Denmark is handball champion for the fourth time in a row

Finale in Oslo

Gala against Croatia: Denmark is a handball world champion

In the final, the favorite directly produces clear conditions. At times it becomes emotionally in the game. In the end, Denmark writes history.

Denmark is a handball world champion for the fourth time in a row. The tournament favorite won the final in Oslo against Croatia on Sunday evening with 32:26 (16:12) and crowned the best national team in the world again.

Croatia’s captain and monument Domagoj Duvnjak was therefore denied the icing on the cake in his last international match on his national team career. The THW Kiel back player had dreamed of the first title win with his home country. In the end it became silver-as with the 2009 World Cup and the European Championship tournaments in 2008, 2010 and 2020.

The Berlin Mathias Gidsel was in front of around 11,000 spectators in the Unity Arena on Sunday evening with ten goals in the best shooters of the Danes, which information from the start. Croatia went to work aggressively, but played firmly on the offensive or repeatedly failed at the glossy Emil Nielsen in the Danish goal. After the break, the Croatian resistance broke. Jacobsen’s team, which has been undefeated for 37 World Cup games, celebrated the quadruple well before the final siren.

Bronze had previously secured the French in a close duel. The European-Czwinger Portugal struck the European champion in the small final 35:34 (19:17) and cheered in the first tournament after the era of superstar Nikola Karabatic about his 13th World Cup medal-no other nation won.

If Denmark continues like this, France’s status could be in danger as a record winner with six World Cup titles. The Croatians tried to put “Danish Dynamite” with an offensive cover with problems. But the Danish back room, especially the axis made of Gidsel and Simon Pytlick, kept tearing gaps with arrow -fast passes and thus played Emil Jakobsen on the left wing.

Another problem for Sigurdson’s team: Nielsen was immediately involved. Croatia had only scored one goal after ten minutes. The game remained tight until 8: 7 (22nd). After the red card against Croatia’s defense giant Marko Mamic, the Danish offensive engine gradually ran hot. At 13: 9 (27th) the lead grew to four goals for the first time.

Duvnjak, which was visibly struck after a calf injury and only came to the field for overpayment situations, and his teammates broke up against the defeat as long as possible. But Denmark remained merciless to the day after Croatia’s first World Cup Triumph (2003 against Germany). When the Croatian forces and discipline subsided, the lead continued to grow.