Handball at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

2004 Men's Olympic handball tournament

Tournament details
Host country	Greece
Dates	14 August - 29 August
Teams	12 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)	2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Croatia
Runner-up	Germany
Third place	Russia
Fourth place	Hungary

Handball at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Tournament
men  women
Squads
men  women

The men's handball competition, one of two events of handball at the 2004 Summer Olympics, in Athens, took place at the Sports Pavilion (Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex) during the preliminary round and quarter-finals (August 14–August 24), and at the Helliniko Olympic Indoor Arena during the semi-finals and medal matches (August 27–August 29). A total of 180 players, distributed among twelve national teams, participated in this tournament.

Contents 1 Medalists 2 Preliminary round 2.1 Group A 2.2 Group B 3 Knockout stage 3.1 Quarter-finals 3.2 Semi-finals 3.3 Bronze medal match 3.4 Gold medal match 4 Classification playoffs 4.1 5th–8th place 4.2 9th place 4.3 11th place 5 Rankings and statistics 6 References

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Croatia (CRO) Venio Losert Vlado Šola Valter Matošević Nikša Kaleb Ivano Balić Blaženko Lacković Vedran Zrnić Igor Vori Davor Dominiković Mirza Džomba Drago Vuković Slavko Goluža Goran Šprem Denis Špoljarić Petar Metličić	Germany (GER) Henning Fritz Christian Ramota Pascal Hens Mark Dragunski Stefan Kretzschmar Jan Olaf Immel Christian Schwarzer Klaus-Dieter Petersen Volker Zerbe Markus Baur Christian Zeitz Torsten Jansen Daniel Stephan Florian Kehrmann	Russia (RUS) Andrey Lavrov Alexey Kostygov Vitali Ivanov Oleg Kuleshov Denis Krivoshlykov Alexandre Tuchkin Vasily Kudinov Pavel Bashkin Dmitri Torgovanov Alexander Gorbatikov Alexey Rastvortsev Viatcheslav Gorpichin Sergey Pogorelov Mikhail Chipurin Eduard Kokcharov

Preliminary round

For the preliminary round, contested between August 14 and August 22, the twelve teams were distributed into two groups of six teams. Each team played against each of its five group opponents for a total of five matches. The four best-scoring teams advanced to the quarter-finals.

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Points
Croatia	5	5	0	0	146	129	17	10
Spain	5	4	0	1	154	137	17	8
South Korea	5	2	0	3	148	148	0	4
Russia	5	2	0	3	145	145	0	4
Iceland	5	1	0	4	143	158	-15	2
Slovenia	5	1	0	4	130	149	-19	2

All times are Eastern European Time (UTC+2)

August 14 09:30	Spain	31–30	South Korea	Sports Pavilion Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

August 14 14:30	Russia	28–25	Slovenia	Sports Pavilion Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

August 14 19:30	Croatia	34–30	Iceland	Sports Pavilion Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

August 16 09:30	South Korea	35–32	Russia	Sports Pavilion Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

August 16 11:30	Croatia	27–26	Slovenia	Sports Pavilion Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

August 16 14:30	Spain	31–23	Iceland	Sports Pavilion Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

August 18 09:30	Croatia	29–26	South Korea	Sports Pavilion Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

August 18 11:30	Iceland	30–25	Slovenia	Sports Pavilion Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

August 18 19:30	Spain	29–26	Russia	Sports Pavilion Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

August 20 09:30	South Korea	34–30	Iceland	Sports Pavilion Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

August 20 11:30	Spain	41–28	Slovenia	Sports Pavilion Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

August 20 19:30	Croatia	26–25	Russia	Sports Pavilion Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

August 22 09:30	Slovenia	26–23	South Korea	Sports Pavilion Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

August 22 11:30	Croatia	30–22	Spain	Sports Pavilion Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

August 22 19:30	Russia	34–30	Iceland	Sports Pavilion Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Points
France	5	5	0	0	135	108	27	10
Hungary	5	4	0	1	132	124	8	8
Germany	5	3	0	2	139	110	29	6
Greece	5	2	0	3	117	130	-13	4
Brazil	5	1	0	4	105	133	-28	2
Egypt	5	0	0	5	110	133	-23	0

All times are Eastern European Time (UTC+2)

August 14 11:30	Hungary	33–28	Egypt	Sports Pavilion Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

August 14 16:30	Germany	28–18	Greece	Sports Pavilion Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

August 14 21:30	France	31–17	Brazil	Sports Pavilion Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

August 16 16:30	France	29–25	Greece	Sports Pavilion Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

August 16 19:30	Hungary	20–19	Brazil	Sports Pavilion Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

August 16 21:30	Egypt	14–26	Germany	Sports Pavilion Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

August 18 14:30	France	26–23	Hungary	Sports Pavilion Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

August 18 16:30	Greece	26–25	Egypt	Sports Pavilion Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

August 18 21:30	Germany	34–21	Brazil	Sports Pavilion Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

August 20 14:30	Greece	26–22	Brazil	Sports Pavilion Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

August 20 16:30	Hungary	30–29	Germany	Sports Pavilion Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

August 20 21:30	France	22–21	Egypt	Sports Pavilion Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

August 22 14:30	France	27–22	Germany	Sports Pavilion Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

August 22 16:30	Hungary	26–22	Greece	Sports Pavilion Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

August 22 21:30	Brazil	26–22	Egypt	Sports Pavilion Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

Knockout stage

In this single-elimination stage, the first- and second-placed teams of one group played against the other group's fourth- and third-placed teams, respectively, to contest the quarter-final round, held on August 24, at the Sports Pavilion. The winners advanced to the semi-finals, disputed at the Indoor Arena on August 27, with the losing semi-finalists playing for the bronze medal match on the following day, and the final being played two days later.

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Gold medal final
	Croatia	33
	Greece	27
					Croatia	33
					Hungary	31
	South Korea	25
	Hungary	30
									Croatia	26
									Germany	24
	Germany	32
	Spain	30
					Germany	21			Bronze medal final
					Russia	15
	France	24							Hungary	26
	Russia	26							Russia	28

Quarter-finals

August 24 10:00	France	24–26	Russia	Sports Pavilion Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

August 24 12:30	South Korea	25–30	Hungary	Sports Pavilion Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

August 24 14:30	Croatia	33–27	Greece	Sports Pavilion Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

August 24 17:00	Germany	32–30	Spain	Sports Pavilion Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

Semi-finals

August 27 12:30	Croatia	33–31	Hungary	Helliniko Olympic Indoor Arena

August 27 14:30	Germany	21–15	Russia	Helliniko Olympic Indoor Arena

Bronze medal match

28 August 19:30	Hungary	26–28	Russia	Helliniko Olympic Indoor Arena Referees: Migas (GRE), Bavas (GRE)

Gold medal match

29 August 14:45	Croatia	26–24	Germany	Helliniko Olympic Indoor Arena Referees: Hansson (SWE), Olsson (SWE)

Classification playoffs

5th–8th place

	5th–8th place matches				5th place match
	Greece	29
	South Korea	24
					Greece	15
					France	33
					7th place match
	Spain	27		South Korea	24
	France	29			Spain	31

August 27 07:30	Greece	29–24	South Korea	Sports Pavilion Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

August 27 09:30	Spain	24–29	France	Sports Pavilion Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

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August 28 12:30	South Korea	24–31	Spain	Sports Pavilion Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

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August 28 17:30	Greece	15–33	France	Sports Pavilion Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

9th place

August 24 09:30	Brazil	25–29	Iceland	Sports Pavilion Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

11th place

August 24 07:30	Slovenia	30–24	Egypt	Sports Pavilion Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

Rankings and statistics

Classification 1 !  Croatia 2 !  Germany 3 !  Russia 4  Hungary 5  France 6  Greece 7  Spain 8  South Korea 9  Iceland 10  Brazil 11  Slovenia 12  Egypt References 2004 Summer Olympics official report Volume 2.