2011 World Men's Handball Championship

All matches were played in Malmö, Lund, Kristianstad, Gothenburg, Skövde, Jönköping, Linköping and Norrköping.

2011 World Men's Handball Championship

Världsmästerskapet i handboll för herrar 2011
Tournament details
Host country	Sweden
Venue(s)	8 (in 8 host cities)
Dates	13–30 January
Teams	24 (from 5 confederations)
Final positions
Champions	France (4th title)
Runner-up	Denmark
Third place	Spain
Fourth place	Sweden
Tournament statistics
Matches played	98
Goals scored	5,390 (55 per match)
Attendance	399,019 (4,072 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Mikkel Hansen (DEN) (68 goals)
Best player	Nikola Karabatić (FRA)
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In the preliminary round, 24 teams from all the world's continents were split into 4 groups, with the first-placed 3 teams advancing through the main round in two groups, carrying the previously won points against the remaining teams. France won the tournament after defeating Denmark in the final, while Spain won the bronze medal after defeating Sweden in the third-place match. Thus, France has qualified for the tournament at the London Olympics. The teams that finished in 2nd–7th place will play Olympic Qualifying Tournaments.

The host broadcaster was the Swedish commercial network TV4 Sport and the television rights were sold to other countries.

One of the objectives of the championship was to create a multicultural party that extends far outside the handball arenas.

Bahrain and Chile qualified for their first ever handball World Championship. Austria qualified for the first time since 1993, which, coincidentally, was also hosted by Sweden.

The following 24 teams qualified for the final tournament:

The draw was held on 9 July 2010 at the Scandinavium at Gothenburg, Sweden.

Each nation had to submit a squad of 16 players.

On 25 October 2010, the match officials for the tournament were confirmed.

Referees   Algeria Kacem Mezian Othmane Si Bachir   Argentina Carlos Marina Darío Minore   Brazil Jesus Menezes Rogério Pinto   Côte d'Ivoire Yalatima Coulibaly Mamadou Diabaté   Czech Republic Václav Horáček Jiří Novotný   Denmark Per Olesen Lars Ejby Pedersen   France Nordine Lazaar Laurent Reveret   Germany Lars Geipel Marcus Helbig   Iran Mohsen Karbaschi Majid Kolahdouzan

Referees   Macedonia Gjorgji Načevski Slavko Nikolov   Norway Kenneth Abrahamsen Arne Kristiansen   Romania Bogdan Stark Romeo Ştefan   Slovenia Nenad Krstič Peter Ljubič   Serbia Nenad Nikolić Dušan Stojković   Slovakia Michal Baďura Jaroslav Ondogrecula   Spain Óscar López Ángel Ramírez   Sweden Rickard Canbro Mikael Claesson   United Arab Emirates Omar Al-Marzouqi Mohammad Al-Nuaimi

Twenty-four participating teams were placed in the following four groups. After playing a round-robin, the top three teams in each group advanced to the Main Round. The last three teams in each group played placement matches.

Tie-breaking criteria

For the three game group stage of this tournament, where two or more teams in a group tied on an equal number of points, the finishing positions will be determined by the following tie-breaking criteria in the following order

1. number of points obtained in the matches among the teams in question
2. goal difference in the matches among the teams in question
3. number of goals scored in the matches among the teams in question (if more than two teams finish equal on points)
4. goal difference in all the group matches
5. number of goals scored in all the group matches
6. drawing of lots

Group A (Kristianstad/Lund)

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
France	5	4	1	0	159	106	+53	9
Spain	5	4	1	0	139	110	+29	9
Germany	5	3	0	2	151	125	+26	6
Egypt	5	1	0	4	115	139	−24	2
Tunisia	5	1	0	4	114	137	−23	2
Bahrain	5	1	0	4	105	166	−61	2

All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

14 January 2011 18:00	France	32–19	Tunisia	Kristianstad Arena, Kristianstad Attendance: 2,500 Referees: Olesen, Pedersen (DEN)
	Karabatić 6	(15–9)	Megannem 6
	1×  4×  1×	Report	2×  7×

14 January 2011 18:15	Germany	30–25	Egypt	Färs och Frosta Sparbank Arena, Lund Attendance: 1,410 Referees: Horáček, Novotný (CZE)
	Gensheimer 9	(15–12)	El Ahmar 6
	3×  2×	Report	3×  2×

14 January 2011 20:15	Spain	33–22	Bahrain	Kristianstad Arena, Kristianstad Referees: Menezes, Pinto (BRA)
	Garabaya, Parrondo, García 4	(16–8)	Madan 5
	2×  3×	Report	3×  7×

16 January 2011 16:15	Bahrain	18–38	Germany	Kristianstad Arena, Kristianstad Referees: Marina, Minore (ARG)
	Al Sayyad, Madan 4	(9–20)	Kaufmann 9
	2×  5×	Report	3×  3×

16 January 2011 17:30	Tunisia	18–21	Spain	Färs och Frosta Sparbank Arena, Lund Attendance: 1,820 Referees: Krstič, Ljubič (SLO)
	Tej, Mgannem 4	(7–9)	Entrerríos 5
	3×  5×	Report	3×  3×

16 January 2011 18:45	Egypt	19–28	France	Kristianstad Arena, Kristianstad Referees: Abrahamsen, Kristiansen (NOR)
	El Ahmar 4	(8–12)	Guigou 5
	3×  5×	Report	2×  4×

17 January 2011 18:30	Spain	26–24	Germany	Kristianstad Arena, Kristianstad Attendance: 3,247 Referees: Olesen, Pedersen (DEN)
	Aguinagalde, Garcia, Romero 5	(13–13)	Gensheimer, Glandorf 4
	1×  7×	Report	3×  9×  2×

17 January 2011 20:30	France	41–17	Bahrain	Färs och Frosta Sparbank Arena, Lund Referees: Al-Marzouqi, Al-Nuaimi (UAE)
	Joli 11	(23–10)	Al Sayyad 3
	3×  3×	Report	2×  2×  1×

17 January 2011 20:45	Tunisia	23–27	Egypt	Kristianstad Arena, Kristianstad Attendance: 3,247 Referees: Horáček, Novotný (CZE)
	Ayed 7	(10–11)	El Ahmar 10
	3×  10×  1×	Report	3×  5×

19 January 2011 18:00	Bahrain	21–28	Tunisia	Färs och Frosta Sparbank Arena, Lund Attendance: 950 Referees: Marina, Minore (ARG)
	Al Sayyad 6	(12–15)	Tej 7
	3×  5×	Report	4×  5×

19 January 2011 18:15	Germany	23–30	France	Kristianstad Arena, Kristianstad Attendance: 4,148 Referees: Horáček, Novotný (CZE)
	Kaufmann 7	(10–13)	Accambray 5
	3×  5×	Report	3×  2×

19 January 2011 20:30	Spain	31–18	Egypt	Kristianstad Arena, Kristianstad Attendance: 4,148 Referees: Krstič, Ljubič (SLO)
	Rocas 7	(14–9)	Mamdouh 5
	2×  1×	Report	3×  4×  1×

20 January 2011 18:00	Egypt	26–27	Bahrain	Färs och Frosta Sparbank Arena, Lund Attendance: 750 Referees: Karbaschi, Kolahdouzan (IRN)
	Mabrouk 7	(16–15)	Al Sayyad 9
	3×  4×	Report	3×  3×

20 January 2011 18:30	Germany	36–26	Tunisia	Kristianstad Arena, Kristianstad Attendance: 3,885 Referees: Baďura, Ondogrecula (SVK)
	Hens 6	(15–12)	Mgannem 6
	3×  3×	Report	3×  2×  1×

20 January 2011 20:45	France	28–28	Spain	Kristianstad Arena, Kristianstad Attendance: 3,885 Referees: Olesen, Pedersen (DEN)
	Guigou 6	(18–13)	Entrerríos 7
	4×  4×	Report	3×  4×

Group B (Norrköping/Linköping)

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Iceland	5	5	0	0	157	119	+38	10
Hungary	5	4	0	1	148	133	+15	8
Norway	5	3	0	2	139	136	+3	6
Japan	5	2	0	3	141	161	−20	4
Austria	5	1	0	4	144	148	−4	2
Brazil	5	0	0	5	131	163	−32	0

All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

14 January 2011 17:00	Iceland	32–26	Hungary	Himmelstalundshallen, Norrköping Attendance: 2,753 Referees: López, Ramírez (ESP)
	Pálmarsson 8	(14–11)	Mocsai 5
	3×  4×	Report	3×  5×  1×

14 January 2011 19:10	Norway	35–29	Japan	Himmelstalundshallen, Norrköping Attendance: 2,753 Referees: Mezian, Bachir (ALG)
	Myrhol 9	(18–13)	Kadoyama 7
	2×  8×	Report	3×  1×

14 January 2011 21:30	Austria	34–24	Brazil	Himmelstalundshallen, Norrköping Attendance: 2,753 Referees: Geipel, Helbig (GER)
	Wilczynski 9	(17–13)	Bortolini, Santos 4
	3×  4×	Report	3×  2×

15 January 2011 16:30	Hungary	26–23	Norway	Himmelstalundshallen, Norrköping Referees: Geipel, Helbig (GER)
	Ilyés, G. Iváncsik, T. Iváncsik 5	(14–16)	Kjelling 7
	3×  2×	Report	3×  4×

15 January 2011 18:45	Japan	33–30	Austria	Himmelstalundshallen, Norrköping Referees: López, Ramírez (ESP)
	Miyazaki 8	(18–11)	Szilagyi 8
	2×  3×	Report	3×  2×

15 January 2011 21:00	Brazil	26–34	Iceland	Himmelstalundshallen, Norrköping Referees: Canbro, Claesson (SWE)
	Ribeiro 7	(12–19)	Sigurðsson 11
	3×  2×	Report	3×  3×

17 January 2011 17:00	Hungary	36–24	Brazil	Cloetta Center, Linköping Referees: Nikolić, Stojković (SRB)
	Harsányi 10	(18–11)	Bortolini 8
	3×  4×  1×	Report	2×  4×

17 January 2011 19:10	Norway	33–27	Austria	Cloetta Center, Linköping Attendance: 2,700 Referees: Canbro, Claesson (SWE)
	Tvedten 10	(16–11)	Božović 6
	2×  3×	Report	3×  3×

17 January 2011 21:30	Iceland	36–22	Japan	Cloetta Center, Linköping Referees: Coulibaly, Diabaté (CIV)
	Sigurðsson 9	(22–8)	Kadoyama 5
	3×  7×	Report	2×

18 January 2011 17:00	Japan	24–28	Hungary	Cloetta Center, Linköping Attendance: 1,800 Referees: Canbro, Claesson (SWE)
	Miyazaki 5	(8–13)	G. Iváncsik 9
	3×	Report	2×  3×  1×

18 January 2011 19:10	Norway	26–25	Brazil	Cloetta Center, Linköping Attendance: 2,717 Referees: Coulibaly, Diabaté (CIV)
	Myrhol 7	(13–12)	Pacheco 6
	3×  4×	Report	3×  5×

18 January 2011 21:30	Austria	23–26	Iceland	Cloetta Center, Linköping Attendance: 2,612 Referees: Stark, Ştefan (ROU)
	Weber 8	(16–11)	Petersson 7
	3×  9×  2×	Report	3×  5×

20 January 2011 17:00	Brazil	32–33	Japan	Cloetta Center, Linköping Attendance: 4,252 Referees: Stark, Ştefan (ROU)
	Teixeira 8	(12–13)	Suematsu 12
	3×  3×	Report	2×  3×

20 January 2011 19:10	Iceland	29–22	Norway	Cloetta Center, Linköping Attendance: 5,817 Referees: Canbro, Claesson (SWE)
	Guðjónsson 7	(12–12)	Tvedten 7
	3×  5×	Report	4×  5×

20 January 2011 21:30	Austria	30–32	Hungary	Cloetta Center, Linköping Attendance: 2,340 Referees: Nikolić, Stojković (SRB)
	Szilágyi 7	(16–13)	Császár, Törő 5
	2×  3×	Report	4×  2×

Group C (Malmö/Lund)

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Denmark	5	5	0	0	181	117	+64	10
Croatia	5	3	1	1	148	109	+39	7
Serbia	5	2	1	2	139	139	0	5
Algeria	5	2	0	3	100	109	−9	4
Romania	5	2	0	3	132	123	+9	4
Australia	5	0	0	5	77	180	−103	0

All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

14 January 2011 18:00	Croatia	27–21	Romania	Malmö Arena, Malmö Attendance: 6,643 Referees: Lazaar, Reveret (FRA)
	Strlek 8	(11–13)	Stamate 7
	3×  5×	Report 1 Report 2	3×  5×

14 January 2011 20:15	Denmark	47–12	Australia	Malmö Arena, Malmö Attendance: 6,643 Referees: Marina, Minore (ARG)
	Christiansen 8	(21–8)	Calvert 4
	2×  2×	Report	3×  5×

14 January 2011 20:45	Serbia	25–24	Algeria	Färs och Frosta Sparbank Arena, Lund Attendance: 1,275 Referees: Al-Marzouqi, Al-Nuaimi (UAE)
	Vujin 6	(13–9)	Berkous 7
	3×  3×	Report	3×  2×

16 January 2011 18:00	Australia	18–35	Serbia	Malmö Arena, Malmö Attendance: 2,500 Referees: Karbaschi, Kolahdouzan (IRN)
	Fletcher 5	(8–16)	Vujin 7
	3×  6×	Report	3×  7×

16 January 2011 20:00	Algeria	15–26	Croatia	Färs och Frosta Sparbank Arena, Lund Attendance: 1,943 Referees: Menezes, Pinto (BRA)
	Berkous, Boultif 4	(11–11)	Balić 6
	3×  4×	Report	3×  6×

16 January 2011 20:15	Romania	30–39	Denmark	Malmö Arena, Malmö Attendance: 8,000 Referees: Baďura, Ondogrecula (SVK)
	Florea 7	(16–17)	Christiansen 6
	3×  2×	Report	3×  4×

17 January 2011 18:00	Croatia	42–15	Australia	Malmö Arena, Malmö Attendance: 1,500 Referees: Baďura, Ondogrecula (SVK)
	Buntić 7	(19–9)	Calvert, Fletcher, Subotic 3
	1×  1×	Report	3×  3×

17 January 2011 18:00	Romania	14–15	Algeria	Färs och Frosta Sparbank Arena, Lund Attendance: 920 Referees: Abrahamsen, Kristiansen (NOR)
	Ghionea 7	(10–8)	Berkous, Boultif 4
	2×  4×	Report	2×  5×

17 January 2011 20:15	Denmark	35–27	Serbia	Malmö Arena, Malmö Attendance: 8,164 Referees: Lazaar, Reveret (FRA)
	Hansen 11	(16–14)	Vujin 7
	3×  2×	Report	3×  6×

19 January 2011 18:00	Serbia	24–24	Croatia	Malmö Arena, Malmö Attendance: 7,269 Referees: Abrahamsen, Kristiansen (NOR)
	Nikčević 7	(13–12)	Vori 8
	4×  4×	Report	3×  2×

19 January 2011 20:15	Denmark	26–19	Algeria	Malmö Arena, Malmö Attendance: 8,830 Referees: Karbaschi, Kolahdouzan (IRN)
	Hansen, Hansen 5	(16–9)	Boultif 5
	3×  4×	Report	2×  6×

19 January 2011 20:30	Australia	14–29	Romania	Färs och Frosta Sparbank Arena, Lund Attendance: 800 Referees: Menezes, Pinto (BRA)
	Calvert 7	(6–14)	Florea 5
	3×  4×	Report	2×  4×

20 January 2011 18:00	Algeria	27–18	Australia	Malmö Arena, Malmö Attendance: 4,960 Referees: Al-Marzouqi, Al-Nuaimi (UAE)
	Berkous, Ayat, Hamad 5	(12–11)	Fletcher 6
	3×  1×	Report	2×  2×

20 January 2011 20:15	Croatia	29–34	Denmark	Malmö Arena, Malmö Attendance: 11,307 Referees: Lazaar, Reveret (FRA)
	Zrnić 8	(16–15)	Søndergaard 10
	4×  4×	Report	3×  3×

20 January 2011 20:30	Serbia	28–38	Romania	Färs och Frosta Sparbank Arena, Lund Attendance: 860 Referees: Krstič, Ljubič (SLO)
	Ilić 6	(17–20)	Stamate 9
	3×  4×	Report	2×  2×

Group D (Gothenburg)

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Sweden	5	4	0	1	142	112	+30	8
Poland	5	4	0	1	143	123	+20	8
Argentina	5	3	1	1	133	114	+19	7
South Korea	5	2	1	2	137	128	+9	5
Slovakia	5	0	1	4	128	156	−28	1
Chile	5	0	1	4	117	167	−50	1

All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

13 January 2011 20:15	Sweden	28–18	Chile	Scandinavium, Gothenburg Attendance: 10,368 Referees: Nikolić, Stojković (SRB)
	Du Rietz 6	(15–8)	Feuchtmann 4
	3×  6×	Report	3×  2×

14 January 2011 18:15	South Korea	25–25	Argentina	Scandinavium, Gothenburg Attendance: 1,733 Referees: Stark, Ştefan (ROU)
	Lee J. W. 9	(14–11)	Fernandez 5
	3×  6×	Report	2×  6×

14 January 2011 20:15	Poland	35–33	Slovakia	Scandinavium, Gothenburg Attendance: 2,486 Referees: Načevski, Nikolov (MKD)
	Tłuczyński 7	(15–17)	Stranovský 9
	3×  6×	Report	3×  3×

15 January 2011 16:15	Chile	22–37	South Korea	Scandinavium, Gothenburg Attendance: 7,727 Referees: Coulibaly, Diabaté (CIV)
	Feuchtmann 8	(12–15)	Yu Dong Geun 9
	2×  5×	Report	2×  4×

15 January 2011 18:15	Slovakia	22–38	Sweden	Scandinavium, Gothenburg Attendance: 11,491 Referees: Stark, Ştefan (ROU)
	Kukucka 4	(14–15)	Ekberg 8
	3×  4×	Report	3×  6×

15 January 2011 20:15	Argentina	23–24	Poland	Scandinavium, Gothenburg Attendance: 7,996 Referees: Nikolić, Stojković (SRB)
	Simonet, Vieyra 6	(6–11)	Tłuczyński 5
	3×  6×  1×	Report	3×  7×  1×

17 January 2011 16:15	Slovakia	18–23	Argentina	Scandinavium, Gothenburg Attendance: 3,057 Referees: Geipel, Helbig (GER)
	Valo, Straňovský 4	(9–7)	Fernández 9
	3×  4×	Report	2×  3×

17 January 2011 18:15	Poland	38–23	Chile	Scandinavium, Gothenburg Attendance: 5,535 Referees: Mezian, Si Bachir (ALG)
	Jurasik, Tłuczyński 6	(15–13)	Feuchtmann, Muñoz 6
	3×  5×  1×	Report	3×  3×

17 January 2011 20:15	Sweden	30–24	South Korea	Scandinavium, Gothenburg Attendance: 8,109 Referees: Načevski, Nikolov (MKD)
	Källman 8	(14–12)	Yu Dong Geun 7
	4×  11×  1×	Report	3×  4×

18 January 2011 16:15	Chile	29–29	Slovakia	Scandinavium, Gothenburg Attendance: 3,112 Referees: Načevski, Nikolov (MKD)
	Feuchtmann 11	(15–12)	Šulc 7
	3×  3×  1×	Report	4×  5×

18 January 2011 18:15	South Korea	20–25	Poland	Scandinavium, Gothenburg Attendance: 6,001 Referees: Geipel, Helbig (GER)
	Yu Dong Geun 5	(11–10)	Tkaczyk, Jurecki 5
	2×  3×	Report	3×  3×  1×

18 January 2011 20:15	Sweden	22–27	Argentina	Scandinavium, Gothenburg Attendance: 9,044 Referees: López, Ramírez (ESP)
	Larholm 5	(10–12)	Pizarro 6
	3×  2×	Report	4×  4×

20 January 2011 16:15	South Korea	31–26	Slovakia	Scandinavium, Gothenburg Attendance: 2,922 Referees: López, Ramírez (ESP)
	Jeong Yi Kyeong, Lee Jae Woo 8	(14–10)	Antl 9
	2×  4×  1×	Report	3×  6×  1×

20 January 2011 18:15	Argentina	35–25	Chile	Scandinavium, Gothenburg Attendance: 7,760 Referees: Mezian, Si Bachir (ALG)
	Pizarro 9	(15–13)	Feuchtmann 7
	3×  8×	Report	4×  4×  1×

20 January 2011 20:15	Poland	21–24	Sweden	Scandinavium, Gothenburg Attendance: 11,606 Referees: Geipel, Helbig (GER)
	Lijewski 6	(12–14)	Larholm 5
	2×  4×	Report	3×  5×

The top three teams of every preliminary group advanced to the Main round. Every team kept the points from preliminary round matches against teams who also advanced. In the main round every team had 3 games against the opponents they did not face in the preliminary round. The top two of every group advanced to the Semifinals, the other teams played placement matches.

Group I (Jönköping)

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
France	5	4	1	0	160	129	+31	9
Spain	5	4	1	0	148	127	+21	9
Iceland	5	2	0	3	137	141	−4	4
Hungary	5	2	0	3	127	147	−20	4
Norway	5	1	0	4	133	143	−10	2
Germany	5	1	0	4	124	142	−18	2

All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

22 January 16:15	Spain	32–27	Norway	Kinnarps Arena, Jönköping Attendance: 5,451 Referees: Stark, Ştefan (ROU)
	Romero 7	(15–12)	Myrhol 8
	3×  2×	Report	3×  3×

22 January 18:30	Germany	27–24	Iceland	Kinnarps Arena, Jönköping Attendance: 5,670 Referees: Nikolić, Stojković (SRB)
	Preiß, Sprenger 5	(15–13)	Petersson 7
	3×  3×	Report	3×  2×

22 January 20:45	France	37–24	Hungary	Kinnarps Arena, Jönköping Attendance: 2,393 Referees: Krstič, Ljubič (SLO)
	Karabatić 7	(18–13)	Mocsai 7
	3×  2×	Report	3×  4×  1×

24 January 16:00	Iceland	24–32	Spain	Kinnarps Arena, Jönköping Attendance: 3,922 Referees: Krstič, Ljubič (SLO)
	Petersson 5	(10–20)	Gurbindo, Entrerrios 6
	3×  7×	Report	3×  4×  1×

24 January 18:15	Hungary	27–25	Germany	Kinnarps Arena, Jönköping Attendance: 3,963 Referees: Olesen, Pedersen (DEN)
	G Iváncsik, T Iváncsik, Perez 5	(10–12)	Glandorf 5
	3×  5×	Report	3×  4×

24 January 20:30	Norway	26–31	France	Kinnarps Arena, Jönköping Attendance: 3,847 Referees: Menezes, Pinto (BRA)
	Hansen 8	(14–17)	Gille, Accambray, Abalo 5
	3×  5×	Report	2×  1×

25 January 16:15	Germany	25–35	Norway	Kinnarps Arena, Jönköping Attendance: 4,205 Referees: Stark, Ştefan (ROU)
	Kraus 6	(13–17)	Tvedten 8
	3×  5×	Report	3×  6×

25 January 18:30	Spain	30–24	Hungary	Kinnarps Arena, Jönköping Attendance: 4,236 Referees: Canbro, Claesson (SWE)
	Romero 9	(13–13)	Zubai 5
	3×  2×	Report	3×  5×

25 January 20:45	France	34–28	Iceland	Kinnarps Arena, Jönköping Attendance: 4,258 Referees: Načevski, Nikolov (MKD)
	Karabatić 7	(16–13)	Petersson 6
	3×  3×	Report	4×  5×  1×

Group II (Malmö/Lund)

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Denmark	5	5	0	0	155	131	+24	10
Sweden	5	3	0	2	127	124	+3	6
Croatia	5	2	1	2	142	129	+13	5
Poland	5	2	0	3	123	129	−6	4
Serbia	5	1	1	3	127	139	−12	3
Argentina	5	1	0	4	117	139	−22	2

All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

22 January 18:15	Croatia	36–18	Argentina	Färs och Frosta Sparbank Arena, Lund Attendance: 1,050 Referees: Baďura, Ondogrecula (SVK)
	Zrnić, Buntić 7	(19–6)	Simonet 5
	3×  6×	Report	2×  1×

22 January 18:15	Serbia	24–28	Sweden	Malmö Arena, Malmö Attendance: 9,213 Referees: Abrahamsen, Kristiansen (NOR)
	Vujin 8	(13–12)	Ekberg, Ekdahl Du Rietz 6
	3×  5×  1×	Report	3×  4×

22 January 20:15	Denmark	28–27	Poland	Malmö Arena, Malmö Attendance: 11,140 Referees: Horáček, Novotný (CZE)
	Lindberg 6	(15–9)	Tluczynski, Jurkiewicz 6
	3×  2×	Report	3×  1×

23 January 18:15	Sweden	29–25	Croatia	Malmö Arena, Malmö Attendance: 9,551 Referees: López, Ramírez (ESP)
	Doder 8	(14–12)	Zrnić 9
	3×  7×	Report	3×  4×

23 January 20:15	Argentina	24–31	Denmark	Malmö Arena, Malmö Attendance: 10,924 Referees: Coulibaly, Diabaté (CIV)
	Ferro, Vidal, Carou 3	(12–17)	Hansen 7
	2×  6×  1×	Report	3×  5×  1×

23 January 20:15	Poland	27–26	Serbia	Färs och Frosta Sparbank Arena, Lund Attendance: 1,730 Referees: Lazaar, Reveret (FRA)
	Tłuczyński 10	(10–11)	Vujin 11
	3×  5×	Report	3×  8×

25 January 18:15	Croatia	28–24	Poland	Malmö Arena, Malmö Attendance: 8,900 Referees: Baďura, Ondogrecula (SVK)
	Buntić 7	(13–11)	Jaszka, Tłuczyński 4
	2×  8×	Report	3×  3×

25 January 20:15	Serbia	26–25	Argentina	Färs och Frosta Sparbank Arena, Lund Attendance: 1,030 Referees: Geipel, Helbig (GER)
	Vujin, Ilić 6	(15–13)	Fernández, Kogovsek 5
	3×  5×  1×	Report	3×  1×

25 January 20:15	Denmark	27–24	Sweden	Malmö Arena, Malmö Attendance: 11,587 Referees: Abrahamsen, Kristiansen (NOR)
	Christiansen 6	(17–11)	Du Rietz 5
	3×  4×	Report	3×  3×

Preliminary round

22 January 14:00	Egypt	34–28	Japan	Arena Skövde, Skövde Attendance: 1,634 Referees: Menezes, Pinto (BRA)
	Mabrouk 8	(17–14)	Suematsu 7
	4×  4×	Report	3×  4×

22 January 14:00	Tunisia	25–26	Austria	Kristianstad Arena, Kristianstad Referees: Marina, Minore (ARG)
	Alouini 6	(14–12)	Weber 6
	3×  1×	Report	4×  6×

22 January 16:00	Australia	21–29	Chile	Malmö Arena, Malmö Attendance: 1,766 Referees: Lazaar, Reveret (FRA)
	Parmenter 6	(6–17)	Muñoz, Chavez 5
	3×  7×	Report	3×  8×

22 January 16:30	Algeria	24–29 (ET)	South Korea	Arena Skövde, Skövde Attendance: 1,711 Referees: Karbaschi, Kolahdouzan (IRN)
	Labane, Hamad, Layadi, Daoud 4	(12–17)	Yu Dong Geun 8
	3×  1×	Report	3×  3×
	FT: 23–23 ET: 1–6

22 January 16:30	Romania	33–38	Slovakia	Kristianstad Arena, Kristianstad Attendance: 2,490 Referees: Coulibaly, Diabaté (CIV)
	Ghionea, Stamate 8	(19–22)	Kukučka 7
	3×  4×	Report	3×  4×

22 January 20:30	Bahrain	30–37	Brazil	FFS Arena, Lund Attendance: 550 Referees: López, Ramírez (ESP)
	Almaqabi 6	(15–17)	Chiuffa 6
	3×  5×	Report	3×  3×

23rd-place match

23 January 16:00	Australia	23–33	Bahrain	Malmö Arena, Malmö Attendance: 724 Referees: Geipel, Helbig (GER)
	Blondell 6	(11–19)	Merza 7
	2×  3×	Report	2×

21st-place match

23 January 18:00	Chile	18–28	Brazil	FFS Arena, Lund Attendance: 650 Referees: Baďura, Ondogrecula (SVK)
	Feuchtmann 7	(11–13)	Ribeiro 6
	4×  2×	Report	3×  3×  1×

19th-place match

23 January 14:00	Tunisia	29–30	Romania	Kristianstad Arena, Kristianstad Attendance: 900 Referees: Abrahamsen, Kristiansen (NOR)
	Hedoui 9	(14–17)	Florea, Stamate 8
	4×  4×	Report	3×  3×

17th-place match

23 January 16:30	Austria	35–39	Slovakia	Kristianstad Arena, Kristianstad Attendance: 1,546 Referees: Al-Marzouqi, Al-Nuaimi (UAE)
	Szilágyi 7	(18–19)	Kopčo 8
	3×  3×	Report	3×  1×

15th-place match

24 January 18:00	Japan	24–29	Algeria	Arena Skövde, Skövde Attendance: 1,510 Referees: Načevski, Nikolov (MKD)
	Kaido 6	(13–13)	Zouaoui 8
	3×  1×	Report	2×  3×

13th-place match

24 January 20:30	Egypt	23–26	South Korea	Arena Skövde, Skövde Attendance: 1,525 Referees: Canbro, Claesson (SWE)
	Abdelwares 6	(11–12)	Park Jung Geu 7
	3×  5×  1×	Report	3×  4×

11th-place match

27 January 18:00	Germany	40–35 (ET)	Argentina	Kristianstad Arena, Kristianstad Referees: Canbro, Claesson (SWE)
	Glandorf, Gensheimer 9	(13–12)	Simonet 7
	4×  13×  2×	Report	4×  8×  1×
	FT: 27–27 ET: 4–4, 9–4

9th-place match

27 January 20:30	Norway	32–31 (ET)	Serbia	Kristianstad Arena, Kristianstad Attendance: 2,141 Referees: Al-Marzouqi, Al-Nuaimi (UAE)
	Tvedten 9	(14–16)	Ilić 7
	3×  1×	Report	3×  4×
	FT: 29–29 ET: 3–2

7th-place match

28 January 18:00	Hungary	31–28	Poland	Kristianstad Arena, Kristianstad Referees: Lazaar, Reveret (FRA)
	Iváncsik 11	(16–14)	Jurecki 6
	3×  7×	Report	3×  3×

5th-place match

28 January 20:30	Iceland	33–34	Croatia	Malmö Arena, Malmö Attendance: 7,436 Referees: Stark, Ştefan (ROU)
	Sigurðsson 10	(16–14)	Buntić 9
	3×  4×	Report	3×  4×

	Semi-finals				Final
	28 January – 18:00 (Malmö)
	France	29
					30 January – 17:00 (Malmö)
	Sweden	26
					France	37
	28 January – 20:30 (Kristianstad)
					Denmark	35
	Denmark	28
	Spain	24
					Bronze Match
					30 January – 14:30 (Malmö)
					Sweden	23
					Spain	24

Semifinals

28 January 18:00	France	29–26	Sweden	Malmö Arena, Malmö Attendance: 11,477 Referees: Geipel, Helbig (GER)
	B. Gille, Guigou 8	(15–12)	Källman 6
	3×  4×	Report	4×  4×

28 January 20:30	Denmark	28–24	Spain	Kristianstad Arena, Kristianstad Attendance: 4,234 Referees: Horáček, Novotný (CZE)
	Hansen 9	(12–12)	Cañellas 6
	3×  2×	Report	3×  3×

Bronze match

30 January 14:30	Sweden	23–24	Spain	Malmö Arena, Malmö Attendance: 12,145 Referees: Krstič, Ljubič (SLO)
	Källman 6	(11–11)	Aguinagalde, Gurbindo, Romero 4
	4×  5×	Report	2×  4×

Final

30 January 17:00	France	37–35 (ET)	Denmark	Malmö Arena, Malmö Attendance: 12,462 Referees: López, Ramírez (ESP)
	N. Karabatić 10	(15–12)	Hansen 10
	4×  4×	Report	4×  5×
	FT: 31–31 ET: 6–4

The final was played at a sold-out Malmö Arena in Malmö between France and Denmark, and was followed by 12,462 spectators. In addition, the match was aired on both major Danish public television channels DR1 and TV 2 with 2,670,000 viewers, making it the most watched sport event in Denmark ever.

First half

The French team started the match with a 2–0 lead, and maintained a lead until the 17th minute, where Denmark started a 3–0 run and equalised at 9–9 with a penalty shot by Anders Eggert. On the next attack, Mikkel Hansen received the Danes' first two-minute suspension, allowing France to open another three-goal lead. The half time score was 15–12 in favor of France.

Second half

The second half started with France maintaining a lead of at least two goals in the first 15 minutes. But a couple of saves in a row by the well-tempered Niklas Landin Jacobsen, meant that Mikkel Hansen could equalise to 24–24 with 11 minutes to play. Still, France took the lead once again, but with five minutes remaining and the French lead at 29–27, Jérôme Fernandez was penalized with a 2-minute suspension. Denmark took advantage, scoring two goals and making it 29–29 with 3:30 remaining. In the last minute, the French found themselves one goal ahead, 31–30. The Danish coach Ulrik Wilbek used a team timeout with 25 seconds to go to prepare the team for the last attack. Three seconds were left, when the Dane Bo Spellerberg scored from left back a positional shot in the bottom of the goal for 31–31, deferring the match to overtime.

Overtime

In the 64th minute, the Danes recorded their first lead in the match when scoring 33–32, but within the next minute the French scored two goals overturning the result. The first half of the overtime ended with a French lead of 34–33.

The second half of overtime began with veteran Lars Christiansen scoring a penalty and evening the score at 34–34. The French took the lead from there, though, and secured the win at 36–34 when Thierry Omeyer saved a Mikkel Hansen 9m shot with just over one minute to go. Michael Guigou scored the last goal of the game with one second to go to the final score 37–35. The match ended 37–35 in favor of France. Nikola Karabatić and Mikkel Hansen, both scored 10 goals in the final, with Karabatić chosen the MVP of the championship, and Hansen the best goalscorer.

Final ranking

 

	France
	Denmark
	Spain
4	Sweden
5	Croatia
6	Iceland
7	Hungary
8	Poland
9	Norway
10	Serbia
11	Germany
12	Argentina
13	South Korea
14	Egypt
15	Algeria
16	Japan
17	Slovakia
18	Austria
19	Romania
20	Tunisia
21	Brazil
22	Chile
23	Bahrain
24	Australia

Top goalkeepers Rank Name Team % Saves Shots 1 Daouda Karaboué   France 47.5% 56 118 2 Johan Sjöstrand   Sweden 41.5% 108 260 3 Johannes Bitter   Germany 41.0% 96 234 4 Ole Erevik   Norway 40.4% 69 171 5 Niklas Landin Jacobsen   Denmark 39.5% 121 306 6 Lee Chang-Woo   South Korea 39.1% 45 115 7 Park Chan-Young   South Korea 38.4% 58 151 8 Nándor Fazekas   Hungary 38.2% 92 241 9 Abdelmalek Slahdji   Algeria 37.7% 81 215 10 Thierry Omeyer   France 37.5% 110 293 Minimum 20% of total shots received by team. Source: Hego official statistics Top goalscorers Rank Name Team Goals Shots % 1 Mikkel Hansen   Denmark 68 121 56% 2 Håvard Tvedten   Norway 56 86 64% Marko Vujin   Serbia 114 49% 4 Vedran Zrnić   Croatia 54 71 76% Bjarte Myrhol   Norway 6 Alexander Petersson   Iceland 53 88 60% 7 Nikola Karabatić   France 51 80 64% 8 Tomasz Tłuczyński   Poland 47 60 78% Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson   Iceland 69 68% 10 Niclas Ekberg   Sweden 43 67 64% Source: Hego official statistics

2011 Men's World Champions   France Fourth title Team roster Jérôme Fernandez, Didier Dinart, Xavier Barachet, Bertrand Gille, Guillaume Joli, Samuel Honrubia, Daouda Karaboué, Nikola Karabatić, Franck Junillon, Thierry Omeyer, William Accambray, Luc Abalo, Cédric Sorhaindo, Michaël Guigou, Bertrand Roine, Sébastien Bosquet, and Arnaud Bingo. Head coach: Claude Onesta. All Star Team Goalkeeper:   Thierry Omeyer (FRA) Left wing:   Håvard Tvedten (NOR) Left back:   Mikkel Hansen (DEN) Pivot:   Bertrand Gille (FRA) Centre back:   Dalibor Doder (SWE) Right back:   Alexander Petersson (ISL) Right wing:   Vedran Zrnic (CRO) Chosen by team officials and IHF experts: IHF.info Other awards Most Valuable Player:   Nikola Karabatić (FRA)

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