The SC Magdeburg is a professional Handball club from Magdeburg, Germany. The team plays in the highest German league, the Handball-Bundesliga and regularly in international competitions. They won the EHF Champions League in 2002 and 2023, the EHF European League in 1999, 2001, 2007, 2021 and the IHF Men's Super Globe in 2021 and 2022. The governing body of this handball club is a professional multi-sports club and has also departments for: canoe sprint, athletics, rowing, swimming and gymnastics.
Bogdan Brunon Wenta is a Polish politician and handball coach and former Polish and German handball player. He has been a member of the Poland men's national handball team in 1981–1994 and Germany men's national handball team in 1997–2000, a participant of the Olympic Games Sydney 2000, five-time Polish Champion, and former head coach of Poland. He has been one of the best handball player in the history of Polish handball. Between 2014 and 2018 he was a Member of the European Parliament for the Polish Civic Platform. In 2018, he was elected as Mayor of Kielce, having run from his own committee with the endorsement of the Civic Platform.
Daniel Narcisse is a retired French handball player and French international from 2000 to 2017. He is a double Olympic champion, quadruple World champion and triple European champion, one of the most awarded French team handball players with nine international titles. He progresses to the position of half-center or rear left.
Tonje Larsen is a retired Norwegian handballer who played for the Norwegian national team. She is Olympic champion, World champion and three times European champion. As a club player she is several times Norwegian champion and once Danish champion, and has won the EHF Cup, EHF Cup Winners' Cup and the EHF Champions League.
Anne Dorthe Tanderup is a former Danish team handball player, Olympic champion and World Champion.
Beatrix Kökény is a former Hungarian handball player, European champion and multiple Olympic medalist, who currently serves as the technical director of Ferencvárosi TC.
Lars Stefan Lövgren is a Swedish former handball player. He was born in Gothenburg. Making his debut in the national team in 1993, he played a total of 268 games and scored 1138 goals. During his adult career he played for Redbergslids IK, and German sides TV Niederwürzbach and Champions League- and Bundesliga-winning team THW Kiel. He was the captain of the national team during the period 1996–2006 and for THW Kiel 2001–2009. He is a five-time Swedish league champion with Redbergslid, and a seven-time Bundesliga champion with THW. He won the German cup four times, and he helped lead Kiel to the European Champions League title in 2007.
Domagoj Duvnjak is a Croatian professional handball player for THW Kiel and the Croatia national team. Duvnjak is regarded as one of the best handball players of all time alongside fellow Croatian Ivano Balić.
Bertrand Fabien Gille is a handball player from France. Very strong physically, and was honored with the title of World Player of the Year in 2002.
Ágnes Farkas is a former Hungarian handball player. She won a gold medal at the 2000 European Championship, and earned a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics and at the 1995 and 2003 World Championships.
Lars Thomas Sivertsson is a Swedish handball player who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics and in the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Patrik Ćavar is a retired Croatian handball player. The legendary left wing played in Croatia for Mehanika Metković, Badel 1862 Zagreb and Agram Medveščak, in Bosnia and Herzegovina for Borac Banja Luka, in Spain for FC Barcelona, BM Granollers, and in France for Saint-Marcel Vernon.
Aleš Pajovič is a Slovenian retired handball player and current coach of the Austrian national team.
The following squads and players competed in the men's handball tournament at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Christian Scheffler is a German handball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
The following squads and players competed in the women's handball tournament at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Tine Lindemann is a German former handball player (goalkeeper). She competed in the women's tournament at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Melanie Schliecker is a German former handball player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Juri Knorr is a German handball player for Rhein-Neckar Löwen and the German national team.
