1990 World Men's Handball Championship Explained

Country:Czechoslovakia
Dates:28 February – 10 March
Num Teams:16
Cities:6
Count:3
Matches:54
Goals:2443
Top Scorer: Julián Duranona
Aleksandr Tuchkin
(55 goals each)
Player: Jackson Richardson
Previous:1986 World Men's Handball Championship
Next:1993 World Men's Handball Championship

The 1990 World Men's Handball Championship was the 12th team handball World Championship. It was held in Czechoslovakia from February 28 to March 10, 1990. Sweden won the championship.

Qualification

Competition Vacancies Qualified
Host nation 1
6




1989 World Men's Handball Championship Group B 6




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1989 Pan American Men's Handball Championship 1

Preliminary round

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

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Ranking round

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Main round

Group I

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Group II

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Placement round

Final

Final standings

RankTeam
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5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
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16
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width=10px bgcolor=#ffffccQualified for the 1992 Summer Olympics but banned due to UN sanctions
width=10px bgcolor=#CCCCFFQualified for the 1992 Summer Olympics as host
width=10px bgcolor=#BBF3FFQualified for the 1992 Summer Olympics in replacement of Yugoslavia

Medal summary

width=160 Sweden
Magnus Andersson
Per Carlén
Magnus Cato
Johan Eklund
Mats Fransson
Erik Hajas
Björn Jilsén
Ola Lindgren
Mats Olsson
Staffan Olsson
Jonas Persson
Axel Sjöblad
Sten Sjögren
Tomas Svensson
Pierre Thorsson
Magnus Wislander
width=160 Soviet Union
Vyacheslav Atavin
Yuri Gavrilov
Valeri Gopin
Aleksandr Karshakevich
Oleg Kiselyov
Igor Kustov
Andrey Lavrov
Yuri Nesterov
Konstantin Sharovarov
Georgi Sviridenko
Igor Tchumak
Aleksandr Tuchkin
Andrey Tyumentsev
Valeri Vassilyev
Andrei Xepkin
Mikhail Yakimovich
width=160 Romania
Dumitru Berbece
Alexandru Buligan
Ianos Cicu
Vasile Cocuz
Marian Dumitru
Cornel Durau
Adrian Ghimes
Robert Licu
Ion Mocanu
Costica Neagu
Nicolae Popescu
Rudi Prisacaru
Maricel Voinea
Valentin Cristian Zaharia

Top goalscorers

Rank Player Goals
1 55
Aleksandr Tuchkin
3 50
4 39
5 38
6 37
Marian Dumitru
8 36
Aleix Franch
Bogdan Wenta

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