Year	Competition	Champion	Sub-Champion	Bronze
1996	I Mundial	Spain	Netherlands
1998	II Mundial	Spain	France
2000	III Mundial	Spain	Netherlands
2002	IV Mundial	Spain	Netherlands
2004	V Mundial	Spain	Italy
2008	VI Mundial	Netherlands	Spain	Belgium
2012	VII Mundial	Netherlands	Colombia	Spain
2014	VIII Mundial	Belgium	Spain
2018	IX Mundial	Valenciana*	Belgium	Netherlands

Note: *Comunidad Valenciana is a region of Spain considered a country in CIJB similar to Wales and Scotland being regions of Britain considered countries by FIFA in Soccer

Report

Spain won the first five World Championships (Mundial) in the Llargues mode of Pelota a Mano (Hand-Pelota) from its inception in 1996 to 2004, Netherlands has won two since, with Belgium and Comunidad Valenciana winning the other two.

Pelota a Mano is a team Handball sport similar to both GAA Handball and Basque Pelota. The CIJB (Confederacion Internacional de Pelota a Mano) has been organising European Championships since 1993 and World Championships since 1996.

Llargues is one of the three main Modes of Pelota a Mano along with One Wall and International.

References

Images

[1] CIJB (2015) logo_cijb [Internet] Available from: https://cijb.info/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/logo_cijb.png [Accessed 15 May 2018]

Websites

[2] CIJB (2017) Historial de Los Campeonatos Internacionales de la CIJB [Internet] Available from: https://cijb.info/historia/ [Accessed 14 August 2020]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Enda Fahy

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