Denmark’s handball players have become world champions for the third time in a row. The team of the stars Rasmus Lauge Schmidt and Simon Bogetoft Pytlick won the final of the World Cup in Stockholm against Olympic champion France 34-29. It is the first time in the history of men’s handball that a team has won the world title three times in a row.
The superior Danes got off to a flying start and quickly took a five-goal lead, but the French gradually closed the gap and at half time it was 16-15 for the Danes. In the second half, the two superpowers were equal to each other for a long time and the goals fell back and forth. In the last 5 minutes, the Danes again showed their supremacy by running out to five goals ahead.
In the exciting duel, Lauge Schmidt scored ten times for the Danes. Pytlick made nine. Nedim Remili scored six times for the French team, which was world champion six times in the past.
Earlier on Sunday, Spain won the bronze medal against host country Sweden 39-36.
The Dutch handball players finished fourteenth in their first World Cup participation after 62 years. The team of national coach Staffan Olsson reached the main round, but was eliminated for the quarter-finals after a defeat against Germany.
Source: ANP
