Intercontinental Handball Cup

Sport	handball
Inaugural season	1998
No. of teams	5
Most recent champion(s)	Russia (1st title)
Most titles	Algeria  Sweden  Russia (each 1 title)

The Intercontinental Handball Cup was a competition between the continental handball champions in the years which were not a World Men's Handball Championship and the host country.

History

The idea of a Intercontinental Cup was first introduced in the 1980s but was delayed because of financial and temporal problems. In 1966 the IHF Congress created the IHF Men's Super Globe and the Intercontinental Handball Cup. After the third edition the tournament was cancelled because a fully packed calendar.^[1]

Tournaments

Year	Host		Final				3rd place match				Teams
			Champions	Points	Runners-up		3rd place	Points	4th place
1998 Details	Qatar		Algeria	5–4	Kuwait		Romania	2–1	Qatar		4
2000 Details	Saudi Arabia		Sweden	6–6 +10 / +10 104 /102	South Korea		Egypt	5–2	Saudi Arabia		5
2002 Details	Russia		Russia	8–6	Sweden		Argentina	4–2	Algeria		5

Medal count

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Sweden	1	1	0	2
2	Algeria	1	0	0	1
	Russia	1	0	0	1
4	Kuwait	0	1	0	1
	South Korea	0	1	0	1
6	Argentina	0	0	1	1
	Egypt	0	0	1	1
	Romania	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		3	3	3	9

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