Handball at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Updated on Nov 22, 2024

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Host country United Kingdom		Venue(s) 2 (in 1 host city)

Dates 28 July – 9 August 2012 Teams 24 (from 5 confederations) Champions France (men) Norway (women) Runner-up Sweden (men) Montenegro (women)

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)

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 Duţă

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

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

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

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