2016 World University Handball Championship

The 2016 World University Handball Championship was the 23rd edition of this Handball Event organized by the FISU and it was held in the city of Antequera, Spain, from 27 June to 3 July.^[1][2]

2016 World University Handball Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Spain
Venue(s)	2 (in 1 host city)
Dates	27 June to 03 July
Teams	16
Final positions
Champions	Romania (men)  Spain (women)
Runner-up	South Korea (men)  Romania (women)
Third place	Spain (men)  Poland (women)
Fourth place	Japan (men)  Russia (women)
Tournament statistics
Top scorer(s)	Demis Grigoraș (51 goals) Daria Samokhina Hikaru Matsumoto (35 goals)
Awards
Best player	Jaeseo Lim Aleksandra Zych
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Participating teams

Men  Egypt  Japan  Portugal  Romania  Russia  South Korea  Spain  Chinese Taipei

Women  Czech Republic  India  Japan  Poland  Romania  Russia  Spain  Uruguay

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's tournament	Romania	South Korea	Spain
Women's tournament	Spain	Romania	Poland

Men's tournament

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Japan	3	3	0	0	103	76	+27	6
Spain	3	2	0	1	89	77	+12	4
Russia	3	1	0	2	86	84	+2	2
Chinese Taipei	3	0	0	3	66	107	–41	0

Teams qualified to the semi-finals

27 June 2016 13:30	Russia	25–29	Japan	Pabellón Polideportivo Municipal Fernando Argüelles, Antequera
	Kiselev 7	(12–16)	Tokuda 8
	3× 3×	Report	3× 4×

27 June 2016 21:30	Spain	31–18	Chinese Taipei	Pabellón Polideportivo Municipal Fernando Argüelles, Antequera Attendance: 300
	Figueras 7	(18–7)	Huang 4
	3×	Report	3× 2×

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28 June 2016 18:45	Japan	41–23	Chinese Taipei	Centro de Tecnificación de Atletismo, Antequera
	Tokuda 7	(16–9)	Huang, Shen 5
	2× 2×	Report	2× 1×

28 June 2016 18:45	Russia	26–30	Spain	Pabellón Polideportivo Municipal Fernando Argüelles, Antequera
	Karlov 8	(14–13)	Figueras 8
	3× 6×	Report	3× 4×

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29 June 2016 18:45	Spain	28–33	Japan	Pabellón Polideportivo Municipal Fernando Argüelles, Antequera
	Castillo, Rial 5	(16–13)	Hori 6
	2× 4×	Report	3×

29 June 2016 18:45	Chinese Taipei	25–35	Russia	Centro de Tecnificación de Atletismo, Antequera
	Lin, Pan 7	(10–19)	Karlov 7
	3× 3×	Report	3× 2×

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Romania	3	2	0	1	86	82	+4	4
South Korea	3	2	0	1	90	89	+1	4
Egypt	3	2	0	1	81	79	+2	4
Portugal	3	0	0	3	83	90	–7	0

Teams qualified to the semi-finals

27 June 2016 16:30	Romania	29–28	South Korea	Pabellón Polideportivo Municipal Fernando Argüelles, Antequera Attendance: 200
	Grigoraș 17	(14–12)	Oh 10
	3× 6×	Report	2× 4×

27 June 2016 16:30	Portugal	24–26	Egypt	Centro de Tecnificación de Atletismo, Antequera Attendance: 50
	Branquinho 9	(13–16)	Ramadan 8
	3× 5× 1×	Report	3× 3×

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28 June 2016 16:30	South Korea	28–27	Egypt	Pabellón Polideportivo Municipal Fernando Argüelles, Antequera
	Oh 7	(13–11)	Ramadan 6
	3× 3×	Report	3× 7×

28 June 2016 16:30	Romania	30–26	Portugal	Centro de Tecnificación de Atletismo, Antequera
	Nistor 11	(13–10)	Branquinho 8
	3× 5×	Report	3× 1×

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29 June 2016 16:30	Portugal	33–34	South Korea	Pabellón Polideportivo Municipal Fernando Argüelles, Antequera
	Branquinho 7	(15–15)	Lim 10
	3× 6× 1×	Report	3× 3×

29 June 2016 16:30	Egypt	28–27	Romania	Centro de Tecnificación de Atletismo, Antequera
	Omar 8	(12–16)	Grigoraș 7
	3× 4×	Report	3× 7×

Knockout stage

	Semi-finals				Final
	July 2
	Japan	32
					July 3
	South Korea	36
					South Korea	20
	July 2
					Romania	28
	Romania	29
	Spain	26
					Third place
					July 3
					Japan	27
					Spain	29

5th–8th place play-offs

	Semi-finals				Fifth place
	July 1
	Russia	34
					July 3
	Portugal	24
					Russia	32
	July 1
					Egypt	33
	Egypt	33
	Chinese Taipei	27
					Seventh place
					July 3
					Portugal	36
					Chinese Taipei	29

5–8th place semi-finals

01 July 2016 16:30	Russia	34–24	Portugal	Pabellón Polideportivo Municipal Fernando Argüelles, Antequera
	Petrov 6	(14–11)	Branquinho 6
	2× 3×	Report	2× 5×

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01 July 2016 18:45	Egypt	33–27	Chinese Taipei	Pabellón Polideportivo Municipal Fernando Argüelles, Antequera
	Hassan 7	(13–15)	Lin 5
	2×	Report	3× 2×

Semi-finals

02 July 2016 16:00	Japan	32–36 (ET)	South Korea	Pabellón Polideportivo Municipal Fernando Argüelles, Antequera
	Tamakawa 7	(13–15)	Oh 11
	2× 4×	Report	3× 2×
	FT: 29–29 ET: 3–7

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02 July 2016 18:15	Romania	29–26	Spain	Pabellón Polideportivo Municipal Fernando Argüelles, Antequera
	Grigoraș, Rotaru 9	(18–11)	Borragan, Figueras 7
	3× 3×	Report	2× 4×

7th place game

03 July 2016 10:00	Portugal	36–29	Chinese Taipei	Centro de Tecnificación de Atletismo, Antequera
	Branquinho 12	(18–16)	Lin 6
	2× 3×	Report	3× 2×

5th place game

03 July 2016 10:00	Russia	32–33	Egypt	Pabellón Polideportivo Municipal Fernando Argüelles, Antequera
	Kiselev5	(14–15)	Omar 9
	2× 5×	Report	3× 1×

Bronze medal game

03 July 2016 12:15	Spain	29–27	Japan	Pabellón Polideportivo Municipal Fernando Argüelles, Antequera
	Figueras 15	(19–15)	Tokuda 7
	2× 5× 1×	Report	3× 1×

Gold medal game

03 July 2016 17:30	Romania	28–20	South Korea	Pabellón Polideportivo Municipal Fernando Argüelles, Antequera
	Grigoraș 13	(16–10)	Lim 4
	3× 7×	Report	3× 4×

Final standing

Rank	Team
	Romania
	South Korea
	Spain
4	Japan
5	Egypt
6	Russia
7	Portugal
8	Chinese Taipei

Women's tournament

Group Y

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Romania	3	3	0	0	86	52	+34	6
Spain	3	2	0	1	94	59	+35	4
Japan	3	1	0	2	101	66	+35	2
India	3	0	0	3	40	144	–104	0

Teams qualified to the semi-finals

27 June 2016 11:30	Spain	27–26	Japan	Pabellón Polideportivo Municipal Fernando Argüelles, Antequera
	Sempere 7	(11–14)	Matsumoto 7
	3× 5×	Report	3× 4×

27 June 2016 11:30	India	11–43	Romania	Centro de Tecnificación de Atletismo, Antequera
	Gurmail 5	(5–22)	Preda 8
	2× 5×	Report	3× 1×

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28 June 2016 12:15	Romania	20–19	Spain	Pabellón Polideportivo Municipal Fernando Argüelles, Antequera
	Tudor, Zamfirescu 4	(9–11)	Elicegui
	3× 1×	Report	3× 4×

28 June 2016 12:15	India	16–53	Japan	Centro de Tecnificación de Atletismo, Antequera
	Maninder 7	(9–22)	Matsumoto 9
	2× 2×	Report	2× 3×

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29 June 2016 12:15	Japan	22–23	Romania	Pabellón Polideportivo Municipal Fernando Argüelles, Antequera
	Sasaki 6	(11–12)	Andrei, Vizitiu 5
	3× 1×	Report	3× 4×

29 June 2016 12:15	Spain	48–13	India	Centro de Tecnificación de Atletismo, Antequera
	Gonzalez, Sempere 7	(23–8)	Gurmail 4
	3× 3×	Report	2× 4×

Group Z

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Poland	3	3	0	0	90	58	+32	6
Russia	3	2	0	1	107	65	+42	4
Czech Republic	3	1	0	2	70	77	–7	2
Uruguay	3	0	0	3	44	111	–67	0

Teams qualified to the semi-finals

27 June 2016 09:30	Uruguay	15–27	Czech Republic	Pabellón Polideportivo Municipal Fernando Argüelles, Antequera
	Elzaurdia 3	(6–13)	Kubackova, Mala 7
	3× 6×	Report	3× 1×

27 June 2016 09:30	Russia	24–27	Poland	Centro de Tecnificación de Atletismo, Antequera Attendance: 54
	Samokhina 5	(10–13)	Kordowiecka 5
	3× 7× 1×	Report	3× 5×

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28 June 2016 10:00	Uruguay	16–35	Poland	Pabellón Polideportivo Municipal Fernando Argüelles, Antequera
	four players 3	(7–21)	Janiszewska, Pasternak 6
	3× 3×	Report	3× 2×

28 June 2016 10:00	Czech Republic	25–34	Russia	Centro de Tecnificación de Atletismo, Antequera
	Mala 6	(11–16)	Samokhina10
	2× 4×	Report	3× 6×

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29 June 2016 10:00	Russia	49–13	Uruguay	Pabellón Polideportivo Municipal Fernando Argüelles, Antequera
	Samokhina 10	(22–4)	Benia, Coito 3
	2× 6×	Report	2× 7×

29 June 2016 10:00	Poland	28–18	Czech Republic	Centro de Tecnificación de Atletismo, Antequera
	Kordowiecka 8	(14–7)	Kubackova 5
	2× 2×	Report	3× 1×

Knockout stage

	Semi-finals				Final
	July 1
	Romania	21
					July 2
	Russia	18
					Romania	14
	July 1
					Spain	20
	Poland	19
	Spain	21
					Third place
					July 2
					Russia	26
					Poland	27

5th–8th place play-offs

	Semi-finals				Fifth place
	July 1
	Japan	34
					July 2
	Uruguay	18
					Japan	28
	July 1
					Czech Republic	26
	Czech Republic	37
	India	12
					Seventh place
					July 2
					Uruguay	22
					India	23

5–8th place semi-finals

01 July 2016 10:00	Japan	34–18	Uruguay	Pabellón Polideportivo Municipal Fernando Argüelles, Antequera
	Matsumoto 9	(15–9)	Coito 8
	2× 5×	Report	2× 5×

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01 July 2016 10:00	Czech Republic	37–12	India	Centro de Tecnificación de Atletismo, Antequera
	Mala 11	(21–5)	Gurmail, Maninder 3
	1× 1×	Report	2× 2×

Semi-finals

01 July 2016 12:15	Romania	21–18	Russia	Pabellón Polideportivo Municipal Fernando Argüelles, Antequera
	Pricopi 5	(10–12)	three players 3
	2× 3×	Report	2× 5× 1×

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01 July 2016 12:15	Poland	19–21	Spain	Pabellón Polideportivo Municipal Fernando Argüelles, Antequera
	Janiszewska 5	(11–12)	Sempere 6
	3× 3×	Report	3× 3×

7th place game

02 July 2016 09:30	Uruguay	22–23	India	Centro de Tecnificación de Atletismo, Antequera
	Coito 6	(10–10)	Gurmail 6
	3× 2×	Report	1×

5th place game

02 July 2016 09:30	Japan	28–26	Czech Republic	Pabellón Polideportivo Municipal Fernando Argüelles, Antequera
	Kawashima, Sasaki 6	(10–14)	Nigrinova 11
	2× 1×	Report	3× 2×

Bronze medal game

02 July 2016 11:45	Russia	26–27	Poland	Pabellón Polideportivo Municipal Fernando Argüelles, Antequera
	Samokhina 8	(13–17)	Zych 13
	3× 6×	Report	3× 2×

Gold medal game

02 July 2016 14:00	Romania	14–20	Spain	Pabellón Polideportivo Municipal Fernando Argüelles, Antequera
	Pricopi 3	(7–10)	Gonzalez 6
	3× 2×	Report	3× 4×

Final standing

Rank	Team
	Spain
	Romania
	Poland
4	Russia
5	Japan
6	Czech Republic
7	India
8	Uruguay

References

1. "Todo preparado para el Mundial Universitario de Balonmano". www.europapress.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 June 2016.
2. "El balonmano universitario mundial se cita en Antequera". www.vavel.com/es (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 June 2016.

External links

• FISU Official Website
• Championship Official Website