Current season, competition or edition: 2024 Men's Beach Handball World Championships 2024 Women's Beach Handball World Championships | |
| Sport | Beach Handball |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2004 |
| Founder | International Handball Federation |
| First season | 2004 |
| No. of teams | 16 |
| Continents | 5 |
| Most recent champion(s) |  Croatia (men) Germany (women) |
| Most titles |  Brazil (men; 5 titles) Brazil (women; 3 titles) |
The IHF Beach Handball World Championships is an international beach handball competition contested by the men's and women's national teams of the member federations/associations of International Handball Federation (IHF), the sport's global governing body.
Contents
- Men's tournament
- Summary
- Medal table
- Participating nations
- Women's tournament
- Summary 2
- Medal table 2
- Participating nations 2
- Overall medal count
- See also
- References
The tournament was established in 2004, taking place every two years to allow continental tournaments to flourish without the burden of the World Championship qualifiers crowding the schedule every 12 months. The current tournament format lasts over approximately 6 days and involves 16 teams initially competing in four groups of four teams. The group winners and runners-up advance to a series of knock-out stages until the champion is crowned. The losing semi-finalists play each other in a play-off match to determine the third and fourth-placed teams.
Brazil is the most successful national team in the competition, having claimed 5 men's and 3 women's world titles. [1] The most recent edition took place in 2024 in China where the Croatian men's national team in the final defeated Denmark, while in the women's competition, Germany defeated Argentina in the final, both teams defending the title from Greece in 2022.
