Handhold From Denmark, Hazena in Bohemia and Slovakia, Gandbol in Ukraine, Torball in Germany, As Well As Versions in Ireland and Uruguay
Handhold From Denmark, Hazena in Bohemia and Slovakia, Gandbol in Ukraine, Torball in Germany, As Well As Versions in Ireland and Uruguay
Handhold From Denmark, Hazena in Bohemia and Slovakia, Gandbol in Ukraine, Torball in Germany, As Well As Versions in Ireland and Uruguay
professionally in many European countries. In Asia, including India this game has
become significant among other popular games. Today Handball is played in 183
countries. There are 31 million players, trainers and referees worldwide. Handball is
also known as team handball, field handball, European handball, or Olympic handball.
It 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.
The game has a goal similar to but smaller than the one in football (soccer)
though as the name implies, the basic method of handling the ball involves the
players' hands rather than their feet. The game has been played internationally since
the 1920. Dimensions of a field of handball played with 11 players at 1936 Summer
Olympics compared to a football field there are also records of handball-like games in
medieval France, and among the Inuit in Greenland, in the middle Ages, and in
Ancient Africa, primarily Egypt. By the 19th century, there existed similar games of
The team handball game as we know it today was formed by the end of the 19th
published them in 1906) and R.N. Ernst did something similar in 1897
Another set of team handball rules was published on 29 October 1917 by Max
Heiser, Karl Schelenz and Erich Konigh from Germany. After 1919 these rules were
The first international games were played under these rules, between Germany
and Belgium for men in 1925 and between Germany and Austria for women in 1930.
committee to draw up international rules for field handball. The International Amateur
Handball Federation was formed in 1928. The International Handball Federation was
formed later in 1946 (IHF) Men's field handball was played at the 1936 Summer
Olympics in Berlin at the special request of Adolf Hitler It was removed from the list
of sports, to return as team handball in 1972 for the 1972 Summer Olympics in
Munich. Women's team handball was added as an Olympic discipline at the 1976
Summer Olympics.
Championships in 1938 and every four (or sometimes three years) from World War II
to 1995. Since the 1995 World Championship in Iceland, the competition has been
held every two years. The Women's World Championships have been played since
1957. The IHF also organizes Women's and Men's Junior World Championships.
In early seventies, Handball started in India and field version (11 a side) was
played in its infant days in India. Soon it spread all over the country but states like
Punjab, Hariyana, Jammu-Kashmir, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra have edge over
other states as far as standard and popularity of handball in India is concerned. The
place of this game in Asiad was given in 1982, which was held in India at Delhi. This
game was included at All India Inter-University in 1979-80 and first All India Inter-
university was held at Nagpur and Nagpur University won the gold medal, silver
medallist was Punjab, bronze medal was won by Osmania and Kurukshetra University
got fourth place in men section. Nagpur, Ludhiana, and Bombay were remained I st ,
The purpose of the study will be “A Study of Skill Test & Actual Match
DELIMITATION
1. The study is confined for the male junior level Handball players, aged
factors such as diet, nutrition etc, may be different and will not be
controlled.
Since the test items were many, the researcher was not able to take all the
measurements alone. He therefore took help from some qualified assistants, the
Psychological variables and the related factors of the players, which might have