The Hungarians completed each the crowd degree and the primary around team with two wins and one defeat, and can to find out on Monday whether or not they meet Denmark or Egypt in Wednesday’s quarter-finals in Stockholm. The Hungarian males’s handball staff additionally certified for the Olympic qualifying around by way of achieving the quarter-finals.
The Hungarian staff’s growth to the closing 8 used to be determined after co-hosts Sweden, European champions and World Cup silver medalists, beat Portugal 32-30 within the closing sport of Main Round Group II in Gothenburg on Sunday night time. Results between advancing groups from Group C and Group D had been carried over into Main Round Group II the place Sweden, Hungary, Iceland, Portugal, Cape Verde and Brazil performed in opposition to each and every different.
Hungarian goalkeeper Roland Mikler has stated that he would have retired from enjoying for the Hungarian males’s handball staff if the staff had now not reached the quarter-finals of the World Championship and had now not fought for an Olympic qualifying spot.
“It is decided that today was not my last national team match, because a lot would have been decided if we had not been able to continue this world tournament,” the captain stated on Hungarian sports activities channel and site M4 Sport on Sunday night time.
The International Handball Federation (IHF) Olympic Qualification Tournaments will happen from 11-17 March 2024, with 4 groups at each and every of the 3 venues, with the highest two qualifying for subsequent summer season’s five-round video games in Paris. Hungary closing competed on the London 2012 Olympics, the place they completed fourth.
The Hungarian staff performed Cape Verde within the closing around of the semi-finals on Sunday and gained 42-30. “It was a bit easier for us, I expected a closer game. We started very well, with good defending, because we managed to keep Cape Verde away from our goal and we did it in the rest of the game,” stated Hungarian nationwide staff captain José María Rodríguez Vaquero after the sport.
The ultimate standings of Main Round Group II are: 1. Sweden 10 issues, 2. Hungary 6 issues, 3. Iceland 6 issues, 4. Portugal 5 issues, 5. Brazil 3 issues, 6. Cape Verde 0 issues.
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