Handball

Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the goal of... Wikipedia

• Highest governing body:  IHF
• First played:  December 2, 1917 in Berlin, Germany.
• Registered players:  > 27 million (2016)
• Contact:  Limited
• Team members:  7 per side (including goalkeeper)
• Mixed gender:  separate competitions
• Type:  Team sport, ball sport
• Equipment:  Ball and goals
• Venue:  Indoor court
• Country or region:  Worldwide but most popular in Europe
• Olympic:  Part of Summer Olympic programme in 1936, Demonstrated at the 1952 Summer Olympics, Returned to the Summer Olympic programme in 1972.
• Data source:  DuckDuckGo