2017 Men's Youth World Handball Championship
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The 2017
IHF Men's Youth World Championship The IHF Men's U19 Handball World Championship (or the IHF Men's Youth World Championship) is the official competition for men's national handball teams under age 19. It has been organized by the International Handball Federation The Internati ...
was the seventh edition of the U-19 tournament and held in
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from 8 to 20 August 2017. All matches were played in two halls at the
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. France won their second straight title by defeating Spain 28–25 in the final. Denmark captured the bronze medal after defeating Croatia 30–29.


Qualified teams

On 31 July 2017, Venezuela withdrew from the tournament and Poland was named as the substitute.


Draw

The draw was held on 10 May 2017.


Seedings

The seedings were announced on 8 May 2017.


Referees

The IHF selected 16 referee pairs for the championship.


Preliminary round

The schedule was announced on 29 May 2017. ''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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President's Cup

;17th place bracket ;21st place bracket


21st–24th place semifinals

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17th–20th place semifinals

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23rd place game


21st place game


19th place game


17th place game


9–16th placement games

The eight losers of the round of 16 are seeded according to their results in the preliminary round against teams ranked 1–4 and play an elimination game to determine their final position.


15th place game


13th place game


Eleventh place game


Ninth place game


Knockout stage


Bracket

;5th place bracket


Round of 16

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Quarterfinals

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5th–8th place semifinals

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Semifinals

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Seventh place game


Fifth place game


Third place game


Final


Final ranking


Statistics


Top goalscorers

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Top goalkeepers

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Awards


MVP

*Left-back: Kyllian Villeminot


All-star team

*Goalkeeper:
Maksim Popov Maxim (more accurately spelled Maksim assuming that "X" is not a consonant, but the conjunction of "K" and "S" sounds; “Maksym”, or "Maxym") is an epicene (or gender-neutral) first name of Roman origin mainly given to males. It is adopted in ...
*Right wing: Edouard Kempf *Right back: Ivan Martinović *Centre back: Ian Tarrafeta *Left back: Emil Lærke *Left wing:
Emil Jakobsen Emil Jakobsen (born 24 January 1998) is a Danish handball player for the German club SG Flensburg-Handewitt and the Danish national team. He joined his current club, Flensburg-Handewitt in 2021 on a three-year contract. In 2022 he announced tha ...
*Pivot: Luis Frade


References


External links


Official website
{{Youth World Handball Championship 2017 Youth Men's Youth World Handball Championship 2017 in Georgian sport August 2017 sports events in Europe Sports competitions in Tbilisi