The 2017 IHF Men's Youth World Championship was the seventh edition of the U-19 tournament and held in Tbilisi, Georgia from 8 to 20 August 2017. All matches were played in two halls at the Olympic Palace.
France won their second straight title by defeating Spain 28–25 in the final. Denmark captured the bronze medal after defeating Croatia 30–29.
Qualified teams Competition Dates Vacancies QualifiedHost nation1 2016 European Men's U-18 Handball Championship 11–21 August 201612 2016 Asian Men's Youth Handball Championship 27 August–5 September 20163 2016 African Men's Youth Handball Championship 2–9 September 20163 2017 Pan American Men's Youth Handball Championship 15–22 April 20175
On 31 July 2017, Venezuela withdrew from the tournament and Poland was named as the substitute.
Draw The draw was held on 10 May 2017.
Seedings The seedings were announced on 8 May 2017.
Pot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4Pot 5Pot 6
Referees The IHF selected 16 referee pairs for the championship.
Referees Darío Rubén Burgos / Javier Gonzalo Delgado Siarhei Kulik / Dzmitry Nabokau Muammar Al-Watani / Mohammed Qamber Cheng Yufeng / Zhou Yunlei Davor Lončar / Zoran Lončar Raymel A. Reyes Collantes / Alexys Zúñiga Rodríguez Karina Christiansen / Line Hansen Hesseldal Kiyoshi Hizaki / Tomokazu Ikebuchi
Referees Akram Al-Zayyat / Yasser Eial Awad Alexei Covalciuc / Igor Covalciuc Novica Mitrović / Miljan Vešović Bartosz Leszczyński / Marcin Piechota Dmitry Kiselev / Alexey Kiyashko Cheickh Mohamed Fadel Diop / Abdoulaye Faye Lee Eun-ha / Lee Ga-eul Cristian Lemes Martines / Mathias Fabián Sosa Gordalina
Preliminary round The schedule was announced on 29 May 2017.
All times are local (UTC+4).
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
President's Cup 17th place bracket
21st place bracket
21st–24th place semifinals
17th–20th place semifinals
23rd place game
21st place game
19th place game
17th place game
9–16th placement games The eight losers of the round of 16 are seeded according to their results in the preliminary round against teams ranked 1–4 and play an elimination game to determine their final position.
15th place game
13th place game
Eleventh place game
Ninth place game
Knockout stage Bracket
5th place bracket
Round of 16
Quarterfinals
5th–8th place semifinals
Semifinals
Seventh place game
Fifth place game
Third place game
Final
Final ranking Rank Team456789101112131415161718192021222324
Statistics
Top goalscorers RankNameTeamGoalsShots% 1 Teitur Örn Einarsson 66 108 61.1 2 Kyllian Villeminot 60 87 69.0 3 Emil Lærke 58 109 53.2 4 Ahmed Fadul 55 81 67.9 5 Rennosuke Tokuda 53 95 55.8 6 Ivan Martinović 52 80 65.0 7 Diogo Silva 52 88 59.1 8 Sergei Kosorotov 49 72 68.1 9 Oskar Sunnefeldt 48 80 60.0 10 Emil Jakobsen 46 61 75.4 Source: IHF
Top goalkeepers RankNameTeam%SavesShots 1 Diogo Valerio 30.9 93 301 2 Maksim Popov 35.0 91 260 3 Ivan Panjan 32.2 87 270 4 Todor Jandrić 36.7 76 207 5 Valentin Kieffer 34.3 74 216 6 Hikaru Nakamura 35.1 71 202 7 Marek Bartosik 31.0 70 226 8 Abdelrhman Taha 34.7 69 199 9 Gašper Dobaj 31.2 68 218 10 Vicente González 26.6 68 256 Source: IHF
Awards MVP Left-back: Kyllian Villeminot
All-star team Goalkeeper: Maksim Popov Right wing: Edouard Kempf Right back: Ivan Martinović Centre back: Ian Tarrafeta Left back: Emil Lærke Left wing: Emil Jakobsen Pivot: Luis Frade
References
External links Official website