Handball at the 2012 Summer Olympics

The handball tournaments at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held from 28 July to 12 August in the Olympic Park.

Handball at the Games of the XXX Olympiad

Tournament details
Host country	United Kingdom
Venue(s)	Basketball Arena Copper Box Arena
Dates	28 July – 9 August 2012
Teams	24 (from 9 confederations)
Final positions
Champions	France (men) Norway (women)
Runner-up	Sweden (men) Montenegro (women)
Third place	Croatia (men) Spain (women)
Fourth place	Hungary (men) South Korea (women)

Preliminary rounds and the quarter-finals were held in the Copper Box while the semi-finals and final took place in the larger Basketball Arena.

Medals were awarded in a men's tournament and a women's tournament. The gold medals were won by France (men) and Norway (women).

Events

Two sets of medals were awarded in the following events:

• Men's handball (12 teams)
• Women's handball (12 teams)

Referees

The Copper Box staged the preliminary matches.

The executive committee of the International Handball Federation appointed 17 referee pairs for the 2012 Games:

• Charlotte Bonaventura and Julie Bonaventura
• Diana-Carmen Florescu and Anamaria Duță
• Carlos María Mariana and Darío Leonel Minore
• Yalatima Coulibali and Mamoudou Diabaté
• Matija Gubica and Boris Milošević
• Václav Horáček and Jiří Novotný
• Per Olesen and Lars Ejby Pedersen
• Oscar Raluy and Ángel Sabroso
• Nordine Lazaar and Laurent Reveret
• Brian Bartlett and Allan Stokes
• Lars Geipel and Marcus Helbig
• Gjorgi Nachevski and Slave Nikolov
• Kenneth Abrahamsen and Arne M. Kristiansen
• Mansour Abdulla Al-Suwaidi and Saleh Jamaan Bamurtef
• Nenad Krstič and Peter Ljubič
• Nenad Nikolić and Dušan Stojković
• Omar Mohammed Zubaeer Al-Marzouqi and Mohammed Rashid Mohamed Al-Nuaimi

Qualifying criteria

Each National Olympic Committee may enter up to one men's and one women's team in the handball tournaments.

Men

Main article: Handball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

	Date	Venue	Vacancies	Qualified
Host nation	6 July 2005	Singapore	1	Great Britain
2011 World Championship	13–30 January 2011	Sweden	1	France
2011 Pan American Games	16–24 October 2011	Mexico	1	Argentina
2011 Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament	23 October – 2 November 2011	South Korea	1	South Korea
2012 African Championship	11–20 January 2012	Morocco	1	Tunisia
2012 European Championship	15–29 January 2012	Serbia	1	Denmark
2012 IHF Qualification Tournament #1	6–8 April 2012	Spain	2	Spain Serbia
2012 IHF Qualification Tournament #2	6–8 April 2012	Sweden	2	Sweden Hungary
2012 IHF Qualification Tournament #3	6–8 April 2012	Croatia	2	Croatia Iceland
Total			12

Women

Main article: Handball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification

	Date	Venue	Vacancies	Qualified
Host Nation	6 July 2005	Singapore	1	Great Britain
2010 European Championship	7–19 December 2010	Denmark Norway	1	Sweden†
2011 Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament	12–21 October 2011	China	1	South Korea
2011 Pan American Games	15–23 October 2011	Mexico	1	Brazil
2011 World Championship	2–18 December 2011	Brazil	1	Norway
2012 African Championship	11–20 January 2012	Morocco	1	Angola
2012 IHF Qualification Tournament #1	25–27 May 2012	France	2	Montenegro France
2012 IHF Qualification Tournament #2	25–27 May 2012	Spain	2	Spain Croatia
2012 IHF Qualification Tournament #3	25–27 May 2012	Denmark	2	Russia Denmark
Total			12

^† Sweden qualified as 2010 European Championship runner up because Norway qualified as the 2011 World Champion.

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France	1	0	0	1
	Norway	1	0	0	1
3	Montenegro	0	1	0	1
	Sweden	0	1	0	1
5	Croatia	0	0	1	1
	Spain	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		2	2	2	6

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's handball	France (FRA) Jérôme Fernandez Didier Dinart Xavier Barachet Guillaume Gille Bertrand Gille Daniel Narcisse Guillaume Joli Samuel Honrubia Daouda Karaboué Nikola Karabatić Thierry Omeyer William Accambray Luc Abalo Cédric Sorhaindo Michaël Guigou	Sweden (SWE) Mattias Andersson Mattias Gustafsson Kim Andersson Jonas Källman Magnus Jernemyr Niclas Ekberg Dalibor Doder Jonas Larholm Tobias Karlsson Johan Jakobsson Johan Sjöstrand Fredrik Petersen Kim Ekdahl du Rietz Mattias Zachrisson Andreas Nilsson	Croatia (CRO) Venio Losert Ivano Balić Domagoj Duvnjak Blaženko Lacković Marko Kopljar Igor Vori Jakov Gojun Zlatko Horvat Drago Vuković Damir Bičanić Denis Buntić Mirko Alilović Manuel Štrlek Ivan Čupić Ivan Ninčević
Women's handball	Norway (NOR) Kari Aalvik Grimsbø Ida Alstad Heidi Løke Tonje Nøstvold Karoline Dyhre Breivang Kristine Lunde-Borgersen Kari Mette Johansen Marit Malm Frafjord Linn Jørum Sulland Katrine Lunde Haraldsen Linn-Kristin Riegelhuth Koren Gøril Snorroeggen Amanda Kurtović Camilla Herrem	Montenegro (MNE) Marina Vukčević Radmila Miljanić Jovanka Radičević Ana Đokić Marija Jovanović Ana Radović Anđela Bulatović Sonja Barjaktarović Maja Savić Bojana Popović Suzana Lazović Katarina Bulatović Majda Mehmedović Milena Knežević	Spain (ESP) Andrea Barnó Carmen Martín* Nely Carla Alberto Beatriz Fernández Verónica Cuadrado Marta Mangué Macarena Aguilar Silvia Navarro Jessica Alonso Elisabeth Pinedo Begoña Fernández Vanessa Amorós Patricia Elorza Mihaela Ciobanu Marta López*

External links

Media related to Handball at the 2012 Summer Olympics at Wikimedia Commons

• Handball at the 2012 Summer Olympics. London2012.com. at the UK Government Web Archive (archived 28 February 2013)
• Official results book – Handball. London2012.com. at the Wayback Machine (archived 11 May 2013)
• 2012 Olympic handball qualification – men (format and results). TeamHandballNews.com.
• 2012 Olympic handball qualification – women (format and results). TeamHandballNews.com.
• Handball at the 2012 Summer Olympics at SR/Olympics (archived)
• International Handball Federation
• European Handball Federation