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1938 World Men's Handball Championship
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| country | Germany |
| country-flagvar | 1935 |
| dates | 5–6 February |
| num_teams | 4 |
| venues | 1 |
| cities | 1 |
| champion_other | |
| count | 1 |
| second_other | |
| third_other | |
| fourth_other | |
| matches | 6 |
| goals | 53 |
| attendance | 56000 |
| top_scorer | GER Hans-Werner Obermark |
| GER Hans Theilig | |
| SWE Yngve Lamberg | |
| (6 goals each) | |
| next | 1954 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| {{Location map+ | Germany 1937 | width=250 | float=center | caption= | places= |
| Deutschlandhalle | |||||
| Capacity: 8,764 | |||||
| [[File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-P018933, Berlin, Deutschlandhalle.jpg | 200px]] |
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
| Rank | Name | Nation | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yngve Lamberg | 6 | |
| Hans-Werner Obermark | |||
| Hans Theilig | |||
| 4 | Rudolf Tauscher | 5 | |
| 5 | Günther Ortmann | 4 | |
| Jaroslav Volak | |||
| 7 | Kurt Mahnkopf | 3 | |
| Anton Perwein | |||
| 9 | Sven Åblad | 2 | |
| Hans Houschka | |||
| Walter Madsen | |||
| Gerd Schauer | |||
| 13 | 8 players | 1 |
Medallist Squads
| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|
| GER Germany | AUT Austria | SWE 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 Zimmermann | Franz Axmann | |
| Otto Cerny | ||
| Hans Houschka | ||
| Zdenko Kucera | ||
| Robert Leu | ||
| Otto Licha | ||
| Ferdinand Mantler | ||
| Anton Perwein | ||
| Alfred Schmalzer | ||
| Alois Schnabel | ||
| Rudolf Tauscher | ||
| Jaroslav Volak | ||
| Leopold Woh | Sven 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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References
- International Handball Federation
- Games of Sweden
- Games of Germany (Helmut Laaß and Stephan Müller)
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