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Handball, Men

Date24 July – 7 August 2021
StatusOlympic
LocationYoyogi National Gymnasium, Yoyogi Park, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Participants182 from 12 countries
FormatRound-robin pools advance teams to classification matches.

The two preliminary groups of the men’s Olympic handball tournament were won by France and Denmark, who would meet in the final. In the quarter-finals Germany surprisingly lost against Egypt, and Spain won 34-33 against Sweden. France and Denmark won their matches quite easily. In the semi-finals France dominated Egypt, and Denmark dominated Spain, both winning 27-23. The two remaining matches were very close as Spain won bronze, depriving Egypt of their first Olympic handball podium, and France won gold against Denmark. The top goalscorer was Denmark’s Mikkel Hansen with 61 goals, who also became the Olympic top goalscorer with 157 goals. The top goalkeeper was Germany’s Johannes Bitter with 33.3 % saves.

PosNumberTeamNOC
1FranceFRAGold1
Centre Back5Nedim Remili
7Romain Lagarde
Right Back9Melvyn Richardson
Right Back10Dika Mem
Pivot11Nicolas Tournat
Goalkeeper12Vincent Gérard
Centre Back13Nikola Karabatic
Centre Back14Kentin Mahé
Goalkeeper16Yann Genty
Left Back17Timothey N'Guessan
Right Wing19Luc Abalo
Left Wing21Michaël Guigou
Pivot22Luka Karabatic
Pivot23Ludovic Fabregas
Left Wing25Hugo Descat
Right Wing28Valentin Porte
CoachGuillaume Gille
2DenmarkDENSilver2
Goalkeeper1Niklas Landin
Left Wing4Magnus Landin
Left Wing7Emil Jakobsen
Pivot15Magnus Saugstrup
Right Wing17Lasse Svan
Goalkeeper20Kevin Møller
Left Back21Henrik Møllgaard Jensen
Centre Back22Mads Mensah Larsen
Pivot23Henrik Toft Hansen
Left Back24Mikkel Hansen
Centre Back25Morten Olsen
Right Wing26Jóhan Hansen
Left Back28Lasse Andersson
Left Back32Jacob Holm
Right Back33Mathias Gidsel
CoachNikolaj Jacobsen
3SpainESPBronze3
Goalkeeper1Gonzalo Pérez
Right Back3Eduardo Gurbindo
Right Back5Jorge Maqueda
Left Wing6Ángel Fernández
Centre Back9Raúl Entrerríos
Right Back10Alex Dujshebaev
Centre Back11Dani Sarmiento
Goalkeeper12Rodrigo Corrales
Pivot13Julen Aguinagalde
Right Wing14Ferrán Solé
Pivot17Adrià Figueras
Left Back24Viran Morros
Left Back27Antonio García
Right Wing28Aleix Gómez
Pivot30Gedeón Guardiola
51Miguel Sánchez-Migallón
CoachJordi Ribera
4EgyptEGY4
Right Back5Yahia Khaled
Left Back15Ahmed Hesham
Pivot24Ibrahim El-Masry
Pivot25Wisam Nawar
Left Wing31Omar El-Wakil
Centre Back39Yehia El-Deraa
Left Back42Hassan Kaddah
Centre Back45Seif El-Deraa
Right Back66Ahmed El-Ahmar
Pivot80Ahmed Mesilhy
Goalkeeper88Karim Hendawy
Pivot89Mohamed Shebib
Left Back90Ali Mohamed
Right Wing91Mohammad Sanad
Goalkeeper96Mohamed El-Tayar
CoachRoberto García
5SwedenSWE5
Left Back2Jonathan Carlsbogård
Pivot5Max Darj
Right Wing10Niclas Ekberg
Right Wing11Daniel Pettersson
Goalkeeper12Andreas Palicka
Left Wing15Hampus Wanne
Goalkeeper16Mikael Aggefors
Pivot18Fredric Pettersson
Centre Back19Felix Claar
Left Wing22Lucas Pellas
Right Back23Albin Lagergren
Centre Back24Jim Gottfridsson
Left Back27Oskar Sunnefeldt
Right Back33Lukas Sandell
Pivot66Anton Lindskog DNS6
CoachGlenn Solberg
6GermanyGER7
Goalkeeper1Johannes Bitter
Left Wing3Uwe Gensheimer
Pivot4Johannes Golla
Left Back6Finn Lemke
Pivot13Hendrik Pekeler
Centre Back15Juri Knorr
Right Back17Steffen Weinhold
Centre Back20Philipp Weber
Right Back25Kai Häfner
Left Wing31Marcel Schiller
Goalkeeper33Andreas Wolff
Left Back35Julius Kühn
Right Wing73Timo Kastening
Centre Back95Paul Drux
Pivot48Jannik Kohlbacher DNS8
CoachAlfreð Gíslason
7NorwayNOR9
Left Back5Sander Sagosen
Pivot8Bjarte Myrhol
Centre Back10Magnus Fredriksen
Pivot11Petter Øverby
Goalkeeper12Kristian Sæverås
Right Back15Kent Robin Tønnesen
Left Wing17Magnus Jøndal
Right Wing19Kristian Bjørnsen
Pivot21Magnus Gullerud
Centre Back24Christian O'Sullivan
Left Back26Simen Holand Pettersen
Right Back27Harald Reinkind
Goalkeeper30Torbjørn Bergerud
Right Wing44Kevin Gulliksen
Right Back77Magnus Abelvik Rød
CoachChristian Berge
8BahrainBRN10
Goalkeeper1Husain Mahfoodh
Pivot3Ali Abdulla Eid
Right Back8Hasan Mirza
Left Wing9Hasan Al-Samahiji
Right Back15Mohamed Abdul Redha
Right Wing18Ahmed Jalal
Pivot19Mohamed Merza
Goalkeeper21Mohamed Abdulhusain
27Bilal Basham
Centre Back50Ahmed Al-Maqabi
Left Back77Ali Merza
Left Wing89Mahdi Habib
Right Back93Mohamed Habib
Centre Back95Mohamed Habib
Centre Back99Husain Al-Sayyad
Left Back66Komail Mahfoodh DNS
CoachAron Kristjánsson
9PortugalPOR11
Right Wing4Pedro Portela
Left Back5Gilberto Duarte
Pivot8Victor Iturriza
Right Back9João Ferraz
Centre Back10Miguel Martins
Centre Back14Rui Silva
Pivot15Daymaro Salina
Goalkeeper16Humberto Gomes
Pivot22Alexis Borges
Left Wing23Diogo Branquinho
Right Wing25António Areia
Left Back27André Gomes
Goalkeeper41Gustavo Capdeville
Pivot82Luís Frade
Left Back88Fábio Magalhães
CoachPaulo Pereira
10BrazilBRA12
2Henrique Teixeira
Centre Back4João Pedro da Silva
Left Wing5Gui Torriani
Right Back10José Toledo
Pivot13Rogério Moraes
Left Back14Thiagus Thiagus Petrus
Goalkeeper16Rangel da Rosa
Left Wing18Felipe Borges
Right Wing19Fábio Chiuffa
Pivot25Vinícius Teixeira
Left Back33Leonardo Dutra
Left Back35Thiago Ponciano
Left Back37Haniel Langaro
Goalkeeper62Leonardo Terçariol
Right Wing77Rudolph Hackbarth
Right Back95Gustavo Rodrigues
CoachMarcus de Oliveira
11JapanJPN13
Left Wing10Naoki Sugioka
Goalkeeper12Yuta Iwashita
Pivot13Kenya Kasahara
Left Back15Adam Yuki Baig
Left Back18Kohei Narita
Right Back19Shinnosuke Tokuda
Right Back20Jin Watanabe
Left Wing21Remi Anri Doi
Goalkeeper22Motoki Sakai
Right Wing25Hiroki Motoki
Left Back31Tatsuki Yoshino
Centre Back33Yuto Agarie
Centre Back38Kotaro Mizumachi
Right Back41Rennosuke Tokuda
Pivot43Shuichi Yoshida
CoachDagur Sigurðsson
12ArgentinaARG14
Left Wing2Federico Fernández
Right Back3Federico Pizarro
Centre Back4Sebastián Simonet
Right Back5Pablo Vainstein
Centre Back6Diego Simonet
Left Wing7Ignacio Pizarro
Left Back8Pablo Simonet
9Santiago Baronetto
Centre Back10Pedro Martínez
Pivot11Lucas Moscariello
Pivot15Gonzalo Carou
Right Wing20Ramiro Martínez
Pivot22Gastón Mouriño
Goalkeeper40Leonel Maciel
Left Back77Nicolás Bonanno
Goalkeeper87Juan Manuel Bar
CoachManuel Cadenas

Preliminary Round

Date24 July – 1 August 2021
FormatTop four teams in each group advance to quarter-finals.

Group A

Date24 July – 1 August 2021
FormatTop four teams in group advance to quarter-finals.
PosTeamNOCWinsDrawsLossesPointsGoals
1FranceFRA4018162-148
2SpainESP4018155-142
3GermanyGER3026146-131
4NorwayNOR3026136-132
5BrazilBRA1042128-145
6ArgentinaARG0050125-154
MatchDate/TimeTeamNOCResultTeamNOC
Match #124 Jul 9:00NorwayNOR27 – 24BrazilBRA
Match #224 Jul 11:00FranceFRA33 – 27ArgentinaARG
Match #324 Jul 16:15SpainESP28 – 27GermanyGER
Match #426 Jul 9:00FranceFRA34 – 29BrazilBRA
Match #526 Jul 11:00GermanyGER33 – 25ArgentinaARG
Match #626 Jul 16:15SpainESP28 – 27NorwayNOR
Match #728 Jul 16:15NorwayNOR27 – 23ArgentinaARG
Match #828 Jul 19:30SpainESP32 – 25BrazilBRA
Match #928 Jul 21:30FranceFRA30 – 29GermanyGER
Match #1030 Jul 9:00BrazilBRA25 – 23ArgentinaARG
Match #1130 Jul 14:15FranceFRA36 – 31SpainESP
Match #1230 Jul 21:30GermanyGER28 – 23NorwayNOR
Match #1301 Aug 14:15SpainESP36 – 27ArgentinaARG
Match #1401 Aug 16:15NorwayNOR32 – 29FranceFRA
Match #1501 Aug 19:30GermanyGER29 – 25BrazilBRA

Group B

Date24 July – 1 August 2021
FormatTop four teams in group advance to quarter-finals.
PosTeamNOCWinsDrawsLossesPointsGoals
1DenmarkDEN4018174-139
2EgyptEGY4018154-134
3SwedenSWE4018144-142
4BahrainBRN1042129-149
5PortugalPOR1042143-156
6JapanJPN1042146-170
MatchDate/TimeTeamNOCResultTeamNOC
Match #124 Jul 14:15SwedenSWE32 – 31BahrainBRN
Match #224 Jul 19:30EgyptEGY37 – 31PortugalPOR
Match #324 Jul 21:30DenmarkDEN47 – 30JapanJPN
Match #426 Jul 14:15EgyptEGY27 – 32DenmarkDEN
Match #526 Jul 19:30PortugalPOR26 – 25BahrainBRN
Match #626 Jul 21:30SwedenSWE28 – 26JapanJPN
Match #728 Jul 9:00DenmarkDEN31 – 21BahrainBRN
Match #828 Jul 11:00SwedenSWE29 – 28PortugalPOR
Match #928 Jul 14:15EgyptEGY33 – 29JapanJPN
Match #1030 Jul 11:00BahrainBRN32 – 30JapanJPN
Match #1130 Jul 16:15EgyptEGY27 – 22SwedenSWE
Match #1230 Jul 19:30DenmarkDEN34 – 28PortugalPOR
Match #1301 Aug 9:00JapanJPN31 – 30PortugalPOR
Match #1401 Aug 11:00EgyptEGY30 – 20BahrainBRN
Match #1501 Aug 21:30SwedenSWE33 – 30DenmarkDEN

Quarter-Finals

Date3 August 2021
FormatWinner of each match advances to semi-finals.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #103 Aug 9:30FranceFRA42 – 28BahrainBRN
Match #203 Aug 13:15SpainESP34 – 33SwedenSWE
Match #303 Aug 17:00DenmarkDEN31 – 25NorwayNOR
Match #403 Aug 20:45EgyptEGY31 – 26GermanyGER

Semi-Finals

Date5 August 2021
FormatWinner of each match advances to gold medal match.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #105 Aug 17:00FranceFRA27 – 23EgyptEGY
Match #205 Aug 21:00DenmarkDEN27 – 23SpainESP

Final Round

Date7 August 2021
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match 1/207 Aug 21:00FranceFRA25 – 23DenmarkDEN
Match 3/407 Aug 17:00SpainESP33 – 31EgyptEGY