1970 World Men's Handball Championship – qualification

Qualification matches for the 1970 World Men's Handball Championship took place in 1969.

Europe and Africa

The draw took place on 15 March in Basel, Switzerland.[1]

Draw
Pot 1 (seeded) (WC 67) Pot 2 (unseeded)

East Germany – Israel
15. November 1969 East Germany  35–2  Israel Schwerin
Reiner Ganschow (13) (19–2)
[2]
Israel  0–5  East Germany Kfar Giladi
Referees: ? (ROU)
(forfeit)

The second game between East Germany and Israel was a forfeit lose because Israel had not a correct handball hall. This was decided by executive committee of the IHF at the weekend 29–30 November 1969.

In Tel Aviv was only an outdoor small field handball place available and the hall in Kfar Giladi had not the official handball court dimensions of 20×40 meter.

28. November 1969 the Israel Handball Association found an alternative place but it was to late.

The Israel Handball Association made a protest against the decision of the IHF. They sad the dimensions were correct and on Tuesday two officials of the East Germany team and the two referees had no complains against the field. The Israelis sad there were political reasons that the Germany didn't traveled to Israel.[3]

On 21. December 1969 the IHF rejected the protest.[4]

 In einer gemeinsamen Sitzung des Büros der IHF am 21. Dezember 1969 in Basel mit Vertretern Ostdeutschland und Israel wurde nach eingehender Beratung entschieden, daß das Rückspiel Israel – Ostdeutschland für die Endrundenqualifikation der Hallenhandball-Weltmeisterschaft 1970 wegen Nichterfüllung der technischen Voraussetzungen entsprechend dem geltenden WM-Reglement nicht stattfinden konnte und damit nicht gewertet wird. Ostdeutschland ist auf Grunde des regulären Vorspielergebinsses von 35:2 für die Endrunde der Weltmeisterschaft in Frankreich qualifiziert. Dem Protest von Israel konnte nicht stattgegeben werden.
 

 In a joint meeting of the IHF office in Basel on December 21, 1969 with representatives of East Germany and Israel, it was decided after detailed consultation that the return leg Israel - East Germany for the final qualification of the 1970 Indoor Handball World Cup due to non-fulfillment of the technical requirements in accordance with the current World Cup Regulations could not take place and are therefore not evaluated. East Germany is qualified for the finals of the World Cup in France due to the regular lead win of 35: 2. The Israeli protest could not be accepted.
 

—IHF

Hungary – Bulgaria
15. November 1969 Hungary  29–11  Bulgaria Játékcsarnok, Budapest
(15–6)
[5]
30. November 1969 Bulgaria  15–23  Hungary Sofia
(8–12)
[5]

Iceland – Austria

List of games form Iceland Archived 2009-04-22 at the National and University Library of Iceland: 15.11.1969 and 7.12.1969

15 November 1969 Iceland  28–10  Austria Reykjavík
Geir Hallsteinsson Report
7 December 1969 Austria  21–20  Iceland Vienna

Norway – Belgium
16. November 1969
18:30		 Norway  26–6  Belgium Oslo
Per Graver (8) (15–2)
Report
30. November 1969 Belgium  6–35  Norway
Report Per Graver (11)

Poland – Morocco

Morocco gave forfeit. First was Morocco directly qualified for the World championship, one year later the IHF recall this decision.[6]

Soviet Union – Finland
Soviet Union  22–10  Finland Moscow
(11–6)
[7]
30. November 1969 Finland  19–33  Soviet Union Helsinki
[8]

Sweden – Portugal

Portugal gave forfeit[6]

Switzerland – Luxembourg
15. November 1969 Switzerland   11–10  Luxembourg Steinli, Möhlin
Attendance: 1.800
Hansjürg Rudolf (5) (5–7)
Report
29. November 1969 Luxembourg  9–22   Switzerland Differdange
Attendance: 1.200
(1–12) Willy Glaus (6)
Report

West Germany – Netherlands
28. November 1969 Netherlands  16–16  West Germany Utrecht
(9–10) Herbert Hönnige & Hans-Günther Schmidt (3)
[2]
30. November 1969 West Germany  22–10  Netherlands Münster
Attendance: 5.000[8]
Max Müller (9–6)
[2]

Yugoslavia – Spain
15 November 1969 Yugoslavia  28–14  Spain Pančevo
[9]
29 November 1969 Spain  15–26  Yugoslavia Vigo
[9]

North America

In March Die Tat from Switzerland wrote that Canada was already qualified.[1]

15. November 1969 United States  17–21  Canada Edmonton International Handball Club Livingston, New Jersey
[7][10][11]
30. November 1969 Canada  19–17  United States Toronto
Mario Savage (7) [12] Vince Drake (9)

The USA submitted a protest in December because the Canadian Eric Jacobsen is Danish and has not a passport from Canada.

On 21 December 1969 the protest was rejected because of missing evidence by the IHF.

In January the USA was able to prove the claimed and Canada was disqualified.

Therefor the Spanish team should be the substitute. But they rejected because they have no time to build a good team again.

On 28 January 1970 the former rival USA was took as replacement.[13][14]

References and notes
  1. es (17 March 1969). "Auslosung für die Weltmeisterschaft". Die Tat (in German). Zürich: Migros. 34 (64): 9. Archived from the original on 7 July 2020. Retrieved 7 July 2020 – via e-newspaperarchives.ch.
  2. Müller, Stephan; Laaß, Helmut (2017-07-20). "Deutsche Handball Länderspiele" (CD; 87 MB). Sport-record.de (in German). Retrieved 7 July 2020.
  3. Sportinformation Si (2 December 1969). "Ostdeutschland für die Handball-Wm qualifiziert". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Zürich (Morning edition, 706): 35. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
  4. Sportinformation Si (22 December 1969). "Israelischer Protest abgewiesen". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Zürich (Noon edition, 740): 7. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
  5. "Válogatott mérközések - férfiak". kezitortenelem.hu (in Hungarian). Archived from the original on 7 July 2020. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
  6. Sportinformation Si (13 November 1969). "Auch Polen kampflos in der WM-Endrunde". Die Tat (in German). Zürich: Migros. 34 (267): 9. Archived from the original on 7 July 2020. Retrieved 7 July 2020 – via e-newspaperarchives.ch.
  7. "Weitere WM-Ausscheidungsspiele". Die Tat (in German). Zürich: Migros. 34 (271): 10. 18 November 1969. Archived from the original on 7 July 2020. Retrieved 7 July 2020 – via e-newspaperarchives.ch.
  8. es (2 December 1969). "WM-Ausscheidung". Die Tat (in German). Zürich: Migros. 34 (283): 10. Archived from the original on 7 July 2020. Retrieved 7 July 2020 – via e-newspaperarchives.ch.
  9. "RESULTADOS SELECCIONES". Royal Spanish Handball Federation. Retrieved 7 July 2020.; (Input following: In FECHA 11-1969 and TIPO OFICIAL
  10. "Well quarded secret finally leaks out". Edmonton Journal: 29. 14 November 1969. Archived from the original on 7 July 2020. Retrieved 7 July 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. "City Team nips U.S. in handball". Edmonton Journal: 11. 17 November 1969. Archived from the original on 7 July 2020. Retrieved 7 July 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. "Canada wins handball championship". Montreal Gazette. 192: 20. 1 December 1969. Archived from the original on 7 July 2020. Retrieved 7 July 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. Associated Press (30 January 1970). "U.S. Entry Accepted In Handball Tourney". The Bridgeport Post: 22. Archived from the original on 7 July 2020. Retrieved 7 July 2020 – via newspapers.com.
  14. "Die USA für WM qualifiziert". Neue Zürcher Nachrichten (in German). Zürich. 66 (25): 27. 31 January 1970. Archived from the original on 7 July 2020. Retrieved 7 July 2020 – via e-newspaperarchives.ch.
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