# IHF Youth Beach Handball World Championship

The IHF Youth Beach Handball World Championship is an international beach handball competition contested by the men's and women's youth national teams of the member federations of International Handball Federation, the sport's global governing body.
The tournament was established in 2017, taking place every two year. The current tournament format lasts over approximately 6 days and involves 16 men's and 16 women's teams initially competing in four groups of four teams. Three teams from each group will advance to main round and then semifinals are played. 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 Flic-en-Flac (Mauritius) and crowned Spain and Hungary as champions in men's and women's category respectively beating Italy and Netherlands by 2–1.

## Men
### Summary

| Year | Host | Gold medal match | Gold medal match | Gold medal match | Bronze medal match | Bronze medal match | Bronze medal match |
| Year | Host | Gold Medalists | Score | Silver Medalists | Bronze Medalists | Score | 4th place |
| 2017 Details | Flic-en-Flac | Spain | 2 – 1 | Italy | Argentina | 2 – 1 | Russia |
| 2022 Details | Heraklion | Croatia | 2 – 1 | Brazil | Iran | 2 – 0 | France |

### Men's medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Croatia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | Spain | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | Brazil | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | Italy | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Argentina | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 5 | Iran | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (6 entries) | Totals (6 entries) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |

### Men's participating nations
#### Legend

* 1st – Champions
* 2nd – Runners-up
* 3rd – Third place
* × — Withdrew from the World Championship
* — Hosts
| Nation | 2017 | 2022 | Years |
| Argentina | 3rd | 5th | 2 |
| Australia | 10th | x | 1 |
| Brazil | × | 2nd | 1 |
| Chinese Taipei | 6th | x | 1 |
| Croatia | x | 1st | 1 |
| Czech Republic | x | 11th | 1 |
| France | x | 4th | 1 |
| Germany | x | 8th | 1 |
| Greece | x | 13th | 1 |
| Iran | x | 3rd | 1 |
| Italy | 2nd | x | 1 |
| Jordan | x | 12th | 1 |
| Mauritius | 12th | x | 1 |
| New Zealand | 13th | x | 1 |
| Pakistan | 9th | x | 1 |
| Paraguay | 11th | x | 1 |
| Portugal | 7th | x | 1 |
| Qatar | x | 10th | 1 |
| Russia | 4th | x | 1 |
| South Africa | 15th | x | 1 |
| Spain | 1st | 7th | 2 |
| Sweden | x | 9th | 1 |
| Thailand | 8th | x | 1 |
| Togo | 14th | 15th | 2 |
| Ukraine | x | 6th | 1 |
| United States | x | 16th | 1 |
| Uruguay | x | 14th | 1 |
| Venezuela | 5th | x | 1 |
| Total | 15 | 16 | |

## Women
### Summary

| Year | Host | Gold medal match | Gold medal match | Gold medal match | Bronze medal match | Bronze medal match | Bronze medal match |
| Year | Host | Gold Medalists | Score | Silver Medalists | Bronze Medalists | Score | 4th place |
| 2017 Details | Flic-en-Flac | Hungary | 2 – 1 | Netherlands | Argentina | 2 – 1 | Portugal |
| 2022 Details | Heraklion | Spain | 2 – 1 | Netherlands | Poland | 2 – 1 | Hungary |

### Women's medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Hungary | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | Spain | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | Netherlands | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | Argentina | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | Poland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (5 entries) | Totals (5 entries) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |

### Women's participating nations
#### Legend

* 1st – Champions
* 2nd – Runners-up
* 3rd – Third place
* × — Withdrew from the World Championship
* — Hosts
| Nation | 2017 | 2022 | Years |
| American Samoa | 12th | x | 1 |
| Argentina | 3rd | 5th | 1 |
| Australia | 13th | x | 1 |
| Brazil | × | 8th | 1 |
| China | 7th | x | 1 |
| Chinese Taipei | 8th | x | 1 |
| Croatia | 9th | x | 1 |
| France | x | 6th | 1 |
| Germany | x | 7th | 1 |
| Greece | x | 12th | 1 |
| Hong Kong | x | 16th | 1 |
| Hungary | 1st | 4th | 2 |
| India | x | 14th | 1 |
| Mauritius | 14th | x | 1 |
| Netherlands | 2nd | 2nd | 2 |
| Paraguay | 11th | x | 1 |
| Poland | x | 3rd | 1 |
| Portugal | 4th | x | 1 |
| Puerto Rico | x | 15th | 1 |
| Romania | x | 9th | 1 |
| Spain | 5th | 1st | 2 |
| Thailand | 6th | 11th | 2 |
| Ukraine | × | 10th | 1 |
| Uruguay | × | 13th | 1 |
| Venezuela | 10th | x | 1 |
| Total | 14 | 16 | |