1979 Men's Junior World Handball Championship

1979 Men's Junior World Handball Championship

Tournament details
Host countries	Denmark  Sweden
Dates	23 October – 2 November
Teams	24 (from 3 confederations)
Final positions
Champions	Soviet Union (2nd title)
Runner-up	Yugoslavia
Third place	Sweden
Fourth place	Denmark
Tournament statistics
Matches	88
Goals scored	3,766 (43 per match)
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The 1979 Men's Junior World Handball Championship was the second edition of the IHF Men's Junior World Championship, held in Denmark and Sweden from 23 October to 2 November 1979.

Preliminary round[]

Group A[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Yugoslavia	5	5	0	0	141	71	+70	10	1st–8th place classification
2	East Germany	5	4	0	1	144	86	+58	8
3		5	3	0	2	132	101	+31	6	9–16th place classification
4	Norway	5	2	0	3	111	110	+1	4
5		5	1	0	4	102	109	−7	2	17th–23rd place classification
6		5	0	0	5	77	230	−153	0

23 October 1979	Yugoslavia	25–13	Norway

23 October 1979		50–18

1979	East Germany	25–16

1979	East Germany	52–13

1979		20–17	Norway

1979	Yugoslavia	26–11

1979	Norway	20–16

1979	East Germany	21–20

1979	Yugoslavia	44–14

1979		24–20

1979	Norway	45–18

1979	Yugoslavia	21–15	East Germany

1979		39–14

1979	East Germany	31–16	Norway

1979	Yugoslavia	25–18

Group B[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Denmark (H)	5	5	0	0	135	69	+66	10	1st–8th place classification
2	Hungary	5	4	0	1	134	93	+41	8
3	France	5	3	0	2	120	101	+19	6	9–16th place classification
4		5	2	0	3	107	117	−10	4
5	Japan	5	1	0	4	95	146	−51	2	17th–23rd place classification
6		5	0	0	5	79	144	−65	0

1979	Hungary	27–22	Japan

23 October 1979	Denmark	20–13

23 October 1979	France	23–11

1979	Hungary	37–15

1979	Denmark	37–13	Japan

1979	France	32–16

1979	Hungary	23–17

1979	Denmark	29–21	France

1979	Japan	22–19

1979	Hungary	26–20	France

1979		30–11

1979		29–19	Japan

1979	Denmark	19–11	Hungary

1979	France	24–19	Japan

1979		32–23

Group C[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Soviet Union	5	5	0	0	145	77	+68	10	1st–8th place classification
2	Iceland	5	4	0	1	121	88	+33	8
3		5	3	0	2	102	71	+31	6	9–16th place classification
4		5	2	0	3	73	103	−30	4
5	Portugal	5	1	0	4	76	123	−47	2	17th–23rd place classification
6		5	0	0	5	62	117	−55	0

23 October 1979		25–8

1979	Iceland	25–19	Portugal

1979	Soviet Union	29–13

1979		20–9

1979	Portugal	17–16

1979	Soviet Union	25–20	Iceland

1979		25–10	Portugal

1979	Iceland	25–17

1979	Soviet Union	23–9

1979	Iceland	16–14

1979		17–16

1979	Soviet Union	40–17	Portugal

1979	Iceland	35–13

1979		17–13	Portugal

1979	Soviet Union	28–18

Group D[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sweden (H)	4	4	0	0	96	66	+30	8	1st–8th place classification
2	Czechoslovakia	4	3	0	1	104	63	+41	6
3		4	2	0	2	66	76	−10	4	9–16th place classification
4		4	1	0	3	75	101	−26	2
5		4	0	0	4	54	89	−35	0	17th–23rd place classification
6		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrawn

23 October 1979	Czechoslovakia	32–16

23 October 1979		21–10
		(10–4)

1979	Czechoslovakia	22–13

1979	Sweden	29–19

1979		24–19

1979	Sweden	21–14

1979	Czechoslovakia	29–10

1979	Sweden	22–12

1979	Sweden	24–21	Czechoslovakia

1979		21–16

Main round[]

All points and goals against the team from the same preliminary round were carried over.

17th–23rd place classification[]

Group V[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1		2	1	1	0	54	29	+25	3	17th place game
2		2	1	1	0	51	34	+17	3	19th place game
3		2	0	0	2	33	75	−42	0	21st place game

1979		36–19

1979		15–15

Group VI[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Portugal	3	3	0	0	66	58	+8	6	17th place game
2	Japan	3	2	0	1	65	64	+1	4	19th place game
3		3	1	0	2	56	56	0	2	21st place game
4		3	0	0	3	57	66	−9	0

1979	Portugal	22–20

1979		22–18

1979	Portugal	27–22	Japan

1979	Japan	21–18

9–16th place classification[]

Group III[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1		3	2	1	0	66	59	+7	5	Ninth place game
2		3	1	1	1	58	66	−8	3	Eleventh place game
3	Norway	3	1	0	2	65	56	+9	2	13th place game
4		3	1	0	2	57	65	−8	2	15th place game

1979		25–21

1979	Norway	29–16

1979		20–19	Norway

1979		21–21

Group IV[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	France	3	3	0	0	78	54	+24	6	Ninth place game
2		3	2	0	1	71	49	+22	4	Eleventh place game
3		3	0	1	2	44	61	−17	1	13th place game
4		3	0	1	2	51	80	−29	1	15th place game

1979	France	22–16

1979		29–16

1979		19–19

1979	France	24–22

1st–8th place classification[]

Group I[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Yugoslavia	3	3	0	0	61	47	+14	6	Final
2	Sweden (H)	3	2	0	1	59	61	−2	4	Third place game
3	Czechoslovakia	3	0	1	2	58	63	−5	1	Fifth place game
4	East Germany	3	0	1	2	54	61	−7	1	Seventh place game

1979	Yugoslavia	17–15	Czechoslovakia

1979	Sweden	18–17	East Germany

1979	Yugoslavia	23–17	Sweden

1979	Czechoslovakia	22–22	East Germany

Group II[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Soviet Union	3	3	0	0	78	58	+20	6	Final
2	Denmark (H)	3	2	0	1	62	57	+5	4	Third place game
3	Hungary	3	1	0	2	45	59	−14	2	Fifth place game
4	Iceland	3	0	0	3	53	64	−11	0	Seventh place game

1979	Denmark	22–19	Iceland

1979	Soviet Union	26–17	Hungary

1979	Soviet Union	27–21	Denmark

1979	Hungary	17–14	Iceland

Placement games[]

21st place game[]

1979		23–22

19th place game[]

1979	Japan	20–19

17th place game[]

1979		26–20	Portugal

15th place game[]

1979		30–27

173th place game[]

1979	Norway	22–20

Eleventh place game[]

1979		20–18

Ninth place game[]

1979	France	27–23

Seventh place game[]

1979	Iceland	27–24	East Germany

Fifth place game[]

1979	Czechoslovakia	20–19	Hungary

Third place game[]

1979	Sweden	25–20	Denmark

Final[]

1979	Soviet Union	30–25	Yugoslavia

Final ranking[]

Rank	Team
	Soviet Union
	Yugoslavia
	Sweden
4	Denmark
5	Czechoslovakia
6	Hungary
7	Iceland
8	East Germany
9	France
10
11
12
13	Norway
14
15
16
17
18	Portugal
19	Japan
20
21
22
23
WD

External links[]

• IHF report
• Results on todor66.com