Uttar Pradesh
National Junior Girls Handball Championship
- 03 Apr 2025
- 2 min read
Why in News?
Uttar Pradesh won the 47th National Junior Girls Handball Championship .
Key Points
- About the Championship:
- Uttar Pradesh won the title of this championship for the first time .
- Uttar Pradesh defeated Himachal Pradesh in the final .
- This championship was organized from 26 to 30 March 2025 at K.D. Singh Babu Stadium in Lucknow .
- It was organised on the occasion of the 50th foundation day of Uttar Pradesh Handball Association.
- Handball:
- It is an indoor game , consisting of two teams and each team has seven players.
- Handball originated in Scandinavia and Germany in the late 19th century .
- Earlier it was an outdoor game and was known as ‘Field Handball’. Later, G. Wallstrom introduced indoor handball in Sweden in 1910.
- Between 1938 and 1966, separate world championships were held for both formats of handball, but from 1967 onwards the world championship was held only for indoor handball.
- Handball was included in the Olympics only once as an exhibition sport in Berlin in 1936, while it was officially included as an Olympic sport in Munich in 1972.
- Women's handball was included in the Olympics in 1976.
