2007 Men's Junior World Handball Championship

2007 Men's Junior World Handball Championship
Tournament details
Host country	Macedonia
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Dates	August 13–26
Teams	20 (from 4 confederations)
Final positions
Champions	Sweden (2nd title)
Runner-up	Germany
Third place	Denmark
Fourth place	Croatia
Tournament statistics
Matches played	82
Top scorer(s)	Jongmin An (75)
Best player	Uwe Gensheimer
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The 2007 Men's Junior World Handball Championship was the 16th edition of the tournament and was held at Skopje and Ohrid, Macedonia from August 13–26, 2007.

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Venues

Two Macedonian cities were selected as hosts for the Championship:

Skopje	Skopje Ohrid Host cities	Ohrid

SRC Kale		Biljanini Izvori Sports Hall

Format

For the preliminary round, 20 teams were allocated into 4 groups where the top 3 from each group advanced to the next round. In the main round, the remaining 12 teams were divided into 2 groups of 6. The top 2 teams from each group moved on to the semifinals and the winners battled in the championship game.

Preliminary round

Group A

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Sweden	4	4	0	151	88	+63	8
Kuwait	4	2	2	105	127	−22	4
North Macedonia	4	2	2	122	102	+20	4
Portugal	4	2	2	127	125	+2	4
Angola	4	0	4	81	144	−63	0

Source:^{[citation needed]}

All times are local (UTC+2).

13 August 2007 16:00	Portugal	28 – 32	Kuwait	Biljanini Izvori Sports Hall, Ohrid Attendance: 100 Referees: Favreto, Mello (BRA)
		(14–17)
		Report

13 August 2007 21:00	North Macedonia	39 – 16	Angola	Biljanini Izvori Sports Hall, Ohrid Attendance: 2500 Referees: Leandersson, Lindroos (FIN)
		(15–7)
		Report

14 August 2007 17:00	Portugal	39 – 24	Angola	Biljanini Izvori Sports Hall, Ohrid Attendance: 100 Referees: Cvetko, Kavalar (SVN)
		(19–13)
		Report

14 August 2007 21:00	Sweden	44 – 19	Kuwait	Biljanini Izvori Sports Hall, Ohrid Attendance: 150 Referees: Brunovský, Čanda (SVK)
		(21–8)
		Report

15 August 2007 14:30	Sweden	30 – 27	North Macedonia	Biljanini Izvori Sports Hall, Ohrid Attendance: 3200 Referees: Gousko, Repkin (BLR)
		(13–12)
		Report

16 August 2007 17:00	Kuwait	29 – 28	Angola	Biljanini Izvori Sports Hall, Ohrid Attendance: 100 Referees: Gubica, Milošević (CRO)
		(11–11)
		Report

16 August 2007 21:00	Portugal	31 – 29	North Macedonia	Biljanini Izvori Sports Hall, Ohrid Attendance: 2800 Referees: Brunovský, Čanda (SVK)
		(15–11)
		Report

17 August 2007 19:00	Sweden	37 – 13	Angola	Biljanini Izvori Sports Hall, Ohrid Attendance: 100 Referees: Favreto, Mello (BRA)
		(21–8)
		Report

18 August 2007 17:00	Sweden	40 – 29	Portugal	Biljanini Izvori Sports Hall, Ohrid Attendance: 150 Referees: Gubica, Milošević (CRO)
		(16–13)
		Report

18 July 2007 21:00	North Macedonia	27 – 25	Kuwait	Biljanini Izvori Sports Hall, Ohrid Attendance: 2800 Referees: Leandersson, Lindroos (FIN)
		(14–15)
		Report

Group B

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Germany	4	4	0	151	88	+63	8
Egypt	4	2	2	105	127	−22	4
France	4	2	2	122	102	+20	4
Argentina	4	2	2	127	125	+2	4
Chile	4	0	4	81	144	−63	0

Source:^{[citation needed]}

Group C

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Croatia	4	4	0	151	88	+63	8
Slovenia	4	2	2	105	127	−22	4
Russia	4	2	2	122	102	+20	4
Tunisia	4	2	2	127	125	+2	4
Bulgaria	4	0	4	81	144	−63	0

Source:^{[citation needed]}

Group D

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Denmark	4	4	0	131	112	+19	8
Spain	4	3	1	133	116	+17	6
South Korea	4	2	2	133	139	−6	4
Brazil	4	1	3	118	129	−11	2
Slovakia	4	0	4	124	143	−19	0

Source:^{[citation needed]}

Main round

Group I

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Sweden	5	4	1	155	125	+30	8
Germany	5	4	1	152	110	+42	8
Egypt	5	3	2	146	139	+7	6
France	5	2	3	140	130	+10	4
North Macedonia	5	2	3	127	139	−12	4
Kuwait	5	0	5	113	190	−77	0

Source:^{[citation needed]}

20 August 2007 17:00	Kuwait	20 – 36	France	Biljanini Izvori Sports Hall, Ohrid Attendance: 150 Referees: Favreto, Mello (BRA)
		(12–16)
		Report

20 August 2007 19:00	Sweden	25 – 28	Egypt	Biljanini Izvori Sports Hall, Ohrid Attendance: 1000 Referees: Gousko, Repkin (BLR)
		(14–12)
		Report

20 August 2007 21:00	North Macedonia	20 – 28	Germany	Biljanini Izvori Sports Hall, Ohrid Attendance: 3300 Referees: Baranowski, Lemanowicz (POL)
		(10–14)
		Report

21 August 2007 17:00	France	27 – 30	Sweden	Biljanini Izvori Sports Hall, Ohrid Attendance: 400 Referees: Brunovsky, Canda (SVK)
		(16–15)
		Report

21 August 2007 19:00	Germany	40 – 20	Kuwait	Biljanini Izvori Sports Hall, Ohrid Attendance: 600 Referees: Leifsson, Palsson (ISL)
		(20–7)
		Report

21 August 2007 21:00	Egypt	29 – 32	North Macedonia	Biljanini Izvori Sports Hall, Ohrid Attendance: 3200 Referees: Gubica, Milošević (CRO)
		(11–11)
		Report

22 August 2007 17:00	Kuwait	29 – 43	Egypt	Biljanini Izvori Sports Hall, Ohrid Attendance: 200 Referees: Gousko, Repkin (BLR)
		(14–24)
		Report

22 August 2007 19:00	Sweden	26 – 24	Germany	Biljanini Izvori Sports Hall, Ohrid Attendance: 2000 Referees: Favreto, Mello (BRA)
		(15–11)
		Report

22 August 2007 21:00	North Macedonia	21 – 27	France	Biljanini Izvori Sports Hall, Ohrid Referees: Leifsson, Palsson (ISL)
		(11–11)
		Report

Group II

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Croatia	5	4	1	0	158	129	+29	9
Denmark	5	4	0	1	154	144	+10	8
Spain	5	3	0	2	145	139	+6	6
Slovenia	5	1	2	2	131	138	−7	4
Russia	5	1	1	3	139	148	−9	3
South Korea	5	0	0	5	152	181	−29	0

Source:^{[citation needed]}

Placement matches

11th/12th

25 August 2007 13:30	South Korea	39 – 37 (ET)	Kuwait	Biljanini Izvori Sports Hall, Ohrid Attendance: 150 Referees: Nikolov, Nikolov (MKD)
		(15–15)
		Report
	FT: 31-31 ET: 8-6

9th/10th

24 August 21:00	North Macedonia	23 – 30	Russia	Biljanini Izvori Sports Hall, Ohrid Attendance: 1300 Referees: Leandersson, Lindroos (FIN)
		(11–18)
		Report

7th/8th

24 August 16:00	Slovenia	25 – 28	France	Biljanini Izvori Sports Hall, Ohrid Attendance: 250 Referees: Al Mutawa, Al Suwailem (KUW)
		(13–15)
		Report

5th/6th

24 August 18:30	Egypt	26 – 32	Spain	Biljanini Izvori Sports Hall, Ohrid Attendance: 400 Referees: Favreto, Mello (BRA)
		(12–15)
		Report

Final round

Semifinal		Final

24 August 2007– Ohrid

Sweden	32
		26 August 2007 – Ohrid
Denmark	29
		Sweden	31
24 August 2007 – Ohrid
		Germany	29
Croatia	22

Germany	29
		Third place

		26 August 2007 – Ohrid

		Croatia	26

		Denmark	27

Semifinals

24 August 2007 18:30	Sweden	32 – 29	Denmark	Biljanini Izvori Sports Hall, Ohrid Attendance: 1200 Referees: Baranowski, Lemanowicz (POL)
		(17–14)
		Report

24 August 2007 21:00	Croatia	22 – 29	Germany	Biljanini Izvori Sports Hall, Ohrid Attendance: 1500 Referees: Brunovský, Čanda (SVK)
		(11–13)
		Report

Bronze medal match

26 August 2007 14:30	Croatia	26 – 27	Denmark	Biljanini Izvori Sports Hall, Ohrid Attendance: 500 Referees: Canbro, Claesson (SWE)
		(13–15)
		Report

Gold medal match

26 August 2007 17:00	Sweden	31 – 29	Germany	Biljanini Izvori Sports Hall, Ohrid Attendance: 2000
		(13–18)
		Report

Final standings

Rank	Team
	Sweden
	Germany
	Denmark
4	Croatia
5	Spain
6	Egypt
7	France
8	Slovenia
9	Russia
10	North Macedonia
11	South Korea
12	Kuwait
13	Argentina
14	Slovakia
15	Portugal
16	Brazil
17	Tunisia
18	Bulgaria
19	Angola
20	Chile

All-star team

Goalkeeper: Johan Sjöstrand (SWE)
Left wing: Karim El Din Shoukry (EGY)
Left back: Alen Blažević (CRO)
Pivot: Henrik Toft Hansen (DEN)
Centre back: Martin Strobel (GER)
Right back: Johan Jakobsson (SWE)
Right wing: Ivan Čupić (CRO)

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Venues

Format

Preliminary round

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Main round

Group I

Group II

Placement matches

11th/12th

9th/10th

7th/8th

5th/6th

Final round

Semifinals

Bronze medal match

Gold medal match

Final standings

All-star team

External links