Handball at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

A total of 6 teams will participate in each gender. Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) can enter a maximum of 2 teams of 14 athletes, 1 per each gender. As hosts, China is given the choice of entering a male or female team while the other places shall be decided by qualification events, namely five continental qualification tournaments.[1]

China chose to enter a girls' team[2] therefore the unoccupied boys' team was reallocated to the best placed continent at the 2013 Men's Youth World Handball Championship (Europe).[1] Furthermore Oceania did not organize a qualifying event for either gender thus the spots were reallocated.[3]

To be eligible to participate at the Youth Olympics athletes must have been born between 1 January 1996 and 31 December 1998. Furthermore, all qualified NOCs must either have a senior ranking in the top 40 on 1 January 2014 or finish ahead of a team ranked in the top 20 during the continental qualification tournament.[1]

Boys

Event	Location	Date	Total Places	Qualified	Group
Host Nation	-	-	0	China
2013 European Youth Olympic Festival	Utrecht	14–19 July 2013	2	Slovenia	B
				Norway	A
2013 Asian Youth Games	Nanjing	16–24 August 2013	1	Qatar	B
2014 African Youth Nations Championship	Nairobi	15–21 March 2014	2	Egypt	A
				Tunisia	B
2014 Pan American Youth Championship	Buenos Aires	1–5 April 2014	1	Brazil	A
Oceania Qualification Event	-	Cancelled	0
TOTAL			6

Girls

Event	Location	Date	Total Places	Qualified	Group
Host Nation	-	-	1	China	B
2013 European Youth Championship	Gdańsk/Gdynia	15–25 August 2013	2	Sweden	B
				Russia	A
2013 Asian Youth Games	Nanjing	16–24 August 2013	1	South Korea	A
2013 African Youth Nations Championship	Oyo	22–31 August 2013	1	Angola	A
2014 Pan American Youth Championship	Fortaleza	20–28 April 2014	1	Brazil	B
Oceania Qualification Event	-	Cancelled	0
TOTAL			6

The schedule was released by the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games Organizing Committee.[4]

All times are CST (UTC+8)

• Official Results Book – Handball