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W17 ECh Serbia 2009 - See you in 2012

Women’s 17 European Championship in Serbia is finished. After the finals, came the ceremony of medal and trophy awarding, the supporters were greeted by the Minister for Youth and Sports Snezana Samardzic-Markovic, while Michael Wiederer, Secretary General of the European Handball Federation, closed the championship. They congratulated the hosts, Serbian Handball Federation, but also to the cities of Nis and Vrnjacka Banja, on the great organization of the tournament.

The best team of the tournament was announced. The best keeper is Cecilie Greve (Denmark), best left wing Orsolya Toth (Hungary), best left back Lara Gonzales Ortega (Spain), best center back Anna Vyakhireva (Russia), best pivot Sabrina Abdellahi (France), best right back Louise Madsen, best right wing Anne Mette Pedersen (Denmark). The best scorer of the championship is Ksenia Milova (Russia), best defensive player Africa Sempere Herrera (Spain), while the MVP of the tournament is Viktoria Divak (Russia). The award for the fair play went to the team of Czech Republic.
The curtain is down, and the message is clear: See you in 2012, on the same place, at the European Championship for the Seniors.

Denmark the Champion of the Europe

Nis, 5th of July-hall: „Cair“. Attendance: 1.000. Referees: Duarte SANTOS and Ricardo FONSECA (Portugal).
Denmark players have won the Women’s 17 European Championship, after a thrilling and fantastic final match against Russia – 24:23 (10:16). It seemed that Russians will grab an easy victory, since Levon Akapyan’s players had a big advantage until 40th minute (20:15). But, due to some great goalkeeping by Cecilie Greve, Denmark got back in the game, and after the run of 4:0 between 49th and 55th minutes, they were leading for the first time, after the start of the match. Than came a thrilling finish. Russia had a chance to reach the extra time, but Ana Sukalova missed a shot from the wing, at 15 seconds to go.

DENMARK: GREVE, CLAUSEN, BILTOFT 2, A. M. PEDERSEN 4, HIENDAHL 2, KRISTIANSEN, KNUDSEN, S. PEDERSEN 5, L. KRISTENSEN, NEESGAARD MOGENSEN 1, WOLLER 1, EBBESEN 5, MADSEN 4, M. KRISTENSEN.
RUSSIA: VAKHTEROVA, KONDRASHINA, ZAGAYNOVA, CHOPIKYAN, KOROBKOVA, KRASNITSKAYA 3, MILOVA 8, VYAKHIREVA, GARANINA 1, RYABININA, DANSHINA 7, SHUKALOVA 1, VEDEKHINA, DIVAK 3.
7-meter throws: Denmark 3(2), Russia 4(1).
Suspensions: Denmark 2 minutes, Russia 4 minutes.
Denmark Head Coach HEINE ERIKSEN:
- This was a difficult match, I congratulate Russia on a great battle. We literarily came back from the dead, as we were totally out of the game, and that makes me a very proud coach of my team.
Russia Head Coach LEVON AKAPYAN:
- I congratulate Denmark on winning the gold medal. We planned to reach the finals, and that’s what we did. Our opponents played on a very high level, it seemed as they already lost the match, but they had a strength to come back, and that is something that needs to be congratulated on.
Denmark player KATHRINE HIENDAHL:
- We won the gold, and fulfilled our dreams! I’m overwhelmed.

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W17 European Championship - Serbia 2009

Women's 17 European Championship will take a place on  June 25 to July 5 in Nis and Vrnjacka Banja.

Match schedule

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OC, Arenas and Hotels

FINAL Training Schedule

W17 European Championship Qualification

The Qualification for the 2009 Women's 17 European Championship took place over the weekend. The final tournament is planned to take place in Skopje and Ohrid, FYR Macedonia, from 25 June to 5 July 2009. The organising federation is qualified directly for the final tournament. 15 teams qualified via the qualification for the participation in the final tournament:

Group 1-7: 2 teams qualified out of each group – Russia, Sweden, Spain, Romania, Slovakia, Germany, Norway, Serbia, Croatia, Netherlands, Hungary, Czech Republic, Denmark, Lithuania

Group 8: 1 team qualified out of the group – France

The draw for the final tournament will be carried out on Tuesday 24 March 2009 in Vienna together with the draw of the Women’s European Cup semifinals and Women’s EHF EURO 2010 Qualification. The procedure for the draw will be published in due time.

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WECh 17 Qualification are finished

Buletin 4 - All results and Final table

WECh 17 Qualification - Pozega

Buletin 3 - Results and table after second day

WECh 17 - Pozega

Buletin 2 - Results and table after first day

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Zlatko Causevic: "My hopes are directed at qualifying for 2009 WECh 17"

My hopes are directed at qualifying for the 2009 Women's European Championship 17. I am fully aware that it won't be easy because we did not work much with this generation. Another problem is that we are not playing the qualification with the best of teams for objective reasons. We are expecting great support from the spectators and believe that it shall further stimulate and motivate our team, said Zlatko Causevic, coach of the women's national team of Serbia 17, on the eve of the 2009 European Championship 17 Qualification.

2009 Women's European Championship 17 - Qualification Group 4 in Pozega

Buletin 1 - Timeline, Delegation Lists and Training Schedule (with nominations)

Nina Ribicic: We will take advantage of playing home in Serbia

Captain of Serbian national team Nina Ribicic said: "On the eve of the forthcoming qualifications for the European Championship, I am certain that we shall succeed in qualifying, despite the fact that some of the players are injured. We will take advantage of playing home in Serbia. We certainly do not undersetimate our opponents, but neither do we fear them! We will do our best to achieve our goal which is, for the beginning, qualifying for the European Championship."

Roman Jezierski: This is our first big competition!

The Coach of Polish national team Roman Jezierski said: "This is our first big competition. Our team is young and not very experienced but it is well known how much our teams play for our country. It is always until the last breath and with all their hearts. That’s why I’m calm because I know we have everything we need to get to the next round. It is our goal and I hope we’ll achieve it."

The Polish national team player Magda Pawlovska: "We’ll do everything to get to the next round. It is our top goal. We’ve worked very hard during last two training camps and done well in last friendly international games. I can talk only for myself but I think that we are physically prepared enough to meet the highest expectations. I hope that our hard work will gave us a possibility to play in the next round."

Anette Helene Hansen: "We all look forward to seeing you in Serbia"

Looking forward to see you on forthcoming ECh 17 qualification, captain of Norwegian national team Anette Helene Hansen said:

"We are all really looking forward to this event.It will be very exciting to experience a new country and a new culture, which will differ from the one we are used to.

When it comes to the handball it will be challenging and interesting to meet three new countries.

We will compete to win and and we will do our outmust to qualify for the championship in Macedonia. The squad is very well prepared, both physically and mental.

We all look forward to seeing you in Serbia.

Trainer Mia Hermansson Høgdahl:

The Norwegian team looks forward to go to Serbia for The Qualification Tournament!

We are aware that Ukraine, Serbia and Poland are very strong teams.

But we will come to Serbia to fight for the chance to be one of the participating teams in the European Championship in Macedonia.

The qualification tournament will be a great experience and I trust my team to do their best.

The Qualifications for WEC - Pozega 2009

Dragana Cvijic: „We have a super generation“!

Now it is official. The results obtained and the recognition expressed show that Serbia has got handball pearls yet to be spoken of worldwide. One of them is Dragana Cvijic (18), the pivot man of the Serbian cadet national team.  Officially, she is world’s best player in her generation! With the silver medal brought from Slovakia, handball fans have many reasons to be satisfied.

Hello Dragana! What do you think about the week behind you? You brought the first medal for Serbia as an independent state.

- Firstly, I miss the team. We were working for a month and a half and everything went on so fast. After those four days, we are aware of the success we made. Still, for me that’s not it. We all regret the lost gold medal.

You’ve already said that the Russian were not better. Why then have they won in the finals?

- Because we were scared. We played under some strain and fear in the second half of the match. We were aware that we should not be scared, we knew it was the wrong thing to do, but we could not help it. It is a pity.

In addition to a great collective success, your personal success singles out. You have been chosen for the ideal team of the championship, as the best pivot man, and, also, you were second ranked on list of shooters.

- I am satisfied with that recognition as all of our work had paid off. Still, I would be more satisfied if we have won the gold medal.

For those who don’t know, you have started playing handball on the position of the left back.

- Yes, I have started in Obrenovac. I came to the Red Star Club in 2005 as a left back and than they moved me on to the line.

What can we expect from your generation? We have had a lot of generations which were great at the cadet age and than had been lost during mature age.

- Well, we won’t get lost. We have a great generation. We have to go on working. We had a great cooperation with the coach Markov. He was strict to be working with, but he has taught us a lot during this month and a half and the atmosphere was superb.

Selector Caslav Dincic announced that you will be taking part in the forthcoming senior activities. Is this a great stimulus for you?

- It is a great pleasure for me. Being with these girls is a great thing. I’ll do my best.