Handball_at_the_2012_Summer_Olympics_–_Women's_tournament

Women's handball at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Tournament details
Host country	Great Britain
Venue(s)	Basketball Arena; Copper Box Arena
Dates	28 July – 11 August
Teams	12 (from 4 confederations)
Final positions
Champions	Norway (2nd title)
Runner-up	Montenegro
Third place	Spain
Fourth place	South Korea
Tournament statistics
Matches played	38
Goals scored	1,908 (50.21 per match)
Attendance	185,189 (4,873 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Katarina Bulatović; (53 goals)
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Handball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

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The women's handball tournament at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held from 28 July to 11 August. The preliminaries and quarter-finals were held at the Copper Box and the semi-finals and final took place at the Basketball Arena.

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Twelve nations were represented in the tournament. The four best teams from each group advanced to a knockout 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 quarterfinals.

Norway won the tournament and gold medal, beating Montenegro in the final. Montenegro's silver was the first Olympic medal for the country as an independent nation, and the country's only medal at the 2012 Games. Spain won the bronze medal.

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	Date	Venue	Vacancies	Qualified
Host nation			1	Great Britain
2010 European Championship	7–19 December 2010	Denmark Norway	1	Sweden^†
Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament 2011	12–21 October 2011	China	1	South Korea
2011 Pan American Games	15–23 October 2011	Mexico	1	Brazil
2011 World Championship	2–18 December 2011	Brazil	1	Norway
2012 African Championship	11–20 January 2012	Morocco	1	Angola
2012 IHF Qualification Tournament #1	25–27 May 2012	France	2	Montenegro France
2012 IHF Qualification Tournament #2	25–27 May 2012	Spain	2	Spain Croatia
2012 IHF Qualification Tournament #3	25–27 May 2012	Denmark	2	Russia Denmark
Total			12

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Brazil	5	4	0	1	137	122	+15	8	Quarter-finals
Croatia	5	4	0	1	145	115	+30	8
Russia	5	3	1	1	151	125	+26	7
Montenegro	5	2	1	2	137	123	+14	5
Angola	5	1	0	4	132	142	−10	2
Great Britain	5	0	0	5	91	166	−75	0

28 July 2012 09:30	Russia	30 – 27	Angola	Copper Box, London Attendance: 3,604^[2] Referees: Nachevski, Nikolov (MKD)
	Postnova 5	(16–11)	Guialo 5
	3× 3×	Report	3× 4×

28 July 2012 14:30	Croatia	23 – 24	Brazil	Copper Box, London Attendance: 3,942^[3] Referees: Bonaventura, Bonaventura (FRA)
	Jovetić 6	(10–9)	do Nascimento, Amorim 5
	3× 4×	Report	3× 6× 1×

28 July 2012 19:30	Montenegro	31 – 19	Great Britain	Copper Box, London Attendance: 3,941^[4] Referees: Duţă, Florescu (ROU)
	A. Bulatović 5	(18–12)	Gerbron 6
	3× 4×	Report	3× 5×

Handball_at_the_2012_Summer_Olympics_–_Women's_tournament

Handball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

Qualification

Seeding

Rosters

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Knockout stage

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Bronze medal match

Gold medal match

Rankings and statistics

Final ranking

All-star team

Top goalkeepers

Top goalscorers

References

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30 July 2012 09:30	Angola	23 – 28	Croatia	Copper Box, London Attendance: 3,892^[5] Referees: Al-Nuaimi, Omar (UAE)
	Guialo, M. Kiala 5	(11–13)	Zebić 9
	2× 4×	Report	3× 2×

30 July 2012 14:30	Great Britain	16 – 37	Russia	Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,596^[6] Referees: Bonaventura, Bonaventura (FRA)
	Byl 5	(8–17)	Turey, Chernoivanenko 5
	3× 1×	Report	2× 4×

30 July 2012 19:30	Brazil	27 – 25	Montenegro	Copper Box, London Attendance: 3,974^[7] Referees: Olesen, Pedersen (DEN)
	do Nascimento 8	(15–16)	K. Bulatović 5
	3× 4× 1×	Report	3× 7× 1×

1 August 2012 11:15	Montenegro	30 – 25	Angola	Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,354^[8] Referees: Abdulla, Bamutref (QAT)
	Popović, K. Bulatović 6	(13–14)	Carlos 7
	3× 3×	Report	3× 3×

1 August 2012 16:15	Great Britain	17 – 30	Brazil	Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,622^[9] Referees: Coulibaly, Diabate (CIV)
	Byl, Gerbron 5	(8–17)	Rodrigues 7
	2× 3×	Report	3× 3×

1 August 2012 21:15	Russia	28 – 30	Croatia	Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,098^[10] Referees: Marina, Minore (ARG)
	Turey 6	(15–15)	Penezić 10
	3× 5×	Report	3× 6×

3 August 2012 09:30	Angola	31 – 25	Great Britain	Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,081^[11] Referees: Florescu, Duţă (ROU)
	Almeida 8	(14–10)	Gerbron 9
	2× 3×	Report	3× 1×

3 August 2012 14:30	Croatia	27 – 26	Montenegro	Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,541^[12] Referees: Lopez, Sabroso (ESP)
	Penezić 10	(12–12)	Popović 10
	3× 5×	Report	2× 4×

3 August 2012 16:15	Russia	31 – 27	Brazil	Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,741^[13] Referees: Lazaar, Reveret (FRA)
	Turey 7	(15–14)	Nascimento 9
	3× 7×	Report	2× 2×

5 August 2012 11:15	Brazil	29 – 26	Angola	Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,585^[14] Referees: Bartlett, Stokes (GBR)
	three players 5	(14–9)	Kiala 6
	3× 1×	Report	3× 3×

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
France	5	4	1	0	125	103	+22	9	Quarter-finals
South Korea	5	3	1	1	136	130	+6	7
Spain	5	3	1	1	119	114	+5	7
Norway	5	2	1	2	118	120	−2	5
Denmark	5	1	0	4	113	121	−8	2
Sweden	5	0	0	5	108	131	−23	0

5 August 2012 14:30	Montenegro	25 – 25	Russia	Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,444^[15] Referees: Abrahamsen, Kristiansen (NOR)
	Bulatović 7	(15–16)	three players 4
	2× 6×	Report	2× 8× 1×

5 August 2012 16:15	Croatia	37 – 14	Great Britain	Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,792^[16] Referees: Marina, Minore (ARG)
	three players 5	(17–6)	Fairbrother 3
	3× 3×	Report	3× 4×

28 July 2012 11:15	Spain	27 – 31	South Korea	Copper Box, London Attendance: 3,900^[17] Referees: Gubica, Milošević (CRO)
	Martín 7	(12–16)	Ryu Eun-hee 9
	3× 2×	Report	3× 3×

28 July 2012 16:15	Denmark	21 – 18	Sweden	Copper Box, London Attendance: 3,942^[18] Referees: Nikolić, Stojković (SRB)
	Skov 6	(8–10)	Gulldén 5
	3× 4×	Report	4× 3×

28 July 2012 21:15	Norway	23 – 24	France	Copper Box, London Attendance: 3,968^[19] Referees: Krstić, Ljubić (SLO)
	Alstad 5	(12–17)	Baudouin, Signaté 5
	3× 2×	Report	4× 5× 1×

30 July 2012 11:15	South Korea	25 – 24	Denmark	Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,393^[20] Referees: Duţă, Florescu (ROU)
	Jo Hyo-bi 5	(11–10)	Larsen 7
	3× 1×	Report	3× 2×

30 July 2012 16:15	France	18 – 18	Spain	Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,671^[21] Referees: Horáček, Novotný (CZE)
	Dembélé 6	(7–10)	Mangué 6
	3× 6× 1×	Report	4× 4×

30 July 2012 21:15	Sweden	21 – 24	Norway	Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,459^[22] Referees: Coulibaly, Diabate (CIV)
	Torstenson 6	(9–14)	Koren, Sulland 5
	3× 3×	Report	3× 3×

1 August 2012 09:30	Norway	27 – 27	South Korea	Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,178^[23] Referees: Nachevski, Nikolov (MKD)
	Sulland 11	(13–15)	three players 6
	3×	Report	2× 3×

1 August 2012 14:30	France	29 – 17	Sweden	Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,638^[24] Referees: Gubica, Milošević (CRO)
	three players 4	(16–11)	Ahlm 6
	3× 2×	Report	3× 1×

1 August 2012 19:30	Spain	24 – 21	Denmark	Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,488^[25] Referees: Geipel, Helbig (GER)
	Mangué 7	(14–9)	Nørgaard 7
	3× 3× 1×	Report	3× 1×

3 August 2012 11:15	South Korea	21 – 24	France	Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,568^[26] Referees: Nikolić, Stojković (SRB)
	Sim Hae-in 6	(12–10)	Lacrabère 4
	2× 3×	Report	4× 2×

3 August 2012 19:30	Spain	25 – 24	Sweden	Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,234^[27] Referees: Al-Nuaimi, Omar (UAE)
	Mangué, Alberto 6	(11–10)	Fogelström 5
	3× 3×	Report	4× 2×

3 August 2012 21:15	Denmark	23 – 24	Norway	Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,720^[28] Referees: Horáček, Novotný (CZE)
	Nørgaard 9	(11–12)	Løke 6
	3× 2×	Report	3×

5 August 2012 09:30	Sweden	28 – 32	South Korea	Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,180^[29] Referees: Abdulla, Bamutref (QAT)
	Flognman 8	(13–16)	Ryu Eun-hee 10
	4× 4×	Report	3× 5×

5 August 2012 19:30	Norway	20 – 25	Spain	Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,345^[30] Referees: Krstić, Ljubić (SLO)
	Koren 6	(11–11)	Alonso 7
	3× 4×	Report	3× 4× 1×

5 August 2012 21:15	Denmark	24 – 30	France	Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,616^[31] Referees: Duţă, Florescu (ROU)
	Nørgaard 10	(10–17)	Nijtam 6
	3× 2×	Report	2× 1×

7 August 2012 10:00	Brazil	19 – 21	Norway	Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,549^[32] Referees: Bonaventura, Bonaventura (FRA)
	do Nascimento 5	(13–9)	Koren 5
	3× 3×	Report	2× 1×

7 August 2012 13:30	Spain	25 – 22	Croatia	Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,553^[33] Referees: Horáček, Novotný (CZE)
	Pinedo 7	(13–12)	Tatari 5
	3× 3×	Report	3× 6×

7 August 2012 17:00	Russia	23 – 24	South Korea	Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,299^[34] Referees: Lopéz, Sabroso (ESP)
	Postnova, Levina 5	(11–14)	Gwon Han-na 6
	4× 2×	Report	3× 5×