The 2005 World Women's Handball Championship, the 17th team handball world championship for women, was played in Saint Petersburg, Russia between 5 and 18 December 2005. Russia won their second title.
Qualification Competition Dates Host Vacancies Qualified Host nation 1 2003 World Championship 2–14 December 2003 1 2004 African Championship 9–18 April 2004 Cairo 3 2004 Asian Championship 23–25 July 2004 Hiroshima 4 3 2004 European Championship 9–19 December 2004 3 2005 Oceania Championship 24–28 May 2005 Sydney 1 2005 Pan American Championship 25–29 May 2005 São Bernardo do Campo 3 European qualification 23 November 2004 – 18 June 2005 Various 8 Reallocation 1
Preliminary round All times are local UTC+3.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Main round Group I
Group II
Final round Bracket
Semifinals
Seventh-place game
Fifth-place game
Bronze medal game
Final
Final rankings 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Statistics
Top goalscorers Rank Name Team Goals Shots %1 Nadine Krause 60 107 56Tatjana Logvin 94 64 3 Anita Görbicz 56 101 55 4 Grit Jurack 55 102 54 5 Katrine Fruelund 54 98 556 Idalina Mesquita 53 83 64Woo Sun-hee 8 Svitlana Pasičnik 52 95 55Olena Reznir 92 57 10 Valentina Ardean-Elisei 51 80 64 Source: IHF
Top goalkeepers RankNameTeam%SavesShots 1 Laurence Maho 48 38 80 2 Tatiana Alizar 45 80 1823 Luminița Dinu 43 117 275Katrine Lunde 74 174 5 Katalin Pálinger 40 131 324 6 Olga Kolesnik 39 58 148 7 Tereza Tamaș 37 968 Barbara Gorski 38 27 71 Justina Praça 17 45 10 Nataliya Rusnachenko 37 75 202 Source: IHF
All star team Goalkeeper: Left wing: Left back: Centre back: Right back: Right wing: Pivot: Source: IHF
Medalists Medalists are:. GoldSilver Bronze Tatiana Alizar Polina Vyakhireva Oksana Romenskaya Liudmila Postnova Anna Kareeva Liudmila Bodnieva Yana Uskova Yelena Polenova Emiliya Turey Elena Slinvinskaya Natalya Shipilova Maria Sidorova Ekaterina Marennikova Irina Bliznova Anna Kurepta Irina Poltoratskaya Head coach Yevgeni TrefilovTereza Tamaș Ramona Maier Oana Soit
Roxana Gatzel
Aurelia Brădeanu Ionela Stanca-Gâlcă Paula Rădulescu Cristina Vărzaru Steluța Luca Valentina Ardean-Elisei Luminița Dinu Simona Gogîrlă
Narcisa Lecușanu Head coach Gheorghe Tadici. Beatrix Balogh Rita Borbás Bernadett Ferling Anita Görbicz Ágnes Hornyák Fanni Kenyeres Gabriella Kindl Mónika Kovacsicz Ibolya Mehlmann Cecilia Őri Katalin Pálinger Eszter Siti Tímea Sugár Gabriella Szűcs Tímea Tóth Orsolya Vérten Head coach András Németh
References
External links XVII Women's World Championship Russia 2005 – At the official International Handball Federation website