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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.
The first official handball match was played in 1917 in Germany. [1] Karl Schelenz modified the rules in 1919. [5] The first international games were played (under these rules) with men in 1925 (between Germany and Belgium) and with women in 1930 (between Germany and Austria). [7]
Handball. Field handball at the 1936 Summer Olympics was the first appearance of the sport at the Olympics. It was contested by six teams. Games were played outdoors with 11 players on each side. [1] The six teams were split into two groups of three. Each team played each other within each group.
The Germany national handball team is the country's national men's handball team and represents Germany in international tournaments in men's handball and is one of the most successful handball teams in the world, having won three World Championships and two European Championship.
Germany together with Denmark is regarded as the birthplace of handball. The first match of the modern era was officially recorded on 29 October 1917 in Berlin, Germany. Carl Schelenz is credited developing most rules of modern handball. Outdoor Handball had its only Olympic Games appearance in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The first international ...
Field handball was introduced for men at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, but dropped after that. At the 1952 Olympics, field handball was a demonstration sport. (Indoor) handball was introduced for men at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Women's handball competition was introduced at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. [1]
East Germany (GDR) [10] Hans-Georg Beyer Lothar Doering Günter Dreibrodt Ernst Gerlach Klaus Gruner Rainer Höft Hans-Georg Jaunich Hartmut Krüger Peter Rost Dietmar Schmidt Wieland Schmidt Siegfried Voigt Frank-Michael Wahl Ingolf Wiegert Soviet Union (URS) [11] Aleksandr Anpilogov Vladimir Belov Yevgeni Chernyshov Anatoli Fedyukin Mykhaylo ...
In 1917 he, Erich Konigh, and Max Heiser published the first modern set of rules for handball [1] on 29 October in Berlin, which is seen as the date of birth of the sport. [2] [3] Schelenz modified the rules in 1919. [1] In 1916 and in 1917, he was the German champion in long jump. [4] He was third in the German championship in high jump ...