The first day of the World Handball Championship, which is held in Denmark, Norway and Croatia, has been completed, after the handball players of France and Italy achieved victories in earlier matches, tonight Denmark outclassed Algeria with 47:22, while Austria was better with 37:26 from Kuwait.
Denmark is in Herning continued a streak of a record 29 games without defeat at the world championships. The last defeat at the WC, she inflicted on them Hungarywho won with 27:25 in the round of 16 in 2017.
Algerians led on two occasions at the beginning of the game, with a score of 1:0 and 4:3, but then the current world champions made a series of 8:1 with which they already separated themselves by six goals. She only grew until the end and stopped at a huge +25.
He was the most effective in Denmark’s victory Mathias Gidsel with 10 goals, and they followed him Emil Jakobsen with eight you Simon Pytlick with six. Algeria’s top scorer just scored six goals. Ayoub Abdi.
In the second round of the group, Italy game against Algeria, a Denmark against Tunisia.
🇩🇰 Denmark kicks off their tournament with a stunning 47-22 win over 🇩🇿 Algeria!
🌟 Mathias Gidsel shines with 10 goals
🧱 Emil Nielsen dominates with 16 saves
🔥 A strong statement from the reigning champions in Herning!#Handball pic.twitter.com/lelskfjJ06— Hen Livgot (@Hen_Livgot) January 14, 2025
In the second match of Group C, Austria was struggling with Kuwait during 40 minutes, but in the end they managed to break the duel. At halftime, Austria led 18:16, and they held on to a two-goal deficit until the 37th minute, when the scoreboard read 21:19.
After that, the Austrians made an 8:2 series and separated themselves to an unattainable +8, in the 44th minute of the game.
Four players Austria scored five goals each, Boris Živković, Eric Dambock, Sebastian Frimmel and Tobias Wagner, while for Kuwait Mohammed Alhendal, Mohammed Radhei and Saif Aldawani scored four each.
Austria will play against Qatar in the second round, a Kuwait against France.
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