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Handball is a ball game that originated in Europe. What is its development history?
Handball is a team game designed by a physical education teacher who teaches in Berlin, Germany. 19 17, the PE teacher successfully designed handball, a team ball game that changed the rules of football and rugby. Handball, a ball game, not only embodies individual skills, but also tests the team's ability to cooperate. Besides, handball is a very good way to exercise muscles and bones, which requires little space, is low in danger and has moderate exercise.

Haiser thinks that the main features of popular football and rugby are fighting and chasing, and boys have great advantages in these two sports, so they can't show women's characteristics, so he designed handball, a ball game that can show women's characteristics. The original rule of handball is that you can't kick the ball with your feet, you can't hit or pull the ball with your body in the game, and you can only start to catch the ball with your hands after your opponent stops.

19 19, another physical education teacher in Berlin, Germany, revised the rules of this handball competition, changing the original rule that the two sides can't touch each other physically, stipulating that the winner can run three steps before passing the ball; 1920, made the exclusive competition rules for handball competition; 1925, Germany and Austria held the first international handball competition, and since then, handball competition has been widely spread all over the world.

1928, the first world men's handball championship was held, and nearly 30 years later, the first women's world handball championship was held. With the development of handball, the number of players has also changed greatly. The original number of handball players was set at eleven, and changed to seven players per team in 1965, and handball was changed from eleven players to seven players. 1972 and 1976, men's and women's handball competitions were included in the Olympic Games.