The 2017

IHF World Men's Handball Championship The IHF Men's Handball World Championship has been organized indoor by the International Handball Federation since 1938. In the twenty-nine tournaments held, twelve national teams have won the title. France is the most successful team with si ...

was the 25th event hosted by the

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. The event was held in France from 11 to 29 January 2017. France, in a clean sweep, defended their title by defeating Norway 33–26 in the final, which secured France their sixth title. Slovenia defeated Croatia 31–30 to capture the bronze medal. Norway (from a wildcard) and Slovenia earned their first World Championship medals ever. The championship set a record of attendance in total of 540,000 spectators with 23 matches being sold out and with a venue record of 28,010 at both of France's knock-out matches in Lille.

Venues

The championship was played at eight venues in Paris-Bercy,

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, and Brest. All the venue capacities are the capacity for handball events. 8 venues

Bidding process

Denmark and France were bidding to host the 2017 Men's World Championships. The IHF Council awarded the Men’s and Women’s World Championships 2017 at their meeting on the fringes of the Women’s World Championships in São Paulo, Brazil on Thursday 15 December 2011. Denmark was the co-host of the 1999 Women’s World Championship and host of the 1978 Men's World Championship. Denmark has also hosted the Women's EHF EURO twice and was awarded with the Men's EHF EURO 2014. France hosted the Men's World Championships in 1970 and 2001 and was host of the 2007 Women's World Championship.

Qualification

Twenty-four teams participated in the final tournament.

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were automatically qualified as hosts. An additional automatic qualification spot was given to the defending champions, but because this was also France, the berth was given to the next best placed team from the last World Championship, losing finalists

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. The remaining 22 available places were for the best teams of each continental qualification tournament, the winners of an additional European qualification competition and an additional intercontinental qualification tournament.

Qualified teams

¹ Bold indicates champion for that year

² ''Italic'' indicates host country for that year

³ From both German teams only

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was qualified in 1990

Draw

The draw was held on 23 June 2016 at 14:00 in

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Seeding

Squads

Referees

16 referee pairs are selected:

Preliminary round

The schedule was announced on 23 September 2015. ''All times are local (

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Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

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Presidents Cup

21st–24th place bracket

21st–24th place semifinals

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23rd place game

21st place game

17–20th place bracket

17–20th place semifinals

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19th place game

17th place game

Knockout stage

Bracket

Round of 16

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Quarterfinals

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Semifinals

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Third place game

Final

Final ranking

For places 5–16 the criterion was the number of points gained against the teams ranked first to fourth in the preliminary round in their group.

Awards

All-Star Team

All-Star Team of the tournament: *Goalkeeper: Vincent Gérard *Right wing: Kristian Bjørnsen *Right back: Nedim Remili *Centre back:

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*Left back: Sander Sagosen *Left wing: Jerry Tollbring *Pivot: Bjarte Myrhol

Other awards

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: Nikola Karabatić

Statistics

Top goalscorers

Source
IHF

Top goalkeepers

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IHF

References

External links

Official website

IHF website
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