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With the conclusion of the 2024 IHF Men’s and Women’s Beach Handball World Championships in Pingtan, People’s Republic of China, the eight men’s and eight women’s teams who will compete at the 2025 edition of The World Games are now known.

The 12th edition of The World Games will take place from 7 to 17 August 2025 in Chengdu, People’s Republic of China. with Beach Handball one of over 30 sporting disciplines on the event programme. 

The World Games 2025 Beach Handball – Qualified teams

Men’s competition
1. People’s Republic of China (CHN) – hosts
2. Croatia (CRO) – World champions
3. Denmark (DEN)
4. Portugal (POR)
5. Germany (GER)
6. Brazil (BRA)
7. Qatar (QAT)
8. Tunisia (TUN)

Women’s competition
1. People’s Republic of China (CHN) – hosts
2. Germany (GER) – World champions
3. Argentina (ARG)
4. Netherlands (NED)
5. Denmark (DEN)
6. Vietnam (VIE)
7. Spain (ESP)
8. Portugal (POR) 

To qualify for The World Games, teams had to be best from their continent and in the top 12 of the 2024 IHF Men’s and Women’s Beach Handball World Championships.

About The World Games

The World Games is a multi-sport event staged every four years by the IWGA, organised with the support of the International Olympic Committee. 

Chengdu 2025 will be the 12th edition of The World Games, the most recent being held in Birmingham, USA, last July, with 3,600 athletes from 34 sports and 100 countries taking part.

Beach handball has been part of The World Games since it was introduced as a demonstration/invitational sport in Japan in 2001. It followed in Germany (2005) and Chinese Taipei (2009), before becoming a full sport at the 2013 edition in Colombia and then continuing in Poland (2017), before the USA last year, where Croatia (men) and Germany (women) took the beach handball titles.

For further information, visit www.theworldgames.org.

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