This article shows the rosters of all participating teams at the
women's handball tournament at the
2016 Summer Olympics in
Rio de Janeiro
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''Age, caps and goals as of the start of the tournament, 6 August 2016.''
Group A
Angola
The following is the Angola roster in the women's handball tournament of the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Head coach:
Filipe Cruz
Brazil
The following is the Brazilian roster in the women's handball tournament of the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Head coach:
Morten Soubak
Morten Soubak (born 6 August 1964 in Fodby) is a Danish handball coach for Primeiro de Agosto and the Angola women's national team. He coached the Brazilian national team between 2009 and 2016 and lead them to a historic title at the 2013 Worl ...
Montenegro
The following is the Montenegrin roster in the women's handball tournament of the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Head coach:
Dragan Adžić
Dragan Adžić (born 13 December 1969) is a Montenegrin handball coach of Krim and the Slovenia women's team.
He led Montenegro at the 2011 World Women's Handball Championship in Brazil. With the team, he won silver medal at the 2012 Summer ...
Norway
The following is the Norwegian roster in the women's handball tournament of the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Head coach:
Thorir Hergeirsson
Romania
The following is the Romanian roster in the women's handball tournament of the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Head coach:
Tomas Ryde
Spain
The following is the Spanish roster in the women's handball tournament of the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Head coach:
Jorge Dueñas
Group B
Argentina
The following is the Argentine roster in the women's handball tournament of the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Head coach:
Eduardo Peruchena
France
The following is the French roster in the women's handball tournament of the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Head coach:
Olivier Krumbholz
Netherlands
The following is the Dutch roster in the women's handball tournament of the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Head coach:
Henk Groener
Russia
The following is the Russian roster in the women's handball tournament of the 2016 Summer Olympics. On 12 August,
Tatyana Yerokhina was added to the squad after
Anna Sedoykina was ruled out for the test of the tournament due to an injury.
Head coach:
Yevgeni Trefilov
Yevgeni Vasilyevich Trefilov (russian: link=no, Евгений Васильевич Трефилов; born 4 September 1955) Was the handball head coach of the Russian women's national team. He has led the Russian team to win the IHF World Wome ...
South Korea
The following is the South Korean roster in the women's handball tournament of the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Head coach:
Lim Young-chul
Sweden
The following is the Swedish roster in the women's handball tournament of the 2016 Summer Olympics. On 16 August,
Hanna Blomstrand replaced
Michaela Ek due to an injury.
Head coach:
Henrik Signell
Statistics
Player representation by club
Clubs with 6 or more players represented are listed.
Player representation by league
The
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Japanese,
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Hungarian squads were made up entirely of players from the respective countries' domestic leagues. The
Montenegrin squad was made up entirely of players employed by abroad country clubs.
Coaches representation by country
Coaches in bold represent their own country.
See also
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Handball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's team rosters
References
External links
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Women's team rosters
2016
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Women's events at the 2016 Summer Olympics