The 2022 Men's

Beach Handball World Championships 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 gover ...

will be ninth edition of the championship to be held from 21 to 26 June 2022 at

Crete Crete ( el, Κρήτη, translit=, Modern: , Ancient: ) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and ...

, Greece under the aegis of

International Handball Federation The International Handball Federation (IHF) is the administrative and controlling body for handball and beach handball. IHF is responsible for the organisation of handball's major international tournaments, notably the IHF World Men's Handball C ...

(IHF). It will be first time in history that the championship will be organised by

Hellenic Handball Federation '' , abbrev= OXE , logo= Hellenic Handball Federation logo.jpeg , logosize= 190px , countryflag= Greece , iocnation= Hellenic Republic (GRE) , url= www.Handball.org.gr , sport= Handball , othersport1= Beach handball , othersport2= Wheelchair hand ...

Qualification

*Russia was exluded due to the

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. An ...

Draw

The draw took place on 13 May 2022.

Preliminary round

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

References

External links

IHF website
{{World championships in 2022 Beach World Championships Beach Handball World Championships

Sport in Heraklion

Beach Handball Beach handball is a team sport where two teams pass and bounce or roll a ball, trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team. The game is similar to standard handball, but it is played on sand instead of on a solid floor. Because the ball ...

Beach Handball World Men's Sports events affected by the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine