The

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tournaments at the 2012 Olympic Games in

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was held from 28 July to 12 August in the

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. Preliminary rounds and the quarter-finals were held in the

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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

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(men) and

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(women).

Events

Two sets of medals were awarded in the following events: * Men's handball (12 teams) *

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(12 teams)

Referees

The executive committee of the

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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''.
*
International Handball Federation

European Handball Federation
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International handball competitions hosted by the United Kingdom