Women's Handball IHF World Championship 2021

[Agger 1,700]

Sweden will be playing the 2nd match against Ukraine with a completely new team due to positive COVID tests.

[Monzanator 4,768]

Pathetic performance from Polish women. I won't be surprised if Karolina Kudlacz announces her NT retirement soon. It's not worth the effort anymore.

 

Kinga Grzyb once retired from NT already and might do that again. She didn't even get called up for Austria and it sounded like it was her own decision.

 

Monika Kobylinska will return from injury and let's hope her career doesn't get wrecked like Alina Wojtas before.

 

We can't rely on wild cards all the time, that's kinda pathetic and hardly a reason to be proud of.

[hckošice 15,520]

has just been invited to participate at the World Championships via wild card offered by IHF.

 

What the fuck is this ?

 

https://www.olympic.sk/clanok/slovenske-hadzanarky-dostali-volnu-kartu-na-ms-v-spanielsku

[rybak 3,303]

55 minutes ago, hckošice said:

has just been invited to participate at the World Championships via wild card offered by IHF.

 

What the fuck is this ?

 

https://www.olympic.sk/clanok/slovenske-hadzanarky-dostali-volnu-kartu-na-ms-v-spanielsku

Poland also gets wild card for this tournament  Good thing for those womens but I doubt that they will improve quality of this event 

[Monzanator 4,768]

Four months after my previous post here and sure enough, we keep getting those wild cards again Handball is truly an European-centric sport!

 

Also congrats to Slovakia, that seems like a completely random choice picked out of the hat

[Federer91 3,024]

Geez, if you kept a quality number of 24 teams, such things wouldn't be necessary.  

[Wumo 3,023]

The COVID-protocol for the championship has been presented and one of the major points in the document is that all players and team staff members must be fully vaccinated or currently recover after a COVID-infection (immune period). 

 

https://www.ihf.info/media-center/news/spain-2021-covid-19-precaution-plan-released

 

With only 18 days left to the championship begins, this could affect some teams. Here I think some African teams could be affected by this regulation as their countries' vaccination program are maybe not in full effect yet. A question would also be what is meant by fully vaccinated? Is getting the vaccine some days before the start of the championship enough or must participants also wait 14 days before the vaccine is fully in effect?

 

We will see how these regulations will affect teams when we come closer to the start of the championship. 

[hckošice 15,520]

Just finished the prediction contest (for fun obviously) I had no idea which teams had qualify etc.. so I found the groups right now...

 

and the first thing that caught my attention is the seeding in the different groups.

 

who exactly decided about this seeding ?

 

I mean you have this

 

Group C

 

Date & Time (GMT +1)	Nation 1	T1	T2	Nation 2
December 3rd 2021, h. 18:00	Romania			Iran
December 3rd 2021, h. 20:30	Norway			Kazakhstan
December 5th 2021, h. 18:00	Romania			Kazakhstan
December 5th 2021, h. 20:30	Iran			Norway
December 7th 2021, h. 18:00	Kazakhstan			Iran
December 7th 2021, h. 20:30	Norway			Romania

Group D

 

Date & Time (GMT +1)	Nation 1	T1	T2	Nation 2
December 3rd 2021, h. 18:00	Netherlands			Puerto Rico
December 3rd 2021, h. 20:30	Sweden			Uzbekistan
December 5th 2021, h. 18:00	Sweden			Puerto Rico
December 5th 2021, h. 20:30	Uzbekistan			Netherlands
December 7th 2021, h. 18:00	Puerto Rico			Uzbekistan
December 7th 2021, h. 20:30	Netherlands			Sweden

Group F

 

Date & Time (GMT +1)	Nation 1	T1	T2	Nation 2
December 2nd 2021, h. 18:00	South Korea			Congo
December 2nd 2021, h. 20:30	Denmark			Tunisia
December 4th 2021, h. 18:00	South Korea			Tunisia
December 4th 2021, h. 20:30	Congo			Denmark
December 6th 2021, h. 18:00	Tunisia			Congo
December 6th 2021, h. 20:30	Denmark			South Korea

 

and then you have this ...

 

Group E

 

Date & Time (GMT +1)	Nation 1	T1	T2	Nation 2
December 2nd 2021, h. 18:00	Germany			Czech Republic
December 2nd 2021, h. 20:30	Hungary			Slovakia
December 4th 2021, h. 18:00	Slovakia			Germany
December 4th 2021, h. 20:30	Hungary			Czech Republic
December 6th 2021, h. 18:00	Czech Republic			Slovakia
December 6th 2021, h. 20:30	Germany			Hungary

 

[hckošice 15,520]

Team Slovakia

 

 

Goalkeeper:

• Adriana Medveďová (MGA Fivers Vienna, )
• Alexandra Ivanicjová (Mlyny Stoislaw Koszalin, )
• Viktória Oguntoye (HC DAC Dunajská Streda)

 

Pivot:

• Nikoleta Trúnková (MŠK Iuventa Michalovce)
• Valéria Dulinová (MŠK Iuventa Michalovce)

 

Wingman:

• Martina Popovcová (MŠK Iuventa Michalovce)
• Bibiana Štefaniková (MŠK Iuventa Michalovce)
• Réka Bíziková (HC DAC Dunajská Streda)
• Katarína Pócsíková (HK Slovan Duslo Šaľa)

 

Backcourt:

• Karin Bujnochová (Achenheim Truchtersheim Handball, )
• Simona Szarková (Siófok KC, )
• Barbora Lanczová (Mosonmagyaróvári KC SE, )
• Marianna Rebičová (MŠK Iuventa Michalovce)
• Vladimíra Bajčiová (MŠK Iuventa Michalovce)
• Adriána Holejová (MŠK Iuventa Michalovce)
• Anette Emma Hudáková (HC DAC Dunajská Streda)
• Boglárka Bíziková (HC DAC Dunajská Streda)
• Natália Némethová (HC DAC Dunajská Streda)

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On 11/22/2021 at 10:44 PM, hckošice said:

and the first thing that caught my attention is the seeding in the different groups.

 

who exactly decided about this seeding ?

 

maybe the same person who distributes the wild cards?