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Indian Sub junior handball team in action
Indian Sub junior handball team in action during Partille Cup in Sweden.
Thursday
Wednesday
Handball Activities-II
In sequel to my previous article where i mentioned about international activities in Handball game, and i also appealed to Handball lovers to suggest means by which we can get sponsors to field our teams in international arena and have continuous coaching camps for all age groups in men and women section. In the mean time HFI is making all out efforts to field our team with the help of Govt sanctions. Some other tournaments are also taking place like 15th Asian Men's Championship from 26th Jan to 8th Feb 2012 in soudi Arabia, this is also qualification tournaments for Men's World Championship 2013. In women section 11th Asian Women Junior Championship from 14 Sep to 20 sep 2011 is being held in Kazakhistan, this will determine the qualifying teams for Women Junior World Cup Championship-2012....
Tuesday
Handball Activities
Handball is popular in Europe and in some Asian nations like Qatar, Kuwait, China and Korea etc. But South Asian Nations have huge potential, and due to lack of finance and sponsors, the progress is slow. Although lot of activities are planned and taking place but SA Nations are not able to participate in such tournaments. This is right time for all handball lovers to come together and make out plan for more activities and explore feasibility to participate.
Asian Friendly Beach Handball Championship is being conducted at Pattaya from 27 to 29th May 2011. Asian Men and Women Beach Handball Championship from 01 Oct to 10 Oct 2011.These are some of the tournaments which are planned and announced more such championships are coming up but we need to set a program by which we are able...
Saturday
Olympic Qualifier Championship at Jaipur
International Handball Federation has accorded IHF Championship Trophy to Handball Federation of India. This IHF Championship Trophy will also determine the Olympic qualifier team for 2012. HFI will conduct the Championship at pink city Jaipur from 28th Jun to 4th July 2011.The other nations are Australia, Finland, Venezuela etc. This is the first time Indian Handball team will challenge Other Continental Champion teams. HFI is preparing for the event and making all out efforts to make Handball game popular in Ind...
Thursday
FEDERATION CUP-2011 at VARANASI
UP Handball association has planned for Federation Cup from 25th April to 28th April 2011 at Varanasi (UP) for Men and Women. The following teams are expected to participate in Men section
1. Services
2. Delhi
3. Chattisgarh
4. Punjab
5. West Bengal
6. NHA
7. Haryana
8. Madhya Pradesh
In Women Section :
1. Delhi
2. Punjab
3. Railways
4. Maharashtra
5. Chattisgarh
6. Manipur
7. Haryana
8. Keral...
Sunday
Handball history in India
First of all congratulations to Indians for wining Cricket World Cup-2011, it was fantastic teamwork...!
In the history of Handball it is presumed that Game Handball was brought to India arguably by Shri JS Chauhan of Haryana. He conducted two all India seminar on Handball at Rohtak in Haryana before the formation of Fedration in year 1971-72. Amateur Handball Federation of India (AFHI) was formed in 1972 and got provisional affliation with International Handball Federation. The Asian Handball Federation granted it Affliation in 1976. AHFI is affiliated in our country with Govt. of India, the all India council of sports and Indian Olympic Association. The present form of HFI is known to all and organisation information is available on this site. The little knowledge...
Saturday
CONDUCT AND ORGANISING VARIOUS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
1. The General Council of Handball Federation of India allocates the organising of various National championships to affiliated members units.
2. In principle each National championship is an HFI event. All questions relating to the organising have to be dealt with and approved by the HFI. All championships takes place at regular intervals in accordance with the decisions taken by the General Council of the HFI.
3. HFI and organisers shall send the detailed circulars to all affiliated units at least 45 days prior to the scheduled start of the championship informing the dates, venue, nearest Railway Station / Bus Station and facilities offered by the organisers for the participating teams.
4. As per...
West-Zone Handball Championship in Gujrat
West-Zone Handball Championship is scheduled to be held at Unjha, District Mehsana in Gujrat. The 15th championship will be conducted from 26th to 28th March 2011 at Arts and Commerce College ground, Unjha.
The tournaments will be conducted under the aegis of HFI by Gujrat Handball Association. Last year Rajasthan was champion of not only West-Zone but also champion of Inter-Zo...
Thursday
North-Zone Handball Championship, Delhi Women shines
North-Zone handball Championship is concluded at Jammu (J&K) today. In men Section Jammu and Kashmir became the champion and Delhi women were outstanding and won the championship. The condition of conducting tournaments are improving day by day and standard of game is also marking progress. But when we compare India with other Asian countries lot needs to be done. There are two ways to go presently, forming of clubs with contribution and training young children in schools, secondly inviting sponsors and getting our teams trained by foreign coaches and exposing our teams to better teams outside country. Things are improving since last year but at a slow pace. India had won Inter-continental Championship at chennai and now our U-20 team will play World Cup qualifying round, India is again...
Sunday
Senior Open Handball Tournament at Rohtak (Haryana)
Handball Association Rohtak had conducted Senior Open Handball Tournament at Rohtak in Haryana. The Tournament was played at MD University Indoor Stadium, Rohtak. Total ten teams participated including Air Force, National Handball Academy, SAI Gujrat, Haryana Ploice Delhi A and B, Sonipat, Hisar, and Jind. The Semi-Finalist were Delhi-A Vs Gujrat SAI and Air Force Vs Delhi B Air Force has won the final match from Delhi A by margin of Six goals, Lalit kumar of Air Force was declared as Man of the Match...
Saturday
Services and Chattisgarh Champions in National Games at Ranchi
Handball national games concluded yesturday at Ranchi in interesting matches of men and women finals.
Services team have defeated Jharkhand by 32-28 goals in men and in women section Chattisgarh won from Maharashtra by margin of 10 goa...
Friday
Handball Finals in National Games Ranchi 2011
Final line-up has been drawn in men and women's section. Services will take on Host Jharkhand who had won from Delhi. Punjab lost in semis from services by 33-38 goals. In women section Maharashtra will take on Chattisgarh in finals, Delhi had scored 3rd place by defeating Jharkhand....
Thursday
National Games (handball) at Ranchi
Ranchi has done wonderful work, games are very well organised and being conducted in highly professional manner. Handball seems to be gaining grounds and being witnessed by large number. The Semi-final line up is Services Vs Punjab and Delhi Vs Jharkhand. Jharkhand and Delhi both have played their league matches very well and manage to secure their semis berth. Chattisgarh was expected to be in Semis atleast, but lost out to Punjab and could not quali...
Sunday
South-Zone Handball championship-2011
South-Zone Handball championship-2011 will be conducted by Karnatka Handball Association at Mysore from 11 Mar to 13 Mar 2011. All teams from south Zone will be participating in this championsh...
Tuesday
2010 Most Thrilling Handball World Cup
2010 Handball World Cup is Most Thrilling Handball World Cup conducted so far, in terms of growth and performance of teams, conduct of tournment and in broadcasting. France has claimed the title by scoring 37 goals against Denmark (35) played in high temprament and good speed match. Spain claimed third place in a very tough match played against host Sweden, their score was 24-23.
The World Cup was conducted in a professional style, the conduct of teams were praiseworthy. It is learnt that this year live tele-cast were made available in 160 nations including India.
Handball is fast catching up in South Asia specially in India, it all needs professional sports administrators, sponsers and professional support from IHF and ASF....
Saturday
Handball in South Asia
Handball although not very popular in South Asian countries but young generation in rural area has great potential, not only far handball but other games which requires only basic facilities. Urban Areas are under great influence of Cricket, and this cannot be ruled out that no other game perform at international level like Cricket. About 80 to 90 % of South Asian follow this game, efforts are wide spread for other games but results are far. Hockey had enjoyed second place but Wrestling and Boxing seems taking lead, this is mainly due to efforts in rural areas. Handball has lot of scope in rural areas firstly it requires only a ball and pair of goal posts.Secondly other games are costly affair, thirdly it requires less space. We must thrive to capture the potential in India as well in...
Friday
Law and Sports in India
It gave me immense pleasure on looking at book "Law and Sports in India" while at legal books shop. This was a perfect combination, I was thinking on such lines for quite sometimes. I was also amazed due to my acquitance with author when he was heading division bench at Delhi High Court, where I represented few cases. Justice Mukul Mudgal has rightly and successfully highlighted issues like role of state and sports law, gender discrimination, voilence and betting in sports etc. This book will work as guiding feature for sportsperson, Fedrations, and other sports related professionals and businessmen in the field of broadcasting, labour and contractual issues. This will also be useful guiding factor in sports dispute resolution. The efforts made in the field of sports law will enhance...
Thursday
Senior East Zone Championship-2011
14th Men and Women Senior East Zone Championship is scheduled to be held from 19-03-2010 to 21-03-2010 at Thobal, Manipur. All teams Men and Women teams from East Zone are expected to take part in the championshi...
Wednesday
56th National School Games
56th National School Games are being conducted at Narvana in Haryana. These games are conducted from 03 Feb to 07 Feb 2011 at Navdeep Stadium in Narvana. This nationals are organised by State Games Fedration of India and Secondary School Education Deptt, Harya...
Saturday
Handball India in Golden days.....will it sustain...!!!
Handball is highly spirited, most interesting and high speed game. Its worth watching sport of short duration. But this is not so popular in India, but europe and some other Asian countries enjoy wide popularty. In past 11 months India have scaled new highs in terms of achievments. The efforts of players, coaches and administrators are appreciable.
But the platform of recognition is yet too far to be accepted Handball as main line sport. No doubts cricket takes the king's place but Hockey, football, Basketball, Volleyball are still better popular sport as far as India is concern. Other games i.e. Tennis, Squash, Golf, Billiards and TT etc are played by less than half a percent people in India. Badminton is on the card far quite sometimes.
Handball has complete potential to win...
Thursday
Kazakh Women Qualified for 2013 World Championship
Kazakhastan became the Champion of Asian women's Championship defeating South Korea by single goal. Earlier Kazakhs beaten Japan in semis by 29-24 goals. In other Semi-Final South Korea beaten China by 31-26 goals. All four Semi finalist qualified for 2013 World Championsh...
Wednesday
Chandigarh emerged Champion in 27th Sub-Junior National Handball Championship
27th Sub-Junior Girls National Handball Championship was conducted from 15th Jan to 21st Jan 2011 at Dr.Harbhajan Singh Stadium Kirpal Sagar Academy Rahon, District Saheed Bhagat Singh Nagar, Punjab.
Chandigarh girls were too good and became the Champion, they defeated Haryana in the finals. Punjab had secured third place in the Championsh...
Friday
HANDBALL SCHEDULE AT 34th NATIONAL GAMES
Handball competition is scheduled to be held at indoor stadium Ranchi from 22 feb 2011 to 26 Feb 2011. Mr. SM Bali, the Secretary General of Handball Fedration of India is making all efforts to arrange Teraflex for these tournaments, Mr Bali is also the Chairman of GTCC for 34th National Games. This time the competition is expected to be of higher standard, all teams are preparing hard.
The standard of the game have otherwise improved due to inter-national exposure of players this year. Indian teams had participated in SAF Games at Dhaka in Feb 2010 (Silver Medal), Under-20 boys played champions trophy at Dhaka in April 2010 (Gold Medal), Asian Games at Ganzhou, China in Nov and Contenantal Champion's Trophy at Chennai in Jan 2011 (Gold Medal). Apart from other Junior boys and...
Wednesday
Junior National Handball Championship (Girls)
Junior National Handball Championship (Girls) is scheduled to be conducted at Bhilai from 27 Jan to 31 Jan 20...
Army Red regains Inter-srevices Title
Army Red had defeated Army Green by margin of 8 goals and continue enjoying its supermacy.Greens initially had seemed tried but played a cool match like younger bro. In the 3rd and 4th position match Air Force displayed a fantastic co-ordination, skill, stamina and determination. Indian Navy could resist upto certain level but young airwarriors were holding the match tightly. Final score was 38-37. Air Force had improved its position from 4th to 3rd and Greens from 3rd to 2nd. The meet was closed in a dynamic style keeping Military decorum and national flag flying high. Services team was also selected to participate in forthcoming nationals next month in Ranc...
Tuesday
Army Red & Army Green made to finals
Army Red & Army Green made it to finals in the Inter Services Championship 2010-11. Army Red has defeated Air Force by margin of seven goals. Air Force being young had played with lot of enthu but Army Red had never given them any edge, Red being strong and experienced lead by three goals at half time. The other Semi-Final was between Navy and Army Green ended in favour of Green by 37- 35 goals.Navy had tried their best but Greens were standing like a rock. Air Force will play Navy for third place.It will be tough match, Air Force being better team may make it to third if they are guided to maintain lead. Navy being experienced and strategically better can take the match in their favour. In finals Army Red will be able to hold their title,Greens can take the chanc...
Monday
Inter-Services Matches at Hydrabad
Inter-Services Matches at Hydrabad are progressing with high competitive spirit and in a professional style. Army Red had won its match from Indian Navy in a tough and closely fought match by margin of 3 goals. The match between Air Force and Army Green was even more interesting, Air Force being young and dynamic team was in control of the match through out and leading with margin of three goals but Green had exhibited their experience guts in last minutes and snatched the match with score of 36 to 35.
On 18 Jan 2011 Semi-Final matches will be played between Army Red Vs Air Force at 1545h and Army Green Vs Indian Navy at 1800h. Army Red being strong and experience side will have little edge over Air Force, but young Airwarriors can never be taken easy. Second semis will be anyone's...
Sunday
Inter-Services Handball Championship-2011
Inter-Services Handball Championship-2011 is being conducted from 17 Jan to 19 Jan 2011 at Hydrabad. The campionship will be inaugrated on 17th with first match between Army Red and Indian Navy. The second match will be played between Army Green and Air For...
Saturday
Railways become Champion for the 6th Time
Railways 6th time National Champion at Jaipur in 39th National Championship.They have defeated Punjab by 30-21, half time score was 17-09. Goal scorer for railways Purnima (7), Nisha (6), Anita (4), Vijalaxmi (4) and for punjab Rajwant (8), Supreet (6), Gurmeet (3).
Other states positions ar...
India losts its second Pool match against Saudi Arabia
Tuesday, 16 November 2010 18:28
In the ongoing Asian Games in Guangzhou Indians have taken on its second pool match with Saudi Arabia. It was tough for India To take on last time semi-finalists physically superior built better speed and strength.However Indian team had played better strategic game but lost by 40-22 goals, at the half time score was 10-19 goals.
As a Team India had Played better game and made good penetration to score goals where as Arabians have taken shots from 9-10 meters and could not be intercepted by Indian goal keeper Raghu. Some of the moves Shamsher Singh, Jain Prasad, Firoz khan and Praseed Kumar were worth watching. Naya Chandra was very accurate at the wing and scored fantastic goals. Saudi Arabians were scoring clinically .Indian have scored 22 goals out...
Indian U-17 Teams Win Common Wealth Handball Championship
Indian men and women under 17 handball teams have won bronze medals in Common Wealth Handball championship held at Cameroon . Indian teams are satisfied with their performance and the exposure they got at champions...
HandballIndia Runners-up in Pertille-Cup in Sweden
Pertille Cup is an prestigious handball tournament of Europe where top handball teams all over world take pride in participating. Indian handball team had created history and reached in final. Although they could not win the Cup but made a tough for Alexgenteria of Egypt, final score was 8-10 goals the match was closely contested w
and score was equal till last. The complete tour of Gotenburg was highly successful and skillful, they were earlier trained by mr,Ulf and mr. Jurgen. At one point of time it seemed difficult for team to proceed to Sweden but Secretary Mr. SM Bali was determind to see indians making mark. Manager Mr.Yashpratap,...
1st IHF Challenge trophy at Dhaka
IHF has introduced Challenge Trophy 1st time and its being conducted at Dhaka. India has won its 1 st Match from Nepal by 10 to 41 goals. India will be taking on Pak tomarrow (08 April 2010) for its 2nd pool match. Following are the teams
Group 1 Group 2
Pakistan Bangladesh
Nepal Afghanistan
India Ye...
Members of Asian Handball Federation
The following nations are members of Asian Handball Federation...
Code Nation Federation
AFG Afghanistan
Afghanistan Handball Federation
BHR Bahrain
Bahrain Handball Association
BGD Bangladesh
Bangladesh Handball Federation
CHN China
Chinese Handball Association
HKG Hong Kong
Handball Association of Hong Kong
IND India
Handball Federation of India
IRI Iran
Islamic Republic of Iran Handball Federation
IRQ Iraq
JOR Jordan
Jordan Handball Federation
JPN Japan
Japan Handball Association
KAZ Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan Handball Federation
KGZ Kyrgyzstan
Kyrghystan...
Silver Medal in SAF
Indian handball Team has put up technically superior and highly skilled show at 11th SAF Games at Dhaka , Team has secured Silver Medal in the tournamen...
France Makes Handball History
Vienna : World and Olympic handball champions France beat Croatia by 25-21 in the European Championship Final on Sunday to become the first nation to hold all three titles at same time. It was the second European gold medal for the French, who overpowered Croatia in a titanic tussle after overcoming a three-goal deficit in the first ha...
Honour of Excellence Award
Gen Secy HFI Mr. S.M. Bali has been awarded Honour of Excellence for his contribution in promotion of Handball in South Asian countr...
The South West Zone Inter University Handball Championship-2010
The South West Zone Inter University Handball Championship for Men got under way on the premises of Acharya Nagarjuna University on Tuesday.The championship saw as many as 50 handball teams from various universities taking part and set to witness some keen contests. The women’s championship would begin on January ...
Punjabi university wins the MAKA trophy
Punjabi university wins the MAKA trophy for the third consecutive time after defeating Kurukshetra University by 48-28.In the women's final too, Punjabi University notched up a scintillating victory over Delhi 33-...
