IHF World Women's Outdoor Handball Championship was the world championship of field handball and was organized by the International Handball Federation in the period 1949-1960.
Sport | Field handball |
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Founded | 1949 |
Founder | International Handball Federation (IHF) |
First season | 1949 |
No. of teams | 6 |
Continent | International (IHF) |
Most recent champion(s) | Romania (2nd title) |
Most titles | Romania (2 titles) |
Year | Host Country | Gold medal game | Bronze medal game | ||||||
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Gold | Score | Silver | Bronze | Score | Fourth place | ||||
1949[1] Details |
Hungary |
Hungary |
Round-robin | Austria |
Czechoslovakia |
Round-robin | France | ||
1956[2] Details |
West Germany |
Romania |
6–5 | West Germany |
Hungary |
8–6 | Austria | ||
1960[3] Details |
Netherlands |
Romania |
10–2 | Austria |
Germany1 |
3–1 | Netherlands |
1: Germany sent a united team composed of players from the GDR and the FRG.
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Romania | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
2 | Hungary | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
3 | Austria | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
4 | West Germany | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
5 | Czechoslovakia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Germany | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (6 entries) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
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Source: IHF official site.[4]
For each tournament, the number of teams in each finals tournament (in brackets) are shown.
Team | 1949 (4) |
1956 (6) |
1960 (6) |
Total | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Austria | 2nd | 4th | 2nd | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Denmark | × | × | 5th | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
France | 4th | 6th | × | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Germany (including West Germany) |
× | 2nd | 3rd | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungary | 1st | 3rd | × | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Netherlands | × | • | 4th | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Poland | × | • | 6th | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Romania | × | 1st | 1st | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discontinued teams | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czechoslovakia | 3rd | × | × | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yugoslavia | × | 5th | × | 1 |
Margin | Winning team | Score | Opponent | WC |
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8 | Romania | 10–2 | Austria | 1960 |
7 | Austria | 8–1 | France | 1949 |
7 | Yugoslavia | 10–3 | France | 1949 |
5 | Hungary | 7–2 | Austria | 1949 |
5 | Romania | 6–1 | Denmark | 1960 |
4 | Romania | 9–4 | Netherlands | 1960 |
4 | Hungary | 7–3 | France | 1949 |
4 | Romania | 6–2 | Austria | 1960 |