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- ↑ "Junior Women Handball World Championships Archive". todor66.com. Archived from the original on 2016-11-16. Retrieved 2018-05-03.
- ↑ "WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS / JUNIOR" (PDF). ihf.info. Retrieved 2018-05-04.