1990 World Men's Handball Championship

1990 World Men's Handball Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Czechoslovakia
Final positions
Champions	Sweden
Runner-up	Soviet Union
Third place	Romania
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The 1990 World Men's Handball Championship was the 12th team handball World Championship. It was held in Czechoslovakia from February 28 to March 10, 1990. Sweden won the championship.

Teams

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
Algeria	Czechoslovakia	Cuba	East Germany
France	Romania	Iceland	Japan
Hungary	South Korea	Spain	Poland
Sweden	Switzerland	Yugoslavia	Soviet Union

Preliminary round

Group A

Team	P	W	T	L	G+	G-	GD	Pts.
Sweden	3	3	0	0	71	57	+14	6
Hungary	3	2	0	1	61	59	+2	4
France	3	1	0	2	59	65	-6	2
Algeria	3	0	0	3	55	65	-10	0

Group B

Team	P	W	T	L	G+	G-	GD	Pts.
Romania	3	3	0	0	75	57	+18	6
South Korea	3	1	0	2	69	72	-3	2
Czechoslovakia	3	1	0	2	58	62	-4	2
Switzerland	3	1	0	2	46	57	-11	2

Group C

Team	P	W	T	L	G+	G-	GD	Pts.
Spain	3	3	0	0	66	61	+5	6
Yugoslavia	3	2	0	1	72	65	+7	4
Iceland	3	1	0	2	65	69	-4	2
Cuba	3	0	0	3	76	84	-8	0

Group D

Team	P	W	T	L	G+	G-	GD	Pts.
Soviet Union	3	3	0	0	95	56	+39	6
East Germany	3	2	0	1	70	73	-3	4
Poland	3	1	0	2	63	68	-5	2
Japan	3	0	0	3	55	86	-31	0

Second round

Group 1

Team	P	W	T	L	G+	G-	GD	Pts.
Sweden	5	4	0	1	130	101	+29	8
Romania	5	4	0	1	117	105	+12	8
Hungary	5	3	1	1	110	108	+2	7
Czechoslovakia	5	1	2	2	107	116	-9	4
France	5	1	1	3	109	115	-6	3
South Korea	5	0	0	5	119	147	-28	0

Group 2

Team	P	W	T	L	G+	G-	GD	Pts.
Soviet Union	5	5	0	0	148	109	39	10
Yugoslavia	5	3	0	2	120	102	+18	6
Spain	5	3	0	2	109	114	-5	6
East Germany	5	2	0	3	106	111	-5	4
Iceland	5	1	0	4	101	117	-16	2
Poland	5	1	0	4	102	133	-31	2

3rd / 4th place

Date	Match¹			Score
10.03.1990	Romania	-	Yugoslavia	27-21

• (¹) - In Prague

Final

Date	Match¹			Score
10.03.1990	Sweden	-	Soviet Union	27-23

• (¹) - In Prague

Final standings

	Sweden
	Soviet Union
	Romania
4	Yugoslavia
5	Spain
6	Hungary
7	Czechoslovakia
8	East Germany
9	France
10	Iceland
11	Poland
12	South Korea
13	Switzerland
14	Cuba
15	Japan
16	Algeria

	Qualified for the 1992 Summer Olympics
	Qualified for the 1991 Summer Universiade
	Qualified for the Olympic Qualification Tournament

Medal summary

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Sweden Magnus Andersson Per Carlén Magnus Cato Johan Eklund Mats Fransson Erik Hajas Björn Jilsén Ola Lindgren Mats Olsson Staffan Olsson Jonas Persson Axel Sjöblad Sten Sjögren Tomas Svensson Pierre Thorsson Magnus Wislander	Soviet Union Vyacheslav Atavin Yuri Gavrilov Valeri Gopin Aleksandr Karshakevich Oleg Kiselyov Igor Kustov Andrey Lavrov Yuri Nesterov Konstantin Sharovarov Georgi Sviridenko Igor Tchumak Aleksandr Tuchkin Andrey Tyumentsev Valeri Vassilyev Andrei Xepkin Mikhail Yakimovich	Romania Dumitru Berbece Alexandru Buligan Ianos Cicu Vasile Cocuz Marian Dumitru Cornel Durau Adrian Ghimes Robert Licu Ion Mocanu Costica Neagu Nicolae Popescu Rudi Prisacaru Maricel Voinea Valentin Cristian Zaharia

Top goalscorers

Player	Goals
1. Julián Duranona (CUB)	55
1. Aleksandr Tuchkin (URS)	55
3. Ye-Huan Kim (KOR)	50
4. Philippe Debureau (FRA)	39
5. Irfan Smajlagić (YUG)	38
6. Marian Dumitru (ROM)	37
6. Yafar Belhosin (ALG)	37
8. Aleix Franch (ESP)	36
8. Bogdan Wenta (POL)	36
8. László Marosi (HUN)	36
8. Javier Cabanas (ESP)	36

External links

• Men Handball World Championship 1990
• Dataesport
• The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games - Medallists from previous World Championships