Spain leads the Global Cup after Handball World Championships triumph
Victory on home soil in the Men’s Handball World Championships
plus a good showing by tennis players Ferrer and Almagro at the Australian Tennis Open in Melbourne, gave Spain a deserved Global Cup lead in January, establishing them as the best nation in sports in the first month of this year.
The Handball Worlds were dominated by European nations, with Denmark in second place and Croatia in third, in fact European nations only were featured in the top 8.
As a result, some of the non-European sporting giants are trailing in the January Global Cup ranking, like the USA (currently 12th), China (15th) and South Korea (22nd).
Despite awarding almost three times as many points as January 2012 however, the month of January is a relatively low-scoring one, and the major powers will immediately have the opportunity to flex their muscles during the busy February schedule, which includes the Alpine Skiing World Championships in Schladming (Austria).
The chase is on, with the added spice of seeing how Global Cup dominators USA will manage to get back into their winning ways.
