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Group A (France, Germany, Great Britain and the Netherlands) played a round robin in Nancy, France, while Group B (Czech Republic, Greece, Spain and Ukraine) competed in Madrid, Spain. Both events were held from April 7 to April 9, 2006.
Nancy is the capital of the north-eastern French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle, and formerly the capital of the Duchy of Lorraine, and then the French province of the same name. The metropolitan area of Nancy had a population of 434,565 inhabitants at the 2011 census, making it the 20th largest urban area in France. The population of the city of Nancy proper was 104,321 in 2014.
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Team | Points | G | W | D | L | GF | GA | Diff | |
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1. | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 7 | +40 | |
2. | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 41 | 21 | +20 | |
3. | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 40 | –25 | |
4. | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 49 | –35 |
Netherlands | 10 – 6 | |
France | 10 – 7 |
Netherlands | 20 – 0 | |
Germany | 16 – 4 |
Germany | 19 – 7 | |
Netherlands | 17 – 1 |
Team | Points | G | W | D | L | GF | GA | Diff | |
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1. | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 58 | 17 | +41 | |
2. | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 60 | 25 | +35 | |
3. | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 26 | 66 | –40 | |
4. | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 16 | 52 | –36 |
Greece | 19 – 2 | |
Spain | 30 – 8 |
Czech Republic | 11 – 9 | |
Greece | 12 – 8 |
Greece | 27 – 7 | |
Spain | 22 – 5 |
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