beach handball
{{Short description|Sport}}
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| image = File:Beach handball Euro 2019 Preliminary Round Women ESP-GRE 058.jpg
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| caption = Greek women's team members spread out to cover the Spanish player who is holding the ball.
| union = International Handball Federation
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| region = Worldwide
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| contact = No
| team = 4 per side
| mgender = Single and mixed
| category = Outdoor
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| IWGA = 2001
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File:Beach handball pictogram.svg
Image:Día 1 - Campeonato de España de Balonmano Playa, Laredo 2014 (14803158031).jpg
Beach handball is a team sport where two teams pass and bounce or roll a ball, trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team. The game is similar to standard handball, but it is played on sand instead of on a solid floor. Because the ball loses most of its bounce on sand, there is little to no dribbling, and players instead perform more passing as the rules of travelling still apply.
Description
Matches are played as two 10-minute sets, with a half-time of 5 minutes. If teams are tied at the end of a regular set then the teams play for a golden goal. If the teams are tied at the end of 2 sets then the teams will participate in a tiebreaker. The tie break involves a goalie throwing the ball to their own player while that player attempts to score one-on-one with the opposing goalie. During regular play, if the goalkeeper scores a goal this counts as two points, compared to a normal goal scored by an outfield player which counts as 1 point. Creative or spectacular goals, such as 360-degree jumps and alley-oops, are awarded with two points, as well as in-flights and 6-meter throws.
The first European Championships was played in the year 2000.
{{As of|September 2014}}, Brazil is ranked the number 1 country in the world, and is the winner of the world championship in both men's and women's divisions at the 2014 Beach Handball World Championships. {{cite web|url=https://archive.ihf.info/MediaCenter/News/NewsDetails/tabid/130/Default.aspx?ID=2072|title=Beach Handball Carnival on the beach of Recife|date=2014-07-27|work=ihf.info}}
Attire
In 2021, the Norway women's national beach handball team was fined €1500 for being improperly dressed after the women wore bike shorts instead of bikini bottoms at a European championship match in Bulgaria.{{cite news |url=https://www.sbs.com.au/news/norway-s-beach-handball-team-fined-for-wearing-shorts-instead-of-bikini-bottoms |title=Norway's beach handball team fined for wearing shorts instead of bikini bottoms |work=SBS News |date=2021-07-21}} Critics derided the fine and the underlying rule. Although the Norwegian Handball Federation announced they would pay the fines, pop singer Pink offered to pay for them.{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57940896 |title=Beach handball: 'It's shocking to have to pay to not play in our pants' |author1=Daniel Rosney |author2=Manish Pandey |date=2021-07-27 |work=BBC News}} Later, in November 2021, the International Handball Federation changed their dress rules to allow female players to wear some kinds of shorts, specifying "Female athletes must wear short tight pants with a close fit".{{Cite web|url=https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2021/1102/1257272-beach-handball/|title=Beach handball relents on rule women must wear bikinis|website=RTÉ.ie|date=2 November 2021}}
Competitions
See also
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090406045544/http://suancescup.com/ Suances Cup Beach Handball Championships]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20170916020622/http://beachhandball.pl/ Polish Beach Handball Community]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20180823214611/http://www.cadizworldcup.com/ World CUP Cadiz 2008]
- [http://www.beach-handball-calella.com Calella International Beach Handball Open] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221010170410/http://www.beach-handball-calella.com/ |date=2022-10-10 }}
- [http://www.ebhc2011.com 2011 European Beach Handball Championships,Umag, Croatia]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110711125607/http://sportski.net.hr/rukomet/page/2011/07/09/0307006.html/ Croatia 2011 European Men's and Women's Beach Handball Champions]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110613063021/http://www.ebhc2011.com/2011/01/croatian-beach-handball/ Croatian Beach Handball]
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