Handball is from poland?

Question

i have been looking at yahoo answers about where handball is from and i am surprised that some fools said it was from ireland. i always thought it was made in poland in the early 1930s. and i stick by my answer, but anyways WHAT DO YOU THINK/KNOW ?

Answer 1

I actually think it is from Ireland...

Answer 2

Once again you're a victim of the confusion that handball category causes. You see there is 2 types of handball court-handball and team-handball. Team handball is not a very well known sport in English speaking countries , but people do know about the hand wall version though that isn't exactly a big sport.

#1 Court Handball: Involves 2-4 players , a ball, durable hands, and a few walls played on a court. Think of Squash without the rackets.  Yes this Version of Handball was invented in Ireland and is a part of the Irish Gallic Games (GAA). It was Irish immigrants who brought the game to the United States, Canada, and Australia.

#2  As far as Poland being where Handball-Team is from that is not what the International Handball Federation or IOC Olympic Sports report.  They report that handball in its modern form was invented around the late 19th century in DENMARK, SWEDEN,  and Germany. It was German physical education teachers who developed the rules and created the field version of handball. Field Handball was version at the 1936 Summer Games.

  Team Handball- In its modern version was the preferred version of the Scandinavians. In 1946 the new 7X7 indoor version of handball had its 1st World Championships and  was added to the Olympics in 1972.

Answer 3

Team handball has origins reaching as far as antiquity: urania in ancient Greece, harpaston in ancient Rome, fangballspiel in medieval Germany, etc. There are also records of handball-like games in medieval France, and among the Inuit in Greenland, in the Middle Ages, and in Ancient Africa, primarily Egypt. By the 19th century, there existed similar games of haandbold from Denmark, hazena in Bohemia and Slovakia, gandbol in Ukraine, torball in Germany, as well as versions in Ireland and Uruguay.

The team handball game as we know it today was formed by the end of the 19th century in northern Europe, primarily Denmark, Germany, Norway and Sweden. The Dane Holger Nielsen drew up the rules for modern handball (håndbold) in 1898 (and published them in 1906), and R.N. Ernst did something similar in 1897.

Answer 4

idk really but i think that wherever its from, USA is the country in which people play the most..i mean 300,000 people alone play in the USA.....that's pretty amazing