Norway continues its perfect performance at the European Women’s Handball Championship

World and European champion Norway continues without mistakes at the European Women’s Handball Championship. The Scandinavians strongly prevailed over Hungary with 32-22 (14-12) in their last Group A match in Ljubljana and finished first in the standings with a full asset of 6 points.

The girls of Thorir Hergeirsson caught up with a hesitant start and a negative result of 6-9 in the 18th minute, reaching the break. In the middle of the second half, the Norwegians already led by 23-16, and shortly before the end, their advance reached 10 goals for the first time at 30-20.

Vilde Ingstad scored 8 goals, while Henny Ella Reistad added 5 goals for the victory of Norway. For Hungary, the top scorer was Katrin Klujber with 6 goals.

Hungary also qualifies for the second phase as the third team in the group with 2 points.

In the other match of the group, Croatia and Switzerland finished 26-26 (14-12). A goal of Katarina Pavlovic 2 seconds before the end gave the draw to Croatia and sent them to second place in the group with 3 points. The Swiss, who led at 26-24 a minute and a half before the end failed to hold and remained the last one point, for which they dropped out of the race.