Handball at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Handball at the
2004 Summer Olympics
Tournament details
Host country	Greece
Venue(s)	2 (in 1 host city)
Dates	14–29 August 2004
Teams	22 (from 4 confederations)
Final positions
Champions	Croatia (Men); Denmark (Women)
Runner-up	Germany (Men); South Korea (Women)
Third place	Russia (Men); Ukraine (Women)
Fourth place	Hungary (Men); France (Women)
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Handball at the 2004 Summer Olympics included a men's and a women's team competitions with the preliminary rounds taking place in the

Helliniko Olympic Complex, with the men joining them there for their semi-finals and final.^[1]

The men's Handball event first made an appearance, played outside, at the

Games returned to Germany for the Munich Olympics in 1972 since when it has been ever present. The women's game debuted in Montreal, Quebec, Canada at the 1976 Summer Olympics

and again has been ever present since.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men^[2]^[3] details	Croatia (CRO) Ivano Balić Davor Dominiković Mirza Džomba Slavko Goluža Nikša Kaleb Blaženko Lacković Venio Losert Valter Matošević Petar Metličić Vlado Šola Denis Špoljarić Goran Šprem Igor Vori Drago Vuković Vedran Zrnić	Germany (GER) Jan Olaf Immel Torsten Jansen Florian Kehrmann Stefan Kretzschmar Klaus-Dieter Petersen Christian Ramota Christian Schwarzer Daniel Stephan Christian Zeitz Volker Zerbe	Russia (RUS) Alexey Rastvortsev Dmitri Torgovanov Aleksandr Tuchkin
Women^[2]^[3] details	Denmark (DEN) Rikke Schmidt Kristine Andersen Karen Brødsgaard Line Daugaard Josephine Touray	South Korea (KOR) Moon Pil-Hee	Ukraine (UKR) Oxana Rayhel

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Croatia (CRO)	1	0	0	1
1	Denmark (DEN)	1	0	0	1
3	Germany (GER)	0	1	0	1
3	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	0	1
5	Russia (RUS)	0	0	1	1
5	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		2	2	2	6

Teams

Men

The men's event involved twelve teams split equally into two groups.

Group A:

Croatia (CRO)
South Korea (KOR)
Iceland (ISL)
Russia (RUS)
Slovenia (SLO)
Spain (ESP)

Group B:

Brazil (BRA)
Egypt (EGY)
France (FRA)
Germany (GER)
Greece (GRE)
Hungary (HUN)

Women

The women's event involved ten teams split in two groups.

Group A:

Brazil (BRA)
China (CHN)
Greece (GRE)
Hungary (HUN)
Ukraine (UKR)

Group B:

Angola (ANG)
Denmark (DEN)
France (FRA)
South Korea (KOR)
Spain (ESP)

When all teams within a group have played each other in both men's and women's competitions the top four from each group will progress into their respective quarter finals.

References

^ "Handball at the 2004 Athens Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
^
Organising Committee for the Olympic Games Athens 2004
. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
^ ^a ^b "2004 Summer Olympics – Athens, Greece – Handball". databaseOlympics.com. Archived from the original on 7 April 2008.

[SR-1] "Handball at the 2004 Athens Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 25 March 2020.

[Official_Results-2] 
Organising Committee for the Olympic Games Athens 2004
. Retrieved 13 August 2022.

[databaseOlympics-3] "2004 Summer Olympics – Athens, Greece – Handball". databaseOlympics.com. Archived from the original on 7 April 2008.

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