Handball at the Olympics

Handball at Olympic Games
Olympic champion
year	Men's	Ladies
1936	Germany
1972	Yugoslavia
1976	Soviet Union	Soviet Union
1980	GDR	Soviet Union
1984	Yugoslavia	Yugoslavia
1988	Soviet Union	South Korea
1992	United team	South Korea
1996	Croatia	Denmark
2000	Russia	Denmark
2004	Croatia	Denmark
2008	France	Norway
2012	France	Norway
2016	Denmark	Russia

Handball was for the first time in 1936 with the XI. Olympic Games in Berlin on the program, as field handball with eleven players on grass. In 1948 in London handball was dropped, in 1952 in Helsinki field handball was a demonstration sport. 1972 Munich Handball came back into the program, but now as a handball and since 1976 in Montreal , a women's tournament will be held.

1936 field handball

At the Olympic Congress in Berlin in May 1930, handball, along with other team sports, was first approved for the 1936 Games, provided that the tournament could be completed within the time allotted for the Games. Six countries took part in the tournament, Germany won gold ahead of Austria and Switzerland. → Berlin 1936

The attempt to permanently include handball in the Olympic program failed in April 1949 at the 44th IOC meeting in Rome. The fact that four countries, Denmark, the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden, withdrew in 1936 and indoor handball was becoming increasingly popular, certainly contributed to this. In Helsinki 1952 a demonstration match between Sweden and Denmark took place on July 30th, which Sweden won 19:11. This ended the Olympic appearance of field handball.

From 1972 indoor handball

Postage stamp of the German Post of the GDR 1972

Twenty years later handball was again Olympic, this time as indoor handball. In October 1965, at its 64th meeting in Madrid, the IOC made handball an Olympic sport again. Willi Daume , the President of the West German NOK, organized a demonstration game between Spain and Germany for the IOC.

In Munich in 1972 at the 73rd session of the IOC, a women's tournament was included in the program for the following games in 1976 in Montreal. Since then, both tournaments have been an integral part of the Summer Games.

Competitions

Handball - Current Competitions
competition	36	48	52	56	60	64	68	72	76	80	84	88	92	96	00	04	08	12	16	20th	Games
	Men women
Men								•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	13
Women									•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	12
Handball - Former Competitions
competition	36	48	52	56	60	64	68	72	76	80	84	88	92	96	00	04	08	12	16	20th	Games
	Men
Field handball - men	•		D.																		1
Number of competitions	1							1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2

Medal table (nation ranking)

→ Main article : "Nations ranking" in the article List of Olympic champions in handball

Sources, individual references

1. ^ Olympic Congress of Berlin. 25th – 30th May. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 3, 2014 ; accessed on January 11, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 23  
2. ^ IOC Reference Document Handball
3. ↑ Handball at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games. Retrieved January 11, 2014 .  on www.sports-reference.com
4. ^ IOC Report 1952. Retrieved January 11, 2014 .  P. 697

• IOC Reference Document Handball Handball: participation during the history of the Olympic Games. Retrieved January 11, 2014 . 
• Sportschau.de Olympic handball: history and rules. Retrieved January 11, 2014 .