Handball at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

The women's handball competition, one of two events of handball at the 2000 Summer Olympics, in Sydney, took place at The Dome (Sydney Olympic Park) during the preliminary round, quarter-finals, semi-finals and medal matches. A total of 150 players, distributed among ten national teams, participated in this tournament.^[1]

2000 Women's Olympic handball tournament

Tournament details
Host country	Australia
Venue(s)	2 (in 1 host city)
Dates	17 September – 1 October 2000
Teams	10 (from 5 confederations)
Final positions
Champions	Denmark (2nd title)
Runners-up	Hungary
Third place	Norway
Fourth place	South Korea
Tournament statistics
Matches played	33
Goals scored	1,763 (53.42 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Kjersti Grini (61 goals)
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Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Denmark (DEN) Lene Rantala Camilla Andersen Tina Bøttzau Janne Kolling Tonje Kjærgaard Karen Brødsgaard Katrine Fruelund Maja Grønbæk Christina Hansen Anette Hoffmann Lotte Kiærskou Karin Mortensen Anja Nielsen Rikke Petersen Mette Vestergaard	Hungary (HUN) Beatrix Balogh Rita Deli Ágnes Farkas Andrea Farkas Anikó Kántor Beatrix Kökény Anita Kulcsár Dóra Lőwy Anikó Nagy Ildikó Pádár Katalin Pálinger Krisztina Pigniczki Bojana Radulovics Judith Simics Beáta Siti	Norway (NOR) Kristine Duvholt Trine Haltvik Heidi Tjugum Susann Goksør Bjerkrheim Ann Cathrin Eriksen Kjersti Grini Elisabeth Hilmo Mia Hundvin Tonje Larsen Cecilie Leganger Jeanette Nilsen Marianne Rokne Birgitte Sættem Monica Sandve Else-Marthe Sørlie

Qualification

Mean of qualification	Date	Host	Vacancies	Qualified
Host nation	24 September 1993	Monte Carlo	1	Australia
1998 European Championship	21–30 January 2000	Netherlands	1	Denmark
1999 Pan American Games	31 July – 7 August 1999	Winnipeg	1	Brazil
African qualification tournament	15–18 October 1999	Cotonou	1	Angola
1999 World Championship	29 November – 12 December 1999	Denmark  Norway	5	Norway  France  Austria  Romania  Hungary
1999 Asian Championship	24–29 January 2000	Kumamoto	1	South Korea
Total			10

Squads

Main article: Handball at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's team rosters

Preliminary round

For the preliminary round, the ten teams were distributed into two groups of five teams. Each team played against each of its four group opponents for a total of four matches. The four best-scoring teams advanced to the quarter-finals.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	South Korea	4	4	0	0	131	100	+31	8	Quarterfinals
2	Hungary	4	2	1	1	119	106	+13	5
3	France	4	2	0	2	90	93	−3	4
4	Romania	4	1	1	2	99	101	−2	3
5	Angola	4	0	0	4	98	137	−39	0	Ninth place game

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

17 September 2000 14:30	Hungary	42–22	Angola	Pavilion 2, Sydney Referees: Tomaszewski, Adams (AUS)
	Radulović 11	(18–13)	Bengue 8
	2× 2×		3× 8×

17 September 2000 21:30	South Korea	25–18	France	Pavilion 2, Sydney Referees: Boye, Jensen (DEN)
	Lee S. 10	(15–3)	Lejeune 7
	3× 3×		3× 3×

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19 September 2000 16:30	France	22–23	Hungary	Pavilion 2, Sydney Referees: Hansson, Olsson (SWE)
	Pecqueux-Rolland 6	(14–12)	Radulović 9
	3× 3×		2× 4×

19 September 2000 19:30	Romania	25–34	South Korea	Pavilion 2, Sydney Referees: Litvinov, Khudoerko (RUS)
	Dobrin, Luca 5	(9–16)	Lee S., Oh S. 8
	3× 2×		2× 2×

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21 September 2000 16:30	Angola	25–35	Romania	Pavilion 2, Sydney Referees: Bojsen, Anusic (USA)
	Bengue 11	(11–16)	Dobrin 10
	2× 6×		3× 10× 1×

21 September 2000 21:30	Hungary	33–41	South Korea	Pavilion 2, Sydney Referees: Nachevski, Nachevski (MKD)
	Balogh 8	(19–16)	Lee S. 18
	3× 6×		4× 1×

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23 September 2000 14:30	Angola	27–29	France	Pavilion 2, Sydney Referees: Marić, Gardinovački (FRY)
	Bengue 7	(11–16)	Pecqueux-Rolland 7
	3× 6×		3× 4× 1×

23 September 2000 21:30	Romania	21–21	Hungary	Pavilion 2, Sydney Referees: Øie, Høgsnes (NOR)
	Drăgănescu 7	(12–10)	Ág. Farkas 6
	3× 5×		3× 3× 1×

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25 September 2000 16:30	South Korea	31–24	Angola	Pavilion 2, Sydney Referees: Tomaszewski, Adams (AUS)
	Kim H. 6	(14–16)	Bengue 10
	3× 2×		2× 1×

25 September 2000 21:30	France	21–18	Romania	Pavilion 2, Sydney Referees: Kalin, Korić (SLO)
	Myaro, Pecqueux-Rolland 6	(11–10)	Luca 7
	3× 7×		3× 3×

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Norway	4	4	0	0	101	72	+29	8	Quarterfinals
2	Denmark	4	3	0	1	124	83	+41	6
3	Austria	4	2	0	2	131	90	+41	4
4	Brazil	4	1	0	3	100	133	−33	2
5	Australia (H)	4	0	0	4	59	137	−78	0	Ninth place game

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(H) Hosts

17 September 2000 16:30	Denmark	17–19	Norway	Pavilion 2, Sydney Referees: Garcia, Moréno (FRA)
	four players 3	(7–10)	Bjerkrheim, Grini 4
	3× 4×		3× 2×

17 September 2000 19:30	Australia	19–32	Brazil	Pavilion 2, Sydney Referees: Marić, Gardinovački (FRY)
	Edland, Kahmke 4	(7–15)	Roese, L. Silva 6
	3× 4×		3× 4×

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19 September 2000 14:30	Norway	28–18	Australia	Pavilion 2, Sydney Referees: Salim, Hassan (EGY)
	Grini 13	(12–11)	Boulton, Shinfield 4
	3× 4×		3× 4×

19 September 2000 21:30	Austria	26–30	Denmark	Pavilion 2, Sydney Referees: Kohout, Dolejš (CZE)
	Fridrikas 11	(13–16)	Andersen, Kiærskou 7
	3× 1×		2× 3×

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21 September 2000 14:30	Brazil	26–45	Austria	Pavilion 2, Sydney Referees: Salim, Hassan (EGY)
	L. Silva 8	(14–21)	Fridrikas 11
	3× 7×		3× 2×

21 September 2000 19:30	Australia	12–38	Denmark	Pavilion 2, Sydney Referees: Chung, Lim (KOR)
	Kahmke 5	(6–18)	Andersen, Roslyng 7
	1× 2×		3× 3×

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23 September 2000 16:30	Brazil	16–30	Norway	Pavilion 2, Sydney Referees: Chung, Lim (KOR)
	S. Oliveira 4	(7–18)	Grini 7
	2× 5×		3× 1×

23 September 2000 19:30	Austria	39–10	Australia	Pavilion 2, Sydney Referees: Klucsó, Lekrinszky (HUN)
	Logwin 8	(17–6)	three players 2
	2× 4× 1×		3× 2×

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25 September 2000 14:30	Denmark	39–26	Brazil	Pavilion 2, Sydney Referees: Bojsen, Anusic (USA)
	Kiærskou 9	(19–12)	Sales 9
	3× 1×		3× 4×

25 September 2000 19:30	Norway	24–21	Austria	Pavilion 2, Sydney Referees: Gallego, Lamas (ESP)
	Grini 8	(12–7)	Fridrikas 8
	4× 5×		4× 3×

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Gold medal
	28 September
	South Korea	35
					29 September
	Brazil	24
					South Korea	29
	28 September
					Denmark	31
	France	26
									1 October
	Denmark (OT)	28
									Denmark	31
	28 September
									Hungary	27
	Austria	27
					29 September
	Hungary (OT)	28
					Hungary	28
	28 September
					Norway	23			Bronze medal
	Norway	28
									1 October
	Romania	16
									South Korea	21
									Norway	22

	5–8th place semifinals				5th place
	30 September
	Brazil	23
					1 October
	France	32
					France	32
	30 September
					Austria (OT)	33
	Austria	29
	Romania	23
					7th place
					1 October
					Brazil	33
					Romania (OT)	38

Quarterfinals

28 September 2000 14:30	South Korea	35–24	Brazil	The Dome, Sydney Referees: Klucsó, Lekrinszky (HUN)
	Kim H. 9	(19–12)	Sales 8
	3× 2×		2× 4×

28 September 2000 16:30	Austria	27–28 (ET)	Hungary	The Dome, Sydney Referees: Kohout, Dolejš (CZE)
	Logwin 9	(12–14)	Ág. Farkas 8
	3× 8× 1×		4× 7×
	FT: 25–25 ET: 2–3

28 September 2000 19:30	France	26–28 (ET)	Denmark	The Dome, Sydney Referees: Marić, Gardinovački (FRY)
	Myaro 11	(8–13)	Andersen 7
	3× 1×		3× 1×
	FT: 24–24 ET: 2–4

28 September 2000 21:30	Norway	28–16	Romania	The Dome, Sydney Referees: Nachevski, Nachevski (MKD)
	Grini 9	(12–8)	Tănase 4
	3× 5×		3× 5×

5–8th place semifinals

30 September 2000 09:30	Brazil	23–32	France	The Dome, Sydney Referees: Kalin, Korić (SLO)
	A. Silva 9	(9–16)	Pecqueux-Rolland 12
	3× 2×		2× 5×

30 September 2000 11:30	Austria	29–23	Romania	The Dome, Sydney Referees: Hansson, Olsson (SWE)
	Fridrikas 8	(12–12)	Drăgănescu 6
	3× 3×		1× 4×

Semifinals

29 September 2000 19:30	South Korea	29–31	Denmark	The Dome, Sydney Referees: Gallego, Lamas (ESP)
	Lee S., Oh S. 7	(11–20)	Hoffmann 8
	3× 5×		3× 4×

29 September 2000 21:30	Hungary	28–23	Norway	The Dome, Sydney Referees: Kalin, Korić (SLO)
	Radulović 10	(16–10)	Grini 13
	3× 1×		3× 3×

Ninth place game

28 September 2000 12:30	Angola	26–18	Australia	The Dome, Sydney Referees: Salim, Hassan (EGY)
	Mufuca 9	(12–6)	Edland 6
	3× 4×		3× 3× 1×

Seventh place game

1 October 2000 09:30	Brazil	33–38 (ET)	Romania	The Dome, Sydney Referees: Klucsó, Lekrinszky (HUN)
	Sales 9	(15–17)	Tănase 11
	3× 4×		3× 1×
	FT: 32–32 ET: 1–6

Fifth place game

1 October 2000 11:30	France	32–33 (ET)	Austria	The Dome, Sydney Referees: Marić, Gardinovački (FRY)
	Ludwig 9	(8–13)	Logwin 12
	3× 2×		3× 1×
	FT: 25–25 ET: 7–8

Bronze medal game

1 October 2000 14:30	South Korea	21–22	Norway	The Dome, Sydney Referees: Nachevski, Nachevski (MKD)
	Oh S. 7	(13–12)	Grini 7
	4× 6× 1×		3× 1× 1×

Gold medal game

1 October 2000 16:30	Denmark	31–27	Hungary	The Dome, Sydney Referees: Garcia, Moréno (FRA)
	Hoffmann 11	(14–16)	Radulović 9
	3× 2×		3× 1×

Rankings and statistics

Final ranking

Rank	Team
	Denmark
	Hungary
	Norway
4	South Korea
5	Austria
6	France
7	Romania
8	Brazil
9	Angola
10	Australia

All star team

Position[2]	Player
Goalkeeper	Heidi Tjugum
Right wing	Janne Kolling
Right back	Bojana Radulovics
Line player	Veronique Pecqueux-Rolland
Central back	Oh Seong Ok
Left back	Kjersti Grini
Left wing	Anette Hoffmann

Top goalscorers

Rank	Name	Goals	Shots	%
1	Kjersti Grini	61	96	63.5
2	Lee Sang-eun	59	83	71.1
3	Ausra Fridrikas	57	84	67.9
4	Bojana Radulović	55	101	54.5
5	Maria de Sales	43	98	43.9
6	Camilla Andersen	40	81	49.4
7	Ilda Bengue	39	62	62.9
	Tanja Logwin		72	52.4
9	Véronique Pecqueux-Rolland	38	43	88.4
10	Ágnes Farkas	37	77	48.1