Handball at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held from 14 to 29 August 2004 at the Helliniko Indoor Arena.
Medal Table[]
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Croatia |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
 Denmark |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 3 |  Germany |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 South Korea |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 5 |  Russia |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Ukraine |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Medalists[]
| Event | 
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| Men | Croatia Ivano Balic Davor Dominikovic Mirza Dzomba Slavko Goluza Niksa Kaleb Blazenko Lackovic Venio Losert Valter Matosevic Petar Metlicic Vlado Sola Denis Spoljaric Goran Sprem Igor Vori Drago Vukovic Vedran Zrnic |
Germany Markus Baur Frank von Behren Mark Dragunski Henning Fritz Pascal Hens Jan Olaf Immel Torsten Jansen Florian Kehrmann Stefan Kretzschmar Klaus-Dieter Petersen Christian Ramota Christian Schwarzer Daniel Stephan Christian Zeitz Volker Zerbe |
Russia Pavel Bashkin Mikhail Chipurin Alexander Gorbatikov Viatcheslav Gorpichin Vitali Ivanov Eduard Kokcharov Alexey Kostygov Denis Krivoshlykov Vasily Kudinov Oleg Kuleshov Andrey Lavrov Sergey Pogorelov Alexey Rastvortsev Dmitri Torgovanov Alexandre Tuchkin |
| Women | Denmark Kristine Andersen Karen Broedsgaard Line Daugaard Katrine Fruelund Trine Jensen Rikke Hoerlykke Joergensen Lotte Kiaerskou Henriette Roende Mikkelsen Karin Oernhoej Mortensen Louise Bager Noergaard Rikke Schmidt Rikke Skov Camilla Ingemann Thomsen Josephine Touray Mette Vestergaard |
South Korea Choi Im-jeong Huh Soon-young Huh Young-sook Jang So-hee Kim Cha-youn Kim Hyun-ok Lee Gong-joo Lee Sang-eun Lim O-kyeong Moon Kyeong-ha Moon Pil-hee Myoung Bok-hee Oh Seong-ok Oh Yong-ran Woo Sun-hee |
Ukraine Anastasiya Borodina Nataliya Borysenko Ganna Burmystrova Iryna Honcharova Nataliya Lyapina Galyna Markushevska Olena Radchenko Oxana Rayhel Lyudmyla Shevchenko Tetyana Shinkarenko Ganna Siukalo Olena Tsygitsa Maryna Vergelyuk Olena Yatsenko Larysa Zaspa |
Statistics[]
- There were 328 total athletes from 16 countries.
- Wang Shasha was the youngest participant with 17 years and 219 days.
- Andrey Lavrov was the oldest participant with 42 years and 141 days.
- 6 countries won an Olympic medal, the highest amount possible.
- 3 participants were chosen to be a flag bearer at the opening ceremony.
- Croatia won its first-ever gold medal in the sport.
