The handball tournaments at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held from 28 July to 12 August in the Olympic Park.
Preliminary rounds and the quarter-finals were held in the Copper Box while the semi-finals and final took place in the larger Basketball Arena.
Medals were awarded in a men's tournament and a women's tournament. The gold medals were won by France (men) and Norway (women).
Events
Two sets of medals were awarded in the following events:
Men's handball (12 teams) Women's handball (12 teams)
Referees
The executive committee of the International Handball Federation appointed 17 referee pairs for the 2012 Games:
Charlotte Bonaventura and Julie Bonaventura
Diana-Carmen Florescu and Anamaria Duță
Carlos María Mariana and Darío Leonel Minore
Yalatima Coulibali and Mamoudou Diabaté
Matija Gubica and Boris Milošević
Václav Horáček and Jiří Novotný
Per Olesen and Lars Ejby Pedersen
Oscar Raluy and Ángel Sabroso
Nordine Lazaar and Laurent Reveret
Brian Bartlett and Allan Stokes
Lars Geipel and Marcus Helbig
Gjorgi Nachevski and Slave Nikolov
Kenneth Abrahamsen and Arne M. Kristiansen
Mansour Abdulla Al-Suwaidi and Saleh Jamaan Bamurtef
Nenad Krstič and Peter Ljubič
Nenad Nikolić and Dušan Stojković
Omar Mohammed Zubaeer Al-Marzouqi and Mohammed Rashid Mohamed Al-Nuaimi
Qualifying criteria
Each National Olympic Committee may enter up to one men's and one women's team in the handball tournaments.
Men
Women
† Sweden qualified as 2010 European Championship runner up because Norway qualified as the 2011 World Champion.
Medal summary
Medal table
Medalists
References
External links
2012 Olympic handball qualification – men (format and results). TeamHandballNews.com. 2012 Olympic handball qualification – women (format and results). TeamHandballNews.com.