2007 Men's Junior World Handball Championship

2007 Men's Junior World Handball Championship
Tournament details
Host country  Macedonia
Dates August 13–26
Teams 20 (from 4 confederations)
Venue(s) 2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions  Sweden (2nd title)
Runner-up  Germany
Third place  Denmark
Fourth place  Croatia
Tournament statistics
Matches 82
Top scorer(s) South Korea Jongmin An (75)
Best player Germany 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.

Venues

Two Macedonian cities were selected as hosts for the Championship:

Skopje
Host cities
 Ohrid
SRC Kale
Capacity: 5,000		 Biljanini Izvori Sports Hall
Capacity: 3,500

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

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		 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: Brunovsky, Canda (SVK)
(21–8)
Report
15 August 2007
14:30		 Sweden  30 – 27  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, Milosevic (CRO)
(11–11)
Report
16 August 2007
21:00		 Portugal  31 – 29  Macedonia Biljanini Izvori Sports Hall, Ohrid
Attendance: 2800
Referees: Brunovsky, Canda (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, Milosevic (CRO)
(16–13)
Report
18 July 2007
21:00		 Macedonia  27 – 25  Kuwait Biljanini Izvori Sports Hall, Ohrid
Attendance: 2800
Referees: Leandersson, Lindroos (FIN)
(14–15)
Report

Group B

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

Group C

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

Group D

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

Main round

Group I

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Sweden 5 4 0 1 155 125 +30 8
 Germany 5 4 0 1 152 110 +42 8
 Egypt 5 3 0 2 146 139 +7 6
 France 5 2 0 3 140 130 +10 4
 Macedonia 5 2 0 3 127 139 −12 4
 Kuwait 5 0 0 5 113 190 −77 0
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		 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  Macedonia Biljanini Izvori Sports Hall, Ohrid
Attendance: 3200
Referees: Gubica, Milosevic (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		 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

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		 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  
  Denmark  29  
 
26 August 2007 – Ohrid
      Sweden  31
    Germany  29
Third place
24 August 2007 – Ohrid 26 August 2007 – Ohrid
  Croatia  22   Croatia  26
  Germany  29     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: Brunovsky, Canda (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  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

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