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World Women's Handball Championship
international handball tournament for women's national teams
Key facts
- Sport
- Handball
- Founded
- 1957 ; 69 years ago ( 1957 )
- No of teams
- 32 (finals)
- Continent
- International ( IHF )
- Most recent champion
- Norway (5th title)
- Most titles
- Russia , (7 titles)
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- Commons category
- World Women's Handball Championship
- inception
- 1957-00-00
- event interval
- 2
- number of participants
- 32
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The IHF Women's Handball World Championship has been organized by the International Handball Federation since 1957. European teams have won every time except 1995 where South Korea won as the first team outside Europe and 2013 where Brazil won as the first American team.
Nine teams participated in the first championship, this number has grown in steps to 32 (from 2021). In 1977 a B-tournament was introduced and later in 1986 a C-tournament which served as qualification for the real championship or A-tournament. Since 2021, the championship has expanded to the current system with 32 national teams, divided into eight groups of four. The B- and C-tournament qualifications were replaced by the present qualification system based on continental confederations in 1993.