2016 Women's Junior World Handball Championship

The 2016 Women's Junior World Handball Championship was the 20th edition of the tournament and took place in Moscow, Russia from 2 to 15 July 2016. Denmark won their second title after defeating Russia 32–28 in the final.

Teams

 * Africa


 * Asia


 * Europe
 * (Substitute for Oceania)
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 * Pan-America

Venues
Matches will be played in Moscow.


 * Krylatskoye Sports Palace (5,000)
 * Alexander Gomelsky Universal Sports Hall CSKA (5,500)

Referees
The following 16 referee pairs were selected.

Preliminary round
All time are local (UTC+3).

9–16th placement games
The eight losers of the round of 16 were seeded according to their results in the preliminary round against teams ranked 1–4.

Bracket



 * 5th place bracket

Awards

 * MVP : 🇷🇺 Yaroslava Frolova
 * Top Goalscorer : 🇰🇷 Song Ji-eun (85 goals)

All-Star Team

 * Goalkeeper : Althea Reinhardt
 * Right wing : 🇳🇴 Mathilde Rivas Toft
 * Right back : 🇷🇺 Antonina Skorobogatchenko
 * Centre back : 🇷🇴 Cristina Laslo
 * Left back : 🇷🇺 Yulia Golikova
 * Left wing : Lærke Nolsøe
 * Pivot : 🇩🇪 Annika Ingenpaß