1| 0| 0| 1
4|  Turkey| 0| 2| 1| 3
5|  Hungary| 0| 1| 1| 2
6|  Denmark| 0| 1| 0| 1
Ukraine| 0| 1| 0| 1
8|  Qatar| 0| 0| 2| 2
9|  Russia| 0| 0| 1| 1
Serbia| 0| 0| 1| 1
Spain| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (11 nations)| 9| 9| 9| 27

### Participating nations[edit]

Nation  |
2004 |
2006 |
2008 |
2010 |
2012 |
2014 |
2016 |
2018 | ~~2020~~ |
2022 | Years

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Argentina |  |  |  |  |  | 10th |  | 11th |  | 11th | 3
Australia |  |  |  | 12th | 12th | 11th | 12th | 13th |  |  | 5
Bahrain | 7th | 6th |  |  | 9th |  | 9th |  |  |  | 4
Brazil | 9th | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 1st |  | 3rd | 9
Croatia | 4th | 7th | 1st | 7th | 3rd | 2nd | 1st | 2nd |  | 1st | 9
Denmark |  |  |  | 5th |  | 4th |  | 7th |  | 2nd | 4
Dominican Republic |  | 10th |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1
Ecuador |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 13th | 1
Egypt | 1st | 4th | 4th | 4th | 6th | 8th | 8th |  |  | 15th | 8
Germany |  | 8th |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1
Greece |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 4th | 1
Hungary | 6th | 5th | 7th | 2nd |  |  | 4th | 3rd |  |  | 6
Iran |  |  | 11th |  |  |  |  | 8th |  | 9th | 3
Kuwait |  |  |  |  | 10th |  |  |  |  |  | 1
Libya |  |  | 12th | 11th |  |  |  |  |  |  | 2
Norway |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 8th | 1
New Zealand |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 16th |  | 14th | 2
Oman | 8th |  |  | 9th | 8th | 12th | 7th | 10th |  |  | 6
Pakistan |  |  | 10th |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1
Portugal |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 10th | 1
Puerto Rico |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 16th | 1
Qatar |  |  |  | 10th | 7th | 3rd | 3rd | 9th |  | 5th | 6
Russia | 3rd | 9th | 8th | 6th | 4th | 7th |  | 6th |  | DQ | 7
Serbia |  |  | 3rd |  |  | 6th |  |  |  |  | 2
Spain |  | 3rd | 5th | 8th | 5th | 5th | 5th | 5th |  | 7th | 8
Sweden |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 4th |  |  | 1
Turkey | 2nd | 2nd | 6th | 3rd |  |  |  |  |  |  | 4
United States |  |  |  |  |  |  | 11th | 12th |  | 12th | 3
Ukraine | 5th |  |  |  | 2nd |  | 6th |  |  |  | 3
Uruguay |  |  | 9th |  | 11th | 9th | 10th | 15th |  | 6th | 6
Vietnam |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 14th |  |  | 1
Total | 9 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 16 |  | 16 |

## Women's tournament[edit]

### Summary[edit]

Year  | Host  |  | Final  |  | Bronze match

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Gold  | Score  | Silver  | Bronze  | Score  | Fourth place
2004
Details |
El Gouna |
Russia | 2–1  |
Turkey |
Italy | n/a |
Croatia
2006
Details |
Rio de Janeiro |
Brazil | 2–0  |
Germany |
Russia | 2–0  |
Bulgaria
2008
Details |
Cadiz |
Croatia | 2–0  |
Spain |
Brazil | 2–1  |
Italy
2010
Details |
Antalya |
Norway | 2–0  |
Denmark |
Brazil | 2–0  |
Ukraine
2012
Details |
Muscat |
Brazil | 2–0  |
Denmark |
Norway | 2–0  |
Hungary
2014
Details |
Recife |
Brazil | 2–0  |
Hungary |
Norway | 2–1  |
Ukraine
2016
Details |
Budapest[2] |
Spain | 2–1  |
Brazil |
Norway | 2–1  |
Hungary
2018
Details |
Kazan[2] |
Greece | 2–1  |
Norway |
Brazil | 2–0  |
Spain
2020
Details |
Pescara | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic[4] | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2022
Details |
Crete[5] |
Germany | 2–0  |
Spain |
Netherlands | 2–1  |
Greece

### Medal table[edit]

Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Brazil| 3| 1| 3| 7
2|  Spain| 1| 2| 0| 3
3|  Norway| 1| 1| 3| 5
4|  Russia| 1| 0| 1| 2
5|  Croatia| 1| 0| 0| 1
Greece| 1| 0| 0| 1
7|  Denmark| 0| 2| 0| 2
8|  Germany| 0| 1| 0| 1
Hungary| 0| 1| 0| 1
Turkey| 0| 1| 0| 1
11|  Italy| 0| 0| 1| 1
Netherlands| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (12 nations)| 8| 9| 9| 26

### Participating nations[edit]

Nation  |
2004 |
2006 |
2008 |
2010 |
2012 |
2014 |
2016 |
2018 | ~~2020~~ |
2022 | Years

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Argentina |  |  |  |  |  | 11th | 7th |  |  | 7th | 3
Australia |  |  |  |  | 8th | 12th | 8th | 16th |  | 16th | 5
Brazil | 6th | 1st | 3rd | 3rd | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |  | 6th | 9
Bulgaria |  | 4th |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1
China |  |  | 12th | 11th | 9th |  |  |  |  |  | 3
Chinese Taipei |  |  |  |  |  | 10th | 6th | 13th |  |  | 3
Croatia | 4th | 6th | 1st | 6th | 5th |  |  |  |  |  | 6
Denmark |  |  |  | 2nd | 2nd | 7th |  | 5th |  | 5th | 5
Dominican Republic |  | 10th | 11th |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 2
France |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 11th |  |  | 1
Germany |  | 2nd |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1st | 2
Greece |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1st |  | 4th | 2
Hong Kong | 8th |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1
Hungary | 5th | 7th |  | 7th | 4th | 2nd | 4th |  |  | 9th | 7
Italy | 3rd | 8th | 4th | 8th | 7th | 6th | 5th |  |  |  | 7
Japan | 7th |  |  | 10th |  |  |  |  |  |  | 2
North Macedonia |  |  | 10th |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1
Mexico |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 12th |  | 15th | 2
Netherlands |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 3rd | 1
New Zealand |  |  |  | 12th |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1
Norway |  |  | 6th | 1st | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | 2nd |  | 11th | 7
Paraguay |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 8th |  |  | 1
Poland |  |  |  |  | 10th |  | 10th | 6th |  |  | 3
Portugal |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 8th | 1
Russia | 1st | 3rd | 5th |  |  |  |  | 7th |  |  | 4
Serbia |  |  | 8th |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1
Singapore |  |  |  |  | 12th |  |  |  |  |  | 1
Spain |  |  | 2nd | 9th |  | 5th | 1st | 4th |  | 2nd | 6
Thailand |  |  |  |  | 11th | 9th | 9th | 15th |  | 10th | 5
Tunisia |  |  |  |  |  |  | 12th |  |  |  | 1
Turkey | 2nd | 5th |  | 5th |  |  |  |  |  |  | 3
Ukraine |  |  | 9th | 4th |  | 4th |  |  |  |  | 3
United States |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 14th |  | 14th | 2
Uruguay |  | 9th | 7th |  | 6th | 8th | 11th | 10th |  | 12th | 7
Vietnam |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 9th |  | 13th | 2
Total | 8 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 16 |  | 16 |

## Overall medal count[edit]

Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Brazil| 8| 3| 3| 14
2|  Croatia| 3| 2| 1| 6
3|  Norway| 1| 1| 3| 5
4|  Spain| 1| 1| 1| 3
5|  Russia| 1| 0| 2| 3
6|  Egypt| 1| 0| 0| 1
Greece| 1| 0| 0| 1
8|  Turkey| 0| 3| 1| 4
9|  Hungary| 0| 2| 1| 3
10|  Denmark| 0| 2| 0| 2
11|  Germany| 0| 1| 0| 1
Ukraine| 0| 1| 0| 1
13|  Qatar| 0| 0| 2| 2
14|  Italy| 0| 0| 1| 1
Serbia| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (15 nations)| 16| 16| 16| 48

## See also[edit]

* 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

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Men's and Women's Beach Handball World Championships". IHF. Archived from the original on 18 May 2012. Retrieved 1 July 2009.
2. ^ a b c d "Budapest and Sochi to host the next two Beach Handball World Championships". ihf.info. 20 February 2015.
3. ^ "Beach Handball 2020 WCh - Italy". Issuu. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
4. ^ a b "Key decisions made on IHF events at IHF Council meeting". ihf.info. 22 February 2021.
5. ^ a b "Greece to host IHF Beach Handball World Championships in 2022". ihf.info. Retrieved 12 November 2021.

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Africa|

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Asia|

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Europe|

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Oceania|

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Africa|

* African Championships
* Men
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* Boys
* Girls

Americas|

* North American and Caribbean Championships
* Senior
* Junior
* South and Central American Championships
* Men
* Women
* Men's Youth
* Women's Youth

Asia|

* Asian Championships
* Men
* Women
* Boys
* Girls

Europe|

* European Championships
* Men
* Women
* Boys
* Girls

Oceania|

* Oceania Championships
* Men
* Women
* Boys
* Girls

Defunct|

* Pan American Championships (discontinued):
* Men
* Women
* Boys
* Girls

Multisports Events|

* World Games
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* Youth Olympic Games
* African Beach Games
* Asian Beach Games
* Mediterranean Beach Games
* Bolivarian Beach Games
* South American Beach Games

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Olympic sports|

| Team|

* Association football
* men
* men's club
* women
* women's club
* Baseball
* men
* women
* Basketball
* men
* women
* 3x3 basketball
* club
* Beach volleyball
* Curling
* mixed doubles
* mixed
* Field hockey
* men
* women
* Handball
* men
* women
* Ice hockey
* men
* women
* Rugby 7s
* Lacrosse
* men
* women
* Softball
* men
* women
* Volleyball
* men
* men's club
* women
* women's club
* Water polo
* men
* women

|

Individual|

* Archery
* Aquatic sports
* Athletics
* outdoor
* race walking
* Badminton
* men
* women
* mixed
* individual
* Biathlon
* Bobsleigh and skeleton
* Boxing (amateur)
* Canoeing
* slalom
* sprint
* Cycling
* BMX
* mountain biking
* road
* track
* urban
* Equestrianism
* dressage
* eventing
* show jumping
* Fencing
* Golf
* men
* women
* Gymnastics
* artistic
* rhythmic
* trampoline
* Ice skating
* figure
* short track
* speed
* Judo
* Karate
* Luge
* artificial track
* natural track
* Modern pentathlon
* Rowing
* Sailing
* Olympic Class Combined Worlds
* Shooting
* Skateboarding
* Skiing
* alpine
* nordic
* freestyle
* snowboarding
* Sport climbing
* Surfing
* Table tennis
* Taekwondo
* Tennis
* men
* women
* Triathlon
* mixed relay
* Weightlifting
* Wrestling

Discontinued|

* Basque pelota
* Polo
* Roller hockey
* men
* women

Paralympic sports|

| Team|

* Blind football
* Para ice hockey
* Wheelchair basketball
* Wheelchair handball
* Wheelchair rugby
* Wheelchair curling
* Mixed team
* Mixed doubles
* Goalball
* Sitting volleyball

|

Individual|

* Archery
* Athletics
* Badminton
* Bobsleigh and skeleton
* Climbing
* Cycling
* Track cycling
* Road cycling
* Powerlifting
* Shooting
* Snowboard
* Skiing
* Alpine
* Nordic
* Swimming
* Table tennis

Combat sports|

* Kendo
* Kickboxing
* Muaythai
* Sambo
* Sumo
* Wrestling
* Wushu

Cue sports|

* Carom billiards
* Three-cushion
* men
* women
* team
* artistic
* English billiards
* amateurs
* women
* Pool
* eight-ball
* nine-ball
* ten-ball
* straight pool
* Snooker
* men
* women
* team
* amateurs
* six-red

Mind sports|

* Backgammon
* Bridge
* Chess
* open
* women
* team
* Draughts
* men
* women
* checkers
* draughts-64
* draughts-64 women
* Go
* Puzzles
* Scrabble
* Sudoku
* Xiangqi

Motorsport|

| Auto racing|

* Formula E
* Formula One
* Karting
* Rallying
* Rallycross
* Rally raid
* Bajas
* Sports Car Endurance
* Touring Car

|

Motorcycle sports|

* Endurance
* Enduro
* SuperEnduro
* Hard Enduro
* Ice racing
* individual
* team
* Grand Prix
* MotoGP
* Moto2
* Moto3
* Motocross
* individual
* women
* nations
* Supercross
* Sidecarcross
* Snowcross
* Production
* Superbike
* Supersport
* Supersport 300
* Rally raid
* Bajas
* Sidecar
* Speedway
* individual
* team
* Trial
* nations

Other|

* Aeroplane sport
* Aerobatic
* Aerobatic GP
* Powerboating
* Aquabike
* F1
* F4s
* offshore
* Radio-controlled racing
* 1:10 electric off-road
* 1:8 nitro off-road
* Tank biathlon

Discontinued|

* Air racing

Other sports|

| Team|

* American football
* men
* women
* Australian football
* Ball hockey
* men
* women
* Bandy
* men
* men's club
* women
* women's club
* Cricket
* Test
* ODI (men)
* ODI (women)
* T20 (men)
* T20 (women)
* Beach handball
* Beach soccer
* Canoe polo
* Dancesport
* Formation Latin
* Dodgeball
* Fistball
* men
* women
* Flag football
* Floorball
* men
* women
* Futsal
* men
* men's club
* women
* Indoor hockey
* men
* women
* Indoor soccer
* Inline hockey
* FIRS
* Kabaddi
* Korfball
* Lacrosse
* indoor
* Life saving
* Netball
* Padel tennis
* Quidditch
* Ringette
* Rogaining
* Roll Ball
* Roller derby
* men
* women
* Rugby league
* men
* men's club
* women
* Rugby union
* men
* women
* Sailing
* Yachts
* Dinghies
* Sepaktakraw
* Synchronized skating
* Tchoukball

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Individual|

* Air sports
* ballooning
* gliding
* parachuting
* paragliding
* Aquatics
* surfing
* water skiing
* Armwrestling
* Athletics
* cross country
* half marathon
* indoor
* 100 km
* mountain running
* long distance mountain running
* snowshoe running
* skyrunning
* trail running
* Bowling
* Tenpin
* Ninepin (singles, team)
* Bowls
* indoor
* outdoor
* Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
* Canoeing
* marathon
* wildwater
* Crokinole
* Cycling
* cyclo-cross
* indoor
* mountain bike marathon
* trials
* Darts
* BDO
* PDC
* team
* Finswimming
* Fishing
* freshwater
* fly fishing
* Gymnastics
* acrobatic
* aerobic
* Ice Climbing
* Orienteering
* foot
* ski
* mountain bike
* trail
* Pétanque
* Powerlifting
* men
* women
* Mounted games
* Racquetball
* Shooting
* practical handgun
* practical rifle
* practical shotgun
* Skiing
* flying
* ski mountaineering
* Squash
* individual
* doubles
* team
* Roller Sports
* artistic skating
* inline alpine
* inline downhill
* inline freestyle
* inline speed skating
* roller freestyle
* Swimming
* short course
* Teqball
* Triathlon
* Aquathlon
* Duathlon
* Ironman
* Yo-yo

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