Handball at the 2012 Summer Olympics
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| Tournament details | |
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| Host country | File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom |
| Venue(s) | Basketball Arena Copper Box Arena |
| Dates | 28 July – 9 August 2012 |
| Teams | 24 (from 9 confederations) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions | File:Flag of France.svg France (men) File:Flag of Norway.svg Norway (women) |
| Runner-up | File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden (men) File:Flag of Montenegro.svg Montenegro (women) |
| Third place | File:Flag of Croatia.svg Croatia (men) File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain (women) |
| Fourth place | File:Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary (men) File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea (women) |
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The handball tournaments at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held from 28 July to 12 August in the Olympic Park. 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 executive committee of the International Handball Federation appointed 17 referee pairs for the 2012 Games:[1]
- France Charlotte Bonaventura and Julie Bonaventura
- Romania Diana-Carmen Florescu and Anamaria Duță
- Argentina Carlos María Mariana and Darío Leonel Minore
- Ivory Coast Yalatima Coulibali and Mamoudou Diabaté
- Croatia Matija Gubica and Boris Milošević
- Czech Republic Václav Horáček and Jiří Novotný
- Denmark Per Olesen and Lars Ejby Pedersen
- Spain Oscar Raluy and Ángel Sabroso
- France Nordine Lazaar and Laurent Reveret
- United Kingdom Brian Bartlett and Allan Stokes
- Germany Lars Geipel and Marcus Helbig
- North Macedonia Gjorgi Nachevski and Slave Nikolov
- Norway Kenneth Abrahamsen and Arne M. Kristiansen
- Qatar Mansour Abdulla Al-Suwaidi and Saleh Jamaan Bamurtef
- Slovenia Nenad Krstič and Peter Ljubič
- Serbia Nenad Nikolić and Dušan Stojković
- United Arab Emirates 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
Women
- † 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 | File:Flag of France.svg France | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| File:Flag of Norway.svg Norway | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 3 | File:Flag of Montenegro.svg Montenegro | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 5 | File:Civil ensign of Croatia.svg Croatia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (6 entries) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
Medalists
References
- ↑ "London 2012 Olympic Handball Tournaments – 17 referee couples nominated". International Handball Federation. 27 February 2012. Archived from the original on 19 May 2014. Retrieved 17 March 2012.
External links
File:Commons-logo.svg 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