| Sport | Field handball |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1949 |
| Founder | International Handball Federation (IHF) |
| First season | 1949 |
| No. of teams | 6 |
| Continent | International (IHF) |
| Most recent champion(s) |  Romania (2nd title) |
| Most titles |  Romania (2 titles) |
IHF World Women's Field Handball Championship was the world championship of field handball and was organized by the International Handball Federation in the period 1949-1960.
| Year | Host Country | Gold medal game | Bronze medal game | ||||||
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| Gold | Score | Silver | Bronze | Score | Fourth place | ||||
| 1949 [1] Details |  Hungary |  Hungary | Round-robin |  Austria |  Czechoslovakia | Round-robin |  France | ||
| 1956 [2] Details |  West Germany |  Romania | 6–5 |  West Germany | Hungary | 8–6 | Austria | ||
| 1960 [3] Details |  Netherlands | Romania | 10–2 | Austria | Germany 1 | 3–1 |  Netherlands | ||
1: Germany sent a united team composed of players from the GDR and the FRG.
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romania | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 |  Hungary | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 |  Austria | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | West Germany | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 |  Czechoslovakia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Germany | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (6 entries) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | |
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Source: IHF official site. [4]
For each tournament, the number of teams in each finals tournament (in brackets) are shown.
| Team | 1949 (4) | 1956 (6) | 1960 (6) | Total | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Austria | 2nd | 4th | 2nd | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Denmark | × | × | 5th | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
 France | 4th | 6th | × | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Germany (including West Germany) | × | 2nd | 3rd | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hungary | 1st | 3rd | × | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Netherlands | × | • | 4th | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Poland | × | • | 6th | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Romania | × | 1st | 1st | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discontinued teams | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Czechoslovakia | 3rd | × | × | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Yugoslavia | × | 5th | × | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Margin | Winning team | Score | Opponent | WC |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | Romania | 10–2 | Austria | 1960 |
| 7 | Austria | 8–1 | France | 1949 |
| 7 | Yugoslavia | 10–3 | France | 1949 |
| 5 | Hungary | 7–2 | Austria | 1949 |
| 5 | Romania | 6–1 | Denmark | 1960 |
| 4 | Romania | 9–4 | Netherlands | 1960 |
| 4 | Hungary | 7–3 | France | 1949 |
| 4 | Romania | 6–2 | Austria | 1960 |
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