The women's
handball
Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the ...
tournament at the
2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Nat ...
is being held from August 9 to August 23, at the
Olympic Sports Centre Gymnasium and
National Indoor Stadium in
Beijing
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. Twelve nations are represented in the women's tournament.
The four best teams from each group will advance to the quarterfinal round, 5th and 6th teams in each group are classified 9th-12th by the results of their group matches. The losers of quarterfinal matches will compete in the 5th-8th classification matches by the same elimination system as the winners of the quarterfinals.
Three time consecutive defending Champion
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were not part of the 2008 Olympics Handball Tournament, as they did not qualify from the 2007
World Women's Handball Championship
The IHF Women's Handball World Championship has been organized by the International Handball Federation since 1957. European teams have won every time except 1995 where South Korea won as the first team outside Europe and 2013 where Brazil won ...
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Qualification
Olympic Qualifying Tournaments:
*Tournament I:
**Worlds 2nd:
**Worlds 7th:
**Europe:
**Pan-America:
*Tournament II:
**Worlds 3rd:
**Worlds 6th:
**Asia:
**Top continent at the Worlds (Europe):
*Tournament III:
**Worlds 4th:
**Worlds 5th:
**Africa:
**2nd continent at the Worlds (Asia):
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The replays of the Asian Olympic Qualification that were ordered after the manipiulations in the first tournaments of the women and the men were now both won by Korea. In the original tournaments Kuwait (men) and Kazakhstan (women) had won. The Asian Federation (AHF) still does not recognize the order from the IHF and insists on an original decision in the first tournaments. IHF and AHF have agreed to refer this issue to the Court of Arbitration for Sport
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS; french: Tribunal arbitral du sport, ''TAS'') is an international body established in 1984 to settle disputes related to sport through arbitration. Its headquarters are in Lausanne, Switzerland and its ...
(CAS) to assure a speedy resolution to this conflict prior the Olympic Qualification Tournaments as the final ruling will be binding for all parties. the CAS Panel ruled that the resolutions adopted by the IHF Council in Paris were invalid, being in breach with their own rules and without the AHF having been in proper opportunity to be heard. As required by the terms of the arbitration agreement, the CAS Panel considered the issues de novo in order to settle the dispute definitively. On the basis of the evidence submitted, the arbitrators unanimously held that the results of the Men's Olympic Qualification Tournament held in September 2007 should be annulled and that the results of the replayed tournament held on 30 January 2008 were valid. Furthermore the CAS Panel confirmed the results of the Women's Tournament held in August 2007.
Preliminary round
Seeding
The draw for the groups was held 16 June 2008.
Rosters
Group stage
Group A
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Group B
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Medal Round
All times are China Standard Time
The time in China follows a single standard time offset of UTC+08:00 (eight hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time), even though the country spans almost five geographical time zones. The official national standard time is called ''Beijing ...
(UTC+8
UTC+08:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +08:00.
With an estimated population of 1.708 billion living within the time zone, roughly 24% of the world population, it is the most populous time zone in the world, as well as a ...
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Quarterfinals
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Classification
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Semifinals
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7th–8th place
5th–6th place
Bronze medal match
Gold medal match
Rankings and statistics
All Star Team
* Goalkeeper:
Katrine Lunde Haraldsen
Katrine Lunde (former Haraldsen; born 30 March 1980) is a Norwegian handball goalkeeper for Vipers Kristiansand and the Norwegian national team.
She is the twin sister of fellow handball player Kristine Lunde-Borgersen. Her sporting achieveme ...
* Left wing:
Orsolya Vérten
Orsolya Vérten (born 22 July 1982) is a Hungarian retired handballer who played for the Hungarian national team.
She made her international debut in 2002 and participated in the European Championship in the same year, finishing fifth. She pl ...
* Left back:
Liudmila Postnova
* Centre back:
Oh Seong-Ok
* Right back:
Irina Bliznova
* Right wing:
Ramona Maier
* Line player/pivot:
Else-Marthe Sørlie Lybekk
Else-Marthe Sørlie Lybekk (née Sørlie; born 11 September 1978, in Gjøvik) is a retired Norwegian team handball player, world champion from 1999, gold medalist from the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and bronze medalist from the 2000 Olymp ...
Chosen by team officials and IHF experts
IHF.info
Top Goalkeepers
Top goalscorers
References
External links
Beijing 2008 Olympic GamesInternational Handball FederationEuropean Handball Federation
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Women's tournament
Women's handball in China
2008 in women's handball
2008 in Chinese women's sport
Women's events at the 2008 Summer Olympics