The handball is a team sport where two teams of seven players are in confrontation with a ball on a rectangular ground of dimensions 40m by 20m,separated in twocamps.The first tracks of similar games in the handball go back up in medieval France as well as at the Inuits of Greenland at the same time.The modern game takes his sources in the XIXth century,in Denmark,under the name of <<håndbold>> or still in Czechoslovakia under the name of <<hazena>>.In the 1900,an Irishman of Casey's name introducted a game similar to the handball in the United States.He causes such a craze as a competition would have been even born in 1919 in Los Angeles.However,the handball is considered as a sport of Danish conception.The Dane Holger Nielsen created the rules of the modern handball <<håndbold>> in 1898.In 1919,the German professor Carl Schellenz,of the physical educational Germanic teachers'training college of Leipzig,proposes an adaptation of the Torball (sort of ''swing in the purpose''practised by the German women).He created then the hanball in eleven.
The men's team national of French have got been the world's champions in : 1995,2001,2009,2011.
the men's team national of French have got been the Europe's champions in :2006,2010,2014.
The men's team national of French have got been the JO's champions in :2012 in London,2008 in Pékin.
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