Tournament details | |
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Host country | United Kingdom |
Dates | 29 July – 12 August |
Teams | 12 (from 4 confederations) |
Final positions | |
Champions | France (2nd title) |
Runner-up | Sweden |
Third place | Croatia |
Fourth place | Hungary |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 38 |
Goals scored | 1,983 (52.18 per match) |
Attendance | 209,625 (5,516 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | Niclas Ekberg (50 goals) [1] |
Handball at the 2012 Summer Olympics | ||
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Tournament | ||
men | women | |
Rosters | ||
men | women | |
The men's handball tournament at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held from 28 July to 12 August at the Olympic Park. The group stage matches were held at the Copper Box and the knockout rounds took place at the larger Basketball Arena.
Twelve nations were represented in the tournament. The four best teams from each group advanced to a quarter-final round, while the 5th and 6th teams in each group were classified 9th–12th by the results of their group matches. Unlike in previous Olympics there was no placement matches involving the losing teams of the quarter-finals.
The medals for the competition were presented by Austin Sealy, Barbados, IOC Member, Gunilla Lindberg, Sweden, IOC Executive Board Member, and Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, Kuwait, IOC Member, and the medalists' bouquets were presented by Hassan Moustafa, IHF President, Egypt, Miguel Roca Mas, 1st IHF Vice President, Spain, and Leon Kalin, Slovenia, IHF Commission of Organising and Competitions.
Date | Venue | Vacancies | Qualified | |
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Host nation | 1 | Great Britain | ||
2011 World Championship | 13–30 January 2011 | Sweden | 1 | France |
2011 Pan American Games | 16–24 October 2011 | Mexico | 1 | Argentina |
Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament 2011 | 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 |
Before the draw the IHF seeded the teams in six pots. The draw for the groups was held on 30 May 2012. [2]
Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 | Pot 5 | Pot 6 |
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France | Sweden | Iceland | Serbia | Denmark | South Korea |
Spain | Croatia | Hungary | Great Britain | Argentina | Tunisia |
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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Iceland | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 167 | 132 | +35 | 10 | Quarter-finals |
France | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 159 | 110 | +49 | 8 | |
Sweden | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 156 | 115 | +41 | 6 | |
Tunisia | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 121 | 125 | −4 | 4 | |
Argentina | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 113 | 138 | −25 | 2 | |
Great Britain | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 96 | 192 | −96 | 0 |
29 July 2012 09:30 | Iceland | 31 – 25 | Argentina | Copper Box, London Attendance: 3,701 [3] Referees: Geipel, Helbig (GER) |
Sigurðsson 9 | (15–14) | D. Simonet 5 | ||
3× 6× | Report | 3× 1× |
29 July 2012 14:30 | Sweden | 28 – 21 | Tunisia | Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,155 [4] Referees: Raluy López, Sabroso (ESP) |
Doder 8 | (16–11) | Boughanmi 6 | ||
3× 4× | Report | 3× 5× |
29 July 2012 19:30 | France | 44 – 15 | Great Britain | Copper Box, London Attendance: 5,000 [5] Referees: Abdulla, Bamutref (QAT) |
Joli 11 | (21–7) | Garnham 6 | ||
2× 2× | Report | 3× 4× 1× |
31 July 2012 09:30 | Tunisia | 22 – 32 | Iceland | Copper Box, London Attendance: 3,559 [6] Referees: Al-Nuaimi, Omar (UAE) |
Bannour 10 | (8–19) | Pálmarsson 8 | ||
4× 3× | Report | 4× 5× |
31 July 2012 14:30 | Great Britain | 19 – 41 | Sweden | Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,382 [7] Referees: Nikolić, Stojković (SRB) |
Larsson 4 | (10–24) | Ekberg 13 | ||
3× 6× 1× | Report | 3× 4× |
31 July 2012 21:15 | Argentina | 20 – 32 | France | Copper Box, London Attendance: 3,906 [8] Referees: Olesen, Peders (DEN) |
Fernández, Riccobelli 4 | (9–17) | Karabatić 7 | ||
3× 2× | Report | 3× 2× |
2 August 2012 11:15 | France | 25 – 19 | Tunisia | Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,670 [9] Referees: Nikolić, Stojković (SRB) |
Narcisse 7 | (12–11) | Bannour 5 | ||
4× 5× | Report | 4× 7× |
2 August 2012 16:15 | Great Britain | 21–32 | Argentina | Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,581 [10] Referees: Coulibaly, Diabate (CIV) |
Larsson 6 | (11–16) | Simonet 6 | ||
4× 4× | Report | 3× 3× |
2 August 2012 21:15 | Sweden | 32 – 33 | Iceland | Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,590 [11] Referees: Nachevski, Nikolov (MKD) |
Källman 9 | (13–17) | Pálmarsson 9 | ||
3× 3× | Report | 3× 8× |
4 August 2012 09:30 | Tunisia | 34 – 17 | Great Britain | Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,319 [12] Referees: Gubica, Milošević (CRO) |
Toumi 10 | (14–8) | Edgar 5 | ||
3× 5× | Report | 3× 6× |
4 August 2012 14:30 | Sweden | 29 – 13 | Argentina | Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,592 [13] Referees: López, Sabroso (ESP) |
Ekberg 9 | (12–8) | Simonet 3 | ||
4× 1× | Report | 3× 2× |
4 August 2012 19:30 | Iceland | 30 – 29 | France | Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,521 [14] Referees: Krstić, Ljubić (SLO) |
Petersson 6 | (16–15) | Fernandez 9 | ||
3× 7× | Report | 2× 4× |
6 August 2012 11:15 | Argentina | 23 – 25 | Tunisia | Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,645 [15] Referees: Olesen, Pedersen (DEN) |
Simonet 6 | (12–12) | Alouini 7 | ||
2× 7× 1× | Report | 3× 6× 1× |
6 August 2012 16:15 | Iceland | 41 – 24 | Great Britain | Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,856 [16] Referees: Abdulla, Bamutref (QAT) |
Sigurðsson 8 | (18–15) | Larsson 9 | ||
3× 4× | Report | 3× 5× |
6 August 2012 21:15 | France | 29 – 26 | Sweden | Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,833 [17] Referees: Gubica, Milošević (CRO) |
Narcisse 6 | (18–12) | Ekberg, Andersson 5 | ||
3× 1× | Report | 3× 2× |
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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Croatia | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 150 | 109 | +41 | 10 | Quarter-finals |
Denmark | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 124 | 129 | −5 | 8 | |
Spain | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 140 | 126 | +14 | 6 | |
Hungary | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 114 | 128 | −14 | 4 | |
Serbia | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 120 | 131 | −11 | 2 | |
South Korea | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 115 | 140 | −25 | 0 |
29 July 2012 11:15 | Croatia | 31 – 21 | South Korea | Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,068 [18] Referees: Marina, Minore (ARG) |
Čupić 8 | (14–8) | Jeong Yi-kyeong 5 | ||
1× 4× | Report | 2× 6× |
29 July 2012 16:15 | Spain | 26 – 21 | Serbia | Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,600 [19] Referees: Abrahamsen, Kristiansen (NOR) |
Sarmiento Melián 5 | (10–14) | Ilić 6 | ||
3× 5× | Report | 3× 5× |
29 July 2012 21:15 | Hungary | 25 – 27 | Denmark | Copper Box, London Attendance: 5,000 [20] Referees: Lazaar, Reveret (FRA) |
Császár 8 | (10–13) | Eggert 9 | ||
1× 7× | Report | 3× 5× |
31 July 2012 11:15 | South Korea | 19 – 22 | Hungary | Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,262 [21] Referees: Nachevski, Nikolov (MKD) |
Jeong Yi-kyeong, Jeong Han 4 | (9–7) | Lékai 5 | ||
4× 3× | Report | 4× 4× |
31 July 2012 16:15 | Serbia | 23 – 31 | Croatia | Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,827 [22] Referees: Horáček, Novotný (CZE) |
Vujin 6 | (9–13) | Čupić 8 | ||
4× 3× | Report | 3× 4× |
31 July 2012 19:30 | Denmark | 24 – 23 | Spain | Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,368 [23] Referees: Krstić, Ljubić (SLO) |
Hansen 8 | (13–12) | three players 4 | ||
4× 6× | Report | 4× 1× |
2 August 2012 09:30 | Spain | 33 – 29 | South Korea | Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,209 [24] Referees: Lazaar, Reveret (FRA) |
Ugalde 6 | (16–14) | Lee Jae-woo 8 | ||
3× 4× | Report | 2× 8× |
2 August 2012 14:30 | Croatia | 26 – 19 | Hungary | Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,950 [25] Referees: Abrahamsen, Kristiansen (NOR) |
Čupić 7 | (11–9) | Császár, Nagy 4 | ||
3× 6× | Report | 3× 2× |
2 August 2012 19:30 | Serbia | 25 – 26 | Denmark | Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,504 [26] Referees: Geipel, Helbig (GER) |
Vujin 7 | (11–13) | Hansen 7 | ||
3× 7× | Report | 2× 3× |
4 August 2012 11:15 | South Korea | 22 – 28 | Serbia | Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,525 [27] Referees: Bonaventura, Bonaventura (FRA) |
Jeong Han 6 | (10–12) | Nikčević, Toskić 5 | ||
3× 2× | Report | 6× 1× |
4 August 2012 16:15 | Croatia | 32 – 21 | Denmark | Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,800 [28] Referees: Lazaar, Reveret (FRA) |
three players 5 | (14–9) | Eggert Jensen, Lindberg 5 | ||
3× 2× | Report | 3× 3× |
4 August 2012 21:15 | Hungary | 22 – 33 | Spain | Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,280 [29] Referees: Horáček, Novotný (CZE) |
Nagy 7 | (13–16) | Aguinagalde 9 | ||
4× 4× | Report | 3× 4× |
6 August 2012 09:30 | Hungary | 26 – 23 | Serbia | Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,159 [30] Referees: Abrahamsen, Kristiansen (NOR) |
Mocsai 9 | (9–11) | Ilić, Prodanović 5 | ||
4× 3× | Report | 3× 4× |
6 August 2012 14:30 | Denmark | 26 – 24 | South Korea | Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,546 [31] Referees: Al-Nuaimi, Omar (UAE) |
Eggert Jensen, Knudsen 6 | (13–14) | Lee Jae-woo, Eom Hyo-won 6 | ||
4× 2× | Report | 2× 1× |
6 August 2012 19:30 | Spain | 25 – 30 | Croatia | Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,856 [32] Referees: Geipel, Helbig (GER) |
Entrerríos, Tomás 5 | (10–11) | Čupić, Lacković 7 | ||
3× 3× | Report | 4× 2× |
Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Gold Medal match | ||||||||||||
A1 | Iceland | 33 | ||||||||||||
B4 | Hungary (OT) | 34 | ||||||||||||
B4 | Hungary | 26 | ||||||||||||
A3 | Sweden | 27 | ||||||||||||
B2 | Denmark | 22 | ||||||||||||
A3 | Sweden | 24 | ||||||||||||
Sweden | 21 | |||||||||||||
France | 22 | |||||||||||||
A2 | France | 23 | ||||||||||||
B3 | Spain | 22 | ||||||||||||
A2 | France | 25 | Bronze medal match | |||||||||||
B1 | Croatia | 22 | ||||||||||||
B1 | Croatia | 25 | B4 | Hungary | 26 | |||||||||
A4 | Tunisia | 23 | Croatia | 33 |
8 August 2012 11:00 | Iceland | 33 – 34 (ET) | Hungary | Basketball Arena, London Attendance: 9,063 [33] Referees: Lazaar, Reveret (FRA) |
Sigurðsson 8 | (12–16) | Nagy 9 | ||
3× 2× | Report | 3× 4× | ||
FT: 27–27 ET: 3–3, 3–4 |
8 August 2012 14:30 | Spain | 22 – 23 | France | Basketball Arena, London Attendance: 8,890 [34] Referees: Nikolić, Stojković (SRB) |
Tomás 6 | (12–9) | Accambray 7 | ||
4× 3× | Report | 4× 3× |
8 August 2012 18:00 | Sweden | 24 – 22 | Denmark | Basketball Arena, London Attendance: 9,494 [35] Referees: Nachevski, Nikolov (MKD) |
Doder 6 | (11–9) | Lindberg 6 | ||
4× 5× | Report | 4× 2× |
8 August 2012 21:30 | Croatia | 25 – 23 | Tunisia | Basketball Arena, London Attendance: 9,578 [36] Referees: Marina, Minore (ARG) |
Čupić 8 | (11–12) | Jallouz, Alouini 4 | ||
2× 3× | Report | 4× 5× 1× |
10 August 2012 17:00 | Hungary | 26 – 27 | Sweden | Basketball Arena, London Attendance: 9,597 [37] Referees: Geipel, Helbig (GER) |
Császár 8 | (12–15) | Ekberg 6 | ||
4× 3× | Report | 3× 5× |
10 August 2012 20:30 | France | 25 – 22 | Croatia | Basketball Arena, London Attendance: 9,849 [38] Referees: Abrahamsen, Kristiansen (NOR) |
three players 4 | (12–10) | Horvat 6 | ||
4× 2× | Report | 4× 2× |
12 August 2012 11:00 | Hungary | 26 – 33 | Croatia | Basketball Arena, London Attendance: 9,263 [39] Referees: Horáček, Novotný (CZE) |
Harsányi 7 | (14–19) | Čupić 8 | ||
4× 4× | Report | 3× 3× |
12 August 2012 15:00 | Sweden | 21 – 22 | France | Basketball Arena, London Attendance: 9,627 [40] Referees: Krstić, Ljubić (SLO) |
Ekberg 6 | (8–10) | Guigou 5 | ||
3× 4× | Report | 4× 2× |
Final ranking
| All-star team
Chosen by team officials and IHF experts: IHF.info |
Top goalscorers
| Top goalkeepers
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