They were the first times of a called sport to become one of the most practiced of the entire world. First, the fundamental thing, was to obtain its inclusion in the Olympic games. From its beginnings, the handball already found the support of other important federations in operation. It is more, since I have commented were integrated in one first stage within the IAAF (Federation the International of Athletics Amateur) until year 1928. www.hand-ball.org

During this period the creative made an effort ones of the handball looked for the channels to give an international projection him, organizing started off between regions and also between diverse countries. In the Seventh Congress of a IAAF, celebrated in There is it in 1926, a commission in charge was created to start up a regulation that prevailed the same in all the countries and the possibility that considered this new sport had its own international association. Web of world-wide handball.

The 4 of August of 1928, in Amsterdam, the congress takes place that was used for the foundation as the Federation the International as Handball. Eleven countries served as base and supported the initiative. Between the components of the board of directors it was Avery Brundage, the one that would be later president of the Olympic Committee Internacional and that stayed in that organism from its creation, becoming more ahead advisor. www.hand-ball.org

As it can be verified, Germany was the fundamental country the developing of the handball. There the first international parties were celebrated and also the first national federation was created. After World War I this game is based definitively and Germany, practically, it becomes the official sport. In 1925 east country one faced Austria in friendly party that concluded with victory of the visitors by 3 goals to 6. In the feminine plane, the Germans returned to be pioneering with another Germany-Austria that also was gained by the Austrians, by 4 to 5. The constitution of the German Federation of Handball would arrive some years later, the 27 of 1933 July, in Nuremberg. Outstanding personalities comprised of the first director and moved necessary threads so that this sport became basic the Navy. Its development was assured. www.hand-ball.org

Or with a complete and concrete regulation, with the support of numerous countries in which or it practiced, the handball received the definitive accolade in 1934, when the HAMMOCK decided to take in consideration the proposal from inclusion in the Olympic program and incorporated this sport, in the modality of a 11, in the tests of the Olympic Games of Berlin that would be celebrated in 1936. www.hand-ball.org

That had been the objective of the international federation from its foundation. To obtain supposed it to present completely the handball all the countries the world. In any case the participation was little. Only six countries took part in the event. They were Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, course of referees to unify the criteria that had to prevail in the JJ.OO. The final triumph would be for Germany, Austria would finish in second position and Switzerland would be third. Web of world-wide handball.

It was the first match of great level that was organized. Two years later, in the occasion of the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the foundation of the FIHA, the First Championship of the World of Handball to eleven was organized that it had like Germany seat. The participation was enough ampler, 10 countries: Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Hungary, Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Holland and Luxembourg. Also this time the final triumph was for the Germans, who left Switzerland, Sweden and Hungary by this same order back. Germany, then, became the first nation that conquered the titles of the Olympic games and the championship of the world. Later parón would come a length from 10 years in which the national competitions were only developed. There was no international activity as a result of World War II. Web of world-wide handball.

It was after the war, the 11 of 1946 July, when the Swedish Gosta Bjorck reunited in Copenhagen to the representing members of eight national federations with the only daily routine to dissolve the FIHA and to create the IHF. The final official notice of that first congress was the following one:
"Reunited in congress, in Copenhagen, the following national federations, represented by 35 delegates of Denmark, Finland, France, Norway, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden and Switzerland, as well as ambién with the participation of Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg and Portugal, that have delegated their votes, declare unanimously that the old Federation the International of Handball Amateur, of which they are members, no longer exists and who their rights and obligations happen to a new organization, founded today, with the name of Federation the International of Balonmano (HIF). www.hand-ball.org

The board of directors was presided over by the Swedish Gosta Bjorck, like vice-presidents Hans Baumann, of Switzerland, and Charles Petit Montgobert, of France. The Secretary General was Carl Filip Borg and the treasurer Wolf Lyberg, both of Sweden. The seat of this institution was fixed to Stockholm at first, although years later it would happen to be located in the Swiss locality of Basel, where it is at the present time. www.hand-ball.org

With the creation of the IHF and the approval of some modifications in the game rules, the sport was revitalized and was evolving of progressive form through the congresses that periodically were being made. One of the fundamental preoccupations of the new organism was the very special treatment of the handball to 7 players that had grown, from 1938, almost of a parallel form to the handball to 11. The coexistence lasted until years 60. The battle, finally, was won by the modality of a seven.

A year after the foundation of the IHF, in 1947, the first international course of arbitration is made. During the Championship of the World of France of 1948 a congress with 18 delegates was made, representatives of 6 federations, and in they were admitted to 9 new members. 12 equipment participated in the championship. In relation to first the world-wide one of the 38 they added France, like country host, Belgium, Finland, Austria and Portugal but they were low as important equipment as Rumania, Czechoslovakia and, mainly, Germany. The first position was for Sweden, the second for followed Denmark of Switzerland and France. www.hand-ball.org

A year later the First Championship of the Feminine World in the modality of a 11 was celebrated in Hungary and in which 4 equipment participated. The triumph was for Hungary which they followed Austria and Czechoslovakia.

In the 1950 congress, the 25 delegates who represented 13 federations replace the Swedish Gosta Bjorck as president and choose to the Swiss Hans Baumann. He himself was the one who presided over in 1952 the third Championships of the World to eleven that they disputed themselves in Switzerland. Thirteen equipment participated, among them for the first time Spain that loses the encounter against Austria (10-20) and Sarre (18-12) and wins to Sweden (12-9). Germany wins in this championship. www.hand-ball.org

In the celebration of the quarters Championships of the World in the RFA (1955) it again participates to Spain along with other 16 equipment. The classification was by this order: the first followed Federal Germany of Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and Sweden. As of this moment this modality to eleven was disappearing replaced by the teams of seven players. After this championship the IHF again asks for the inclusion of this sport in the Olympic games but in the modality of seven players. www.hand-ball.org

In 1957 the international federation later created the Glass of Europe for clubs champions of masculine national leagues to seven players and four years, the feminine one. The modality to eleven continued, every time with a participation minor. In the championships of the world of 1959 whose seat was Austria 7 equipment participated. The champion was the equipment combined between followed Federal Germany and the Democratic one of Rumania, Sweden and Austria; and in the world-wide ones of 1963 Democratic Germany won (8 equipment and for the first time Israel and the U.S.A..) and in the second of 1966 Federal Germany (6 equipment). www.hand-ball.org