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HANDBALL NEWSEnglish edition 26, April 1 2008
BRIGHT FUTURE FOR GB AFTERSUPERB CHALLENGE TROPHY
Team P W D L F A Diff Pt
Bosnia Herz 3 3 0 0 99 56 43 6
Finland 3 2 0 1 98 57 41 4
Israel 3 1 0 2 79 80 -1 2
Malta 3 0 0 3 30 113 -83 0
Team P W D L F A Diff Pt
Great Britain 3 3 0 0 72 49 23 6
Faroe Islands 3 1 0 2 70 59 11 2
Estonia 3 1 0 2 58 68 -10 2
Cyprus 3 1 0 2 52 76 -24 2
TEAM P W L D F A Diff Pts
Great Dane 6 6 0 0 176 109 67 12
Manchester U 6 4 0 2 176 144 32 10
Manchester 6 3 2 1 164 163 1 7
Cambridge 6 2 3 1 165 173 -8 5
Oxford 6 1 5 0 142 166 -24 2
Bolton 6 0 6 0 144 212 -68 0
Handball News is produced by Snowdon Sports for the British Handball Association, supported by
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for five matches.
Tryst player Stuart
McLaughlan was banned
from competing in the rest
of the 2008 British Cup.
For more details log on
to the England Handball
Association website at
www.englandhandball.com
Mar 30: Faroe Islands 17 Finland 25
Challenge Trophy Final
Semi-Finals
Mar 29: Bosnia 20 Faroe Islands 21
Mar 30: Great Britain 16 Bosnia 23
Bronze Medal play-off
Mar 27: Great Britain 19 Faroe Islands 16
Mar 28: Great Britain 24 Estonia 16
Men's Play-off NewsPLAY-off leaders Great Dane
take on second-placed
Manchester University at
Leyton on Sunday in a must-
win match for the student
side.
The clash of the top two is
the final game in the
programme, but before that
Cambridge, fourth, and
Manchester, third, will play
with both needing points to
maintain hopes of glory.
And in between those
two games, Bolton will play
Oxford and will be looking to
score a victory and avoid
the wooden spoon.
National Division One Play-Off table
FIXTURES, April 6
Men's National League Play-offs (Leyton, London):
Cambridge v Manchester, Oxford v Bolton, Great Dane v
Manchester Univ.
THE England Handball
Association has placed
bans on three players
following an incident in the
British Cup match between
Olympia and Tryst at
Leyton on March 16 which
led to the game being
abandoned.
Olympia’s Arturas
Kaskelis received a 40-
month ban from all
competitions, while team-
mate Vytautas Lenkevicius
was banned from further
involvement in this year’s
Cup, and was also banned
from the English League
Group Stages: GB results
Mar 29: Great Britain 16 Finland 29
EHA ruling on Olympia versus TrystHigh-flyer: Holly Lam-Moores in action against Cyprus.
Main Round Group B
Main Round Group A
Mar 26: Great Britain 29 Cyprus 17
GREAT Britain Women achieved their target of
finishing in the top four of the European Challenge
Trophy in Cyprus last week, but narrowly missed out
on the bronze medal after losing 23-16 to Bosnia
Herzegovina.
Head coach Jesper Holmris
had targeted a top four finish
in the event and that is what
they achieved, leaving the
squad in good spirits and
optimistic for the future of a
young team.
Their defence was superb
throughout and they scored
many goals from fast break
attacks, and with every
member of the squad playing
at the top of their game it
gives Holmris and his team a
positive base to work from as
they plan the next stage of the
GB team’s development.
With the team's focus on a
very mobile and aggressive
defence, the players' strength
and fitness was tested to the
full and proved to be
outstanding throughout the
gruelling tournament,
demonstrating that the work
being done with the World
Class Handball programme,
both in Denmark and
Sheffield, is paying dividends.
The team who finally
knocked Great Britain out of
the competition, Finland,
went on to win convincingly in
the final where they beat the
Faroe Islands 25-17.
The GB campaign had
started in confident style, with
a 29-17 victory over hosts
Cyprus, and then remained
unbeaten through the group
stages with victories over the
Faroe Islands (19-16), and
Estonia (24-16).
But in the semi-finals they
lost out to eventual winners
Finland 29-16, and the next
day battled hard for the
bronze with previous
tournament winners Bosnia
Herzegovina, only to lose 23-
16.
Top scorer in the
competition was Holly Lam-
Moores, while Kelsi
Fairbrother was named in the
all-stars team as the best right
wing in the tournament, as
voted for by each team’s head
coach. Goalkeeper Sarah
Hargreaves narrowly missed
out on a spot in the all-stars
team after a consistently
strong performance, but was
just beaten by her Bosnian
counterpart.
* See page two of Handball
News for more pictures from
the Challenge Trophy.
HANDBALL NEWSPhotographs by Andreas Papadopoulos
CHALLENGE TROPHY PICTURE SPECIAL
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Great Britain Women's squad, pictured after the 2008 European Challenge Trophy.
Great Britain women, pictured in action
against Cyprus (blue shirts) and Bosnia
Herzegovina (black shirts) at the 2008
European Challenge Trophy.