Egypt’s Under-18 women’s handball team extended their remarkable run at the World Championship with a nerve-shredding win over Denmark, one of the tournament’s strongest sides. The 23-22 result, decided by a single goal, came in a thrilling clash in the main round.<\/p>\n
The young Egyptians produced a strong, cohesive display from start to finish. Level at 11-11 at the break, they edged ahead in the second half to snatch the win by one goal and add another historic result to a growing collection.<\/p>\n
A perfect record in the “group of death”<\/p>\n
Egypt swept through the group stage with a flawless record, no small feat given the calibre of opponents that earned it the “group of death” tag. They opened with a gripping 27-24 win over European runners-up Croatia.<\/p>\n
France, one of the world’s finest sides, were the next to fall, beaten 29-24. Egypt then rounded off the first round with a sweeping, historic 83-17 demolition of Fiji, the biggest goal difference the team have ever recorded at the tournament.<\/p>\n
A thrilling comeback against South Korea<\/p>\n
South Korea looked set to inflict a first defeat in the opening match of the main round. Egypt trailed 27-23. Then came the turnaround. The young side hauled themselves back to win 28-27 in the dying moments, a finish that laid bare their fighting spirit.<\/p>\n
That result carried real weight. Egypt had booked a quarter-final place for the first time in their history at the tournament, an unprecedented milestone for Egyptian women’s handball.<\/p>\n
A fiery encounter<\/p>\n
Now comes a decisive quarter-final. Egypt are set to face the runners-up of Group Three from the main round.<\/p>\n
Their opponent hinges on China’s meeting with Hungary, scheduled for today, Tuesday. The result will settle the top two places in Group Three.<\/p>\n
An exceptional run of five consecutive wins<\/p>\n
Egypt have played 5 matches across the group stage and main round, winning every one. The results in full:<\/p>\n
Group stage:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Egypt (27) \u2013 (24) Croatia<\/p>\n
\u2022 Egypt (29) \u2013 (24) France<\/p>\n
\u2022 Egypt (83) \u2013 (17) Fiji<\/p>\n
Main round:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Egypt (28) \u2013 (27) South Korea<\/p>\n
\u2022 Egypt (23) \u2013 (22) Denmark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Egypt’s Under-18 women’s handball team extended their remarkable run at the World Championship with a nerve-shredding win over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[27,26,2011],"class_list":["post-140259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denmark","tag-danmark","tag-denmark","tag-egypt"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117037439839616413","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}