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-seven tournaments held, eleven nations have won the title. France men's national handball team, France is t ...

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

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, Rouen, Nantes,

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Albertville Albertville (; Arpitan: ''Arbèrtvile'') is a subprefecture of the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Southeastern France. It is best known for hosting the 1992 Winter Olympics and Paralympics. In 2018, the commune had ...

, Montpellier,

Lille Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Pref ...

, and

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. 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 Vincent Gérard (born 16 December 1986) is a French professional handball player for Istres Provence Handball and the French national team. In the 2020 Olympics he was selected into the All-Star Team. Club career Gérard began playing handb ...

*Right wing: Kristian Bjørnsen *Right back: Nedim Remili *Centre back:

Domagoj Duvnjak Domagoj Duvnjak (born 1 June 1988) is a Croatian professional handball player for THW Kiel and the Croatia national team. Duvnjak is regarded as one of the best handball players of all time alongside fellow Croatian Ivano Balić. He became a me ...

*Left back: Sander Sagosen *Left wing:

Jerry Tollbring Jerry Tollbring (born 13 September 1995) is a Swedish handball player for Füchse Berlin and the Swedish national team. He participated at the 2016 European Men's Handball Championship. Individual awards *All-Star Left wing of the World Cha ...

*Pivot:

Bjarte Myrhol Bjarte Håkon Myrhol (born 29 May 1982) is a former Norwegian handballer, previously playing for THW Kiel and Norway men's national handball team. Bjarte Myrhol was the captain of the Norway national team from 2014 to 2021. At the end of his c ...

Other awards

* Most Valuable Player:

Nikola Karabatić Nikola Karabatić (born 11 April 1984) is a French handball player for Paris Saint-Germain and the French national team. With the French national handball team, he has won three Olympic gold medals (Summer Olympics of 2008, 2012 and 2020), four ...

Statistics

Top goalscorers

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Top goalkeepers

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References

External links

Official website

IHF website
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