1993 World Men's Handball Championship

1993 World Men's Handball Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Sweden
Final positions
Champions	Russia
Runner-up	France
Third place	Sweden
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The 1993 World Men's Handball Championship was the 13th team handball World Championship. It was held in Sweden 10-20 March. Russia won the championship.

Teams

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
Austria	France	Hungary	Denmark
Czechoslovakia	Norway	Iceland	Germany
Egypt	Romania	Sweden	Russia
Spain	Switzerland	United States	South Korea

Preliminary round

Group A

Team	P	W	T	L	G+	G-	GD	Pts.
Spain	3	2	1	0	58	48	+10	5
Czechoslovakia	3	1	1	1	61	60	+1	3
Egypt	3	1	0	2	58	63	-5	2
Austria	3	1	0	2	61	67	-6	2

Group B

Team	P	W	T	L	G+	G-	GD	Pts.
Switzerland	3	2	0	1	65	59	+6	4
France	3	2	0	1	68	68	0	4
Romania	3	1	1	1	56	56	0	3
Norway	3	0	1	2	51	57	-6	1

Group C

Team	P	W	T	L	G+	G-	GD	Pts.
Sweden	3	3	0	0	73	51	+22	6
Iceland	3	2	0	1	75	61	+14	4
Hungary	3	1	0	2	73	63	+10	2
United States	3	0	0	3	53	99	-46	0

Group D

Team	P	W	T	L	G+	G-	GD	Pts.
Russia	3	2	1	0	78	55	+23	5
Germany	3	1	2	0	67	64	+3	4
Denmark	3	0	2	1	54	62	-8	2
South Korea	3	0	1	2	59	77	-18	1

Second round

Group 1

Team	P	W	T	L	G+	G-	GD	Pts.
France	5	4	0	1	115	103	+12	8
Switzerland	5	3	0	2	121	118	+3	6
Spain	5	2	1	2	105	101	+4	5
Czechoslovakia	5	2	1	2	104	110	-6	5
Romania	5	2	0	3	105	110	-5	4
Egypt	5	1	0	4	100	108	-8	2

Group 2

Team	P	W	T	L	G+	G-	GD	Pts.
Russia	5	4	1	0	131	98	+33	9
Sweden	5	4	0	1	108	101	+7	8
Germany	5	2	2	1	100	100	0	6
Iceland	5	2	0	3	103	114	-11	4
Denmark	5	1	1	3	102	117	-15	3
Hungary	5	0	0	5	104	118	-14	0

3rd / 4th place

Date	Match¹			Score
20.03.1993	Switzerland	-	Sweden	19-26

• (¹) - In Stockholm

Final

Date	Match¹			Score
20.03.1993	France	-	Russia	19-28

• (¹) - In Stockholm

Final standings

	Russia
	France
	Sweden
4	Switzerland
5	Spain
6	Germany
7	Czechoslovakia
8	Iceland
9	Denmark
10	Romania
11	Hungary
12	Egypt
13	Norway
14	Austria
15	South Korea
16	United States

Medal summary

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Russia Andrei Antonevich Vyacheslav Atavin Talant Duyshebaev Dmitri Filippov Andrei Frantusov Valeri Gopin Vyacheslav Gorpishin Oleg Grebnev Dmitri Karlov Oleg Kisselev Vasily Kudinov Andrey Lavrov Oleg Sapronov Pavel Sukosyan Dmitri Torgovanov Igor Vassilyev	France Philippe Gardent Christian Gaudin Philippe Julia Denis Lathoud Patrick Lepetit Pascal Mahé Gael Monthurel Laurent Munier Frederic Perez Thierry Perreux Eric Quintin Jackson Richardson Philippe Schaaf Stephane Stoecklin Jean Luc Thiebaut Frederic Volle	Sweden Magnus Andersson Anders Backegren Per Carlén Magnus Cato Erik Hajas Jerry Hallback Robert Hedin Tony Hedin Ola Lindgren Mats Olsson Staffan Olsson Tomas Svensson Pierre Thorsson Robert Venalainen Magnus Wislander

Top goalscorers

Player	Goals
1. Marc Baumgartner (SWI)	41
1. Kyung-Shin Yoon (KOR)	41
1. József Éles (HUN)	41
4. Valeri Gopin (RUS)	39
5. Mateo Garralda (ESP)	38
6. Sigurður Valur Sveinsson (ISL)	37
7. Sameh Abdelwareth (EGY)	36
7. Vasily Kudinov (RUS)	36
7. Magnus Andersson (SWE)	36
10. Andreas Dittert (AUT)	33

Top goalkeepers

Player
1. Lorenzo Rico (ESP)
2. Tomas Svensson (SWE)
3. Mats Olsson (SWE)
4. Andrey Lavrov (RUS)
5. Lubomir Svajlen (SVK)
6. Ewald Humenberger (GER)
7. Peter Hürlimann (SWI)
8. Andreas Thiel (GER)
9. Gundmundur Hrafnkelsson (ISL)
10. Sorin Toacsen (ROM)

External links

• IHF Men's World Championships
• Men Handball World Championship 1993
• Dataesport
• The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games - Medallists from previous World Championships