Handball 2020/Men's tournament

The men's tournament of Handball 2020 during the 2020 Summer Olympics was held on 24 July-7 August 2021 in the Yoyogi National Stadium. With 12 teams competing, the event was won by the team from France, with Denmark taking the silver medal and Spain taking bronze.

Format[]

The competition exists out of two groups of six, with each team playing another once. Standings are primarily based on win/loss-record, with the team with the most points after a certain time limit winning a match. The top four ranked teams advance to the quarterfinals. After this, a single knockout phase is played, with the winners of the quarterfinals advancing to the semifinals, and the winners of the final winning the event.

Preview[]

Twelve teams qualified for the event with reigning world champion and defending Olympic champion Denmark and 2008 and 2012 Olympic champion and 2011, 2015, and 2017 world champion France as the big favorites for the title. 2013 world champion Spain competed with the most experienced team, but also runners-up at the 2017 world championships Norway, defending bronze medalists Germany, and runners-up at the most recent world championships Sweden as some of the other big teams in the field.

Nation	Athletes
Argentina	Juan Manuel Bar
	Santiago Baronetto
	Nicolas Bonanno
	Gonzalo Carou
	Federico Fernandez
	Leonel Maciel
	Ramiro Martinez
	Pedro Martinez Cami
	Lucas Moscariello
	Gaston Mourino
	Federico Pizarro
	Ignacio Pizarro
	Diego Simonet
	Pablo Simonet
	Sebastian Simonet
	Pablo Vainstein
Bahrain	Mohamed Abdulredha
	Mohamed Ahmed
	Ali Merza Ali
	Hasan Ali
	Mohamed Ali
	Mohamed Ali
	Ahmed Almaqabi
	Hasan Alsamahiji
	Husain Alsayyad
	Bilal Askani
	Ali Eid
	Ahmed Fadhul
	Mahdi Habib
	Husain Mahfoodh
	Komail Mahfoodh
	Mohamed Mohamed
Brazil	Felipe Borges
	Fabio Chiuffa
	Leonardo Dutra
	Rudolph Hackbartth
	Haniel Langaro
	Rogerio Moraes
	Thiagus Petrus
	Thiago Ponciano
	Gustavo Rodrigues
	Rangel da Rosa
	Joao Pedro Silva
	Henrique Teixeira
	Vinicius Teixeira
	Jose Guilherme Toledo
	Guilherme Torriani
	Leonardo Vial Tercariol
Denmark	Lasse Andersson
	Mathias Gidsel
	Johan Hansen
	Mikkel Hansen
	Jacob Holm
	Emil Jakobsen
	Magnus Landin
	Niklas Landin
	Mads Mensah
	Henrik Moellgaard
	Kevin Moeller
	Morten Olsen
	Magnus Saugstrup
	Lasse Svan
	Henrik Toft Hansen
Egypt	Ahmed Elahmar
	Seif Elderaa
	Yehia Elderaa
	Ibrahim Elmasry
	Mohamed Eltayar
	Omar Elwakil
	Karim Hendawy
	Hassan Kaddah
	Ahmed Mesilhy
	Ali Mohamed
	Ahmed Mohamed
	Wisam Nawar
	Yahia Omar
	Mohammad Sanad
	Mohamed Shebib
France	Luc Abalo
	Hugo Descat
	Ludovic Fabregas
	Yann Genty
	Vincent Gerard
	Michael Guigou
	Luka Karabatic
	Nikola Karabatic
	Romain Lagarde
	Kentin Mahe
	Dika Mem
	Timothey Nguessan
	Valentin Porte
	Nedim Remili
	Melvyn Richardson
	Nicolas Tournat
Germany	Johannes Bitter
	Paul Drux
	Uwe Gensheimer
	Johannes Golla
	Kai Haefner
	Timo Kastening
	Juri Knorr
	Jannik Kohlbacher
	Julius Kuehn
	Finn Lemke
	Hendrik Pekeler
	Marcel Schiller
	Philipp Weber
	Steffen Weinhold
	Andreas Wolff
Japan	Yuto Agarie
	Adamyuki Baig
	Remi Anri Doi
	Yuta Iwashita
	Kenya Kasahara
	Kotaro Mizumachi
	Hiroki Motoki
	Kohei Narita
	Motoki Sakai
	Noaki Sugioka
	Rennosuke Tokuda
	Shinnosuke Tokuda
	Jin Watanabe
	Shuichi Yoshida
	Tatsuki Yoshino
Norway	Magnus Abelvik Roed
	Torbjoern Bergerud
	Kristian Bjoernsen
	Magnus Frederiksen
	Magnus Gullerud
	Kevin Gulliksen
	Magnus Joendal
	Bjarte Myrhol
	Petter Oeverby
	Christian O'Sullivan
	Simen Pettersen
	Harald Reinkind
	Kristian Saeveraas
	Sander Sagosen
	Kent Robin Toennesen
Portugal	Antonio Areia
	Alexis Borges
	Diogo Branquinho
	Gustavo Capdeville
	Gilberto Duarte
	Joao Ferraz
	Luis Frade
	Andre Gomes
	Humberto Gomes
	Victor Iturriza
	Fabio Magelhaes
	Miguel Martins
	Pedro Portela
	Daymaro Salina
	Rui Silva
Spain	Julen Aguinagalde Aquizu
	Rodrigo Corrales Rodal
	Alex Dujshebaev Dovichebaeva
	Raul Entrerrios Rodriguez
	Angel Fernandez Perez
	Adrian Figueras Trejo
	Antonio Garcia Robledo
	Aleix Gomez Abello
	Gedeon Guardiola Villaplana
	Eduardo Gurbindo Martinez
	Jorge Maqueda Peno
	Viran Morros de Argila
	Gonzalo Perez de Vargas Moreno
	Miguel Sanchez-Migallon Naranjo
	Daniel Sarmiento Melian
	Ferran Sole Sala
Sweden	Mikael Aggefors
	Jonathan Carlsbogard
	Felix Claar
	Max Darj
	Niclas Ekberg
	Jim Gottfridsson
	Albin Lagergren
	Anton Lindskog
	Andreas Palicka
	Lucas Pellas
	Daniel Pettersson
	Fredric Pettersson
	Lukas Sandell
	Oskar Sunnefeldt
	Hampus Wanne

Summary[]

Round robin[]

Round 1[]

Round 1 Results
	Result	Result
Norway	27	24	Brazil
France	33	27	Argentina
Germany	27	28	Spain
Denmark	47	30	Japan
Sweden	32	31	Bahrain
Portugal	31	37	Egypt

Standings after Round 1 - Group A
Rank	Nation	Points	Won	Lost	For	Against
1	France	2	1	0	33	27
2	Norway	2	1	0	27	24
3	Spain	2	1	0	28	27
4	Germany	0	0	1	27	28
5	Brazil	0	0	1	24	27
6	Argentina	0	0	1	27	33

Standings after Round 1 - Group B
Rank	Nation	Points	Won	Lost	For	Against
1	Denmark	2	1	0	47	30
2	Egypt	2	1	0	37	31
3	Sweden	2	1	0	32	31
4	Bahrain	0	0	1	31	32
5	Portugal	0	0	1	31	37
6	Japan	0	0	1	30	47

Round 2[]

Round 2 Results
	Result	Result
Brazil	29	34	France
Spain	28	27	Norway
Argentina	25	33	Germany
Japan	26	28	Sweden
Egypt	27	32	Denmark
Bahrain	25	26	Portugal

Standings after Round 2 - Group A
Rank	Nation	Points	Won	Lost	For	Against
1	France	4	2	0	67	56
2	Spain	4	2	0	56	54
3	Germany	2	1	1	60	53
4	Norway	2	1	1	54	52
5	Brazil	0	0	2	53	61
6	Argentina	0	0	2	52	66

Standings after Round 2 - Group B
Rank	Nation	Points	Won	Lost	For	Against
1	Denmark	4	2	0	79	57
2	Sweden	4	2	0	60	57
3	Egypt	2	1	1	64	63
4	Portugal	2	1	1	57	62
5	Bahrain	0	0	2	56	58
6	Japan	0	0	2	56	75

Round 3[]

Round 3 Results
	Result	Result
Norway	27	23	Argentina
France	30	29	Germany
Brazil	25	32	Spain
Denmark	31	21	Bahrain
Sweden	29	28	Portugal
Japan	29	33	Egypt

Standings after Round 3 - Group A
Rank	Nation	Points	Won	Lost	For	Against	Info
1	France	6	3	0	97	85	Q
2	Spain	6	3	0	88	79	Q
3	Norway	4	2	1	81	85
4	Germany	2	1	2	89	83
5	Brazil	0	0	3	78	93
6	Argentina	0	0	3	75	93

Standings after Round 3 - Group B
Rank	Nation	Points	Won	Lost	For	Against	Info
1	Denmark	6	3	0	110	78	Q
2	Sweden	6	3	0	89	85	Q
3	Egypt	4	2	1	97	92
4	Portugal	2	1	2	85	91
5	Bahrain	0	0	3	77	89
6	Japan	0	0	3	85	108

Round 4[]

Round 4 Results
	Result	Result
France	36	31	Spain
Germany	28	23	Norway
Argentina	23	25	Brazil
Sweden	22	27	Egypt
Portugal	28	34	Denmark
Bahrain	32	30	Japan

Standings after Round 4 - Group A
Rank	Nation	Points	Won	Lost	For	Against	Info
1	France	8	4	0	133	116	Q
2	Spain	6	3	1	119	115	Q
3	Germany	4	2	2	117	106
4	Norway	4	2	2	104	113
5	Brazil	2	1	3	103	116
6	Argentina	0	0	4	98	118

Standings after Round 4 - Group B
Rank	Nation	Points	Won	Lost	For	Against	Info
1	Denmark	8	4	0	144	106	Q
2	Egypt	6	3	1	124	114	Q
3	Sweden	6	3	1	111	112	Q
4	Bahrain	2	1	3	109	119
5	Portugal	2	1	3	113	125
6	Japan	0	0	4	115	140

Round 5[]

Round 5 Results
	Result	Result
Spain	36	27	Argentina
Germany	29	25	Brazil
Norway	32	29	France
Egypt	30	20	Bahrain
Portugal	30	31	Japan
Denmark	30	33	Sweden

Standings after Round 5 - Group A
Rank	Nation	Points	Won	Lost	For	Against	Info
1	France	8	4	1	162	148	Q
2	Spain	8	4	1	155	142	Q
3	Germany	6	3	2	146	131	Q
4	Norway	6	3	2	136	132	Q
5	Brazil	2	1	4	128	145
6	Argentina	0	0	5	125	154

Standings after Round 5 - Group B
Rank	Nation	Points	Won	Lost	For	Against	Info
1	Denmark	8	4	1	174	139	Q
2	Egypt	8	4	1	154	134	Q
3	Sweden	8	4	1	144	142	Q
4	Bahrain	2	1	4	129	149	Q
5	Portugal	2	1	4	143	156
6	Japan	2	1	4	146	170

Quarterfinals[]

Quarterfinals
	Result	Result
France	42	28	Bahrain
Germany	26	31	Egypt
Sweden	33	34	Spain
Denmark	31	25	Norway

Semifinals[]

Semifinals
	Result	Result
France	27	23	Egypt
Spain	23	27	Denmark

Finals[]

Final
	Result	Result
France	25	23	Denmark

Bronze medal match
	Result	Result
Egypt	31	33	Spain

Results[]

Result	Team
	France
	Denmark
	Spain
4	Egypt
5	Sweden
6	Germany
7	Norway
8	Bahrain
9	Portugal
10	Brazil
11	Japan
12	Argentina

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