The XVIII Men’s Junior World Handball Championship from 17 to 30 July 2011 encounters an unprecedented media interest. TV stations from around the world will broadcast in total 36 preliminary round matches from the Greek port city of Thessaloniki, which is the venue of the Men’s Junior World Championship. In addition they also expressed their interest in broadcasting numerous eight-finals.
Due to the fact that the matches are generally broadcast on TV as from the quarter-finals, the host and the International Handball Federation expect more than 50 World Championship games to be covered live by TV 2 SPORT A/S from Denmark, RTR Sport from Russia, Arena Sport for Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia/Herzegovina and Montenegro, Sport TV from Portugal, Al Dawri & Al Kass Sports Channel from Qatar and of course by three Greek public stations (ET1, ET3 and Sport+).
Additionally the XVIII Men’s Junior World Handball Championship will also be showed worldwide on www.laola1.tv with a maximum of 8 matches per day. Please find hereafter the matches which can be watched live on LAOLA1.tv (Swiss time):
Sunday, July 17 – Preliminary Round
13:30 Serbia – Chile
13:30 Germany – Benin
15:30 Slovenia – Tunisia
15:30 Egypt – Russia
17:30 Argentina – Venezuela
17:30 Portugal – Canada
19:30 Denmark – Qatar
Monday, July 18 – Preliminary Round
13:00 Tunisia – France
13:30 Norway – Serbia
15:00 Qatar – Argentina
15:30 Russia – Germany
17:00 Algeria – Denmark
17:30 Korea –Egypt
19:00 Venezuela – Greece
19:30 Hungary – Portugal
Tuesday, July 19 – Preliminary Round
13:30 Tunisia – Chile
13:30 Egypt – Benin
15:30 Denmark – Venezuela
15:30 Portugal – Iran
17:30 France – Serbia
17:30 Qatar – Algeria
19:30 Argentina – Greece
19:30 Russia – Korea
Thursday, July 21 – Preliminary Round
13:30 Serbia – Slovenia
13:30 Argentina – Algeria
15:30 Norway – Tunisia
15:30 Spain – Portugal
17:30 Brazil – Egypt
17:30 Greece – Denmark
19:30 Venezuela – Qatar
19:30 Benin – Russia
Friday, July 22 – Preliminary Round
13:30 Serbia – Slovenia
13:30 Korea – Benin
15:30 Algeria – Venezuela
15:30 Portugal – Sweden
17:30 Brazil – Russia
17:30 Denmark – Argentina
19:30 Greece – Qatar
19:30 Egypt – Germany
Sunday, July 24 – Eighth-Finals
* Coverage depends on the teams qualifying to Eighth-Finals
Tuesday, July 26 – Quarter-Finals
13:00 Quarter-Final 1
15:30 Quarter-Final 2
18:00 Quarter-Final 3
20:00 Quarter-Final 4
Thursday, July 28 – Semi-Finals
18:00 Semi-Final 1
20:30 Semi-Final 2
Saturday, July 30 – Finals
17:30 Match for third place
20:30 Final
