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Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the goal of the other team. A standard match consists of two periods of 30 minutes, and the team that scores more goals wins.
Morten Stig Christensen is a former Danish handball player.
Handball at the 1976 Summer Olympics featured competition for men and women.
Flemming Ladefoged Hansen was a Danish handball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Jørgen Frandsen is a former Danish handball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics and in the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Claus Jørgen From is a former Danish handball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics and in the 1976 Summer Olympics. He played his club handball for IF Stjernen.
Kay Sloth Friis Jørgensen is a former Danish handball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics and in the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Thor Munkager was a Danish handball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics and in the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Søren Andersen is a former Danish handball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Lars Bock is a former Danish handball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Henrik Jacobsgaard is a former Danish handball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Bent Larsen is a former Danish handball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Johnny Piechnik was a Danish handball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Danny Power is a former Canadian handball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Anders Dahl-Nielsen is a former Danish handball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics, in the 1980 Summer Olympics, and in the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Mikkel Hansen is a Danish handball player for Paris Saint-Germain and the Danish national team.
Anders Eggert Magnussen is a retired Danish handball player. He has previously played in Denmark for GOG and Skjern Håndbold, and german side SG Flensburg-Handewitt. He was part of SG Flensburg-Handewitt team that won the 2013–14 EHF Champions League trophy. In his 11 years with SG Flensburg-Handewitt he played in 461 matches and scored 2531 times.
Denmark competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. The National Olympic Committee and Sports Confederation of Denmark sent the nation's second largest delegation to the Games after the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. A total of 113 athletes, 63 men and 50 women, competed in 17 sports, although two additional athletes played as team reserves. Handball was the only team-based sport in which Denmark was represented in at these Olympic games.
The handball tournaments at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro was held from 6 to 21 August at the Future Arena in the Barra Olympic Park. The tournaments were won by Denmark in the men's competition and Russia for the women's tournament. The French teams for both competitions finished with the silver medal, and the bronze went to Germany and Norway, respectively.
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- ↑ Sports-Reference profile Archived 2012-10-25 at the Wayback Machine
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