Handball at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Handball at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Tournament details
Host country	China
Dates	20–25 August 2014
Teams	12 (from 4 confederations)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
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Handball at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
Events
Boys	Girls

Handball at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics was held from August 20 to August 25. The events took place at the Jiangning Sports Center in Nanjing, China.

Qualification

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

Schedule

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

All times are CST (UTC+8)

Medal Summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Slovenia	1	0	0	0
1	South Korea	1	0	0	1
2	Egypt	0	1	0	0
2	Russia	0	1	0	0
3	Norway	0	0	1	0
3	Sweden	0	0	1	0
Total		2	2	2	6

Events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Boys'	Slovenia	Egypt	Norway
Girls'	South Korea	Russia	Sweden

References