Let's talk about the achievements of the national teams in front of our own fans in hockey and handball. In each of these events, we will take exclusively the world championships and the Olympic tournaments for men and women.
Let's start with hockey, because everything is nowhere simpler here, and this simplicity lies in only one word - Canada. Surprisingly, only Canadian girls managed to win at home courts. In 2010, they won the Olympic "gold" of Vancouver, and the hostesses became world champions at tournaments in the country of the "maple leaf" 5 times - in 1990, 1997, 2000, 2004 and 2007. In total, Canada has hosted the world hockey forum 7 times, and the Olympic tournaments for women began to be held only in 1980, so the games in Vancouver became the only home games for the Canadians. Agree, an excellent percentage of realizing the chances of winning with your viewers!
As for handball, everything is much more varied in the game with a handball. To begin with, none of the home tournament winners were able to repeat the success again, even if their country again hosted similar competitions. Only Soviet girls were able to become Olympic champions at home games in 1980, and after 2 Olympic cycles their success was repeated by Korean women in Seoul in 1988. The World Handball Championships ended with a modest four cases of victories of their athletes. Historical in this respect were the tournaments in 1962 in Romania, in 1973 in the then still existing Yugoslavia, in 1999 Norway gave the victory to its handball players, and in 2005 the Russian team became the best among the rest of the national teams.
Now we give way to the stronger sex, especially since they have something to demonstrate to us. In the hockey part of the narrative, the main characters, strange as it may seem, were not Canadians at all, but athletes from the United States (2 victories at the 1960 and 1980 Olympics), the Soviet Union (2 triumphs at the World Championships in 1979 and 1986), and from the not yet divided Czechoslovakia (3 titles of the best national team in the world in 1947, 1972 and 1985).
In total, German handball players have become the best on their home court three times. One victory of them went to the Olympic team in 1936, the other two fell on the planetary championships in 1938 and 2007. Among other victors, we note the Swedish, French and Spanish handball players who prevailed over opponents in 1954, 2001 and 2013, respectively.
