Things got exciting in Hanover last Thursday. For the German national handball team, nothing less than a ticket to the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris was at stake. The four-team tournament between the German team, Algeria, Croatia and Austria was already eagerly awaited.<\/p>\n
After all, only the two best teams receive the coveted ticket for the summer in France.<\/p>\n
Although Germany were favourites in the run-up to the tournament, the match results against Austria and Croatia during the European Championship were not necessarily a clear indication of success.<\/p>\n
The matches were therefore followed with particular attention, as the extension of national coach Gislason’s contract depended on successful qualification.<\/p>\n
The German team kicked things off against Algeria on Thursday at 17:45.<\/p>\n
While the match against Algeria was clearly won 41:29, things did not look quite so rosy after the defeat in the second match against Croatia (30:33). A win against Austria was a must – and our DHB team held their nerve to win 31:34.<\/p>\n
Despite the recent European Handball Championships in their own country, it was clear that Germany would love to host this crucial qualifier. We have also prepared a suitable setting for the TV broadcasts of this tournament and we are already looking forward to the mega event in Paris.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Photos: IMAGO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Things got exciting in Hanover last Thursday. For the German national handball team, nothing less than a ticket to the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris was at stake. The four-team…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false},"categories":[34],"tags":[767,671,765,766,764],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apa.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}