| Sport: | handball |
| Size: | 150 |
| Boysevents: | 1 |
| Girlsevents: | 1 |
Handball was inducted at the Youth Olympic Games at the inaugural edition in 2010 for both boys and girls.
From the 2018 edition in Buenos Aires, beach handball replaced handball.
| Year | Host | Event | width=1% rowspan=100 bgcolor=ffffff | Gold medal game | width=1% rowspan=100 bgcolor=ffffff | Bronze medal game | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=15% | Gold medalist | width=10% | Score | width=15% | Silver medalist | width=15% | Bronze medalist | width=10% | Score | width=15% | Fourth place | |
| 2010[1] Details | Singapore | Handball | 35 – 25 | 40 – 27 | ||||||||
| 2014 Details | Nanjing | Handball | 31 – 25 | 33 – 25 | ||||||||
| 2018 Details | Buenos Aires | Beach handball | 2 – 1 | 2 – 0 | ||||||||
| 2026 Details | Dakar | Beach handball | ||||||||||
| width=150 | Team | 2010 | 2014 | 2018 | 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | 3rd | ||||
| 4th | 5th | - | ||||
| - | - | 9th | ||||
| 6th | – | - | ||||
| - | - | 4th | ||||
| bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | - | ||
| 3rd | – | - | ||||
| - | - | 5th | ||||
| - | - | 8th | ||||
| - | - | 12th | ||||
| – | 3rd | - | ||||
| - | - | 11th | ||||
| - | - | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | |||
| – | 4th | - | ||||
| – | - | Q | ||||
| 5th | – | - | ||||
| – | bgcolor=gold | 1st | - | |||
| bgcolor=silver | 2nd | – | - | |||
| - | – | bgcolor=gold | 1st | |||
| - | – | 6th | ||||
| – | 6th | - | ||||
| - | – | 10th | ||||
| - | – | 7th | ||||
| Total teams | 6 | 6 | 12 | 12 |
| Year | Host | Event | width=1% rowspan=100 bgcolor=ffffff | Gold medal game | width=1% rowspan=100 bgcolor=ffffff | Bronze medal game | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=15% | Gold medalist | width=10% | Score | width=15% | Silver medalist | width=15% | Bronze medalist | width=10% | Score | width=15% | Fourth place | |
| 2010[2] Details | Singapore | Handball | 28 – 26 | 45 – 23 | ||||||||
| 2014 Details | Nanjing | Handball | 32 – 31 | 23 – 16 | ||||||||
| 2018 Details | Buenos Aires | Beach handball | 2 – 0 | 2 – 0 | ||||||||
| 2026 Details | Dakar | Beach handball | ||||||||||
| width=150 | Team | 2010 | 2014 | 2018 | 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | – | 11th | ||||
| 5th | 5th | - | ||||
| - | – | bgcolor=gold | 1st | |||
| 6th | – | - | ||||
| 3rd | 4th | - | ||||
| – | 6th | - | ||||
| - | – | 6th | ||||
| - | – | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | |||
| bgcolor=gold | 1st | – | - | |||
| - | - | 10th | ||||
| - | - | 3rd | ||||
| 4th | – | - | ||||
| - | - | 12th | ||||
| - | - | 4th | ||||
| - | - | 5th | ||||
| bgcolor=silver | 2nd | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 7th | ||
| – | - | - | Q | |||
| – | bgcolor=gold | 1st | - | |||
| – | 3rd | - | ||||
| - | - | 9th | ||||
| - | - | 8th | ||||
| Total teams | 6 | 6 | 12 | 12 |
As of the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.