QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS ON THE PARTICIPATION OF ROMANIAN FEMALE NATIONAL TEAM IN WORLD HANDBALL CHAMPIONSHIP – CHINA 2009

The 19th Women’s World Handball Championship took place in China from 5 to 20 December 2009. Matchess of C group, group that included Romania, took place in Suzhou. In analyzing the evolution of the Romanian handball team in the 2009 Women’s World Championshipthere were used the observation methods (direct observation method or simply watching the matches) and the statistical-mathematical method, having as support statistics provided by the organizers through websites of the competition and of the International Handball Federation. Low efficiency of 9 m line players and of goalkeepers, missed 7m shots in important games led to defeats in all confrontations with the European teams. 9m line players and wing players had a low contribution to the scored goals. The team showed little psychological preparation, evidenced by the series of negative results recorded after the first defeat, in the next 4 matches they got one win, a draw and 2 defeats. In the 9 games in dispute there were obtained 5 wins, one draw and 3 defeats. In comparison, the worldchampion – Russia played 10 matches with 9 wins and one defeat, and world vice-champion won 8 games and lost 2. At the end of these 9 matches there was an average of 34 scored goals per game and 25.66 received goals. For matches with the European teams the average is 26.25 scored goals and 27.75 received.