09.05.2023, 01:00
A centenary celebration for the Zebras

FEATURE: THW Kiel celebrate two jubilees this year, and are hoping to continue the party with a trip to Cologne

It all began in the summer of 1923 outside the city gates of Kiel. A few boys in the Hassee-Winterbek gymnastics club no longer just wanted to do gymnastics in military order. They wanted to play.

So they organised a ball and two poles as goalposts and played handball - a sport that the gymnastics movement invented in 1917 as a contrast to football.

TEXT: EHF / Björn Pazen