| Handball at the Summer Youth Olympics | |
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| Governing body | IHF |
| Events | 2 (men: 1; womens: 1) |
| Games | |
Handball was inducted at the Youth Olympic Games at the inaugural edition in 2010 for both boys and girls.
From the 2018 edition in Buenos Aires, beach handball replaced handball.
| Year | Host | Event | Gold medal game | Bronze medal game | ||||||
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| Gold medalist | Score | Silver medalist | Bronze medalist | Score | Fourth place | |||||
| 2010 [1] Details | Singapore | Handball |  Egypt | 35 – 25 |  South Korea |  France | 40 – 27 |  Brazil | ||
| 2014 Details | Nanjing | Handball |  Slovenia | 31 – 25 | Egypt |  Norway | 33 – 25 |  Qatar | ||
| 2018 Details | Buenos Aires | Beach handball |  Spain | 2 – 1 |  Portugal |  Argentina | 2 – 0 |  Croatia | ||
| 2026 Details | Dakar | Beach handball | ||||||||
| Team | 2010 | 2014 | 2018 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Argentina | - | - | 3rd | |
 Brazil | 4th | 5th | - | |
 Chinese Taipei | - | - | 9th | |
 Cook Islands | 6th | – | - | |
 Croatia | - | - | 4th | |
 Egypt | 1st | 2nd | - | |
 France | 3rd | – | - | |
 Hungary | - | - | 5th | |
 Italy | - | - | 8th | |
 Mauritius | - | - | 12th | |
 Norway | – | 3rd | - | |
 Paraguay | - | - | 11th | |
 Portugal | - | - | 2nd | |
 Qatar | – | 4th | - | |
 Senegal | – | - | Q | |
 Singapore | 5th | – | - | |
 Slovenia | – | 1st | - | |
 South Korea | 2nd | – | - | |
 Spain | - | – | 1st | |
 Thailand | - | – | 6th | |
 Tunisia | – | 6th | - | |
 Uruguay | - | – | 10th | |
 Venezuela | - | – | 7th | |
| Total teams | 6 | 6 | 12 | 12 |
| Year | Host | Event | Gold medal game | Bronze medal game | ||||||
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| Gold medalist | Score | Silver medalist | Bronze medalist | Score | Fourth place | |||||
| 2010 [2] Details | Singapore | Handball |  Denmark | 28 – 26 |  Russia | Brazil | 45 – 23 |  Kazakhstan | ||
| 2014 Details | Nanjing | Handball | South Korea | 32 – 31 | Russia |  Sweden | 23 – 16 | Brazil | ||
| 2018 Details | Buenos Aires | Beach handball | Argentina | 2 – 0 | Croatia |  Hungary | 2 – 0 |  Netherlands | ||
| 2026 Details | Dakar | Beach handball | ||||||||
| Team | 2010 | 2014 | 2018 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 American Samoa | - | – | 11th | |
 Angola | 5th | 5th | - | |
| Argentina | - | – | 1st | |
 Australia | 6th | – | - | |
| Brazil | 3rd | 4th | - | |
 China | – | 6th | - | |
| Chinese Taipei | - | – | 6th | |
| Croatia | - | – | 2nd | |
 Denmark | 1st | – | - | |
 Hong Kong | - | - | 10th | |
| Hungary | - | - | 3rd | |
 Kazakhstan | 4th | – | - | |
| Mauritius | - | - | 12th | |
 Netherlands | - | - | 4th | |
| Paraguay | - | - | 5th | |
 Russia | 2nd | 2nd | 7th | |
| Senegal | – | - | - | Q |
| South Korea | – | 1st | - | |
 Sweden | – | 3rd | - | |
 Turkey | - | - | 9th | |
| Venezuela | - | - | 8th | |
| Total teams | 6 | 6 | 12 | 12 |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Egypt | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
 South Korea | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| 3 |  Argentina | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 |  Denmark | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
 Slovenia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
 Spain | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 7 |  Russia | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 |  Croatia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Portugal | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 10 | Brazil | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 France | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Hungary | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Norway | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Sweden | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (14 entries) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 | |
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