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1938 World Men's Handball Championship

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FieldValue
countryGermany
country-flagvar1935
dates5–6 February
num_teams4
venues1
cities1
champion_other
count1
second_other
third_other
fourth_other
matches6
goals53
attendance56000
top_scorerGER Hans-Werner Obermark
GER Hans Theilig
SWE Yngve Lamberg
(6 goals each)
next1954 World Men's Handball Championship

| country-flagvar= 1935 GER Hans Theilig SWE Yngve Lamberg (6 goals each) The 1938 World Men's Handball Championship was the first ever handball World Championship. It was played in Germany 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 in Berlin. The court had the dimensions 50 × 25 meter (today 40 × 20 meter) and the games were 2 × 10 minutes (today (2× 30 minutes).

Berlin
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Deutschlandhalle
Capacity: 8,764
[[File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-P018933, Berlin, Deutschlandhalle.jpg200px]]

Squads

Main article: 1938 World Men's Handball Championship squads

Referees

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

Results

Obermark 3 Mahnkopf 2 Ortmann & Schauer 1 Åblad 1 Cerny, Tauscher & Volak 1

Report Sweden Ortmann, Mahnkopf & Theilig 1 Volak 2 Houschka & Perwein 1 Hömke, Obermark, Schauer, Theilig & Zimmermann 1

Top scorers

RankNameNationGoals
1Yngve Lamberg6
Hans-Werner Obermark
Hans Theilig
4Rudolf Tauscher5
5Günther Ortmann4
Jaroslav Volak
7Kurt Mahnkopf3
Anton Perwein
9Sven Åblad2
Hans Houschka
Walter Madsen
Gerd Schauer
138 players1

Medallist Squads

GoldSilverBronze
GER GermanyAUT AustriaSWE Sweden
Karl Herbolzheimer
Herbert Schmidt
Gerard Brüntgens
Walter Homke
Hans Keiter
Kurt Lubenow
Kurt Mahnkopf
Hans Obermark
Günther Ortmann
Gerd Schauer
Will Steininger
Hans Theilig
Adolar Woczinski
Philipp ZimmermannFranz Axmann
Otto Cerny
Hans Houschka
Zdenko Kucera
Robert Leu
Otto Licha
Ferdinand Mantler
Anton Perwein
Alfred Schmalzer
Alois Schnabel
Rudolf Tauscher
Jaroslav Volak
Leopold WohSven Åblad
Torsten Andersson
Erik Floberg
Åke Forslund
Stig Hjortsberg
Sture Hultberg
Åke Kallerdahl
Yngve Lamberg
Roland Nilsson
Allan Rollander
Sigfrid Schönning
Tage Sjöberg
Gustaf Adolf Thoren

City tournament

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

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