Status: 30.01.2023 10:43
Denmark received the third consecutive world championship in handball historical past. With the Landin brothers from THW Kiel and 5 gamers from SG Flensburg-Handewitt, the Danes’ golden hat-trick may be very North German.
Red and white dominated the World Cup finals in Stockholm, and then crimson and gold took the rostrum. The Danes, who defeated France 34:29 in the ultimate, modified their shirts in the locker room and accepted the gold medals and the glittering World Cup that befits their standing. An indoor DJ performed Danish sports activities anthems and the compulsory “We Are Champions” whereas THW goalkeeper Niklas Landin and Co. danced and celebrated – if they might.
Magnus Landin: “Combination of completely happy and drained”
“It’s a mixture of pleasure and exhaustion,” mentioned Brother Magnus Landin, describing his emotions. His colleague, Emil Jakobsen from SG Flensburg-Handewitt, merely beamed: “It’s wonderful, I can not discover phrases – the month’s work was price it.”
The temper of the Danish night was completely regular, however there was additionally one thing historic: for the primary time in the 85-12 months historical past of the World Cup, the nationwide group received for the third time in a row. In the previous, or in the newer previous, there have been two-time world champions like Sweden, Romania or France, however a 3rd try has by no means resulted in greater than bronze. The Danes, who accomplished an ideal hat-trick of titles after 2019 and 2021, are completely different.
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“It’s all the time enjoyable whenever you obtain one thing unprecedented. But above all, it is essential to me that we grow to be world champions once more,” mentioned Flensburg backfield participant Mads Mensah.
Bad luck for Möller, the debutant of the World Championship
The renewed victory was the results of a senior group consisting of two gamers from THW Kiel and 5 gamers from SG Flensburg-Handewitt. In truth, their quantity was even six: World Cup debutant Lasse Moller performed solely the primary sport, then needed to go away early on account of harm. He placed on an in any other case assured face as he watched his compatriots lose factors in opposition to Croatia in the primary spherical and falter a bit in the semi-closing in opposition to Spain.
“It’s wonderful, phrases fail me – a month’s work was price it.”
Flensburg Emil Jacobsen
“We had strain a few times, however we dealt with it effectively,” Mensah concluded. “We’ve received a really robust new signing: Simon Pitlick.” The proper-hander, who’s on the want-record of a number of Bundesliga golf equipment, has enriched the spectrum of the already effectively-performing Danish facet.
The journey is hard, but it surely’s a “dwelling sport” in the ultimate.
At the top there was sufficient power to get by way of two days of grueling pacing, solely to be made harder by the strains of the journey shortly earlier than the top. The Danes performed their semi-closing in Gdansk, Poland on Friday night, flew again to Stockholm in a single day, solely to return to their lodge at midnight and needed to play the ultimate on Sunday night. “It was bizarre and heavy on me,” Jacobsen says. Fortunately, the incredible ambiance in the corridor supported us. It was like a house sport.”
23,000 spectators on the World Cup closing
The Swedish organizers halved the scale of the Globen soccer stadium, bringing in round 23,000 spectators for the ultimate – a Swedish file. A number of French followers sat proper subsequent to the Danish loafers, whereas many of the yellow-clad Swedes took their group’s beforehand missed medal with a sure disappointment.
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In the ultimate, “Danish Dynamite” thundered 6-2, thanks in massive half to Kiel’s distinctive goaltender Landin, who saved 73 pictures in the complete match. After the sport began, virtually all of the Danish media wished to speak to the goalkeeper, however he nonetheless needed to cross a doping take a look at.
The balcony of the City Hall in Copenhagen is looking
His teammates had already modified the dressing room to night mode. The gamers from Kiel and Flensburg did not take into consideration that subsequent weekend, membership handball returns with the quarter finals of the DHB Cup. “We need to take pleasure in this second with a few beers,” mentioned Johan Hansen. “And then, like 4 years in the past, we’ll go to Copenhagen on the balcony of the town corridor.”
Handball-crazed Danes couldn’t rejoice the 2021 championship with their heroes because of the corona pandemic. A golden hat-trick already. Not solely the world champions of North Germany will take pleasure in it.
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