| Tourney Name: | Men's handball at the XXXII Olympiad |
| Size: | 150px |
| Country: | Japan |
| Dates: | 24 July – 7 August 2021 |
| Num Teams: | 12 |
| Confederations: | 5 |
| Venues: | Yoyogi National Gymnasium |
| Champion: | FRA |
| Count: | 3 |
| Second: | DEN |
| Third: | ESP |
| Fourth: | EGY |
| Matches: | 38 |
| Goals: | 2204 |
| Attendance: | 0 |
| Top Scorer: | Mikkel Hansen (61 goals) |
| Player: | Mathias Gidsel |
| Previous: | Handball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament |
| Next: | Handball at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament |
The men's handball tournament at the 2020 Summer Olympics was the 14th edition of the handball event for men at the Summer Olympic Games. It was held from 24 July to 7 August 2021. All games were played at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan.[1]
It was originally scheduled to be held in 2020, but on 24 March 2020, the Olympics were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2] Because of this pandemic, the games were played behind closed doors.[3]
The final was a rematch of the previous between Denmark and France. After Denmark won 28–26 in the 2016 final, France got the upper hand with a 25–23 win this time.[4] [5] Spain won the bronze medal match against Egypt.[6]
This meant that France won both gold medals as the first team since 1984.
The medals for the competition were presented by Jean-Christophe Rolland, IOC Member, Olympian, one Gold medal and one Bronze medal, France; and the medalists' bouquets were presented by Joël Delplanque, IHF 1st Vice-President, France.
| Sat 24 | Sun 25 | Mon 26 | Tue 27 | Wed 28 | Thu 29 | Fri 30 | Sat 31 | Sun 1 | Mon 2 | Tue 3 | Wed 4 | Thu 5 | Fri 6 | Sat 7 | |||
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| G | G | G | G | G | ¼ | ½ | B | F | |||||||||
See main article: Handball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification.
The draw was held on 1 April 2021.[8] [9]
The seeding was revealed on 14 March 2021.[10]
See main article: article and Handball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's team rosters.
The referee pairs were announced on 21 April 2021.[11]
| Referees | ||
|---|---|---|
| Youcef Belkhiri Sid Ali Hamidi | ||
| María Paolantoni Mariana García | ||
| Matija Gubica Boris Milošević | ||
| Václav Horáček Jiří Novotný | ||
| Mads Hansen Jesper Madsen | ||
| Yasmina El-Saied Heidy El-Saied | ||
| Charlotte Bonaventura Julie Bonaventura | ||
| Robert Schulze Tobias Tönnies | ||
| Referees | ||
|---|---|---|
| Gjorgji Nachevski Slave Nikolov | ||
| Duarte Santos Ricardo Fonseca | ||
| Viktoriia Alpaidze Tatiana Berezkina | ||
| Bojan Lah David Sok | ||
| Koo Bon-ok Lee Se-ok | ||
| Óscar Raluy Ángel Sabroso | ||
| Mirza Kurtagic Mattias Wetterwik | ||
| Arthur Brunner Morad Salah | ||
All times are local (UTC+9).[12] [13]
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The all-star team was announced on 7 August 2021.[15]
| Position | Player | |
|---|---|---|
| Goalkeeper | Vincent Gérard | |
| Right wing | Aleix Gómez | |
| Right back | Yahia Omar | |
| Centre back | Nedim Remili | |
| Left back | Mikkel Hansen | |
| Left wing | Hugo Descat | |
| Pivot | Ludovic Fabregas | |
| Mathias Gidsel |
| 1 | Mikkel Hansen | 61 | 100 | 61 |
| 2 | Mathias Gidsel | 46 | 57 | 81 |
| 3 | Aleix Gómez | 44 | 47 | 94 |
| 4 | Sander Sagosen | 43 | 82 | 52 |
| 5 | Hampus Wanne | 41 | 57 | 72 |
| 6 | Yahia Omar | 38 | 63 | 60 |
| 7 | Adrià Figueras | 37 | 47 | 79 |
| 8 | Ahmed El-Ahmar | 36 | 49 | 73 |
| 9 | Hugo Descat | 32 | 37 | 86 |
| Nedim Remili | 52 | 62 |
With his fourth goal against Portugal Mikkel Hansen became the Olympic Games topscorer of all time with 128 goals.[16]
| Rank | Name | % | Saves | Shots | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Johannes Bitter | 33.3 | 32 | 96 | |
| 2 | Niklas Landin Jacobsen | 32.1 | 63 | 196 | |
| 3 | Karim Handawy | 31.7 | 59 | 186 | |
| 4 | Torbjørn Bergerud | 31.5 | 51 | 162 | |
| 5 | Gustavo Capdeville | 31.4 | 22 | 70 | |
| 6 | Vincent Gérard | 31.4 | 74 | 236 | |
| 7 | Mikael Aggefors | 30.4 | 24 | 79 | |
| 8 | Leonardo Terçariol | 30.2 | 39 | 129 | |
| 9 | Mohamed El-Tayar | 29.7 | 38 | 128 | |
| 10 | Andreas Palicka | 28.3 | 47 | 166 |