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Handball, Men

Date	7 – 21 August 2016
Status	Olympic
Location	Arena do Futuro, Parque Olímpico da Barra, Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro
Participants	177 from 12 countries
Format	Round-robin pools advance teams to classification matches.

The two preliminary groups of the men’s Olympic handball tournament were won by Croatia and Germany, who collected as many points as France and Slovenia respectively. Both semi-finals were very close games. Germany, the reigning European champion, lost against world champion France by 28-29. In the other semi-final Denmark succeeded with the same result against Poland after overtime. Surprisingly Denmark won the Olympic gold medal against the clear tournament favorite France in a tight game 28-26. Germany won the bronze medal match against Poland and thus captured the fifth Olympic medal since 1936 for a German team.

Pos	Competitors	NOC	Games	Goals / Saves	Attempts / Shots on Goal	Shots % / Save %	6 metre Shots / Attempts - Saves / Shots	Wing Shots / Attempts - Saves / Shots	9 metre Shots / Attempts - Saves / Shots	7 metre Shots / Attempts - Saves / Shots	Fastbreak Shots / Attempts - Saves / Shots	Breakthrough Shots / Attempts - Saves / Shots	Assists	TOV	Steals	BLK	Yellow Card Warnings	2-minute Suspensions	Red Cards	Disqualifications with Report	TP
1	Denmark	DEN	8	230	369	0.623	45/66	52/75	77/156	15/17	28/39	13/16	96	77	20	30	23	32	2	0	–	Gold
	Mads Christiansen • Mads Mensah Larsen • Casper Mortensen • Jesper Nøddesbo • Lasse Svan • René Toft Hansen • Henrik Møllgaard Jensen • Kasper Søndergaard • Henrik Toft Hansen • Mikkel Hansen • Morten Olsen • Michael Damgaard Nielsen • Niklas Landin • Jannick Green
2	France	FRA	8	241	363	0.664	62/78	37/50	52/118	27/38	39/49	24/30	123	72	17	18	23	22	1	0	–	Silver
	Olivier Nyokas • Daniel Narcisse • Nikola Karabatic • Kentin Mahé • Mathieu Grébille • Timothey N'Guessan • Luc Abalo • Cédric Sorhaindo • Michaël Guigou • Luka Karabatic • Ludovic Fabregas • Adrien Dipanda • Valentin Porte • Vincent Gérard • Thierry Omeyer
3	Germany	GER	8	246	361	0.681	53/78	34/49	70/131	22/26	45/51	22/26	112	76	18	24	26	52	2	0	–	Bronze
	Uwe Gensheimer • Finn Lemke • Patrick Wiencek • Tobias Reichmann • Fabian Wiede • Hendrik Pekeler • Steffen Weinhold • Martin Strobel • Steffen Fäth • Kai Häfner • Julius Kühn • Christian Dissinger • Paul Drux • Silvio Heinevetter • Andreas Wolff • Patrick Groetzki (DNS)
4	Poland	POL	8	222	351	0.632	57/83	22/36	60/128	23/29	39/45	21/30	93	102	25	19	22	35	1	0	–
	Krzysztof Lijewski • Mateusz Jachlewski • Przemysław Krajewski • Karol Bielecki • Adam Wiśniewski • Bartosz Jurecki • Michał Jurecki • Mariusz Jurkiewicz • Kamil Syprzak • Michał Daszek • Mateusz Kus • Łukasz Gierak • Michał Szyba • Sławomir Szmal • Piotr Wyszomirski
5	Croatia	CRO	6	174	293	0.594	41/61	27/36	51/124	13/22	34/41	8/9	76	61	23	20	21	24	2	0	–
	Domagoj Duvnjak • Luka Stepančić • Marko Kopljar • Jakov Gojun • Zlatko Horvat • Igor Karačić • Manuel Štrlek • Ivan Čupić • Marko Mamić • Ivan Slišković • Ilija Brozović • Krešimir Kozina • Ivan Stevanović • Ivan Pešić
6	Slovenia	SLO	6	167	249	0.671	51/73	30/43	19/46	29/38	17/22	21/27	77	64	10	16	19	51	0	0	–
	Blaž Blagotinšek • Nik Henigman • Vid Kavtičnik • Blaž Janc • Jure Dolenec • Darko Cingesar • Vid Poteko • David Miklavčič • Matej Gaber • Uroš Zorman • Marko Bezjak • Simon Razgor • Miha Zarabec • Dean Bombač • Matevž Skok • Gorazd Škof • Urban Lesjak
7	Brazil	BRA	6	168	281	0.598	40/60	23/37	52/120	18/19	24/30	11/15	78	69	21	7	16	25	1	0	–
	Henrique Teixeira • João Pedro da Silva • Lucas Cândido • José Toledo • Diogo Hubner • Thiagus Petrus • Alexandro Pozzer • Fábio Chiuffa • Oswaldo Guimarães • Leonardo Santos • André Soares • Haniel Langaro • Maik • César Almeida
8	Qatar	QAT	6	144	273	0.527	36/58	12/21	60/145	12/14	10/12	14/23	37	67	15	12	14	23	0	0	–
	Žarko Marković • Hassan Mabrouk • Marko Bagarić • Mustafa Alsaltialkrad • Bertrand Roiné • Rafael Capote • Abdulrazzaq Murad • Eldar Memišević • Bassel Al-Rayes • Nasreddine Megdich • Borja Vidal • Kamal Aldin Mallash • Ameen Zakkar • Danijel Šarić • Goran Stojanović
9	Egypt	EGY	5	129	217	0.594	40/56	14/23	21/63	19/27	16/22	19/26	57	54	20	3	15	28	1	0	–
	Mamdouh Abouebaid • Mohamed Ramadan • Islam Hassan • Mohamed Amer • Mohamed El-Bassiouny • Mohamed Hashem • Ibrahim El-Masry • Yehia El-Deraa • Ahmed El-Ahmar • Mohamed Shebib • Ali Mohamed • Mohammad Sanad • Mahmoud Khalil • Karim Hendawy
10	Argentina	ARG	5	110	209	0.526	26/45	18/34	27/75	14/21	10/14	15/20	44	57	11	7	15	21	1	0	–
	Federico Fernández • Federico Pizarro • Sebastián Simonet • Pablo Portela • Pablo Simonet • Leonardo Querin • Federico Vieyra • Juan Pablo Fernández • Agustín Vidal • Gonzalo Carou • Adrián Portela • Pablo Vainstein • Matías Schulz • Fernando García
11	Sweden	SWE	5	132	205	0.644	25/38	22/28	43/89	15/16	15/17	12/17	54	61	11	21	19	35	0	0	–
	Jim Gottfridsson • Kim Andersson • Jerry Tollbring • Lukas Nilsson • Jonathan Stenbäcken • Tobias Karlsson • Johan Jakobsson • Albin Lagergren • Fredrik Petersen • Philip Stenmalm • Mattias Zachrisson • Andreas Nilsson • Jesper Nielsen • Mattias Andersson • Mikael Appelgren
12	Tunisia	TUN	5	118	230	0.513	45/69	19/30	24/91	5/6	16/23	9/11	53	63	20	7	12	19	2	0	–
	Aymen Toumi • Issam Tej • Mohamed Jilani Maaref • Amine Bannour • Mohamed Ali Bhar • Khaled Haj Youssef • Oussama Boughanmi • Sobhi Saied • Oussama Hosni • Aymen Hamed • Marouan Chouiref • Mohamed Soussi • Wael Jallouz • Makrem Missaoui • Marouen Maggaiz

Preliminary Round

Date	7 – 15 August 2016
Format	Top four teams in each group advance to quarter-finals.

Group A

Date	7 – 15 August 2016
Format	Top four teams in group advance to quarter-finals.

Pos	Team	NOC	Wins	Draws	Losses	Points	Goals
1	Croatia	CRO	4	0	1	8	147-134	Q
2	France	FRA	4	0	1	8	152-126	Q
3	Denmark	DEN	3	0	2	6	136-127	Q
4	Qatar	QAT	2	1	2	5	122-127	Q
5	Argentina	ARG	1	0	4	2	110-126
6	Tunisia	TUN	0	1	4	1	118-145

Match	Date/Time	Team	NOC	Result	Team	NOC
Match #1	07 Aug 9:30	Qatar	QAT	30 – 23	Croatia	CRO
Match #2	07 Aug 14:40	Denmark	DEN	25 – 19	Argentina	ARG
Match #3	07 Aug 19:50	France	FRA	25 – 23	Tunisia	TUN
Match #4	09 Aug 9:30	France	FRA	35 – 20	Qatar	QAT
Match #5	09 Aug 14:40	Denmark	DEN	31 – 23	Tunisia	TUN
Match #6	09 Aug 21:50	Croatia	CRO	27 – 26	Argentina	ARG
Match #7	11 Aug 9:30	Qatar	QAT	25 – 25	Tunisia	TUN
Match #8	11 Aug 14:40	Croatia	CRO	27 – 24	Denmark	DEN
Match #9	11 Aug 21:50	France	FRA	31 – 24	Argentina	ARG
Match #10	13 Aug 11:30	Croatia	CRO	29 – 28	France	FRA
Match #11	13 Aug 14:40	Denmark	DEN	26 – 25	Qatar	QAT
Match #12	13 Aug 21:50	Argentina	ARG	23 – 21	Tunisia	TUN
Match #13	15 Aug 14:40	France	FRA	33 – 30	Denmark	DEN
Match #14	15 Aug 19:50	Croatia	CRO	41 – 26	Tunisia	TUN
Match #15	15 Aug 21:50	Qatar	QAT	22 – 18	Argentina	ARG

Group B

Date	7 – 15 August 2016
Format	Top four teams in group advance to quarter-finals.

Pos	Team	NOC	Wins	Draws	Losses	Points	Goals
1	Germany	GER	4	0	1	8	153-141	Q
2	Slovenia	SLO	4	0	1	8	137-126	Q
3	Brazil	BRA	2	1	2	5	141-150	Q
4	Poland	POL	2	0	3	4	139-140	Q
5	Egypt	EGY	1	1	3	3	129-143
6	Sweden	SWE	1	0	4	2	132-131

Match	Date/Time	Team	NOC	Result	Team	NOC
Match #1	07 Aug 11:30	Germany	GER	32 – 29	Sweden	SWE
Match #2	07 Aug 16:40	Brazil	BRA	34 – 32	Poland	POL
Match #3	07 Aug 21:50	Slovenia	SLO	27 – 26	Egypt	EGY
Match #4	09 Aug 11:30	Germany	GER	32 – 29	Poland	POL
Match #5	09 Aug 16:40	Slovenia	SLO	31 – 28	Brazil	BRA
Match #6	09 Aug 19:50	Egypt	EGY	26 – 25	Sweden	SWE
Match #7	11 Aug 11:30	Poland	POL	33 – 25	Egypt	EGY
Match #8	11 Aug 16:40	Brazil	BRA	33 – 30	Germany	GER
Match #9	11 Aug 19:50	Slovenia	SLO	29 – 24	Sweden	SWE
Match #10	13 Aug 9:30	Germany	GER	28 – 25	Slovenia	SLO
Match #11	13 Aug 16:40	Brazil	BRA	27 – 27	Egypt	EGY
Match #12	13 Aug 19:50	Poland	POL	25 – 24	Sweden	SWE
Match #13	15 Aug 9:30	Slovenia	SLO	25 – 20	Poland	POL
Match #14	15 Aug 11:30	Germany	GER	31 – 25	Egypt	EGY
Match #15	15 Aug 16:40	Sweden	SWE	30 – 19	Brazil	BRA

Quarter-Finals

Date	17 August 2016
Format	Winner of each match advances to semi-finals.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	17 Aug 20:30	Poland	POL	30 – 27	Croatia	CRO
Match #2	17 Aug 17:00	Denmark	DEN	37 – 30	Slovenia	SLO
Match #3	17 Aug 10:00	France	FRA	34 – 27	Brazil	BRA
Match #4	17 Aug 13:30	Germany	GER	34 – 22	Qatar	QAT

Semi-Finals

Date	19 August 2016
Format	Winner of each match advances to gold medal match.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	19 Aug 20:30	Denmark	DEN	29 – 28	Poland	POL	After Extra Time
Match #2	19 Aug 15:30	France	FRA	29 – 28	Germany	GER

Final Round

Date	21 August 2016

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match 1/2	21 Aug 14:00	Denmark	DEN	28 – 26	France	FRA
Match 3/4	21 Aug 10:30	Germany	GER	31 – 25	Poland	POL