Handball at the 2020 Summer Olympics

The handball tournaments at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo are scheduled to take place between 24 July and 9 August 2020.[1]

Competition schedule

GGroup stage ¼Quarter-finals ½Semi-finals BBronze medal match FFinal
Date
Event
Sat 25Sun 26Mon 27Tue 28Wed 29Thu 30Fri 31Sat 1Sun 2Mon 3Tue 4Wed 5Thu 6Fri 7Sat 8Sun 9
MenGGGGG¼½BF
WomenGGGGG¼½BF

Events

Two sets of medals will be awarded in the following events:

Qualifying criteria

Each National Olympic Committee may enter up to one men's and one women's team in the handball tournaments.

Men

QualificationDateHostVacanciesQualified
Host nation election7 September 2013Argentina Buenos Aires, Argentina1 Japan
2019 World Championship10–27 January 2019 Denmark /
 Germany
1
2019 Pan American Games26 July – 11 August 2019 Peru1
2019 AHF Men’s Asian qualification event17–27 October 20191
2020 African ChampionshipJanuary 2020 Tunisia1
2020 European Championship10–26 January 2020 Austria /
 Norway /
 Sweden
1
2020 IHF Qualification Tournament #116–19 April 20202
2020 IHF Qualification Tournament #22
2020 IHF Qualification Tournament #32
Total12

Women

QualificationDateHostVacanciesQualified
Host nation election7 September 2013Argentina Buenos Aires, Argentina1 Japan
2018 European Championship29 November – 16 December 2018 France1
2018 African Championship2–18 December 2018 Republic of the Congo1
2019 World Championship29 November – 15 December 2019 Japan1
2019 Pan American Games26 July – 11 August 2019 Peru1
2019 Asian Qualification Tournament21–29 September 2019 China1
2020 IHF Qualification Tournament #119–22 March 20202
2020 IHF Qualification Tournament #22
2020 IHF Qualification Tournament #32
Total12

See also

References

  1. "Tokyo 2020 Qualification System confirmed". ihf.info. 3 April 2018.
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