Summer Sunday League Handball

Ashford Tanners Handball Club is running a Summer 6 team league for 10 weeks from 2nd August.
Any one over the age of 16 can join. This new league is in addition to regular Tuesday evening club sessions. More information can be found at www.ashfordhandball.org.uk

Commonwealth nations meet in Egypt

As the world’s handball leaders descend on Cairo next week (4-7 June) for the International Handball Federation’s Congress, the Commonwealth’s handball nations will also be taking the opportunity to hold their own meeting.

Formed in 1985 in Salford, the Commonwealth Association was active in promoting handball throughout the English-speaking world throughout the 1980’s and 90’s.

Indeed during this time English club and national teams took part in Commonwealth competitions in Cyprus, Nigeria, Kenya, India, Bangladesh, South Africa and Malaysia.

The election meeting in Egypt will seek to inject new impetus into the body, which has been largely inactive since 2000, and whose aim is to gain handball’s admission to the Commonwealth Games.

Sheffield hosts English Cup final

The English Institute of Sport in Sheffield is to host the finals of this season’s English Cup on Saturday 6 June.

Previously named the British Cup, the competition is now open only to men’s and women’s teams in England.

The BHA's Handball News reports that the one-day event will feature a men’s plate final, a men’s final between Great Dane and Olympia and a women’s final between Great Dane and Ruislip Eagles.

Timings for the event are 1.00 pm men’s Plate final, 3.00 pm women’s Cup final, 5.00 pm men’s Cup final.

Pictured: Ruislip Eagles women's team

Training week for British squads

The half term school holiday week finds Great Britain’s elite handballers hard at work on separate training camps in Europe as they continue their preparations for London 2012. 

GB’s players have travelled from their home clubs across Europe, with the women in Spain and the men training in Germany.

First blood to Kiel

Germany’s league and cup champions, Kiel, are half way to the triple following their defeat of Ciudad Real over the weekend.

In the first leg of the Champions League final in a packed out Sparkassen Arena in Kiel, the Germans won 39-34.

Handball fans following the action at ehfTV.com, the European Handball Federation’s TV platform, were treated to an excellent full match  commentary in English for the first time, thanks to a new initiative by the EHF.

The return leg in Cuidad Real will be played on Sunday 31 May at 5.00 pm.

Follow the build up to the event on the EHF’s Champions League homepage and all the action live and on demand at ehfTV.com.