The 1938

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 six ...

was the first ever

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...

World Championship. It was played in

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on 5 and 6 February 1938. Contested by just 4 national teams, the tournament was won by hosts Germany.

History

Only two years before at the fourth IAHF congress the first international rules for indoor handball were created. The only game between indoor handball national teams had been played between the Danish and Swedish teams in Copenhagen on 8 March 1935. Sweden had won 18 to 12. In Germany and Austria indoor handball was not regularly played and they had no international appearance yet. An unofficial German national team like team played at tournament in Copenhagen on 28 August 1934.

Venues

All games were played in the

Deutschlandhalle Deutschlandhalle was an arena located in the Westend (Berlin), Westend neighbourhood of Berlin, Germany. It was inaugurated on 29 November 1935 by Adolf Hitler. The building was granted landmark status in 1995, but was demolished on 3 December 20 ...

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. The court had the dimensions 50 × 25 meter (today 40 × 20 meter) and the games were 2 × 15 minutes (today (2× 30 minutes).

Squads

Referees

One referee from Denmark and two from Germany were refereeing the games.

Results

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Top scorers

Medallist Squads

City tournament

Besides the World Men's Handball Championship there was also a city tournament played.

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References

International Handball Federation

Games of Sweden

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