Handball at the 2012 Summer Olympics

The handball tournaments at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held from 28 July to 12 August in the Olympic Park.

Preliminary rounds and the quarter-finals were held in the Copper Box while the semi-finals and final took place in the larger Basketball Arena.

Medals were awarded in a men's tournament and a women's tournament. The gold medals were won by France (men) and Norway (women).

Events
Two sets of medals were awarded in the following events:


 * Men's handball (12 teams)
 * Women's handball (12 teams)

Referees
The executive committee of the International Handball Federation appointed 17 referee pairs for the 2012 Games:


 * 🇫🇷 Charlotte Bonaventura and Julie Bonaventura
 * 🇷🇴 Diana-Carmen Florescu and Anamaria Duță
 * 🇦🇷 Carlos María Mariana and Darío Leonel Minore
 * Yalatima Coulibali and Mamoudou Diabaté
 * 🇭🇷 Matija Gubica and Boris Milošević
 * 🇨🇿 Václav Horáček and Jiří Novotný
 * 🇩🇰 Per Olesen and Lars Ejby Pedersen
 * 🇪🇸 Oscar Raluy and Ángel Sabroso
 * 🇫🇷 Nordine Lazaar and Laurent Reveret
 * Brian Bartlett and Allan Stokes
 * 🇩🇪 Lars Geipel and Marcus Helbig
 * 🇲🇰 Gjorgi Nachevski and Slave Nikolov
 * 🇳🇴 Kenneth Abrahamsen and Arne M. Kristiansen
 * 🇶🇦 Mansour Abdulla Al-Suwaidi and Saleh Jamaan Bamurtef
 * 🇸🇮 Nenad Krstič and Peter Ljubič
 * 🇷🇸 Nenad Nikolić and Dušan Stojković
 * Omar Mohammed Zubaeer Al-Marzouqi and Mohammed Rashid Mohamed Al-Nuaimi

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

Women

 * † Sweden qualified as 2010 European Championship runner up because Norway qualified as the 2011 World Champion.