Romania national handball team won in front of France on Thursday night (34 : 31) in a heart-weakening game, thus qualifying to the world championship semi-finals. After starting the game in a modest note and being led at half-time, 14:8, Romania recovered and evened the score. The game time ended at 24:24, the two overtime rounds continued to maintain the equality (27:27) and two extra overtime rounds were finally necessary to decide a winner.

In the next game, Romania will play against Russia, a game similar to the finals last two years ago, when Russia won the gold.