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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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.

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.

Qualification

	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

Seeding

Before the draw the IHF seeded the teams in six pots. The draw for the groups was held on 30 May 2012.^[2]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4	Pot 5	Pot 6
France	Sweden	Iceland	Serbia	Denmark	South Korea
Spain	Croatia	Hungary	Great Britain	Argentina	Tunisia

Rosters

Group stage

Group A

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

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

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×

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×

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×

Group B

South Korea v Serbia

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

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

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×

Knockout stage

The Basketball Arena was the venue for the knockout stage of the men's tournament

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Gold Medal match

A1

Iceland

33

B4

Hungary (OT)

34

B4

Hungary

26

A3

Sweden

27

B2

Denmark

22

A3

Sweden

24

Sweden

21

France

22

A2

France

23

B3

Spain

22

A2

France

25

Bronze medal match

B1

Croatia

22

B1

Croatia

25

B4

Hungary

26

A4

Tunisia

23

Croatia

33

Quarter-finals

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

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×

Semi-finals

10 August 2012 17:00	Hungary	26 – 27	Sweden	Basketball Arena, London Attendance: 9,597^[37] Referees: Geipel, Helbig (GER)
	Császár 8	(12–15)	Ekberg 6
	4× 3×	Report	3× 5×

10 August 2012 20:30	France	25 – 22	Croatia	Basketball Arena, London Attendance: 9,849^[38] Referees: Abrahamsen, Kristiansen (NOR)
	three players 4	(12–10)	Horvat 6
	4× 2×	Report	4× 2×

Bronze medal match

12 August 2012 11:00	Hungary	26 – 33	Croatia	Basketball Arena, London Attendance: 9,263^[39] Referees: Horáček, Novotný (CZE)
	Harsányi 7	(14–19)	Čupić 8
	4× 4×	Report	3× 3×

Gold medal match

12 August 2012 15:00	Sweden	21 – 22	France	Basketball Arena, London Attendance: 9,627^[40] Referees: Krstić, Ljubić (SLO)
	Ekberg 6	(8–10)	Guigou 5
	3× 4×	Report	4× 2×

Ranking and statistics

Final ranking

Rank	Team
	France
	Sweden
	Croatia
4	Hungary
5	Iceland
6	Denmark
7	Spain
8	Tunisia
9	Serbia
10	Argentina
11	South Korea
12	Great Britain

Source: IHF.info

All-star team

Goalkeeper: Thierry Omeyer
Left wing: Jonas Källman
Left back: Aron Pálmarsson
Central back: Nikola Karabatić
Right back: Kim Andersson
Right wing: Ivan Čupić
Pivot: Julen Aguinagalde

Chosen by team officials and IHF experts: IHF.info

Top goalscorers

Rank	Name	Team	Goals	Shots	%
1	Niclas Ekberg	Sweden	50	74	68%
2	Ivan Čupić	Croatia	49	68	72%
3	Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson	Iceland	44	66	67%
4	Gábor Császár	Hungary	38	67	57%
5	Aron Pálmarsson	Iceland	37	63	59%
6	László Nagy	Hungary	33	71	46%
7	Domagoj Duvnjak	Croatia	32	58	55%
	Anders Eggert Jensen	Denmark	32	44	74%
	Blaženko Lacković	Croatia	32	53	60%
	Daniel Narcisse	France	32	51	63%

Source: IHF.info

Top goalkeepers

Rank	Name	Team	%	Saves	Shots
1	Hreiðar Guðmundsson	Iceland	44%	48	110
2	Johan Sjostrand	Sweden	41%	73	176
3	Marcus Cleverly	Denmark	39%	19	49
4	Venio Losert	Croatia	37%	23	63
	Thierry Omeyer	France	37%	94	252
	Darko Stanić	Serbia	37%	66	179
	Arpad Šterbik	Spain	37%	61	164
8	Mirko Alilović	Croatia	36%	82	226
9	Niklas Landin Jacobsen	Denmark	34%	62	185
10	Matías Schulz	Argentina	33%	46	140

Source: IHF.info

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
France (FRA) Jérôme Fernandez Didier Dinart Xavier Barachet Guillaume Gille Bertrand Gille Daniel Narcisse Guillaume Joli Samuel Honrubia Daouda Karaboué Nikola Karabatić Thierry Omeyer William Accambray Luc Abalo Cédric Sorhaindo Michaël Guigou Head Coach: Claude Onesta	Sweden (SWE) Mattias Andersson Mattias Gustafsson Kim Andersson Jonas Källman Magnus Jernemyr Niclas Ekberg Dalibor Doder Jonas Larholm Tobias Karlsson Johan Jakobsson Johan Sjöstrand Fredrik Petersen Kim Ekdahl du Rietz Mattias Zachrisson Andreas Nilsson Head Coach: Staffan Olsson	Croatia (CRO) Venio Losert Ivano Balić Domagoj Duvnjak Blaženko Lacković Marko Kopljar Igor Vori Jakov Gojun Zlatko Horvat Drago Vuković Damir Bičanić Denis Buntić Mirko Alilović Manuel Štrlek Ivan Čupić Ivan Ninčević Head Coach: Slavko Goluža

References

^ London 2012 Handball Statistics, retrieved 12 August 2012 Archived 22 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Seeding List completed". IHF. 8 April 2012. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
^ "Iceland – Argentina" (PDF). IHF. 29 July 2012.
^ "Sweden – Tunisia" (PDF). IHF. 29 July 2012.
^ "France – Great Britain" (PDF). IHF. 29 July 2012.
^ "Tunisia – Iceland" (PDF). IHF. 31 July 2012.
^ "Great Britain – Sweden" (PDF). IHF. 31 July 2012.
^ "Argentina – France" (PDF). IHF. 31 July 2012.
^ "France – Tunisia" (PDF). IHF. 2 August 2012.
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^ "Sweden – Iceland" (PDF). IHF. 2 August 2012.
^ "Tunisia – Great Britain" (PDF). IHF. 4 August 2012.
^ "Sweden – Argentina" (PDF). IHF. 4 August 2012.
^ "Iceland – France" (PDF). IHF. 4 August 2012.
^ "Argentina – Tunisia" (PDF). IHF. 6 August 2012.
^ "Iceland – Great Britain" (PDF). IHF. 6 August 2012.
^ "France – Sweden" (PDF). IHF. 6 August 2012.
^ "Croatia – South Korea" (PDF). IHF. 29 July 2012.
^ "Spain – Serbia" (PDF). IHF. 29 July 2012.
^ "Hungary – Denmark" (PDF). IHF. 29 July 2012.
^ "South Korea – Hungary" (PDF). IHF. 31 July 2012.
^ "Serbia – Croatia" (PDF). IHF. 31 July 2012.
^ "Denmark – Spain" (PDF). IHF. 31 July 2012.
^ "Spain – South Korea" (PDF). IHF. 2 August 2012.
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^ "Serbia – Denmark" (PDF). IHF. 2 August 2012.
^ "South Korea – Serbia" (PDF). IHF. 3 August 2012.
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"Handball Competition Schedule Event Details" (PDF). london2012.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 June 2012. Retrieved 23 June 2012.

External links

Official website

[1] London 2012 Handball Statistics, retrieved 12 August 2012 Archived 22 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine

[2] "Seeding List completed". IHF. 8 April 2012. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 29 May 2012.

[3] "Iceland – Argentina" (PDF). IHF. 29 July 2012.

[4] "Sweden – Tunisia" (PDF). IHF. 29 July 2012.

[5] "France – Great Britain" (PDF). IHF. 29 July 2012.

[6] "Tunisia – Iceland" (PDF). IHF. 31 July 2012.

[7] "Great Britain – Sweden" (PDF). IHF. 31 July 2012.

[8] "Argentina – France" (PDF). IHF. 31 July 2012.

[9] "France – Tunisia" (PDF). IHF. 2 August 2012.

[10] "Great Britain – Argentina" (PDF). IHF. 2 August 2012.

[11] "Sweden – Iceland" (PDF). IHF. 2 August 2012.

[12] "Tunisia – Great Britain" (PDF). IHF. 4 August 2012.

[13] "Sweden – Argentina" (PDF). IHF. 4 August 2012.

[14] "Iceland – France" (PDF). IHF. 4 August 2012.

[15] "Argentina – Tunisia" (PDF). IHF. 6 August 2012.

[16] "Iceland – Great Britain" (PDF). IHF. 6 August 2012.

[17] "France – Sweden" (PDF). IHF. 6 August 2012.

[18] "Croatia – South Korea" (PDF). IHF. 29 July 2012.

[19] "Spain – Serbia" (PDF). IHF. 29 July 2012.

[20] "Hungary – Denmark" (PDF). IHF. 29 July 2012.

[21] "South Korea – Hungary" (PDF). IHF. 31 July 2012.

[22] "Serbia – Croatia" (PDF). IHF. 31 July 2012.

[23] "Denmark – Spain" (PDF). IHF. 31 July 2012.

[24] "Spain – South Korea" (PDF). IHF. 2 August 2012.

[25] "Croatia – Hungary" (PDF). IHF. 2 August 2012.

[26] "Serbia – Denmark" (PDF). IHF. 2 August 2012.

[27] "South Korea – Serbia" (PDF). IHF. 3 August 2012.

[28] "Croatia – Denmark" (PDF). IHF. 3 August 2012.

[29] "Hungary – Spain" (PDF). IHF. 4 August 2012.

[30] "Hungary – Serbia" (PDF). IHF. 6 August 2012.

[31] "Denmark – South Korea" (PDF). IHF. 6 August 2012.

[32] "Spain – Croatia" (PDF). IHF. 6 August 2012.

[33] "Iceland – Hungary" (PDF). IHF. 8 August 2012.

[34] "Spain – France" (PDF). IHF. 8 August 2012.

[35] "Sweden – Denmark" (PDF). IHF. 8 August 2012.

[36] "Croatia – Tunisia" (PDF). IHF. 8 August 2012.

[37] "Hungary – Sweden" (PDF). IHF. 10 August 2012.

[38] "France – Croatia" (PDF). IHF. 10 August 2012.

[39] "Hungary – Croatia" (PDF). IHF. 12 August 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 April 2014. Retrieved 11 May 2023.

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