The 'Hispanics' win their eighteenth medal in a major international event

MADRID, 29 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Spanish men's handball team managed this Sunday to add its eighteenth medal in a major international tournament (European, World or Games) by taking bronze in the Handball World Cup played in Sweden and Poland, the tenth in the last twelve years.

After beating Sweden 36-39 in the fight for third and fourth place, the 'Hispanics' reconfirmed themselves as one of the great teams in this sport and got on the podium for the fifth consecutive date, and sixth since Jordi arrived Ribera to the position of selector in 2016.

With the Catalan coach in charge, Spain has won two golds (2018 and 2020) and one silver (2022) in the European Championships, two world bronzes (2021 and 2023) and an Olympic bronze in Tokyo. He has only missed his appointment with the medals in the 2017 and 2019 World Cups, a streak that few teams can reach and that extends from 2011 when he won the World Cup bronze, also in Sweden. From there, he won a world title (2013), and a continental silver (2016) and bronze (2014).

The bronze achieved at Tele2 in Stockholm is the eighteenth of the men's handball team that distributes these successes in four, all bronze, in Games, nine in Europeans (two golds, five silvers and two bronzes), where they do not get off the podium since 2014, and five in World Cups (two golds and three bronzes).