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2016 Women's Junior World Handball Championship

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Host country
  
Russia

Venue(s)
  
2 (in 1 host city)

Runner-up
  
Russia

Dates
  
2–15 July

Champions
  
Denmark (2nd title)

Teams
  
24 (from 4 confederations)

The 2016 Women's Junior World Handball Championship was the 20th edition of the tournament and took place in Moscow, Russia from 2 to 15 July 2016. Denmark won their second title after defeating Russia 32–28 in the final.

Contents

Teams

Africa
  •  Angola
  •  Egypt
  •  Tunisia
    • Asia
  •  China
  •  Japan
  •  Kazakhstan
  •  South Korea
  •  Uzbekistan
    • Europe
  •  Austria (Substitute for Oceania)
  •  Croatia
  •  Denmark
  •  France
  •  Germany
  •  Hungary
  •  Montenegro
  •  Netherlands
  •  Norway
  •  Romania
  •  Russia (Host)
  •  Spain
  •  Sweden
    • Pan-America
  •  Argentina
  •  Brazil
  •  Chile

    • Venues

    Matches will be played in Moscow.

  • Krylatskoye Sports Palace (5,000)
  • Alexander Gomelsky Universal Sports Hall CSKA (5,500)

    • Referees

    The following 16 referee pairs were selected.

    Preliminary round

    All time are local (UTC+3).

    9–16th placement games

    The eight losers of the round of 16 were seeded according to their results in the preliminary round against teams ranked 1–4.

    Bracket

    5th place bracket

    Awards

  • MVP : Yaroslava Frolova
  • Top Goalscorer : Song Ji-eun (85 goals)

    • All-Star Team

  • Goalkeeper : Althea Reinhardt
  • Right wing : Mathilde Rivas Toft
  • Right back : Antonina Skorobogatchenko
  • Centre back : Cristina Laslo
  • Left back : Yulia Golikova
  • Left wing : Lærke Pedersen
  • Pivot : Annika Ingenpass

    • References

    2016 Women's Junior World Handball Championship Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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