Tourney Name: | Men's Junior (U-21) World Handball Championship |
Year: | 2017 |
Country: | Algeria |
Dates: | 18–30 July |
Num Teams: | 24 |
Confederations: | 4 |
Venues: | 2 |
Cities: | 1 |
Champion: | ESP |
Count: | 1 |
Second: | DEN |
Third: | FRA |
Fourth: | GER |
Matches: | 92 |
Goals: | 5132 |
Top Scorer: | Lasse Møller Skander Zaïdi (76 goals each) |
Player: | Lasse Møller |
Previous: | 2015 Men's Junior World Handball Championship |
Next: | 2019 Men's Junior World Handball Championship |
The 2017 IHF Men's Junior World Championship was the 21st edition of the tournament, held in Algiers, Algeria from 18 to 30 July 2017.[1] It was the first time that Algeria staged the competition, and the third time that it was held in Africa.
Spain won their first title by defeating Denmark 39–38 in the final.[2] France captured the bronze medal after they beat Germany 23–22.[3]
The games of the tournament were played in Algiers.
Competition | Dates | Vacancies | Qualified |
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Host nation | 1 | ||
2015 Men's Youth World Handball Championship | 7–20 August 2015 | 1 | |
2016 Asian Men's Junior Handball Championship[4] | 22 July–1 August 2016 | 3 | |
2016 European Men's U-20 Handball Championship | 28 July–7 August 2016 | 4 | |
2016 African Men's Junior Handball Championship[5] | 11–18 September 2016 | 4 | |
European qualification tournament[6] | 4–8 January 2017 | 8 | |
2017 Pan American Men's Junior Handball Championship[7] | 20–25 March 2017 | 3 | |
The draw was held on 10 May 2017.[8]
The seedings were announced on 8 May 2017.[9]
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15 referee pairs are selected:
Referees | ||
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Radojko Brkic Andrej Jusufhodzic | ||
Nikolaj Volodkov Evgenij Zotin | ||
Yousef Belkhiri Si Ali Hamidi | ||
Adriano Alves Rocha Daniel Magalhães Da Silva | ||
Hussain Al-Mawt Samer Marhoon | ||
Amar Konjičanin Dino Konjičanin | ||
Javier Álvarez Mata Yon Bustamente Lopez | ||
Erdogan Kursad Ibrahim Özdeniz |
Referees | ||
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Svavar Pétursson Arnar Sigurjónsson | ||
Lars Jørum Havard Kleven | ||
Karim Gasmi Raouf Gasmi | ||
Miklos Andorka Robert Hucker | ||
Mirza Kurtagic Mattias Wetterwik | ||
Samir Krichen Samir Makhlouf | ||
Yao Akpatsa Agbeko Assignon |
The schedule was announced on 7 June 2017.[10]
All times are local (UTC+1).
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The eight losers of the round of 16 were seeded according to their results in the preliminary round against teams ranked 1–4 and play an elimination game to determine their final position.
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Rank | Name | Team | Goals | Shots | % |
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1 | Skander Zaïdi | 76 | 118 | 64.4 | |
Lasse Møller | 119 | 63.9 | |||
3 | Aleix Gomez | 55 | 76 | 72.4 | |
4 | Mátyás Győri | 49 | 75 | 65.3 | |
5 | Gal Marguč | 46 | 56 | 82.1 | |
6 | Kim Ji-hoon | 45 | 59 | 76.3 | |
Anouar Ben Abdallah | 79 | 57.0 | |||
8 | Daniel Dujshebaev | 44 | 76 | 57.9 | |
9 | Dmitrii Santalov | 43 | 81 | 53.1 | |
Mustafa Al-Olaiwat | 86 | 50.0 |
Rank | Name | Team | % | Saves | Shots | |
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1 | Julien Meyer | 37.3 | 120 | 322 | ||
2 | Xoan Ledo | 35.8 | 103 | 288 | ||
3 | Simon Gade | 31.3 | 99 | 316 | ||
4 | Urh Kastelic | 36.4 | 94 | 258 | ||
5 | Denis Zabolotin | 29.0 | 81 | 279 | ||
6 | Khalifa Ghedbane | 33.9 | 80 | 236 | ||
7 | Imre Pasztor | 36.0 | 76 | 211 | ||
8 | Parada Nicolas | 30.5 | 74 | 243 | ||
9 | Martin Tomovski | 29.1 | 69 | 237 | ||
10 | Joel Birlehm | 34.0 | 67 | 197 |