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 Handball
| How many players from each team are allowed to be on the field? | Handball
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7. The game was introduced at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, as the 11-player outdoor game. When it was reintroduced at the 1972 Olympics, it was 7-player indoor game.
20x40 m. It features 2x3m goals at each end. Each goal is surrounded by 6m goal area(26m radius arcs).
t. There is no shot clock, but if the referees think the player hasn't been trying to score, then team will lose the ball, whether after 30 seconds or 3 minutes.
| Penalties are thrown from what distance? | Handball
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7 m. For example, if a defender fouls you while you are making a fairly certain shot at goal, then you get a 7m throw.
| Which Ukrainian (Soviet) player, was elected by Internacional Handball Federation as a female player of the century, and won the 1976 and 1980 Olympic gold medal? | Handball
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Sinaida Turtschina. Turtschina was 1982 and 1986 world champion in 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1981, 1983, 1985, and 1986 European Cup winner with Spartak Kiew. Kretzschmar was world champion 1971, 1975, and 1978. She won two Olympics medals with Germany and she was European Cup winner with SC Leipzig(1974).
| Sung-Ok Oh played for which Asian country? | Handball
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South Korea. Korea was 1988 and 1992 Olympic champion (women). 1995 they won WC.
f. The surface of the playing court must consist of a layer of sand that is at least 40 cm deep. The playing area is 15m long and 12m wide. The game consists of two halves, each half lasts 10 minutes. Team consists of up to 8 players, a maximum of 4 players per team may be on the playing court.
| Which team won the European Champion Cups from 1996-2000? | Handball
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Barcelona. Barcelona defeated Zagreb in final 1997, 1998, and 1999. Zagreb won Champions Cup 1992 and 1993.
| Which team won Men's European championship 1994, 1998, and 2000? | Handball
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Sweden. Russia won EC 1998. Spain won silver medals 1996 and 1998.
| Germany is cradle of the Handball? | Handball
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t. The founding fathers of field Handball were German physical education experts, who gained recognition for field Handball as a separate sport at the turn of the century, based on the games of Raffbal(snatch ball) and Koningsbergball. In 1917, a German called Max Haiser and drew up the first set of rules for field Handball. In 1919, Berlin sports teacher Karl Schelenz launched this form of Handball, played on full-size outdoor pitch. Later on he improved the rules. In 1938 the first field Handball WC was also played in Germany.
Architect of African Handball. Babacar Fall, a former vice president of the IHF(International Handball Federation), president of African Handball Confederation, and president of Senegal Handball Association died 1993. For nearly 30 years he was active in Handball, and his work gained recognition when three major events were awarded to Africa: the 1986 Congress in Senegal, the 1989 Junior WC in Nigeria, and 1993 Junior WC in Egypt
Magnus Wislander. Magnus Wislander is one of the best known players of all time. He returned to Sweden to end his career in Redberslid IK.
Stefan Lövgren. Stefan was chosen to All Star Team in the European Championship 2000, together with Swedens' Magnus Wislander, and goalkeeper Peter Gentzel.
Johan Pettersson. Johan lost a couple of teeth when he bumped with the goalkeeper, and almost swallowed his tongue.
| Which player, with long hair, left Kiel to come home to Sweden and end his career in Hammarby, Stockholm? | Swedish Handball Players
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Staffan Olsson. Staffan is famous for his long hair and also for his hard work during the games.
Tomas Svensson & Peter Gentzel. Tomas and Peter are very good friends and hang out in their free time too. They help each other all the time. Players all over the world respects these two players.
16. Eight of the teams are qualified directly, while the other eight go to the qualification process.
Hypo Niederosterreich. Hypo Niederosterreich from Austria won the tournament after they beat Kometal GP Skopje from Macedonia. In the first game in Vienna, Hypo won 32-23, while Kometal won the second match in Skopje with 22-20, which was enough for Hypo to be the champions.
Hypo Niederosterreich. They defeated Vasas from Budapest with a total result of 45:39.
Viborg HK. In a very interesting season, full of surprises Viborg HK from Denmark victoriously passed over Krim Ljubljana from Slovenia. The first game in Ljubljana ended with a victory for the guests from Denmark with a result of 22-24. In the return game in Viborg, Viborg lost with 20-21, but still enough to reach the trophy.
Austria. Hypo also won in the season 1994/95, where they defeated Podravka Koprivnica from Croatia with a total result of 40:36.
Anja Andersen. One of the best players of the world was the Danish player Anja Andersen. She was succesful even as a manager, where she made Slagelse twice a Champions League holder. In the season 2004/05, they lost only one game and that was from Kometal GP Skopje with a result of 20:12, one of the heaviest defeats for Slagelse.
Kometal Gjorce Petrov Skopje. Kometal Gjorce Petrov was the surprise of the year by being champions of the season. They started the journey from the very first round defeating Spono Nottwil from Switzerland.
Slovenia. Krim Ljubljana is coming from Slovenia and right from its capital, Ljubljana. This team has won the championship twice. Once in the season 2000/01 and again in the season 2002/03.
Dunaferr. This team won the title in the season 1998/99, where they defeated Krim Ljubljana from Slovenia. Both teams were playing under pressure in the two games, since the first result in Hungary was 25:23 for Dunaferr. The return game in Ljubljana ended 26:26.
| Who was captain of the Norwegian national handball team for women in the 2007 Championship? | Handball 2007: Norway
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Gro Hammerseng. Gro Hammerseng is arguably the best player of the team. This national mach was her 133rd played for Norway. Her club was Ikast.
Marit Breivik. Norway's highly merited coach has managed the national team since 1994, and in that period, the team has achieved 11 championship medals.
| Only two specialists of pivot play were in among the players picked for the 2007 tournament. What are their names? | Handball 2007: Norway
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Marit Malm Frafjord & Else-Marthe Sørlie Lybekk. After Isabel Blanco was injured, Marit Malm Frafjord from Byåsen and Else-Marthe Sørlie Lybekk from Leipzig were the obvious choices in this position.
Byåsen. Five players from Byåsen were found worthy a place in the tournament; Marit Malm Frafjord, Gøril Snorroeggen, Vigdis Hårsaker, Kari Aalvik Grimsbø and Tonje Nøstvold.
| The coach chose to include only one specialist on the left wing in the troop. What was her name? | Handball 2007: Norway
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Kari Mette Johansen. Kari Mette Johansen played for Larvik, the leading club team in Norway. In early 2007, she was elected the third best female handballer in the world, after her fantastic match against Russia in the final of the 2006 European championship.
Gro Hammerseng. The captain was also the one who scored the most points, as she did in the Euro 2006.
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