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:
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 2011 World Championship 13–30 January 2011 1 2011 Pan American Games 16–24 October 2011 1 2011 Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament 23 October – 2 November 2011 1 2012 African Championship 11–20 January 2012 1 2012 European Championship 15–29 January 2012 1 2012 IHF Qualification Tournament #1 6–8 April 2012 2 2012 IHF Qualification Tournament #2 6–8 April 2012 2 2012 IHF Qualification Tournament #3 6–8 April 2012 2 Total 12
Women
Date Venue Vacancies Qualified Host Nation 6 July 2005 Singapore 1 2010 European Championship 7–19 December 2010 1 † 2011 Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament 12–21 October 2011 1 2011 Pan American Games 15–23 October 2011 1 2011 World Championship 2–18 December 2011 1 2012 African Championship 11–20 January 2012 1 2012 IHF Qualification Tournament #1 25–27 May 2012 2 2012 IHF Qualification Tournament #2 25–27 May 2012 2 2012 IHF Qualification Tournament #3 25–27 May 2012 2 Total 12
† Sweden qualified as 2010 European Championship runner up because Norway qualified as the 2011 World Champion.
Medal summary Medal table
Medalists Men's handball Jérôme FernandezDidier DinartXavier BarachetGuillaume GilleBertrand GilleDaniel NarcisseGuillaume JoliSamuel HonrubiaDaouda KarabouéNikola KarabatićThierry OmeyerWilliam AccambrayLuc AbaloCédric SorhaindoMichaël Guigou Mattias AnderssonMattias GustafssonKim AnderssonJonas KällmanMagnus JernemyrNiclas EkbergDalibor DoderJonas LarholmTobias KarlssonJohan JakobssonJohan SjöstrandFredrik PetersenKim Ekdahl du RietzMattias ZachrissonAndreas Nilsson Venio LosertIvano BalićDomagoj DuvnjakBlaženko LackovićMarko KopljarIgor VoriJakov GojunZlatko HorvatDrago VukovićDamir BičanićDenis BuntićMirko AlilovićManuel ŠtrlekIvan ČupićIvan NinčevićWomen's handball Kari Aalvik GrimsbøIda AlstadHeidi LøkeTonje NøstvoldKaroline Dyhre BreivangKristine Lunde-BorgersenKari Mette JohansenMarit Malm FrafjordLinn Jørum SullandKatrine Lunde HaraldsenLinn-Kristin Riegelhuth KorenGøril SnorroeggenAmanda KurtovićCamilla Herrem Marina VukčevićRadmila MiljanićJovanka RadičevićAna ĐokićMarija JovanovićAna RadovićAnđela BulatovićSonja BarjaktarovićMaja SavićBojana PopovićSuzana LazovićKatarina BulatovićMajda MehmedovićMilena Knežević Andrea BarnóCarmen Martín*Nely Carla AlbertoBeatriz FernándezVerónica CuadradoMarta ManguéMacarena AguilarSilvia NavarroJessica AlonsoElisabeth PinedoBegoña FernándezVanessa AmorósPatricia ElorzaMihaela CiobanuMarta López*
References
External links
2012 Olympic handball qualification – men (format and results). TeamHandballNews.com. 2012 Olympic handball qualification – women (format and results). TeamHandballNews.com.
International Handball Federation European Handball Federation