1962 World Women's Handball Championship

The 1962 World Women's Handball Championship was the second Women's Handball World Championship. It took place in Romania in 1962.

As five years earlier, the competition was played with only seven players on the field, outdoor, on clay, in broad daylight and in two 20-minutes half-times. For the first time a non-European team, namely Japan, entered the competition.

Preliminary round

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Main round

	Team will compete for Places 1–2
	Team will compete for Places 3–4

Group I

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Group II

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Classification round

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Finals

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Final standings

Rank	Team
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1962 Women's World Champions Romania Romania First Title Team Roster Liliana Borcea, Ana Starck, Edeltraut Franz, Iuliana Naco, Aurelia Szoke-Sălăgeanu, Constanţa Dumitraşcu, Antoaneta Oţelea-Vasile, Felicia Gheorghiţă, Irina Nagy, Cornelia Constantinescu, Aurora Leonte-Niculescu, Iozefina Ugron, Martina Constantinescu-Scheip, Elena Hedesiu, Victoria Dumitrescu and Anna Nemetz-Schauberger. Trainers: Constantin Popescu, Niculae Nedeff