Olympic Summer Games 2020 / Handball

Handball at the 2020 Olympics
information
venue	Tokyo
Competition venue	Kokuritsu Yoyogi Kyōgijō
Teams	24 (12 , 12 )
Athletes	336 (168 , 168 )
decisions	2
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The Kokuritsu Yoyogi Kyōgijō in Tokyo

Two handball competitions are to be held at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo . Twelve teams each take part in the tournament for women and men. The venue is the Kokuritsu Yoyogi Kyōgijō , which can seat 12,000 spectators. There will be 336 athletes taking part in the competitions, twelve teams of each gender with 14 players each.

Time schedule

The following sequence was planned for the games in summer 2020. The exact schedule for 2021 has not yet been set.

Schedule handball
Competitions	July							August
	25th	26th	27.	28.	29	30th	31.	1.	2.	3.	4th	5.	6th	7th	8th.	9.
Men	VR		VR		VR		VR		VR		VF		HF
Women		VR		VR		VR		VR		VR		VF		HF
decisions	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1

VR

Preliminary round

VF

Quarter finals

HF

Semifinals

Medal decision

Balance sheet

Medalist

discipline	gold	silver	bronze
Men
Women

Men's tournament

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qualification

→ Main article : 2020 Summer Olympics / handball / qualification

Qualified for the Olympic tournament are the 2019 world champions and the four winners of the continental championships that will be held between 2019 and 2020. (Asia and Oceania together form a continental association). Japan is automatically qualified to host.

The last opportunity to qualify is three tournaments in 2020, in which two teams qualify. Four teams will take part in each of these tournaments, the places will be awarded after the performance at the World and Continental Championships. The six best teams in the World Cup that have not yet qualified for the Olympic tournament take part. There are also two teams each from Europe and Asia as well as one team from America and Africa.

Qualifying competition	date	place	Places	Qualified teams
host	September 7, 2013	Buenos Aires	1	Japan
World Championship 2019	10-27 January 2019	Denmark / Germany	1	Denmark
Pan American Games 2019	July 26th - August 11th 2019	Peru	1	Argentina
Asian qualifying tournament	17.-27. October 2019	Qatar	1	Bahrain
Africa Cup of Nations 2020	16.-26. January 2020	Tunisia	1	Egypt
European Championship 2020	10-26 January 2020	Austria / Norway / Sweden	1	Spain
Olympic qualification tournament 1	12-14 March 2021	Norway	2
Olympic qualification tournament 2		France	2
Olympic qualification tournament 3		Germany	2
total			12	6th

Women's tournament

→ Main article : 2020 Summer Olympics / Handball - women

qualification

→ Main article : 2020 Summer Olympics / handball / qualification

Qualified for the Olympic tournament are the 2019 world champions and the four winners of the continental championships that took place between 2019 and 2020. (Asia and Oceania together form a continental association). Japan is automatically qualified to host.

The last opportunity to qualify in 2020 is three tournaments in which two teams each qualify. Four teams will take part in each of these tournaments, the places will be awarded after the performance at the World and Continental Championships. The six best teams in the World Cup that have not yet qualified for the Olympic tournament take part. There were also two teams each from Europe and Asia as well as one team from America and Africa.

Qualifying competition	date	place	Places	Qualified teams
host	September 7, 2013	, Buenos Aires	1	Japan
European Championship 2018	November 29 - December 16, 2018	France	1	France
Pan American Games 2019	July 24-30, 2019	Peru	1	Brazil
Asian qualifying tournament	21.-29. September 2019	China	1	South Korea
African qualifying tournament	26.-29. September 2019	Republic of the Congo	1	Angola
World Championship 2019	November 29 - December 15, 2019	Japan	1	Netherlands
Olympic qualification tournament 1	19. – 21. March 2021	Spain	2
Olympic qualification tournament 2		Hungary	2
Olympic qualification tournament 3		Montenegro	2
total			12	6th

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tokyo 2020 Qualification System confirmed . In: ihf.info . 3rd April 2018.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Tokyo 2020 Qualification System confirmed. (No longer available online.) In: IHF.info. April 3, 2018, formerly in the original ; accessed on January 1, 2020 (English).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )