Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the goal of the opposing team. A standard match consists of two periods of 30 minutes, and the team that scores more goals wins.
Sittard-Geleen is a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands. It was formed in 2001 from the former municipalities Sittard, Geleen and Born.
Geleen is a city in the southern part of the province of Limburg in the Netherlands. With 31,670 inhabitants in 2020, it is part of the municipality of Sittard-Geleen. Geleen is situated along the river Geleenbeek, a right tributary to the river Meuse. The Latin name for Geleenbeek is Glana, meaning "clear river". The town centre is situated at about 60 m above sea level.
Van de Wetering is a Dutch toponymic surname, meaning "from/of the (drainage) channel". Among spelling variants are Watering, Weetering and Weteringh. Many waters in the Netherlands have the name as well a number of towns, themselves named after a wetering, e.g. Wetering, Nieuwe-Wetering, Nieuwe-Wetering, and Oude Wetering. Forms without the article likely refer to such a settlement. People with these names name include:
Handball at the Summer Olympics refers to two different sports. Field handball was introduced for men at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, but dropped after that. At the 1952 Olympics, field handball was a demonstration sport. (Indoor) handball was introduced for men at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Women's handball competition was introduced at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.
The European Handball Federation (EHF) is the umbrella organisation for European handball. Founded on 17 November 1991, it is made of 50 member federations and two associated federations, and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
The International Handball Federation (IHF) is the administrative and controlling body for handball and beach handball. IHF is responsible for the organisation of handball's major international tournaments, notably the IHF World Men's Handball Championship, which commenced in 1938, and the IHF World Women's Handball Championship, which commenced in 1957.
Ambrosio de Letinez is an early Texan novel believed written by Anthony Ganilh, a Catholic missionary and Frenchman by birth. It was first issued in 1838 as Mexico versus Texas, a Descriptive Novel, most of the Characters of which are Living Persons.(Ambrosio de Letinez, v)
Thomas Berge, pseudonym of Chiel Thomas Ottink is a Dutch singer.
Myrthe Hilkens is a Dutch journalist, non-fiction writer, and politician. As a member of the Labour Party, she was a temporary member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands from April till August 2011, replacing Nebahat Albayrak, who was on maternity leave. As an MP, she dealt with matters of the European Union. On 17 January 2012, she became an MP once again, but she left parliament on 29 August 2013.
København Håndbold is a Danish women's handball club from Copenhagen, Denmark. It was established in the spring of 2013. It took over the league licence from Frederiksberg IF and is playing in the Bambusa Kvindeligaen. The club won the Danish Championship for the first time in the 2017/18 season, after first winning the first leg and later the decisive DM-finals against Odense Håndbold. The year before, the team had also played in their first domestic championship final, surprisingly beating FC Midtjylland Håndbold.
Yasemin Çegerek is a Dutch politician of Turkish descent. She was an MP for the Labour Party between 18 June 2013 and 23 March 2017. She replaced Désirée Bonis, who left the House of Representatives on 13 June 2013. Çegerek was a member of the commissions of foreign affairs, defense, European affairs, Kingdom relations, foreign trade and development aid. Çegerek temporarily went on maternity leave and her designated replacement was Marith Rebel-Volp. However, as House of Representatives member Myrthe Hilkens left the House on 28 August 2013, Rebel-Volp permanently replaced her instead. Henk Leenders was named as the replacement for Çegerek.
The IHF Men's Handball World Championship has been organized indoor by the International Handball Federation since 1938.
Netherlands participated at the 2015 European Games, in Baku, Azerbaijan from 12 to 28 June 2015.
Myrthe Schoot is a Dutch volleyball player, who plays as a libero. She is a member of the Women's National Team and competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Myrthe Moorrees is a Dutch football midfielder.
Myrthe or Myrte is a Dutch feminine given name, after the evergreen mirte (myrtle) plant. Myrtis was already a common ancient Greek name.
Myrthes Gomes de Campos (1875-1965) was the first female lawyer in Brazil. She completed law school in 1898, and in 1906 she was admitted to the Instituto dos Advogados do Brasil and allowed to practice law.
Myrthe Bolt is a Dutch fashion model.
Robin Schoenaker is a Dutch handball player for Belgium club Sporting Pelt and the Dutch national team.
