2004 Summer Olympics / handball

Handball at the 2004 Olympic Games
information
venue	Athens
Competition venue	Faliro Sports Pavilion , Elliniko Olympic Indoor Arena
Teams	22 (10 , 12 )
Nations	16
Athletes	328 (149 , 179 )
date	August 14-29, 2004
decisions	2
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At the XXVIII. Two handball tournaments were held at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens . The venues were the Sports Pavilion in the Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Sports Complex (preliminary round games) and the Indoor Arena in the Helliniko Olympic Complex (finals).

Men

Medalist

Game scene during the men's final CRO - DEU

gold	silver	bronze
Croatia Ivano Balić Davor Dominiković Mirza Džomba Slavko Goluža Nikša Kaleb Blaženko Lacković Venio Losert Valter Matošević Petar Metličić Vlado Šola Denis Špoljarić Goran Šprem Igor Vori Drago Vuković Vedran Zrnić Coach: Lino Červar	Germany Markus Baur Mark Dragunski Henning Fritz Pascal Hens Jan-Olaf Immel Torsten Jansen Florian Kehrmann Stefan Kretzschmar Klaus-Dieter Petersen Christian Ramota Christian Schwarzer Christian Zeitz Daniel Stephan Volker Zerbe Frank von Behren Trainer: Heiner Brand	Russia Pawel Bashkin Alexander Gorbatikow Vyacheslav Gorpischin Vitali Ivanov Eduard Kokscharow Alexei Kostygow Denis Kriwoschlykow Vasily Kudinow Oleg Kuleschow Andrei Lavrov Sergei Pogorelow Alexei Rastworzew Mikhail Chipurin Dmitri Torgowanow Alexander Tutschkin Coach: Vladimir Maximov

Preliminary round matches

Group A

rank	country	S.	G	U	V	Gates	Points
1	Croatia	5	5	0	0	146: 129	10
2	Spain	5	4th	0	1	154: 137	8th
3	South Korea	5	2	0	3	148: 148	4th
4th	Russia	5	2	0	3	145: 145	4th
5	Iceland	5	1	0	4th	143: 158	2
6th	Slovenia	5	1	0	4th	130: 149	2

date	Local time	encounter			Result
August 14th	9:30 a.m.	Spain	-	South Korea	31:30 17; 12
August 14th	2:30 p.m.	Russia	-	Slovenia	28:25 (16:13)
August 14th	19:30 o'clock	Croatia	-	Iceland	34:30 (16:12)
August 16	9:30 a.m.	South Korea	-	Russia	35:32 (16:16)
August 16	11:30 a.m.	Slovenia	-	Croatia	26:27 (10:13)
August 16	2:30 p.m.	Iceland	-	Spain	23:31 (12:13)
18th of August	9:30 a.m.	Croatia	-	South Korea	29:26 (12:10)
18th of August	11:30 a.m.	Iceland	-	Slovenia	30:25 (10:10)
18th of August	19:30 o'clock	Spain	-	Russia	29:26 (11:11)
20th of August	9:30 a.m.	South Korea	-	Iceland	34:30 (16:13)
20th of August	11:30 a.m.	Spain	-	Slovenia	41:28 (18:15)
20th of August	19:30 o'clock	Russia	-	Croatia	25:26 (14:10)
August 22nd	9:30 a.m.	Slovenia	-	South Korea	26:23 (12:11)
August 22nd	11:00 o'clock	Croatia	-	Spain	30:22 (15: 9)
August 22nd	19:30 o'clock	Russia	-	Iceland	34:30 (17:11)

Group B

rank	country	S.	G	U	V	Gates	Points
1	France	5	5	0	0	135: 108	10
2	Hungary	5	4th	0	1	132: 124	8th
3	Germany	5	3	0	2	139: 110	6th
4th	Greece	5	2	0	3	117: 130	4th
5	Brazil	5	1	0	4th	105: 133	2
6th	Egypt	5	0	0	5	110: 133	0

date	Local time	encounter			Result
August 14th	11:30 a.m.	Hungary	-	Egypt	33:28 (16:15)
August 14th	4:30 p.m.	Germany	-	Greece	28:18 (15: 8)
August 14th	9:30 p.m.	France	-	Brazil	31:17 (14: 6)
August 16	4:30 p.m.	Greece	-	France	25:29 (15:15)
August 16	19:30 o'clock	Brazil	-	Hungary	19:20 (10:10)
August 16	9:30 p.m.	Egypt	-	Germany	14:26 (5:14)
18th of August	2:30 p.m.	France	-	Hungary	26:23 (9:10)
18th of August	4:30 p.m.	Greece	-	Egypt	26:25 (18:10)
18th of August	9:30 p.m.	Germany	-	Brazil	34:21 (18:12)
20th of August	2:30 p.m.	Brazil	-	Greece	22:26 (9:13)
20th of August	4:30 p.m.	Hungary	-	Germany	30:29 (17:14)
20th of August	9:30 p.m.	France	-	Egypt	22:21 (11:13)
August 22nd	2:30 p.m.	Germany	-	France	22:27 (11:12)
August 22nd	2:30 p.m.	Hungary	-	Greece	26:22 (12:12)
August 22nd	9:30 p.m.	Egypt	-	Brazil	22:26 (11:10)

Final round

	Quarter finals				Semifinals				final
	August 24, 2004, 4:30 p.m.
	Croatia	33 (19)
					August 27, 2004, 2:30 p.m.
	Greece	27 (11)
					Croatia	33 (18)
	August 24, 2004, 2:30 p.m.
					Hungary	31 (16)
	South Korea	25 (13)
									August 29, 2004, 4:45 p.m.
	Hungary	30 (14)
									Croatia	26 (11)
	August 24, 2004, 7.30 p.m.
									Germany	24 (12)
	Germany	32 (30, 28, 27, 15) iS
					August 27, 2004, 4:30 p.m.
	Spain	30 (30, 28, 27, 16) iS
					Germany	21 (09)			Game for third place
	August 24, 2004, 9:30 p.m.
					Russia	15 (10)
	France	24 (14)							Hungary	26 (10)
	Russia	26 (13)							Russia	28 (13)
									August 28, 2004, 4:45 p.m.

The quarter-final game Germany - Spain ended after 2 extra times in the 7m throw with 32:30 (30:30 2nd v, 28:28 1st v, 27:27, 15:16).

Placement games 9-12

Date / time	Team 1	Team 2	Result
Game for 11th place
24 Aug 2004, 9:30 a.m.	Slovenia	Egypt	30:24 (11:13)
Play for 9th place
24 Aug 2004, 11:30 a.m.	Brazil	Iceland	25:29 (11:13)

Placement games 5 - 8

	5th-8th space				5th / 6th space
	August 27, 2004, 11:30 a.m.
	Greece	29 (16)
	South Korea	24 (09)
					August 28, 2004, 7:30 p.m.
					Greece	15 (07)
					France	33 (17)
					7th / 8th space
	August 27, 2004, 9:30 a.m.				August 28, 2004, 9:30 p.m.
	Spain	27 (13)			South Korea	24 (11)
	France	29 (11)			Spain	31 (12)

3rd place match

Date / time	Team 1	Team 2	Result
Aug 28, 2004, 4:45 p.m.	Hungary	Russia	26:28 (10:13)

final

Date / time	Team 1	Team 2	Result
Aug 29, 2004, 4:45 p.m.	Croatia	Germany	26:24 (11:12)

The half-time results are in brackets.

Allstar team

position	Surname	country
Goal:	Henning Fritz	Germany
Left winger:	Juanín García	Spain
Back left:	Carlos Perez	Hungary
Back center:	Ivano Balić	Croatia
Back right:	Ólafur Stefánsson	Iceland
Right winger:	Mirza Džomba	Croatia
Circle:	Christian Schwarzer	Germany

List of goalscorers

No.	player	country	Games	Gates
1.	Yoon Kyung-Shin		-	58
2.	Mirza Džomba		-	55
3.	Carlos Perez		-	54
4th	Eduard Koksharow		-	45
5.	Stefan Kretzschmar		-	44
6th	Ólafur Stefánsson		-	43
7th	Nikolaos Grammatikos		-	41
8th.	Florian Kehrmann		-	40
	Alexei Rastworzew		-	40

Women

Medalists

space	country	Players
1	Denmark	Kristine Andersen , Karen Brødsgaard , Line Daugaard , Katrine Fruelund , Trine Jensen , Rikke Hørlykke , Lotte Kiærskou , Mette Vestergaard , Henriette Knebel Mikkelsen , Karin Ørnhøj Mortensen , Louise Bager Nørgaard , Rikke Schmidt , Rikke Skov , Camilla Thomsen , Josephine Touray Coach: January Pytlick
2	South Korea	Choi Im-jeong , Huh Soon-young , Huh Young-sook , Jang So-hee , Kim Cha-youn , Kim Hyun-ok , Lee Gong-joo , Lee Sang-eun , Lim O-kyeong , Moon Kyeong-ha , Moon Pil-hee , Myoung Bok-hee , Oh Seong-ok , Oh Yong-ran , Woo Sun-hee Trainer: Lim Young-chul
3	Ukraine	Natalya Borisenko , Hanna Burmistrowa , Iryna Hontscharowa , Larissa Zaspa , tetyana shynkarenko , Marina Werheljuk , Olena Jazenko , Hanna Sjukalo , Olena Radchenko , Olena Zyhiza , Halina Markuschewska , Lyudmila Shevchenko , Natalya Ljapina , Anastasija Borodina , Oksana Rajchel Coach: Leonid Ratner

Preliminary round matches

Group A

space	team	Games	Victories	Unent.	Loss	Gates	Points
1	Ukraine	4th	4th	0	0	99:82	8th
2	Hungary	4th	3	0	1	118: 93	6th
3	People's Republic of China	4th	2	0	2	106: 90	4th
4th	Brazil	4th	1	0	3	97: 105	2
5	Greece	4th	0	0	4th	74: 124	0

China - Hungary		24:28
Greece - Brazil		21:29
Ukraine - China		26:21
Hungary - Greece		33:20
Greece - China		13:33
Brazil - Ukraine		19:21
Ukraine - Greece		29:20
Brazil - Hungary		26:35
China - Brazil		28:23
Hungary - Ukraine		22:23

Group B

space	team	Games	Victories	Unent.	Loss	Gates	Points
1	South Korea	4th	3	1	0	135: 103	7th
2	Denmark	4th	3	1	0	125: 98	7th
3	France	4th	2	0	2	105: 106	4th
4th	Spain	4th	0	1	3	86: 110	1
5	Angola	4th	0	1	3	97: 131	1

Spain - Angola		24:24
Denmark - France		35:26
South Korea - Denmark		29:29
France - Spain		27:20
Angola - South Korea		30:40
Spain - Denmark		21:23
Angola - France		21:29
South Korea - Spain		36:21
France - South Korea		23:30
Denmark - Angola		38:22

Finals

Play for 9th place		Greece - Angola		23:38
Quarterfinals A.		Ukraine - Spain		25:23
Quarter Finals B		France - Hungary		25:23
Quarter Finals C		China - Denmark		28:32
Quarterfinals D.		South Korea - Brazil		26:24
1. Game of 1/4 Final Losers		Spain - China		27:23
2. Game of 1/4 Final Losers		Hungary - Brazil		36:31
Game for 7th place		China - Brazil		25:26
Play for 5th place		Spain - Hungary		29:38
Semifinals A.		France - South Korea		31:32
Semifinals B		Ukraine - Denmark		20:29
3rd place match		Ukraine - France		21:18
final		Denmark - South Korea		38:36

Sources, individual references

1. ↑ Athens 2004 Official Results Book Handball, p. 388 ff. (PDF) Retrieved on February 5, 2016 .  on www.ihf.info