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The European handball championship for women has taken place biannually since 1994. Team handball (also known as field handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport where two teams of seven players each (six players and a goalkeeper) pass and bounce a ball trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team. ...
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The official homepage of the European Handball Federation: http://www.eurohandball.com/
Team handball (also known as field handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport where two teams of seven players each (six players and a goalkeeper) pass and bounce a ball trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team.
Handball is played on a field forty meters long by twenty meters wide with a dividing line in the middle and a goal in the center of either end.
Women's team handball was added as an Olympic discipline in 1976, at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Handball (also known as team handball, field handball, Europeanhandball, or Olympic handball) is a team sport where two teams of seven players each (six players and a goalkeeper) pass and bounce a ball trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team.
Handball is played on a court forty meters long by twenty meters wide, with a dividing line in the middle and a goal in the center of either end.
The team handball game as we know it today was formed by the end of the 19th century in northern Europe, primarily Denmark, Germany and Sweden.
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