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21st World Handball Championship (for men’s) in 2009 will take place in Croatia. 7 Croatian city’s will host the World Cup, 3 of them are in the continental part of the country (Zagreb, Varazdin, Osijek) and 4 on the coast (Porec, Pula, Zadar and Split).

The opening will take place today in Split with Croatia versus Korea at 20:30.

The price of tickets for the preliminary group in Osijek, Porec, Split and Varazdin are 150 kuna. The same amount can is for the second round matches that are played in Zadar, while the main group tickets in Zagreb cost 200 kuna.

Semifinal match in Split costs 150 kuna, the second semifinal game is played in Zagreb, and tickets for this match are 300 kuna.

Final meeting and the game for the third place is on 01 February in Zagreb and the ticket cost 350 kuna.

Final Round

Main Round

Group I

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GDIF	Points
Croatia	5	5	0	0	137	118	+19	10
France	5	4	0	1	139	112	+27	8
Hungary	5	2	1	2	127	135	-8	5
Sweden	5	2	0	3	135	140	-5	4
Slovakia	5	1	1	3	124	137	-13	3
South Korea	5	0	0	5	119	139	-20	0

Group II

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GDIF	Points
Denmark	5	4	0	1	156	145	+11	8
Poland	5	3	0	2	150	141	+9	6
Germany	5	2	1	2	147	133	+14	5
Serbia	5	2	1	2	153	161	-8	5
Norway	5	2	0	3	138	141	-3	4
Macedonia	5	1	0	4	132	155	-23	2

Preliminary round

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
France Hungary Slovakia Romania Argentina Australia	Croatia Sweden Spain South Korea Kuwait Cuba	Germany Poland FYR Macedonia Russia Tunisia Algeria	Denmark Norway Egypt Brazil Serbia Saudi Arabia

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Zagrebački Velesajam / Zagreb Fair

Avenija Dubrovnik 15, Zagreb

18 - 22 February 2009

In 17 years of its existence Boat & Sport Show has proved once again that it is an unavoidable event for all producers and their representatives in sport and sailing business.
This is the leading fair in sport-nautical industry in the countries of Southeast Europe.

The Fair will have more broad programe and new thematic units, compared to previous years. Leading world and domestic companies will present new products from the world of sports and nautic, and show in which direction this industry is walking nowdays.
PROGRAM

Sports

* Sports equipment
* Sports shoes and clothing
* Shoes and clothing for free time
* The construction and equipping of sports facilities and courts
* Supplies and equipment for camping
* Weapons, accessories, clothing and shoes for hunting and fishing
* Services in sport
* Sports medicine
* Sport nutrition

Nautics

* Various tipes of vessels - yachts, speedboats, sailing boats…
* Boat engines
* Sails, spar and equipment for the vessel
* Equipment for water sports
* Marinas, marine equipment
* Equipment for diving, underwater fishing and hunting
* Clothing and footwear for boaters
* Nautical tourism
* Charter services, sailing and diving

Official site - Zageb Fair

International Federation of Boat Show Organisors

04.01.2009 & 06.01.2009
Sljeme, Zagreb

Men’s and women’s World Cup slalom at Zagreb’s Sljeme will take place at beginning of January 2009. Snow Queen (Snježna kraljica) is a women’s slalom race of the Alpine skiing World Cup, the event attracts approximately 15,000 to 20,000 spectators,and the total prize money fund which is given on Snow Queen is the biggest in women races which is making it the largest women’s race in the world cup.

Originally the race was named “Golden Beer”, but to honor Janica Kostelić sport victories (she was the World Cup overall champion in 2001, 2003, 2006, and is considered to be one of the greatest female skiers of all time!) the race changed it’s name to the “Snow Queen”.
The organizer of the race is Croatian Ski Association, technical information about the race course are:

Course name: Crveni spust
Start: 995 m
Finish: 785 m
Vertical drop: 210 m
FIS homologation No.: 7669/12/04

Total prize money fund for the FIS World Cup “Vip Snow Queen Trophy” 2009 is 165.000 € for the ladie’s race (04.01.) and 165.000 € for the men’s race.

1st place    60.000 €
2nd place   30.000 €
3rd place    15.000 €
4th place     8.000 €

Snow Queens:

Year    Winner
2005   Tanja Poutiainen
2006   Marlies Schild
2007   Marlies Schild
2008   Tanja Poutiainen

Official site: Vip Snow Queen Trophy