The Egyptian women's youth handball team achieved a historic victory against France in the group stage of the World Championship under 18 years held in Romania.
Egypt's youth team succeeded in winning against France, fourth in the world in the previous edition of the tournament, with a score of 29-24.
The first half ended with Egypt leading 14-11.
Malak Abu Yusuf, the Egyptian national team player, received the award for best player in the match.
The French team suffered against Egypt, as the French youth only scored one goal in the first seven minutes from a penalty throw.
Egypt's youth continued, in their fifth historical participation, to top the first group with 4 points, after achieving victory in the first round against Croatia, runner-up in the European Championship under 17 years, with a score of 27-24, yesterday Wednesday.
France's and Croatia's youth compete to snatch the second place in the group.
Egypt's youth meet in the last round of the group stage against Fiji, the bottom of the standings, on Friday.
The Egyptian youth team qualified for the main round among 7 teams that achieved that after only two rounds.
The Egyptian team will be in the main round in one group alongside one of the teams (France or Croatia), and two teams from the second group (Czech Republic, Denmark, South Korea, and Mexico).
Each team qualifies with the same results from the first round matches.
Spain and Germany qualified from the third group, while Hungary and Sweden qualified from the fifth group, and Slovakia and Japan secured their seats from the seventh group.
The World Youth Championship is held in its 11th edition in Romania during the period from July 29 to August 9, with the participation of 32 teams distributed into 8 groups.
The two teams finishing first and second in each group qualify for the main round.
Russia's youth won the World Championship 3 times, Denmark twice, and one championship each for South Korea, Romania, Spain, and Sweden, while the 2020 edition was canceled due to the spread of the Corona virus.
The best position achieved by the Egyptian youth team is seventh place in the 2022 edition.
