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57-654: It organizes the handball leagues: It also organizes the Croatian men's national handball team and the Croatian women's national handball team , as well as the Croatian men's national beach handball team and Croatian women's national beach handball team . The Handball Working Committee was first formed in Zagreb in 1948 and the following year the HRS itself was formed within the Independent State of Croatia . After

114-528: A great job and ensured the silver medal the same brightness as did the water polo team . In the grand finale again Croatia faced the Swedes . In the semi-finals they defeated Spain , who later won the bronze medal. It was a great generation that only needed an Olympic gold medal to complete their collection. They probably hoped that Croatia was not with those who were missing against Sweden would not much raise

171-561: A medal" no one took seriously. Before the Olympics there were still problems. Preliminary matches didn't offer much optimism. A few days before the start of the handball tournament a friendly encounter with Algeria was not played to the end. The Croatian players left the court because the Algerians went too far with their abusive playing and hurt three players, Goran Perkovac , Slavko Goluža and Nenad Kljaić . The opening match of

228-609: A member of the International Women's Sports Federation . In this federation, the rules of Czech handball were made official (in those times, there was also one similar sport, Field handball in Germany. Some international federations preferred Czech handball, others preferred Field handball). The first international matches were played. The first women's Czech handball world cup was organised in 1930. Czechoslovaks won this competition, Yugoslavia came in second, and Poland

285-583: A member of the United Nations , Croatian handball players had conditions to perform at the Olympic Games in 1992. This unfortunately did not happen. Although Croatia in terms of game was handball superpower, it was decided that Yugoslavia would be replaced by Iceland at the games as they finished tenth at the 1990 World Championship . Adverse effects of certain officials in the IOC prevented even

342-534: A seven-year drought medal in two years was created into the world champions and Olympic winners. In the period between these two gold medals Croatia is still ranked 4th place at the European Championships in 2004 in Slovenia . With Červar in charge Croatia would be at the top of the handball world. With the arrival of Lino Červar and a maturing exceptionally talented new generation including

399-629: A so-called "international double" after winning both the gold medal at the Olympics (2004) and the World Championship (2003), beating Germany in both finals. Some of their biggest rivals are neighbours Slovenia , Hungary and Serbia . Germany are also called rivals of the handball team, although matches between Germany and Croatia have been met with Croatian dominance, Germany only winning once in their nine meetings, and Croatia winning seven times. Mediterranean side Spain have also been called as close rivals, having played 23 games with them,

456-500: A young Ivano Balić , the revival of the national team culminated at the 2003 World Championship . The start of the competition was disastrous. Croatia lost in their first match to Argentina who was at the time a punching for serious national teams in official competitions. Although the first half led with 5 goals, but 14 minutes before the end of the match conceded 6 goals. At the end of the match, Croatian handball players fired five successive attacks, and Mirza Džomba 20 seconds before

513-416: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a sports-related organization is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Croatia men%27s national handball team The Croatia national handball team ( Croatian : Hrvatska rukometna reprezentacija ) represents Croatia in international men's team handball competitions and friendly matches. The handball team

570-540: Is controlled by the Croatian Handball Federation (HRS). Croatia won one World Championship, but never won the Euros , lost three finals, one to rivals France , one to Denmark , and one to Spain . The Croatian national team that won the 1996 Olympic gold medal was often credited as the biggest upset in history of handball, with handball making its debut appearance. The Croatian national team won

627-847: Is recorded to be at the Croatian Sports home in Jurišićeva, Zagreb . HRS is the umbrella organization of handball in the ISC coordinated the work of a dozen clubs and until 1944 organized national championships. In the state of NDH was established the first Croatian handball team. The first training for practice-match team NDH was held on 12 October 1941 between the two teams selected from the head coach Dragutin Pehe. His first and only international match this team played on 14 June 1942 with Hungary in Budapest where they lost 0:9. This field handball match

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684-626: Is restored on 19 December 1948, in which he, in accordance with the national policy of the new Yugoslav state, name changed in the Croatian Handball Association (RSH). Handball Federation of Yugoslavia (RSJ) was established on 17 December 1949 in Belgrade by pooling national and provincial associations, and it became a member of the International Handball Federation (IHF) in 1950. After

741-523: Is with neighbors Slovenia, whom they played 14 times, winning 9 games and losing 5. In recent years, a rivalry with Spain has also developed, sometimes called the Mediterranean derby. Other rivalries include Denmark, Poland, Germany, Serbia and Hungary. Prior to 1991, Croatia men's national handball team played as a part of Yugoslavia men's national handball team . Croatia played its first match on 14 January 1991 in Zagreb . Team's first opponent

798-573: The 2004 European Championship in Slovenia . They got to the semi-finals where they were knocked out by the hosts 25:27. They finished in fourth place losing the third place match to Denmark 27:31. In Summer 2004 the Olympics were held in Athens . The national team continued its dominating play and were undefeated in all eight matches played. They defeated Iceland , Slovenia , South Korea , Russia , Spain , Greece and Hungary before getting to

855-587: The Croatian Olympic Committee Antun Vrdoljak , who previously predicted 6 Atlanta medal and otherwise announced "As running from the day he was born" at Zagreb 's main square. Still not running, but the handball players after returning from Atlanta to thousands of fans being greeted at the airport and on Jelačić Square . And they did the famous caterpillar crawl. After winning the Olympic gold medal on 4 August 1996 it

912-566: The Czech Republic where the match was led by Vladimir Nekić because Arslanagić quit after Croatia failed to enter the semi-finals. The championship was won by Russia . On the second Olympics in which Croatian athletes performed under the banner of the Croatian flag and won their first gold medal. This was won by the athletes who were least expected to win it, handball players. They were sent off to Atlanta without hope, because at

969-475: The Czech Republic , where it was adopted by the Osijek and Vukovar students from Prague . In the early beginnings of the Croatian handball, venues played field handball and handball. Students were still more attracted to field handball, because the little handball were played on makeshift courts without the right door, as opposed to the field handball, which is played on the existing football fields. During

1026-544: The European Championship in 1996 they had finished in a weak fifth place, and relations in the national team were bad. Coach Abas Arslanagić quit during the end of the European championship and the national handball selection was filled with confrontation and fights. 38 days before the Olympic Games , the team was taken over by coach Velimir Kljaić , whose statement: "Will go back swimming if we don't win

1083-663: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia first public handball match in the Croatian region was played and in the wider neighborhood. It was played in a high school in Varaždin 29 May 1930 under the guidance of physical education teachers Zvonimir Šuligoj. Since that game, until 1950, in Croatia and Yugoslavia publicly played exclusively field handball, on the football field with eleven players on each side. In high school in Zagreb on 1 June 1935, opened

1140-665: The Mediterranean Games in 1993 in Languedoc-Roussillon , France , Croatia won gold. At the first ever European Championship in 1994 held in Portugal the team was led by Zdravko Zovko they won their first medal at this first major international competition. The group stage ended with Croatia finishing behind then powerful Russians , but in front of the French, led by the famous Jackson Richardson . In

1197-609: The Olympic games against Switzerland was tough. A victory was achieved in an already lost match. The Swiss led by as much as 6 goals, but then the goal was kept safe with a superb save from Venio Losert who just during the Olympic Games celebrated his 20th birthday. Making it a minimal victory, scoring in the 55th second before the end of the match, Patrik Ćavar brought a stellar victory. The next two matches against Kuwait and hosts United States were easy victories. This

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1254-857: The Second World War , it was renamed the Handball Federation of Croatia and ceded some powers to the Yugoslav Handball Federation. Upon Croatia's independence from Yugoslavia , the Croatian Handball Federation again represented the country. It joined the European Handball Federation and the International Handball Federation in 1992. This article about sports in Croatia is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Team handball article

1311-539: The Croatian Handball Association (RSH) in 1992 restored the original name of the Croatian Handball Federation (HRS), and on 10 April 1992 became a member of the International Handball Federation (IHF), and 23 July 1992 members of the European Handball Federation (EHF). Taking fourth place at the 1990 World Championship in Czechoslovakia the Yugoslav national team was placed among the nine best teams of

1368-640: The Croatian handball team was played on 14 January 1991 in Zagreb , in Kutija Šibica . It was a friendly match with Japan which ended in a draw 23:23. The team was coached by Josip Milković with assistant coach Lino Červar and the players were Patrik Čavar , Tonči Peribonio , Vlado Šola , Ivica Obrvan , Nenad Kljaić , Iztok Puc , Ratko Tomljanović , Bruno Gudelj , Željko Zovko , Stjepan Obran , Tomislav Farkaš , Robert Ipša , Ivo Glavinić and Goran Stojanović . The dissolution of Yugoslavia that followed, Croatia gained full independence on 8 October 1991

1425-781: The Mediterranean Games (1967, 1975, 1979, 1983 and 1991), two gold and one bronze medal at the World Cups held in 1971, 1974 and 1984 in Sweden, 2 bronze medals at handball Super League held in 1981 and 1983 in Germany and silver at the 1990 goodwill Games in Seattle. At the World Junior Championship in 1987 in Rijeka there was created a nucleus generation that will define the nineties and bring some of

1482-428: The breakup of Yugoslavia and collected 100+ caps combined for Yugoslavian and Croatian National Handball Teams . As of 20 March 2021 Double digit goal difference The Croatia national handball team has received numerous award throughout the years. Czech handball Czech handball ( Czech : česká házená , also known as národní házená – national handball ) is an outdoor ball game which

1539-465: The end missed the equalizer. How Croatian players badly played that match was proven by the fact they missed 6 penalty shots. During halftime of the second match against another underdog Saudi Arabia Croatia was losing with 2 differences and was playing desperately. Yet the team found strength to win this match. The turning point was marvelous – the group's dramatic victories in the end against giants Russia , France and Hungary securing first place to

1596-541: The end of World War II, most field handball players of NDH completed courses and became instructors or referees in handball . Some of them have become members of the field handball national team of Yugoslavia and played in its first international match, played on 19 June 1950 at the stadium in Stadion Kranjčevićeva in Zagreb , against Belgium . Yugoslavia won 18:3 playing with nine players from Zagreb , one from Split and one from Sarajevo . Since

1653-466: The end of World War II until the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991, the best Croatian handball players in field and team handball played for the national team of Yugoslavia. With this national team Croatians have performed at 17 major competitions and won seven medals. These are two Olympic gold medals, the Olympic bronze, world gold, world silver and two bronze world. Among the other famous trophy, in this period they won 5 gold medals in five appearances at

1710-476: The end of the line player Nenad Kljaić scored a crucial goal for the final 27:26 and brought a glorious victory. With the sound of sirens was created indescribable celebration and parquet Georgia Dome in front of 25,000 visitors in the hall and millions of TV viewers, which is today known caterpillar gold handball. It was the biggest win in the history of Croatian sport. The handball players were not yet aware of this gold they had placed around his neck President of

1767-435: The final. In a dramatic final Croatia defeated Germany 26–24 and with the title of world champions they won the Olympic gold. In the last 5 minutes of the match went a goal ahead for Croatia, and then Nikša Kaleb who had not scored no goal with 3 consecutive goals sealed a great victory. The gold was an even greater success considering the fact that Croatia traveled to Athens without their best line player Renato Sulić who

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1824-480: The first handball courts in Yugoslavia . At the beginning of World War II Kingdom of Yugoslavia disintegrated. Most of the territory inhabited by Croats on 10 April 1941, it became part of the newly formed Independent State of Croatia (NDH). As part of the new state on 2 October 1941 in Zagreb for the first time in history the Croatian Handball Federation (HRS) was established. The place of foundation

1881-532: The journal Sokol 1904. The earliest documented forms of playing handball in these areas appear in 1911 in the gymnasium of Pazin , which is among other things due to the fact that programs for education in Istria , as part of the then Austrian coast, coming from the education center in Graz . In Croatia , at the time handball was in high school programs closing ceremony. It was a kind of Czech handball extended from

1938-583: The match for fifth place Croatia took only 6th place and failed to qualify for the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney . The national team is also lost its ability to defend the gold from Atlanta in Sydney . Once the team reached bottom with their results, being ranked last or in 16th place at the 2002 European Championship , in March 2002 the Federation entrusted Lino Červar and with him the team that suffered

1995-496: The match. Croatia was defeated with nine goals difference, but without their poker aces there wasn't much to expect. The defeat did not have larger significance, except that it took to save face. In the semi-finals they waited for the French who were World Champions. Croatian handball showed the best possible way to respond to defeat in the final of the 1995 World Championship in Iceland . Engaged and disciplined, Croatian players did

2052-491: The most beautiful handball stories for the Croatian national team. Alvaro Načinović , Iztok Puc , Vladimir Jelčić and other predominantly have won this championship playing for Yugoslavia, and their talent and knowledge are later incorporated as seniors in the first Croatian success after independence of the country. Croatia on 30 May 1990 began the process of creating the independent state, and soon established and modern Croatian handball team. The first international match of

2109-512: The most out of any sides the Croatians have played within handball. However, the French are often remarked as Croatia's biggest-ever rival in handball, due to both countries' successes. In recent history though, Croatia often suffered eliminations at the hands of the French. The word handball in the Croatian region was first used by Franjo Bučar , describing the German game Schleuderball in

2166-419: The national team would lose in the next round after two extra time (4 × 5 minutes) stopped Ukraine 37:34 (29: 29/33: 33) finishing in 9th place. At the European Championships in 1998 , 2000 and 2002 finished in 8th, 6th and 16th place. Croatia in 2000 hosted the European Championship , they had high expectations from this tournament but they weren't fulfilled. After the defeat from Slovenia in

2223-517: The option of maintaining an additional qualifying tournament like the one held for the Croatian basketball players . Croatia also missed the 1993 World Championship in Sweden , because the World Championship in 1990 was an elimination tournament for this championship. The following years, in spite of the short history of the country brought the Croatian team very significant results in important competitions. Croatia won its first official competition at

2280-470: The quality that they could be threatened. In the end their plans were foiled, and the Vikings failed to win. After starting 0: 1 followed by a brilliant game from the players Kljaić chose and the series of 6:1. The defense was solid and impenetrable and the attack varied and deadly. Perkovac great led his boys and Božidar Jović was the revelation of the tournament. Worried only in the final Zlatko Saračević

2337-527: The second part where the Croats were convincing against Egypt and Denmark . In semi-finals the match went into overtime (4 × 5 minutes) defeating the Spaniards 39:37 (26: 26/31: 31) and in the grand final they outscored Germany 34:31 and won their first title of world champions and wrote surely one of the most beautiful story's in the history of Croatian sport. In January 2004 Croatia played at

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2394-479: The semi-finals was Valter Matošević . 40 seconds before the end of the match, when the result was 24:24, he defended a penalty shot from Torgovanov . Another hero was Božidar Jović , who just 3 seconds before the siren rang scored the winning goal. The last match in the group was with the Swedes . This was the one in which yoneou could choose an opponent in the semi-finals, but Kljun omitted Patrik Ćavar , Iztok Puc , Zlatko Saračević and Irfan Smajlagić from

2451-559: The semi-finals, the Swedes were better and Croatia played the third place match and won in a dramatic match against Denmark . Sweden won the tournament demolishing the Russians in the final with 13 points. A year later at the 1995 World Championships in Iceland Croatia relatively went easily from group stage to the quarter final where there was brought a rarely seen drama. Tunisia was defeated after penalty shootout. Then

2508-673: The sport expanded fast and became very popular, particularly among women , who were the first to introduce the game into the country. Czech teachers taught Czech handball in Russian middle schools and there was a competition with 14 teams in Charkov in 1915, but efforts to expand the sport ended after the October Revolution . In 1921, the Czechoslovakian Association of Handball and Women's Sports became

2565-533: The team beat Egypt in the quarter finals and Sweden men's national handball team in the semi-finals. In the final they the French were too big an obstacle for Zovko guys won their first Croatian World Championship silver medal. Sweden won the bronze defeating Germany. The next year at the European Championship in 1996 in Spain , Croatia, was led by Abas Arslanagić . Croatia lost took fifth place with victory over

2622-696: The tournament, which acquired them the right to participate in the upcoming 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona . Because of the war and the disintegration of Yugoslavia, this team was disqualified, and should it was supposed to be specified who will replaced them in the games. Since the Croatian Olympic Committee (COC) was provisionally recognized on 17 January 1992 by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and since Croatia had already on 22 May 1992 become

2679-678: The war in World War II . When the 1945 World War II ended, the territory of the Independent State of Croatia was included in the newly established SFR Yugoslavia . Immediately after that began the reconstruction of the war abandoned handball in Yugoslavia, and that same year founded the Committee for handball Gymnastics Association Croatian, and in May 1948 the Committee for handball Gymnastics Association of Yugoslavia. Operation HRS

2736-627: The “game of hazena”, the first ever English players. Further training was planned in London. The netball and other ball sports' association organised the printing and publishing of the rules of Czech handball. The Civil Service Club in London was the first Czech handball club in Britain. Czech handball became very popular during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in World War II. The sport

2793-492: Was Japan and the match ended tied 23–23. Updated after 2023 World Handball Championship   Champions      Runners-up      Third place     Fourth place   Roster for the 2024 Summer Olympics . A 20-player roster was announced on 23 May 2024. The final squad was revealed on 7 July 2024. Head coach: [REDACTED] Dagur Sigurðsson Players that played for Croatian National Handball Team after

2850-799: Was created in 1905 in Prague and is still played today. This sport is very similar to team handball . Czech handball is first mentioned by Václav Karas, a teacher a Prague, in a sports journal in Brno in 1905. The rules were soon further developed by other teachers, notably Klenka and Kristof. Thanks to Kristof, the first Czech handball association was established (in Prague) and the rules were made public in 1908. Students from Russia and Yugoslavia , who had become acquainted with Czech handball in Prague, brought this sport back to their own countries. In Yugoslavia,

2907-514: Was followed by a slow decline in the Croatian national team and the change of generations in which the handball players were far from winning a medal. It started when Croatia was knocked-out in the round of 16 of the World Championships . In Japan in 1997 , Croatia was knocked out by Spain 31:25 and was ranked in 13th place. In Egypt 1999 they were knocked-out by Yugoslavia 30:23 leaving Croatia in 10th place. In France 2001

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2964-500: Was followed by the decisive encounter to enter the semi-finals, where there were only the two first-placed teams from each group. The match with the then current Olympic and European champions Russia had a shocking finale. The Russians were leading by four points, but the Croats were arriving. The last minute was not for the faint of heart, but from the Russian roulette though the Croats came out as winners. One her of this triumph for

3021-433: Was not playing properly, but Kljaić brought the perfect replacement, Zoran Mikulić . Although the Croatians twice led with seven goals difference, the second half offered drama. Swedes switched to defense 4–2 which created big problems. Decreased the difference and 6:30 minutes before the end came at just hit behind. Croatian handball players still in those crucial minutes they had never trembled hands. Thirty seconds before

3078-469: Was originally Czech, so most people understood its play as a show of patriotism . In early 1940s, there were 25,884 players in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia . In 1947, the International Handball Federation promoted the expansion of the related sport of team handball , but no further foreign countries would adopt Czech handball. In 1954, there were 26,125 registered players in 447 clubs,

3135-549: Was played in front of 30,000 spectators at the then NEP Stadium (since 2002 Ferenc Puskás Stadium ) was a prelude meeting of the football teams of the same name. The best handball player in the field was the goalkeeper Branko Kralj. Under the direction of the coach Ante Škrtić, the players for Croatia were Vlado Abramović, Irislav Dolenec , Žarko Galetović, Zvonko Leskovar, Todor Marinov, Viktor Medved, Krešo Pavlin, Vlado Šimanović Stjepan Širić, Josip Žitnik and reserve goalkeeper Zdenko Šurina. HRS stopped functioning in 1944 because of

3192-477: Was recovering from a car accident, without important defense player Tonči Valčić and without Patrik Ćavar who was ill. Croatia has developed several handball rivalries. Their most played rivalry is against France, which is often considered to be one of the biggest modern handball rivalries since the end of the Cold War , since Croatia, Denmark, Spain and France are the most successful nations in handball both in Europe and worldwide. Their second biggest rivalry

3249-407: Was third. The second World Cup was held in London in 1934, but only two teams participated: Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. Yugoslavians won the match 6-4 and became the champions. This was the first time that Czech handball was played in England. After this event, the IWSF was abolished. In 1935, there was a training camp for English teachers in Scarborough . 50 female and 20 male players practised

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