Handball_at_the_2012_Summer_Olympics_–_Men's_tournament

Men's handball at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Tournament details
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)
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Handball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

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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.

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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.

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	Date	Venue	Vacancies	Qualified
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

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Iceland	5	5	0	167	132	+35	10	Quarter-finals
France	5	4	1	159	110	+49	8
Sweden	5	3	2	156	115	+41	6
Tunisia	5	2	3	121	125	−4	4
Argentina	5	1	4	113	138	−25	2
Great Britain	5	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×

Handball_at_the_2012_Summer_Olympics_–_Men's_tournament

Handball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

Qualification

Seeding

Rosters

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Knockout stage

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Bronze medal match

Gold medal match

Ranking and statistics

Final ranking

All-star team

Top goalscorers

Top goalkeepers

Medalists

References

External links

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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×

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Croatia	5	5	0	150	109	+41	10	Quarter-finals
Denmark	5	4	1	124	129	−5	8
Spain	5	3	2	140	126	+14	6
Hungary	5	2	3	114	128	−14	4
Serbia	5	1	4	120	131	−11	2
South Korea	5	0	5	115	140	−25	0

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

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×

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×

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×