The 1990 World Men's Handball Championship was the 12th team handball World Championship. It was held in Czechoslovakia from February 28 to March 10, 1990. Sweden won the championship. Qualification Competition Vacancies Qualified Host nation 1 1988 Summer Olympics 6 1989 World Men's Handball Championship Group B 6 1989 Asian Men's Handball Championship 1 1989 African Men's Handball Championship 1 1989 Pan American Men's Handball Championship 1
Teams Group AGroup BGroup CGroup D
Preliminary round Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Ranking round
Main round Group I
Group II
Placement round Eleventh place game
Ninth place game
Seventh place game
Fifth place game
Third place game
Final
Final standings
Rank Team 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Qualified for the 1992 Summer Olympics Qualified for the 1992 Summer Olympics but banned due to UN sanctions Qualified for the 1992 Summer Olympics as host Qualified for the 1992 Summer Olympics in replacement of Yugoslavia
1990 Men's World Champions SwedenThird title
Medal summary Sweden Magnus AnderssonPer CarlénMagnus CatoJohan EklundMats FranssonErik HajasBjörn JilsénOla LindgrenMats OlssonStaffan OlssonJonas PerssonAxel SjöbladSten SjögrenTomas SvenssonPierre ThorssonMagnus Wislander Soviet Union Vyacheslav AtavinYuri GavrilovValeri GopinAleksandr KarshakevichOleg KiselyovIgor KustovAndrey LavrovYuri NesterovKonstantin SharovarovGeorgi SviridenkoIgor TchumakAleksandr TuchkinAndrey TyumentsevValeri VassilyevAndrei XepkinMikhail Yakimovich Romania Dumitru BerbeceAlexandru BuliganIanos CicuVasile CocuzMarian DumitruCornel DurauAdrian GhimesRobert LicuIon MocanuCostica NeaguNicolae PopescuRudi PrisacaruMaricel VoineaValentin Cristian Zaharia
Top goalscorers
Rank Player Goals 1 Julián Duranona 55 Aleksandr Tuchkin 3 Kim Jae-hwan 50 4 Philippe Debureau 39 5 Irfan Smajlagić 38 6 Djaffar Bel Hocine 37 Marian Dumitru 8 Javier Cabanas 36 Aleix Franch László Marosi Bogdan Wenta
External links IHF Report Men's Handball World Championship 1990 Dataesport Medallists from previous World Championships