Host country France Venue(s) 8 (in 8 host cities) Runner-up Norway | Dates 11–29 January Champions France (6th title) | |
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Teams 24 (from 5 confederations) | ||
The 2017 IHF World Men's Handball Championship was the 25th event hosted by the International Handball Federation. The event was held in France from 11 to 29 January 2017.
Contents
- Venues
- Bidding process
- Qualification
- Draw
- Referees
- Preliminary round
- Final ranking
- All Star Team
- Other awards
- References
France successfully defended their title by defeating Norway 33–26 in the final, which secured France their sixth title. Slovenia defeated Croatia 31–30 to capture the bronze medal. Norway and Slovenia earned their first World Championship medals ever.
Venues
The championship was played at eight venues in Paris-Bercy, Rouen, Nantes, Metz, Albertville, Montpellier, Lille, and Brest. All the venue capacities are the capacity for handball events.
8 venues
Bidding process
Denmark and France were bidding to host the 2017 Men's World Championships. The IHF Council awarded the Men’s and Women’s World Championships 2017 at their meeting on the fringes of the Women’s World Championships in São Paulo, Brazil on Thursday 15 December 2011.
Denmark was the co-host of the 1999 Women’s World Championship and host of the 1978 Men's World Championship. Denmark has also hosted the Women's EHF EURO twice and was awarded with the Men's EHF EURO 2014.
France hosted the Men's World Championships in 1970 and 2001 and was host of the 2007 Women's World Championship.
Qualification
Twenty-four teams participated in the final tournament. France, as hosts, were automatically qualified. Since an additional automatic qualification spot was given to defending champion holder which is the same team - France, this berth was given to the next best placed team from the last World Championship - losing finalist Qatar. That left 22 places available for the best teams of each continental qualification tournament, the winners of an additional European qualification competition and an additional intercontinental qualification tournament.
Draw
The draw was held on 23 June 2016 at 14:00 in Paris, France.
Referees
16 referee pairs are selected:
Preliminary round
The schedule was announced on 23 September 2015.
All times are local (UTC+1).
Final ranking
For places 5–16 the criteria was the number of points gained against the teams ranked first to fourth in the preliminary round in their group.
All-Star Team
All-Star Team of the tournament: