Handball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

The qualification for the 2016 Men's Olympic Handball Tournament is held from January 2015 to April 2016.

Handball at the
2016 Summer Olympics
Tournament
men  women
Rosters
men  women

Qualification summary

Mean of qualification
DateHostVacanciesQualified
Host nation 2 October 2009 Denmark Copenhagen, Denmark 1  Brazil
2015 World Championship 15 Jan – 1 Feb 2015  Qatar 1  France
2015 Pan American Games 16 – 25 July 2015 Canada Toronto, Canada 1
2015 Asian Qualification Tournament 9 – 20 November 2015 Qatar Doha, Qatar 1
2016 African Championship January 2016  Egypt 1
2016 European Championship 17 – 31 January 2016  Poland 1
2016 Olympic Qualification Tournament#1 7 – 10 April 2016 2
2016 Olympic Qualification Tournament#2 2
2016 Olympic Qualification Tournament#3 2
Total 12
Legend for qualification type
Team qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics
Team qualified for the 2016 World Olympics Qualification Tournament

World Championship

Rank Team
1st  France
2nd  Qatar
3rd  Poland
4  Spain
5  Denmark
6  Croatia
7  Germany
8  Slovenia
9  Macedonia
10  Sweden
11  Iceland
12  Argentina
13  Austria
14  Egypt
15  Tunisia
16  Brazil
17  Czech Republic
18  Belarus
19  Russia
20  Bosnia and Herzegovina
21  Iran
22  Saudi Arabia
23  Chile
24  Algeria

Continental qualification

Europe (1st ranking continent)

America (3rd ranking continent)

Africa (4th ranking continent)

World qualification

The teams eligible to participate in these three IHF Qualification Tournaments are seeded as follows :

2016 Olympic Qualification Tournament #1 2016 Olympic Qualification Tournament #2 2016 Olympic Qualification Tournament #3
  • 2nd from World :
  • 7th from World :
  • 2nd from 3rd best placed continent :
  • 2nd from 4th best placed continent :
  • 3rd from World :
  • 6th from World :
  • 2nd from 2nd best placed continent :
  • 3rd from best placed continent :
  • 4th from World :
  • 5th from World :
  • 2nd from best placed continent :
  • 3rd from 2nd best placed continent :

Note:

2016 Olympic Qualification Tournament #1

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

2016 Olympic Qualification Tournament #2

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

2016 Olympic Qualification Tournament #3

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

References

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