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Handball At The 2016 Summer Olympics
The handball tournaments at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro was held from 6 to 21 August at the Future Arena in the Barra Olympic Park. The tournaments were won by Denmark in the men's competition and Russia for the women's tournament. The French teams for both competitions finished with the silver medal, and the bronze went to Germany and Norway, respectively. Format The handball event at the 2016 Summer Olympics was played between 6 and 21 August 2016 at the Future Arena in the Barra Olympic Park in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Games consisted of two tournaments, one each for men and women's teams. The events featured twelve teams, who qualified for the tournament from a series of preceding tournaments, as well as the host country Brazil. The draw for the championships took place on 29 April 2016, and split the teams into Round-robin tournament, round robin groups of six. Four teams from each group qualified for the knockout rounds, and the winner and runner-up re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Future Arena
The Future Arena (Portuguese: Arena do Futuro) was a temporary sporting venue in Barra da Tijuca, Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, that was used for handball at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and goalball at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. After the games, the venue was planned to be dismantled and reassembled as four schools. As of August 2017, these plans had been abandoned by Rio's mayor Marcelo Crivella, but were reinstated sometime after. In 2022, demolition of the arena started. The first of the two reassembled schools opened in February 2024, with the other two opening in March, all in a lesser developed part in the west of Rio de Janeiro. All four schools teach will teach STEAM fields, as part of a model introduced by the Municipal Chamber of Rio de Janeiro. References Venues of the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic handball venues Barra Olympic Park Indoor arenas in Brazil Handball venues in Brazil Sports venues completed in 2016 Sports venues demolished in 202 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesper Nøddesbo
Jesper Brian Nøddesbo (born 23 October 1980) is a Danish former handball player. He is European Champion by winning the 2008 European Men's Handball Championship in Norway with the Danish national team. He received a bronze medal at the 2006 European Men's Handball Championship, and again at the 2007 World Men's Handball Championship. Career Nøddesbo joined Danish top league team Team Tvis Holstebro in 1999, where he played for 5 years, before joining KIF Kolding. Here he won the Danish Championship twice in 2005 and 2006, and the Danish Cup in 2005 and 2007. Nøddesbo was top scorer in the Danish Handball league in 2006. In 2007 he joined Spanish FC Barcelona where he won the league 7 times in a row from 2011 to 2017, as well as the EHF Champions League The EHF Champions League is the most important club handball competition for men's teams in Europe and involves the leading teams from the top European nations. The competition is organised every year by EHF. The official ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kentin Mahé
Kentin Mahé (born 22 May 1991) is a French handball player for VfL Gummersbach and the French national team. Early life Kentin Mahé was born in Paris and started to play handball at age six in AS Monaco, before briefly representing ASPTT Nice. In 2000, he moved to Germany where he grew up, due to his father Pascal Mahé, a former handball player, taking up several managerial positions in the country. His maternal grandmother is from Sweden and he lived in Stockholm for four months in 2008, aged 18, playing youth handball with then reigning national champions Hammarby IF. Career Mahé returned to Germany in 2009 and made his senior debut for DHC Rheinland, before enjoying stints in VfL Gummersbach and HSV Hamburg. In 2015, he signed with the German top club SG Flensburg-Handewitt where he developed into a world class-player under the management of Ljubomir Vranjes. He joined the Hungarian club Telekom Veszprém on 1 July 2018. Achievements National team * Olympic Games: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikola Karabatić
Nikola Karabatić (born 11 April 1984) is a French former professional handball player. He is regarded as one of the greatest players in handball history. With the French national handball team, he won three Olympic gold medals (Summer Olympics of 2008, 2012 and 2020), four World Championship gold medals (2009, 2011, 2015, and 2017) as well as four gold medals in the European Championship (2006, 2010, 2014, and 2024). He also won L'Équipe Champion of Champions in 2011. He is regarded as one of the greatest players in handball history, and he was IHF World Player of the Year for a male record-tying three times, in 2007, 2014, and 2016. He was inducted into the EHF Hall of Fame in 2024. Club career Karabatić began his professional career at the top French club Montpellier HB. There he became French champion in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 as well as winner of the EHF Champions League in 2003. He then played for the German club THW Kiel, who became German champions in 2006, 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Gérard
Vincent Gérard (born 16 December 1986) is a French professional handball player. With France, he won all the main competitions: 2014 European Championship, 2017 World Championship and 2020 Olympics. He has been elected best goalkeeper at the 2017 World Championship, at the 2018 European Championship and at the 2020 Olympics. Career Gérard began playing handball in SMEC Metz from the French D2. After three seasons in Metz first-team, while Gérard been some of the most important players in the club, he decided not to renew his contract with Metz and joined Montpellier Handball, from the LNH Division 1. Gérard was not a key part of Montpellier, and selected as 2nd and 3rd goalkeeper. However, he was part of Montpellier's league title win in 2007–08 season. He retired in 2024 after the Paris Olympics, but came out of retirement in April 2025 to join FC Barcelona to replace Gonzalo Pérez de Vargas who had torn his cruciate ligament. Titles With clubs *EHF Cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Narcisse
Daniel Narcisse (born 16 December 1979) is a retired French handball player and French international from 2000 to 2017. He is a double Olympic champion, quadruple World champion and triple European champion, one of the most awarded French team handball players with nine international titles. He could play both centre back and left back. In 2012, with an exceptional year both in the French team ( Olympic title) and in the club ( Champions League, German championship and German cup), he was voted best handball player of the year 2012 by the International Handball Federation. In 2023, he was included in the European Handball Federation Hall of Fame. Playing style His main strength as a field player was his jumping ability, enabling him to score goals above interfering defense players. This ability earned him the nickname ''Air France''. Career Early career Narcisse started playing handball at Joinville on Réunion, and joined Chambéry Savoie HB in 1998. Here he won Frenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivier Nyokas
Guy Olivier Nyokas (born 28 June 1986) is a French-born Congolese handball player for Olympiacos and the Congolese national team. He has previously played for the French national team, with whom he won the 2017 World Championship. Career Nyokas began his career at the second league team ES Montgeron, before joining PSG in 2006. He then joined BM Alcobendas in the Spanish top league. In 2009 he returned to France and joined US Créteil HB. In 2014 he joined German Bundesliga team HBW Balingen-Weilstetten. In 2016 he joined HBC Nantes. Here he won the French cup in 2017. In 2021 he joined the North Macedonian team RK Metalurg Skopje together with his twin brother Alix Kévynn Nyokas. The very same season he joined city rivals RK Vardar Skopje. Here he won the 2022 North Macedonian Cup and Championship. He then joined Qatari team Al-Najma. In August 2022 he joined Greek champions Olympiacos CFP. National team Nyokas debuted for the French national team on November 5th, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Damgaard
Michael Damgaard Nielsen (born 18 March 1990) is a Danish handball player for SC Magdeburg and the Danish national team. Career He has previously played for Danish sides GOG and Team Tvis Holstebro. He debuted for the Danish national team in October 2014 and his first major international tournament was the 2015 World Championship in Qatar. At the end of the 2014-15 season Damgaard had a shoulder injury, that required operation and kept him out for the rest of the season. The following seasons he joined SC Magdeburg. With SC Magdeburg he has won the IHF Super Globe three consecutive seasons; in 2021, 2022 and in 2023, the German Bundesliga in 2022, and the EHF Champions League 2023 when Magdeburg beat Polish team KS Kielce in the final 30-29. In 2024 he won the Bundesliga for the second time. At the 2016 Olympics he won a gold medal with the Danish team; the first time ever the team won that medal. Private He is the brother of fellow handball players Allan Damgaard Espers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morten Olsen (handballer)
Morten Toft Olsen (born 11 October 1984) is a Danish handballer for Bjerringbro-Silkeborg. At youth levels he started playing as a wing player, but transitioned to play as a playmaker in his senior years. Playing Career Olsen started his career at GOG Gudme, where he played from 2003 to 2005. He then joined HF Mors where he played for a single season, where he played together with his twin brother, Kenneth Olsen. In January 2006 he won sold to Viborg HK. In the summer of 2007 he joined League rivals Bjerringbro-Silkeborg. In 2010 he joined Bundesliga team TSV Hannover-Burgdorf, where he played until 2013. He then joined French team Saint-Raphaël Var Handball. In 2015 he was released early from his contract with the club to rejoin TSV Hannover-Burgdorf. He has rejoined TSV Hannover-Burgdorf 1 July 2015 after a short term contract with Al Rayyan SC. In 2020 he returned to Denmark to rejoin GOG Håndbold. In September the same year he won the Danish Cup for a second time. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikkel Hansen
Mikkel Hansen (born 22 October 1987) is a Danish former professional handball player. Widely regarded as the greatest handball player of all timeHansen has won the IHF World Player of the Year a record-tying three times. He played as a left back for most of his career, but towards the end of his career he transitioned to play more as a centre back/playmaker. He was inducted into the European Handball Federation, EHF Hall of Fame in 2024. Career He was voted as the IHF World Player of the Year in 2011, 2015 and 2018 by the International Handball Federation. He joined FC Barcelona Handbol in June 2008. He previously played for Danish Handball League club GOG Gudme, GOG, with whom he won the Danish Handball League, Danish championship in 2007. On 2 June 2010, he returned to Denmark to play for AG København after two years of playing in Spain. After two years and two championships, the club folded in 2012 with Hansen joining the newly formed French team Paris Saint-Germain Handb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henrik Toft Hansen
Henrik Toft Hansen (born 18 December 1986) is a Danish professional handball player for Mors-Thy Håndbold and the Danish national team. Club career Hansen started his career at Mors-Thy Håndbold, and later moved to Aalborg Håndbold. In 2011, he signed for AG København, where his brother, René Toft Hansen already played. Here he won the Danish championship in 2012. When the club went bankrupt the same summer he signed for Bjerringbro-Silkeborg. In 2013, he signed for German Bundesliga team Hamburg. Here, he won the EHF Champions League. In 2014, he joined league rivals SG Flensburg-Handewitt. In 2018, he won the German championship with the club. The following summer, he joined Paris Saint-Germain. Here, he won the French championship every season from 2019 to 2023, as well as the 2021 and 2022 French cup and 2019 French league cup. In 2023, he returned to Denmark to re-join Mors-Thy Håndbold. International career In 2008, Hansen's performances for AaB Håndbol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kasper Sondergaard
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