International Handball Federation

IHF is headquartered in Basel, and is a federation established under the Law of Switzerland. IHF's supreme body is the IHF Congress, an assembly made up of representatives from each affiliated member association. Each national handball association has one vote, regardless of its size or handballing strength. The Congress assembles in ordinary session once in two years (odd years) after the IHF World Men's Handball Championship. The congress makes decisions relating to IHF's governing statutes and their method of implementation and application. Only the Congress can pass changes to IHF's statutes. The congress approves the annual report, and decides on the acceptance of new national associations and holds elections. Congress elects the President of IHF, its General Secretary, and the other members of the IHF Council. IHF's Council, chaired by the President, is the main decision-making body of the organisation in the intervals of Congress. The Council is composed of 18 people: the President, 5 Vice Presidents, and 12 members. The Council is the body that decides which country will host the World Championship. The President and General Secretary are the main officeholders of IHF, and are in charge of its daily administration, carried out by the General Secretariat. Dr. Hassan Moustafa is the current president, appointed in the year 2000 at the 28th Ordinary IHF Congress.

The IHF is composed of six continental federations which organize continental championships held every other second year: African Handball Confederation, Asian Handball Federation, European Handball Federation, North America and the Caribbean Handball Confederation, Oceania Continent Handball Federation, and South and Central America Handball Confederation. In addition to continental competitions between national teams, the federations arrange international tournaments between club teams.[1]

Until 2017, there were five continental confederations. On 14 January 2018, the IHF Council divided the Pan-American Confederation into the North America and the Caribbean Handball Confederation and the South and Central America Handball Confederation. The authority to divide a continental confederation was assigned to the IHF Congress, but the 36th IHF Congress in 2017 authorized the IHF Council to divide the Pan-American Team Handball Federation.[2]

	Africa	Asia	Europe	Oceania	Pan-America
Senior Men's	Egypt (2020) (7*)	Qatar (2020) (4*)	Spain (2020) (2*)	—	Argentina (2018) (7*)
Senior Women's	Angola (2018) (13*)	South Korea (2018) (14*)	France (2018) (1*)	—	Brazil (2017) (10*)
Men's Continental Games	Egypt (2015) (7*)	Qatar (2018) (2*)	—	—	Brazil (2015) (3*)
Women's Continental Games	Angola (2015) (6*)	South Korea (2018) (7*)	—	—	Brazil (2015) (5*)
Junior Men's	Egypt (2018) (12*)	South Korea (2018) (3*)	Slovenia (2018) (1*)	Australia (2018) (4*)	Brazil (2017) (6*)
Junior Women's	Angola (2017) (9*)	South Korea (2017) (14*)	France (2017) (1*)	New Caledonia (2019) (1*)	Brazil (2018) (9*)
Youth Boys	Egypt (2018) (6*)	Bahrain (2018) (2*)	Sweden (2018) (2*)	New Zealand (2018) (2*)	Argentina (2017) (8*)
Youth Girls	Egypt (2017) (2*)	South Korea (2017) (7*)	Germany (2017) (1*)	New Caledonia (2019) (2*)	Brazil (2018) (12*)
Boys' Continental Youth Games	—	Qatar (2013) (1*)	Germany (2017) (1*)	—	—
Girls' Continental Youth Games	—	South Korea (2013) (1*)	Hungary (2017) (1*)	—	—
Men's Club	Al-Zamalek SC (2019) (12*)	Al-Duhail SC (2018) (2*)	RK Vardar (2019) (2*)	Sydney University HC (2019) (8*)	H. Taubaté (2018) (5*)
Women's Club	1º de Agosto (2019) (6*)	Almaty Club (2018) (1*)	Győri Audi ETO KC (2019) (5*)	University of Queensland HC (2019) (1*)	EC Pinheiros (2017) (1*)
Men's Beach Handball	—	Qatar (2017) (4*)	Spain (2017) (3)	Australia (2019) (4*)	Brazil (2018) (7*)
Women's Beach Handball	—	Thailand (2017) (3*)	Norway (2017) (1*)	Australia (2019) (4*)	Brazil (2018) (4*)
Men's Youth Beach Handball	—	Thailand (2016) (1*)	Spain (2017)	Australia (2017) (1*)	Brazil (2017) (1*)
Women's Youth Beach Handball	—	China (2016) (1*)	Netherlands (2017)	American Samoa (2017) (1*)	Argentina (2017) (1*)

• * = Record titles

This table shows all medals by country, in all International Handball Federation Team Handball national competitions. This table does not include medals won at club level and Beach Handball.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	20	7	4	31
2	Russia	18	9	2	29
3	Denmark	17	15	11	43
4	France	14	7	9	30
5	Sweden	9	10	10	29
6	Yugoslavia	9	8	12	29
7	Germany	8	7	9	24
8	Romania	8	3	10	21
9	Norway	6	11	9	26
10	South Korea	5	10	9	24
11	East Germany	4	5	5	14
12	Croatia	4	5	3	12
13	Spain	3	7	6	16
14	Egypt	3	1	2	6
15	Hungary	2	10	8	20
16	Czechoslovakia	2	4	4	10
17	Serbia	1	2	0	3
18	Slovenia	1	1	3	5
19	Brazil	1	0	1	2
20	Iceland	0	2	2	4
21	Austria	0	2	1	3
22	Poland	0	1	5	6
23	Netherlands	0	1	3	4
24	Bulgaria	0	1	1	2
	Montenegro	0	1	1	2
26	Lithuania	0	1	0	1
	Qatar	0	1	0	1
	Ukraine	0	1	0	1
29	China	0	0	1	1
	Portugal	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
	Tunisia	0	0	1	1
Totals (32 nations)		135	133	134	402

• data is accurate as of 27 January 2019