IHF President's Development Award

The IHF President’s Development Award is awarded to IHF member federations. It is granted to two Member Federations every two years at the IHF Congress. Formerly it is known as the Hans Baumann Trophy until 2015.

It is awarded for particular services to the development and spread of handball in the Member Federations’ own countries and/or throughout the world. The recipients are selected and the award granted by the IHF Council at the recommendation of the IHF Executive Committee. After invitation by the IHF, Member Federations may submit a completed IHF questionnaire no later than six months before the Congress.

The Member Federations receiving the award are given a diploma and a small replica of the award. The IHF President’s Development Award is granted to two applicants on two levels:

• Handball developed countries
• Emerging federations

Following is the list of winners of IHF President's Development Award for Handball developed countries:

Year	Winner	Other applicants
2017	Handball Federation of Russia	Norway,  Greece,  Romania,  Serbia,  Ukraine
2019	Norwegian Handball Federation	Netherlands,  Norway,  Romania
2021	Czech Handball Association	South Korea

Following is the list of winners of IHF President's Development Award for Handball emerging federations:

Year	Winner	Other applicants
2017	Mongolian Handball Federation	Costa Rica,  Haiti,  Kyrgyzstan,  Kosovo,  Liberia,  Zimbabwe,  Trinidad and Tobago
2019	Cuba Handball Federation	No application received from any country, IHF Executive Committee recommended to grant the award to Cuba due to their achievements in 2018-19
2021	Colombian Handball Federation	No other applicants

• IHF Statuts Chapter XXI - Regulations of Awards

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