| Tourney Name: | Women's handball at the Games of the XXX Olympiad |
| Size: | 150px |
| Country: | Great Britain |
| Dates: | 28 July – 11 August |
| Num Teams: | 12 |
| Confederations: | 4 |
| Venues: | Basketball Arena Copper Box Arena |
| Count: | 2 |
| Matches: | 38 |
| Goals: | 1908 |
| Top Scorer: |  Katarina Bulatović(53 goals) |
| Previous: | Handball at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament |
| Next: | Handball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament |
The women's handball tournament at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held from 28 July to 11 August. The preliminaries and quarter-finals were held at the Copper Box and the semi-finals and final took place at the Basketball Arena.
Twelve nations were represented in the tournament. The four best teams from each group advanced to a knockout round, while the 5th and 6th teams in each group were classified 9th–12th by the results of their group matches. Unlike in previous Olympics, there was no placement matches involving the losing teams of the quarterfinals.
Norway won the tournament and gold medal, beating Montenegro in the final. Montenegro's silver was the first Olympic medal for the country as an independent nation, and the country's only medal at the 2012 Games. Spain won the bronze medal.
See main article: Handball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification.
| Date | Venue | Vacancies | Qualified | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Host nation | 1 | ||||
| 7–19 December 2010 | 1 | † | |||
| Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament 2011 | 12–21 October 2011 | 1 | |||
| 15–23 October 2011 | 1 | ||||
| 2–18 December 2011 | 1 | ||||
| 11–20 January 2012 | 1 | ||||
| 2012 IHF Qualification Tournament #1 | 25–27 May 2012 | 2 | |||
| 2012 IHF Qualification Tournament #2 | 25–27 May 2012 | 2 | |||
| 2012 IHF Qualification Tournament #3 | 25–27 May 2012 | 2 | |||
| Total | 12 | ||||
† Sweden qualified as 2010 European Championship runner up because Norway qualified as the 2011 World Champion.
Before the draw the IHF seeded the teams in six pots. The draw for the groups was held on 30 May 2012.[1]
See main article: Handball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's team rosters.
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| Rank | Team | Points | GD | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | +9 | |||
| 9 | +13 | |||
| 11 | +9 | |||
| 4 | 9 | –1 | ||
| 5 | 9 | +21 | ||
| 6 | [2] | 8 | +13 | |
| 7 | 8 | +27 | ||
| 8 | 7 | +25 | ||
| 9 | 2 | –8 | ||
| 10 | 2 | –10 | ||
| 11 | 0 | –23 | ||
| 12 | 0 | –75 |
Kari Aalvik Grimsbo
Jo Hyo-bi Bojana Popović
Marta Mangué Katarina Bulatović
Alexandra do Nascimento Heidi LøkeChosen by team officials and IHF experts: IHF.info
| Rank | Name | Team | % | Saves | Shots | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kari Aalvik Grimsbø | 42% | 67 | 161 | ||
| 2 | Cléopatre Darleux | 41% | 18 | 44 | ||
| 3 | Amandine Leynaud | 38% | 61 | 161 | ||
| 4 | Silvia Navarro | 37% | 96 | 258 | ||
| Mayssa Pessoa | 37% | 21 | 57 | |||
| Anna Sedoykina | 37% | 34 | 92 | |||
| 7 | Ivana Jelčić | 35% | 62 | 177 | ||
| 8 | Sonja Barjaktarović | 34% | 55 | 161 | ||
| Ju Hui | 34% | 99 | 292 | |||
| 10 | Karin Mortensen | 33% | 27 | 82 |
| Rank | Name | Team | Goals | Shots | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Katarina Bulatović | 53 | 93 | 57% | |
| 2 | Bojana Popović | 46 | 77 | 60% | |
| 3 | Ryu Eun-hee | 43 | 92 | 47% | |
| 4 | Alexandra do Nascimento | 37 | 55 | 67% | |
| 5 | Marta Mangué | 34 | 67 | 51% | |
| 6 | Nely Carla Alberto | 33 | 58 | 57% | |
| Linn Jørum Sulland | 33 | 66 | 50% | ||
| 8 | Jo Hyo-bi | 32 | 52 | 62% | |
| Ann Grete Nørgaard | 32 | 52 | 62% | ||
| 10 | Linn-Kristin Riegelhuth Koren | 31 | 39 | 79% | |
| Andrea Penezić | 31 | 55 | 56% | ||
| Jovanka Radičević | 31 | 51 | 61% |