CACrown ArchivesThe cinema collection
EN/FR
Search
Menu
Research dossier · General Reference

Congolese Handball Federation

governing body of handball in the Republic of the Congo

Cross-disciplinary reference desk with index cards, atlas, dictionary and catalogue
General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ104854516 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Congolese Handball Federation (French: Fédération Congolaise de Handball) (CHF) is the administrative and controlling body for handball and beach handball in the Republic of the Congo. Founded in 1970, CHF is a member of African Handball Confederation (CAHB) and the International Handball Federation (IHF).

National teams

Congo men's national handball team

Congo men's national junior handball team

Congo women's national handball team

References

External links

Congo at the IHF website.

Congo Archived 2021-01-24 at the Wayback Machine at the CAHB website.

Editorial summary

“Congolese Handball Federation” enters the record as governing body of handball in the Republic of the Congo. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Congolese, Handball and Federation can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1970, 2021—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1970. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Congolese, Handball and Federation.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Congolese Handball Federation” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Congolese, Handball and Federation provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q104854516. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1970 and 2021.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

Best used for
  • Subject orientation
  • Search vocabulary
  • Locating named sources
Verify next

The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Congolese Handball Federation”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Congolese Handball Federation primary sources, Congolese Handball Federation archive and Congolese research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Congolese Handball Federation”?
  2. What terminology or title could unlock a more precise catalogue search?
  3. Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
Subject index

Search terms from this dossier

Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Congolese Handball Federation” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.