Current season, competition or edition: 2024 Men's Beach Handball World Championships2024 Women's Beach Handball World Championships | |
| Sport | Beach Handball |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2004 |
| Founder | International Handball Federation |
| First season | 2004 |
| No. of teams | 16 |
| Continents | 5 |
| Most recent champion(s) |  Croatia (men) Germany (women) |
| Most titles |  Brazil (men; 5 titles) Brazil(women; 3 titles) |
The IHF Beach Handball World Championships is an international beach handball competition contested by the men's and women's national teams of the member federations/associations of International Handball Federation (IHF), the sport's global governing body.
The tournament was established in 2004, taking place every two years to allow continental tournaments to flourish without the burden of the World Championship qualifiers crowding the schedule every 12 months. The current tournament format lasts over approximately 6 days and involves 16 teams initially competing in four groups of four teams. The group winners and runners-up advance to a series of knock-out stages until the champion is crowned. The losing semi-finalists play each other in a play-off match to determine the third and fourth-placed teams.
The most recent edition was held in Kazan (Russia), and crowned Brazil as champions defeating defending champions Croatia by 2–0 in the final of men's category. Debutants Greece claimed title in women's category by defeating Norway in the final by 2–1.[1]
- ^ "Men's and Women's Beach Handball World Championships". IHF. Archived from the original on 18 May 2012. Retrieved 1 July 2009.