Denmark is the world champion over France in an unprecedented achievement in the Handball World Cup

Denmark is the world champion for the third time in a row (Jonathan Nakstrand/Getty)

managed Denmark national team From winning the final, Sunday, on France national teamwithin the World Cup Sweden and Poland, with a score of 34 to 29, to preserve the world crown.

By winning the championship, Michael Hansen’s colleagues achieved an unprecedented historical achievement in the history of the competition, represented by winning the World Cup for the third time in a row, in 2019, 2021 and 2023, after the biggest achievement was winning the championship twice in a row, registered on behalf of Romania, France and Sweden.

The competition between France and Denmark is great in recent years, as the “experts” team is the last team to win the title, unlike the Scandinavian team, in 2017.

The Danes took revenge for their defeat in the final round of the World Cup in Sweden in 2011, in front of the same competitor, which prevented them from winning their first title in the tournament.

Denmark owes the title to the brilliance of its goalkeepers Niklas Landen and Kevin Muller, in addition to players Rasmus Loj-Schmidt and Simon Petlik, who each scored 9 goals.

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With this defeat, the French lost in a short time two finals in team sports, the first related to the World Cup in football against Argentina and the second against Denmark in handball.

In the rest of the results, the Spanish national team achieved third place by defeating the organizing country Sweden 39-36, while the German national team ranked fifth after its victory over Norway 28-24, while the Egyptian national team ranked seventh, which narrowly defeated Hungary 36-35, after Go to extra classes.

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