Mizuno Partners with British Handball Association

Mizuno has signed as Official Partner and Preferred Footwear Sponsor of The
British Handball Association in a two-year partnership. The Japanese sports brand will provide the official competition and training footwear for the men’s and women’s national teams. To mark the sponsorship, both teams will be launching Mizuno’s new handball specific shoe, the Wave Stealth, developed from research carried out with elite handball players from across Europe.
The next two years will see the European and World Championship qualification campaigns and the world’s best teams battling it out at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
“We are absolutely delighted to be teaming up with the British Handball Association during what will no doubt be an exciting two years of international handball,” said the European Sport Promotions & Communications Co-ordinator for Mizuno Europe, John Hooper. “Handball is a rich part of Mizuno’s heritage that we are extremely proud of and we hope that the brand’s ongoing technical expertise and support of the British teams will give them every chance of Olympic success next year.”
British Handball’s CEO Paul Goodwin said: “We will be competing with some of the best handball teams in the world at the London 2012 Olympic Games, so it is fitting that our athletes have a world class brand in Mizuno to support them.”
Mizuno remains committed to a number of long-standing sponsorships and continues to build an impressive portfolio within the sport of handball. This family of esteemed handball properties include German Bundesliga team TBV Lemgo, the Norwegian national team and Norwegian star player Kristian Kjelling who plays for AaB Håndbold.