Handball at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics – Girls' tournament

The girls handball tournament at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing was held from 20 to 25 August. Games were played at the Jiangning Sports Center Gymnasium.

Girls' handball
at the II Summer Youth Games

Tournament details
Host country	China
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Dates	20–25 August
Teams	6 (from 4 confederations)
Final positions
Champions	South Korea (1st title)
Runner-up	Russia
Third place	Sweden
Fourth place	Brazil
Tournament statistics
Matches played	12
Goals scored	639 (53.25 per match)

South Korea won their first title after defeating Russia 32-31 in the final. Sweden captured the bronze, by winning against Brazil 23-16.

Competition schedule

G

Group stage

P

Placement matches

½

Semi-finals

B

Bronze medal match

F

Final

Date Event	Wed 20	Thu 21	Fri 22	Sat 23	Sun 24		Mon 25
Women	G	G	G	G	P	½	B	F

Qualification

Main article: Handball at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Event	Location	Date	Total Places	Qualified	Group
Host Nation	Vancouver	10 February 2010	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

Competition format

The six teams in the tournament were divided into two groups of three, with each team initially playing round-robin games within their group. Following the completion of the round-robin stage, the top two teams from each group advance to the semi-finals. The two semi-final winners meet for the gold medal match, while the semi-final losers play in the bronze medal match.

Rosters

Main article: Handball at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics – Girls' team rosters

Preliminary round

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Russia	2	2	0	0	70	52	+18	4	Semifinals
2	South Korea	2	1	0	1	70	59	+11	2
3	Angola	2	0	0	2	44	73	−29	0	5th place game

Source: Nanjing 2014
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.

20 August 14:00	Angola	21–34	Russia	Jiangning Sports Center Gymnasium Referees: Engberg, Laurell (Sweden)
	Paulino 8	(12–20)	three players 4
	1× 1×	Report	3× 3×

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21 August 14:00	South Korea	39–23	Angola	Jiangning Sports Center Gymnasium Referees: Ota, Shimajiri (Japan)
	Kang D. 7	(20–11)	Da Costa 6
	2× 3×	Report	3× 4×

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22 August 14:00	Russia	36–31	South Korea	Jiangning Sports Center Gymnasium Referees: Wang, Li (China)
	Frolova 9	(16–16)	Yu 7
	2× 3×		3× 1×

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sweden	2	2	0	0	71	38	+33	4	Semifinals
2	Brazil	2	1	0	1	56	50	+6	2
3	China (H)	2	0	0	2	32	71	−39	0	5th place game

Source: Nanjing 2014
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.
(H) Hosts

20 August 16:00	China	14–39	Sweden	Jiangning Sports Center Gymnasium Referees: Gasmi, Gasmi (France)
	Suo 5	(8–20)	three players 7
	3× 7×	Report	3×

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21 August 14:00	Brazil	32–18	China	Jiangning Sports Center Gymnasium Referees: Brunner, Salah (Switzerland)
	Costa, Fernandes 5	(14–6)	Liu 6
	3× 1×	Report	3× 3×

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22 August 14:00	Sweden	32–24	Brazil	Jiangning Sports Center Gymnasium Referees: Shimajiri, Ota (Japan)
	Mellegård 7	(16–11)	Carneiro, De Paula 6
	2× 2×	Report	3× 4× 1×

Knockout stage

Fifth place game

24 August 9:00	Angola	31–18	China	Jiangning Sports Center Gymnasium Referees: Ota, Shimajiri (Japan)
	Paulino 8	(14–6)	Shi 5
		Report	2× 4×

25 August 9:00	China	22–22	Angola	Jiangning Sports Center Gymnasium Referees: Wang, Li (China)
	Lin, Suo 7	(9–11)	Paulino 9
	3× 1×	Report	3× 1×

Angola win 53-40 on aggregate

Semifinals

24 August 13:00	South Korea	25–24	Sweden	Jiangning Sports Center Gymnasium Referees: Brunner, Salah (Switzerland)
	Kang E. 6	(11–10)	Ekenman-Fernis 10
	2× 2× 1×	Report	3× 5×

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24 August 15:30	Russia	30–22	Brazil	Jiangning Sports Center Gymnasium Referees: Liu, Li (China)
	Golikova, Vernigorova 5	(17–7)	De Paula 6
	4× 3×	Report	3× 1×

Bronze medal game

25 August 13:00	Sweden	23–16	Brazil	Jiangning Sports Center Gymnasium Referees: Shimairi, Ota (Japan)
	four players 4	(11–5)	Arruda 5
	3× 2×	Report	3× 3×

Gold medal game

25 August 18:00	South Korea	32–31	Russia	Jiangning Sports Center Gymnasium Referees: Engberg, Laurell (Sweden)
	Kang K. 12	(17–14)	Golikova, Markova 7
	3× 5×	Report	3× 7×

Final ranking

Rank	Team
	South Korea
	Russia
	Sweden
4	Brazil
5	Angola
6	China