Handball at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

The women's handball tournament at the 2008 Summer Olympics is being held from August 9 to August 23, at the Olympic Sports Centre Gymnasium and National Indoor Stadium in Beijing. Twelve nations are represented in the women's tournament.

The four best teams from each group will advance to the quarterfinal round, 5th and 6th teams in each group are classified 9th-12th by the results of their group matches. The losers of quarterfinal matches will compete in the 5th-8th classification matches by the same elimination system as the winners of the quarterfinals. Three time consecutive defending Champion Denmark were not part of the 2008 Olympics Handball Tournament, as they did not qualify from the 2007 World Women's Handball Championship.

Qualification Competition Date Venue Vacancies Qualified Host Nation - - 1 IHF World Championships December 2–16, 2007 France 1 European Championships December 7–17, 2006 Sweden 1 Asian Qualifying Tournament August 25–29, 2007 Almaty 1 Africa Nations Cup January 8–17, 2008 Luanda 1 Pan American Games July 14–29, 2007 Rio de Janeiro 1 Olympic Qualifying Tournament 1 March 28–30, 2008 Leipzig 2 Olympic Qualifying Tournament 2 March 28–30, 2008 Bucharest 2 Olympic Qualifying Tournament 3 March 28–30, 2008 Nîmes 2 TOTAL 12

Olympic Qualifying Tournaments: Tournament I: Worlds 3rd: Worlds 9th: Europe: Pan-America: Tournament II: Worlds 4th: Worlds 8th: Asia: Top continent at the Worlds (Europe): Tournament III: Worlds 5th: Worlds 6th: Africa: 2nd continent at the Worlds (Asia): instead of The replays of the Asian Olympic Qualification that were ordered after the manipiulations in the first tournaments of the women and the men were now both won by Korea. In the original tournaments Kuwait (men) and Kazakhstan (women) had won. The Asian Federation (AHF) still does not recognize the order from the IHF and insists on an original decision in the first tournaments. IHF and AHF have agreed to refer this issue to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to assure a speedy resolution to this conflict prior the Olympic Qualification Tournaments as the final ruling will be binding for all parties. the CAS Panel ruled that the resolutions adopted by the IHF Council in Paris were invalid, being in breach with their own rules and without the AHF having been in proper opportunity to be heard. As required by the terms of the arbitration agreement, the CAS Panel considered the issues de novo in order to settle the dispute definitively. On the basis of the evidence submitted, the arbitrators unanimously held that the results of the Men's Olympic Qualification Tournament held in September 2007 should be annulled and that the results of the replayed tournament held on 30 January 2008 were valid. Furthermore the CAS Panel confirmed the results of the Women's Tournament held in August 2007.

Preliminary round

Seeding The draw for the groups was held 16 June 2008. Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4 Pot 5 Pot 6

Rosters

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Medal Round All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8)

Quarterfinals

Classification

Semifinals

7th–8th place

5th–6th place

Bronze medal match

Gold medal match

Rankings and statistics

Classification 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

All Star Team Goalkeeper: Katrine Lunde Haraldsen Left wing: Orsolya Vérten Left back: Liudmila Postnova Centre back: Oh Seong-Ok Right back: Irina Bliznova Right wing: Ramona Maier Line player/pivot: Else-Marthe Sørlie Lybekk Chosen by team officials and IHF experts: IHF.info

Top Goalkeepers RankNameTeam%SavesShots 1 Katrine Lunde Haraldsen 42% 120 283 2 Amandine Leynaud 40% 38 96 Valérie Nicolas 105 264 4 Luminiţa Dinu-Huţupan 39% 97 248 5 Lee Min-Hee 38% 36 95 6 Inna Suslina 37% 59 158 7 Oh Yong-Ran 36% 83 231 Clara Woltering 44 121 9 Sabine Englert 34% 30 87 10 Katalin Pálinger 33% 108 323

Top goalscorers RankNameTeamGoalsShots% 1 Ramona Maier 56 78 72% 2 Anita Görbicz 49 105 47% 3 Hong Jeong-ho 44 66 67% 4 Moon Pil-Hee 42 83 51% 5 Johanna Ahlm 40 95 42% 6 Park Chung-Hee 37 62 60% Liudmila Postnova 76 49% 8 Irina Bliznova 36 70 51% 9 Liu Yun 35 49 71% 10 Ionela Stanca-Gâlcă 33 41 80% Linnea Torstenson 90 37%

References

External links Beijing 2008 Olympic Games International Handball Federation European Handball Federation Team Handball News 2008 Women's Olympic Qualification Summary