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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.
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Host country | United Kingdom |
| Dates | 28 July – 9 August 2012 |
| Teams | 24 (from 9 confederations) |
| Venue(s) | Basketball Arena Copper Box Arena |
| 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) |
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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:[1]
- 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
| 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
| 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
References
- ^ . International Handball Federation. 27 February 2012. Archived from the original on 19 May 2014. Retrieved 17 March 2012.
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)
- 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.
- at SR/Olympics (archived)
- International Handball Federation
- European Handball Federation