Korean women’s handball, whose international competitiveness has declined after losing its position as the leader in Asia to Japan
received its worst performance ever at the World Championships.
Korea, led by coach Henrik Signel (Sweden)
ranked 22nd out of 32 participating countries at the 26th International Handball Federation (IHF)
World Women’s Championship.
This is the first time that Korea has fallen out of the top 20 at the World Women’s Handball Championship
which was founded in 1957. Korea’s worst performance was in 15th place out of 24 countries in the 2001 competition. 카지노사이트랭크
Japan, which defeated Korea by 10 goals at the Hangzhou Asian Games and became the strongest team in Asia
showed off its performance on par with the European powerhouses in this tournament and ranked 17th in the final rankings.
They also pulled off an upset by defeating the world’s strongest teams, Denmark and Serbia, in the finals.
Korea advanced to the finals with 1 win and 2 losses in the group stage
then lost to Slovenia, France, and Angola. In the last game of the final league on the 11th
they lost 31-33 to Angola and fell to last place with all 5 losses.
Afterwards, other group matches in the final league were completed and the final ranking of 22nd place was decided.
Korea played a total of 6 games in this tournament
including the group stage, and its only win in this tournament was a 27-16 win over Greenland, the weakest team, on the 2nd.
The World Women’s Handball Championship increased from 10 countries participating in the 1970s to 24 countries
and the number of participating countries increased to 32 from the 2021 competition
the previous competition. Korea created the ‘Woo Saeng-soon myth
by winning a gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics
and dominated the world stage with achievements such as winning the 1995 World Championships and third place in the 2003 World Championships.
The quarterfinals of this World Championships were filled only with European countries, condensed into Sweden-Germany
France-Czech Republic, Denmark-Montenegro, and Netherlands-Norway.
In the past, the only non-European countries to win the World Championships were Korea in 1995 and Brazil in 2013.