2018 Women's Youth World Handball Championship


The 2018 Women's Youth World Handball Championship was the seventh edition of the tournament and took place in Kielce, Poland from 7 to 19 August 2018.
Russia defeated Hungary in the final to win their second straight and third overall title.

Qualification

Brazil was unable to participate and therefore Austria was being named to replace them.

Venues

The championship will be played at two venues in Kielce. All the venue capacities are the capacity for handball events.
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Legionów Hall
Capacity: 3,030		Politechnika Hall
Capacity: 1,000
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Draw

The draw was held on 26 April 2018 in Basel, Switzerland.

Preliminary round

''All time are local.''

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

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President's Cup

21st place bracket

21st–24th place semifinals

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17th place bracket

17th–20th place semifinals

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9–16th placement games

The eight losers of the round of 16 will be seeded according to their results in the preliminary round against teams ranked 1–4.

Knockout stage

Bracket

;5th place bracket

Round of 16

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Quarterfinals

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5–8th place semifinals

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Semifinals

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Final ranking

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2018 Women's Youth World Champions

Russia
First title
Team roster: Mariia Cherniaeva, Nadezhda Kolesnikova, Elena Mikhaylichenko, Anna Vereshchak, Anna Sheina, Alina Sinelnikova, Sofia Krakhmaleva, Viktoriia Turushina, Ekaterina Skivko, Valeriia Maslova, Elina Sidnina, Valeriia Kirdiasheva, Ekaterina Levchina, Kristina Mukhina, Elena Smirnova, Ekaterina Karabutova.
Head coach: Liubov Sidoricheva.

Awards

MVP : Elena MikhaylichenkoTop Goalscorer : Nikita van der Vliet

All-Star Team