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Handball, Men

Date7 – 21 August 2016
StatusOlympic
LocationArena do Futuro, Parque Olímpico da Barra, Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro
Participants177 from 12 countries
FormatRound-robin pools advanced 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.

PosNumberTeamNOC
1–DenmarkDENGold
Right Back3Mads Christiansen
Centre Back5Mads Mensah Larsen
Left Wing6Casper Mortensen
Pivot15Jesper Nøddesbo
Right Wing17Lasse Svan
Pivot19René Toft Hansen
Left Back21Henrik Møllgaard Jensen
Right Back22Kasper Søndergaard
Left Back23Henrik Toft Hansen
Left Back24Mikkel Hansen
Centre Back25Morten Olsen
Left Back27Michael Damgaard Nielsen
Goalkeeper1Niklas Landin
Goalkeeper16Jannick Green
CoachGuðmundur Guðmundsson
2–FranceFRASilver
Left Back6Olivier Nyokas
Centre Back8Daniel Narcisse
Centre Back13Nikola Karabatic
Left Wing14Kentin Mahé
Left Back15Mathieu Grébille
Left Back17Timothey N'Guessan
Right Wing19Luc Abalo
Pivot20Cédric Sorhaindo
Left Wing21Michaël Guigou
Pivot22Luka Karabatic
Pivot23Ludovic Fabregas
Right Back27Adrien Dipanda
Right Back28Valentin Porte
Goalkeeper12Vincent Gérard
Goalkeeper16Thierry Omeyer
CoachClaude Onesta
3–GermanyGERBronze
Left Wing3Uwe Gensheimer
Left Back6Finn Lemke
Pivot7Patrick Wiencek
Right Wing9Tobias Reichmann
Right Wing/Right Back10Fabian Wiede
Pivot13Hendrik Pekeler
Right Back17Steffen Weinhold
Left Wing/Centre Back19Martin Strobel
Left Back23Steffen Fäth
Right Back/Centre Back25Kai Häfner
Left Back/Centre Back35Julius Kühn
Left Back/Centre Back47Christian Dissinger
Left Back/Centre Back95Paul Drux
Goalkeeper12Silvio Heinevetter
Goalkeeper33Andreas Wolff
Right Wing24Patrick Groetzki DNS
CoachDagur Sigurðsson
4–PolandPOL
Right Back3Krzysztof Lijewski
Left Wing5Mateusz Jachlewski
Centre Back6Przemysław Krajewski
Left Back8Karol Bielecki
Left Wing11Adam Wiśniewski
Pivot13Bartosz Jurecki
Left Back15Michał Jurecki
Left Back20Mariusz Jurkiewicz
Pivot23Kamil Syprzak
Right Wing26Michał Daszek
Pivot35Mateusz Kus
Centre Back38Łukasz Gierak
Right Back45Michał Szyba
Goalkeeper1Sławomir Szmal
Goalkeeper16Piotr Wyszomirski
CoachTalant Duyshebayev
5–CroatiaCRO
Centre Back/Left Back5Domagoj Duvnjak
Right Wing/Right Back7Luka Stepančić
Right Wing/Right Back8Marko Kopljar
Pivot/Left Back10Jakov Gojun
Right Back/Right Wing13Zlatko Horvat
Centre Back/Left Back18Igor Karačić
Left Wing/Centre Back26Manuel Štrlek
Right Back/Right Wing27Ivan Čupić
Left Back/Right Back30Marko Mamić
Left Back/Right Back32Ivan Slišković
Pivot34Ilija Brozović
Pivot44Krešimir Kozina
Goalkeeper1Ivan Stevanović
Goalkeeper12Ivan Pešić
CoachŽeljko Babić
6–SloveniaSLO
Pivot3Blaž Blagotinšek
Left Back5Nik Henigman
Right Back7Vid Kavtičnik
Right Wing8Blaž Janc
Right Back11Jure Dolenec
Left Wing13Darko Cingesar
Pivot15Vid Poteko
Right Back18David Miklavčič
Pivot22Matej Gaber
Centre Back23Uroš Zorman
Left Back25Marko Bezjak
Left Wing31Simon Razgor
Centre Back32Miha Zarabec
Centre Back44Dean Bombač
Goalkeeper1Matevž Skok
Goalkeeper12Gorazd Škof
Goalkeeper90Urban Lesjak
CoachVeselin Vujović
7–BrazilBRA
Centre Back2Henrique Teixeira
Centre Back4João Pedro da Silva
Right Wing9Lucas Cândido
Right Back10José Toledo
Centre Back13Diogo Hubner
Left Back14 Thiagus Petrus
Pivot17Alexandro Pozzer
Right Wing19Fábio Chiuffa
Right Back26Oswaldo Guimarães
Left Back/Centre Back28Leonardo Santos
Left Wing33André Soares
Left Back37Haniel Langaro
Goalkeeper1 Maik
Goalkeeper89César Almeida
CoachJordi Ribera
8–QatarQAT
Right Back1Žarko Marković
Pivot/Centre Back4Hassan Mabrouk
Left Back/Right Back5Marko Bagarić
Right Back6Mustafa Alsaltialkrad
Left Back/Right Back7Bertrand Roiné
Left Back/Centre Back9Rafael Capote
Left Wing11Abdulrazzaq Murad
Right Wing13Eldar Memišević
Pivot14Bassel Al-Rayes
Right Wing15Nasreddine Megdich
Pivot19Borja Vidal
Left Wing/Centre Back25Kamal Aldin Mallash
Pivot/Left Back94Ameen Zakkar
Goalkeeper12Danijel Šarić
Goalkeeper16Goran Stojanović
CoachValero Rivera
9–EgyptEGY
Right Back3Mamdouh Abouebaid
Pivot8Mohamed Ramadan
Centre Back9Islam Hassan
Right Wing15Mohamed Amer
Centre Back19Mohamed El-Bassiouny
Centre Back20Mohamed Hashem
Pivot24Ibrahim El-Masry
Left Back39Yehia El-Deraa
Right Back66Ahmed El-Ahmar
Pivot89Mohamed Shebib
Left Back90Ali Mohamed
Right Wing91Mohammad Sanad
Goalkeeper72Mahmoud Khalil
Goalkeeper88Karim Hendawy
CoachMarwan Ragab
10–ArgentinaARG
Left Wing2Federico Fernández
Right Wing3Federico Pizarro
Centre Back4Sebastián Simonet
Pivot5Pablo Portela
Left Back8Pablo Simonet
Right Back9Leonardo Querin
Right Back10Federico Vieyra
Centre Back13Juan Pablo Fernández
Left Back14Agustín Vidal
Pivot15Gonzalo Carou
Left Wing18Adrián Portela
Right Wing25Pablo Vainstein
Goalkeeper1Matías Schulz
Goalkeeper12Fernando García
CoachEduardo Gallardo
11–SwedenSWE
Centre Back3Jim Gottfridsson
Right Back5Kim Andersson
Left Wing9Jerry Tollbring
Left Back11Lukas Nilsson
Left Back13Jonathan Stenbäcken
Pivot18Tobias Karlsson
Right Back19Johan Jakobsson
Right Back23Albin Lagergren
Left Wing24Fredrik Petersen
Left Back28Philip Stenmalm
Right Wing32Mattias Zachrisson
Pivot35Andreas Nilsson
Pivot36Jesper Nielsen
Goalkeeper1Mattias Andersson
Goalkeeper20Mikael Appelgren
CoachStaffan Olsson
12–TunisiaTUN
Right Wing4Aymen Toumi
Pivot6Issam Tej
Left Back8Mohamed Jilani Maaref
Right Back9Amine Bannour
Right Wing13Mohamed Ali Bhar
Left Back15Khaled Haj Youssef
Left Wing21Oussama Boughanmi
Pivot22Sobhi Saied
Right Wing23Oussama Hosni
Right Back/Right Wing27Aymen Hamed
Right Back31Marouan Chouiref
Centre Back/Left Back39Mohamed Soussi
Left Back42Wael Jallouz
Goalkeeper1Makrem Missaoui
Goalkeeper12Marouen Maggaiz
CoachHafedh Zouabi

Preliminary Round

Date7 – 15 August 2016
FormatTop 4 teams in each group advanced to quarter-finals.

Group A

Date7 – 15 August 2016
FormatTop 4 teams in group advanced to quarter-finals.
PosTeamNOCWinsDrawsLossesPointsGoals
1CroatiaCRO4018147-134Q
2FranceFRA4018152-126Q
3DenmarkDEN3026136-127Q
4QatarQAT2125122-127Q
5ArgentinaARG1042110-126
6TunisiaTUN0141118-145
MatchDate/TimeTeamNOCResultTeamNOC
Match #107 Aug 9:30QatarQAT30 – 23CroatiaCRO
Match #207 Aug 14:40DenmarkDEN25 – 19Argentina 1ARG
Match #307 Aug 19:50FranceFRA25 – 23Tunisia 2TUN
Match #409 Aug 9:30FranceFRA35 – 20Qatar 3QAT
Match #509 Aug 14:40DenmarkDEN31 – 23TunisiaTUN
Match #609 Aug 21:50Croatia 4CRO27 – 26ArgentinaARG
Match #711 Aug 9:30QatarQAT25 – 25TunisiaTUN
Match #811 Aug 14:40Croatia 5CRO27 – 24DenmarkDEN
Match #911 Aug 21:50FranceFRA31 – 24ArgentinaARG
Match #1013 Aug 11:30Croatia 6CRO29 – 28France 7FRA
Match #1113 Aug 14:40Denmark 8DEN26 – 25Qatar 9QAT
Match #1213 Aug 21:50Argentina 10ARG23 – 21Tunisia 11TUN
Match #1315 Aug 14:40FranceFRA33 – 30DenmarkDEN
Match #1415 Aug 19:50CroatiaCRO41 – 26TunisiaTUN
Match #1515 Aug 21:50QatarQAT22 – 18Argentina 12ARG

Group B

Date7 – 15 August 2016
FormatTop 4 teams in group advanced to quarter-finals.
PosTeamNOCWinsDrawsLossesPointsGoals
1GermanyGER4018153-141Q
2SloveniaSLO4018137-126Q
3BrazilBRA2125141-150Q
4PolandPOL2034139-140Q
5EgyptEGY1133129-143
6SwedenSWE1042132-131
MatchDate/TimeTeamNOCResultTeamNOC
Match #107 Aug 11:30Germany 13GER32 – 29Sweden 14SWE
Match #207 Aug 16:40BrazilBRA34 – 32Poland 15POL
Match #307 Aug 21:50Slovenia 16SLO27 – 26Egypt 17EGY
Match #409 Aug 11:30Germany 18GER32 – 29Poland 19POL
Match #509 Aug 16:40SloveniaSLO31 – 28BrazilBRA
Match #609 Aug 19:50Egypt 20EGY26 – 25SwedenSWE
Match #711 Aug 11:30Poland 21POL33 – 25Egypt 22EGY
Match #811 Aug 16:40Brazil 23BRA33 – 30Germany 24GER
Match #911 Aug 19:50Slovenia 25SLO29 – 24Sweden 26SWE
Match #1013 Aug 9:30Germany 27GER28 – 25Slovenia 28SLO
Match #1113 Aug 16:40Brazil 29BRA27 – 27EgyptEGY
Match #1213 Aug 19:50Poland 30POL25 – 24Sweden 31SWE
Match #1315 Aug 9:30SloveniaSLO25 – 20PolandPOL
Match #1415 Aug 11:30Germany 32GER31 – 25EgyptEGY
Match #1515 Aug 16:40Sweden 33SWE30 – 19BrazilBRA

Quarter-Finals

Date17 August 2016
FormatWinner of each match advanced to semi-finals.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #117 Aug 20:30PolandPOL30 – 27Croatia 34CRO
Match #217 Aug 17:00DenmarkDEN37 – 30Slovenia 35SLO
Match #317 Aug 10:00France 36FRA34 – 27BrazilBRA
Match #417 Aug 13:30GermanyGER34 – 22QatarQAT

Semi-Finals

Date19 August 2016
FormatWinner of each match advanced to gold medal match.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #119 Aug 20:30Denmark 37DEN29 – 28Poland 38POLAfter Extra Time
Match #219 Aug 15:30France 39FRA29 – 28Germany 40GER

Final Round

Date21 August 2016
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match 1/221 Aug 14:00DenmarkDEN28 – 26FranceFRA
Match 3/421 Aug 10:30GermanyGER31 – 25PolandPOL