Defending champion Denmark has reached the final of the Handball World Championship and is only one step away from the third world title in a row.
Coach Nikolaj Jacobsen’s team defeated vice European champions Spain in the semi-finals 26:23 (15:10) and is therefore just one step away from the historic World Cup hat-trick. After 2019 and 2021, Denmark could become the first country to conquer the crown of the handball world for the third time in a row.
The best Danish thrower on Friday evening in Gdansk was backcourt player Simon Pytlick with six goals.
The final opponents of the Danes on Sunday (8.30 p.m.) in Stockholm are co-hosts and European champions Sweden or Germany-conqueror and Olympic champion France.
Denmark in front from the first minute
The Danes gave their best on Friday evening in Gdansk and were ahead from the first minute. Danish Dynamite kept their cool in attack, even as Spain came within a goal 12 minutes from time.
At the back, Niklas Landin repeatedly defused decisive balls, and the keeper of THW Kiel also parried the last Spanish seven-meter penalty 45 seconds before the end at a score of 25:23.
And so Denmark extended its super series and remained undefeated in the 27th World Cup game in a row – under Jacobsen the northern Europeans have not lost a single World Cup game.