# 1962 World Women's Handball Championship

The 1962 World Women's Handball Championship was the second Women's Handball World Championship. It took place in Romania in 1962.
As five years earlier, the competition was played with only seven players on the field, outdoor, on clay, in broad daylight and in two 20-minutes half-times. For the first time a non-European team, namely Japan, entered the competition.

## Preliminary round
### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Czechoslovakia | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 12 | +11 | 3 |
| 2 | Soviet Union | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 24 | −8 | 2 |
| 3 | West Germany | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 18 | −3 | 1 |
| Soviet Union | 11–8 | West Germany |
| Czechoslovakia | 7–7 | West Germany |
| Czechoslovakia | 16–5 | Soviet Union |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Denmark | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 11 | +9 | 4 |
| 2 | Hungary | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 16 | +5 | 2 |
| 3 | Japan | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 29 | −14 | 0 |
| Hungary | 17–8 | Japan |
| Denmark | 8–4 | Hungary |
| Denmark | 12–7 | Japan |

### Group C

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Romania | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 7 | +5 | 3 |
| 2 | Yugoslavia | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 5 | +3 | 3 |
| 3 | Poland | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 14 | −8 | 0 |
| Romania | 9–4 | Poland |
| Yugoslavia | 5–2 | Poland |
| Romania | 3–3 | Yugoslavia |

## Main round

* Team will compete for Places 1–2
* Team will compete for Places 3–4

### Group I

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Romania | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 10 | +6 | 4 |
| 2 | Czechoslovakia | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 12 | −3 | 2 |
| 3 | Hungary | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 15 | −3 | 0 |
| Romania | 9–7 | Hungary |
| Czechoslovakia | 6–5 | Hungary |
| Romania | 7–3 | Czechoslovakia |

### Group II

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Denmark | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 9 | +8 | 4 |
| 2 | Yugoslavia | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 12 | +3 | 2 |
| 3 | Soviet Union | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 20 | −11 | 0 |
| Yugoslavia | 10–5 | Soviet Union |
| Denmark | 10–4 | Soviet Union |
| Denmark | 7–5 | Yugoslavia |

## Classification round

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 7 | Poland | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 14 | +7 | 4 |
| 8 | West Germany | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 11 | +8 | 2 |
| 9 | Japan | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 31 | −15 | 0 |
| Poland | 16–10 | Japan |
| West Germany | 15–6 | Japan |
| Poland | 5–4 | West Germany |

## Finals

| 5/6 | Hungary | 12–10 | Soviet Union |
| 3/4 | Czechoslovakia | 6–5 | Yugoslavia |
| 1/2 | Romania | 8–5 | Denmark |

## Final standings

| Rank | Team |
| | Romania |
| | Denmark |
| | Czechoslovakia |
| 4 | Yugoslavia |
| 5 | Hungary |
| 6 | Soviet Union |
| 7 | Poland |
| 8 | West Germany |
| 9 | Japan |
* 1962 Women's World Champions
* Romania First Title
* Team Roster
* Liliana Borcea, Ana Starck, Edeltraut Franz, Iuliana Naco, Aurelia Szoke-Sălăgeanu, Constanţa Dumitraşcu, Antoaneta Oţelea-Vasile, Felicia Gheorghiţă, Irina Nagy, Cornelia Constantinescu, Aurora Leonte-Niculescu, Iozefina Ugron, Martina Constantinescu-Scheip, Elena Hedesiu, Victoria Dumitrescu and Anna Nemetz-Schauberger. Trainers: Constantin Popescu, Niculae Nedeff