It was a comeback without the big redemption for Norway’s håndboldkvinder, who missed a place in the semi-finals at the european championships in France.
instead, the Netherlands and Romania, the two semifinalebilletter from group 2.
It is clear, after the last matches of the mellemrunden was played on Wednesday evening.
Norway’s reigning european champions began mellemrunden without points, but storsejre over Hungary, the Netherlands and Spain meant that the norwegians suddenly approached a sensational place in the semi-finals.
After Norway on Wednesday afternoon had gone to Spain with the 33-26, so had the norwegians have two chances to qualify.
The first option went up in smoke, when Hungary beat Romania with 31-29. If the hungarians had scored just a single goal more, so it would have sent Norway far in the tournament.
The last chance consisted in the fact that Germany later in the evening had to beat the Netherlands, and it did not happen.
instead won the Dutch, with coach Helle Thomsen on the sidelines with a 27-21 over the germans.
The formstærke norwegians had probably been the favourites to regain the tournament, if they had come in the semifinals, but instead, there’s a battle for the fifth/sixth place.
From the Danish group – group 1 – Russia and France, the hosts progress to the semi-finals, while Sweden meets Norway in a battle for fifth place.
In the semi-finals are the Netherlands against France, while Romania meets Russia.
