Few month ago in Lausanne, Switzerland, executive board of International World Games Association-IWGA has decided with one asset that Beach handball will be full part of World games.

On the last three World games Beach handball in Akita-Japan 2001, Duisburg-Germany 2005 and Kaohsiung-Taiwan 2009 Beach handball was participating as a calling sport.  The thing is that in country where handball isn’t popular, like Taiwan, all the tickets for Beach handball events were sold out. That was one huge plus for the committee to add Beach handball as full participant.

With this decision Beach handball came shoulder to shoulder with sports like karate, rugby, squash.. All of these sports are very popular in some countries but still haven’t made it to status of Olimpic sport.

Next World games will be held in Cali, Columbia 2013.