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2004 Women's Olympic handball tournament

Tournament details
Host country	Greece
Dates	14 August – 29 August
Teams	10 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)	2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Denmark (3rd title)
Runner-up	South Korea
Third place	Ukraine
Fourth place	France
Tournament statistics
Top scorer(s)	Bojana Radulović (HUN)

Handball at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Tournament
men  women
Squads
men   women

Handball competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics for women took place in the Sports Pavilion at the Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex for the preliminary competition. From the quarter final stage onwards the women's event moved to the Helliniko Olympic Indoor Arena.

The women's event involved ten teams split in two groups:
Group A: Brazil, China, Greece, Hungary, and Ukraine
Group B: Angola, Denmark, France, South Korea, and Spain

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Denmark (DEN) Louise Bager Nørgaard Rikke Skov Henriette Mikkelsen Mette Vestergaard Rikke Hørlykke Camilla Thomsen Karin Mortensen Lotte Kiærskou Trine Jensen Katrine Fruelund Rikke Petersen-Schmidt Kristine Andersen Karen Brødsgaard Line Daugaard Josephine Touray	South Korea (KOR) Oh Yong-Ran Woo Sun-Hee Huh Soon-Young Lee Gong-Joo Jang So-Hee Kim Hyun-Ok Kim Cha-Youn Oh Seong-Ok Huh Young-Sook Moon Kyeong-Ha Lim O-Kyeong Lee Sang-Eun Myoung Bok-Hee Choi Im-jeong Moon Pil-Hee	Ukraine (UKR) Nataliya Borysenko Ganna Burmystrova Tetyana Shynkarenko Maryna Vergelyuk Olena Yatsenko Ganna Siukalo Olena Radchenko Olena Tsygitsa Galyna Markushevska Lyudmyla Shevchenko Iryna Honcharova Nataliya Lyapina Anastasiya Borodina Larysa Zaspa Oxana Rayhel

Group play

Group A

Team	Pld	W	L	D	GF	GA	Points
Ukraine	4	4	0	0	99	82	8
Hungary	4	3	1	0	118	93	6
China	4	2	2	0	106	90	4
Brazil	4	1	3	0	97	105	2
Greece	4	0	4	0	74	124	0

Group A Results

August 15	14:30	China	24 - 28	Hungary
August 15	16:30	Greece	21 - 29	Brazil
August 17	14:30	Ukraine	26 - 21	China
August 17	16:30	Hungary	33 - 20	Greece
August 19	16:30	Greece	13 - 33	China
August 19	19:30	Brazil	19 - 21	Ukraine
August 21	16:30	Ukraine	29 - 20	Greece
August 21	21:30	Brazil	26 - 35	Hungary
August 23	16:30	China	28 - 23	Brazil
August 23	19:30	Hungary	22 - 23	Ukraine

Group B

Team	Pld	W	L	D	GF	GA	Points
South Korea	4	3	0	1	135	103	7
Denmark	4	3	0	1	125	98	7
France	4	2	2	0	105	106	4
Spain	4	0	3	1	86	110	1
Angola	4	0	3	1	97	131	1

Group B Results

August 15	19:30	Spain	24 - 24	Angola
August 15	21:30	Denmark	35 - 26	France
August 17	19:30	South Korea	29 - 29	Denmark
August 17	21:30	France	27 - 20	Spain
August 19	14:30	Angola	30 - 40	South Korea
August 19	21:30	Spain	21 - 23	Denmark
August 21	14:30	Angola	21 - 29	France
August 21	19:30	South Korea	36 - 21	Spain
August 23	14:30	France	23 - 30	South Korea
August 23	21:30	Denmark	38 - 22	Angola

Medal Round

All times are East European Time (UTC+2)

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Gold medal game

A1

Ukraine

25

B4

Spain

23

A1

Ukraine

20

B2

Denmark

29

B2

Denmark

32

A3

China

28

Denmark (Pen.)

34 (4)

South Korea

34 (2)

A2

Hungary

23

B3

France

25

B3

France

31

Bronze medal game

B1

South Korea

32

B1

South Korea

26

Ukraine

21

A4

Brazil

24

4

France

18

Playoffs and Classification rounds

Women's 9th/10th place play off

August 26	10:30	Greece	23 - 38	Angola

Women's Quarter Finals

August 26	12:30	Ukraine	25 - 23	Spain
August 26	14:30	France	25 - 23	Hungary
August 26	19:30	China	28 - 32	Denmark
August 26	17:30	South Korea	26 - 24	Brazil

Women's Semi Finals

August 27	19:30	Ukraine	20 - 29	Denmark
August 27	17:30	France	31 - 32	South Korea

Women's 5th/8th classification

August 28	07:30	Spain	27 - 23	China
August 28	09:30	Hungary	36 - 31	Brazil

Women's 7th/8th place play off

August 29	06:30	China	25 - 26	Brazil

Women's 5th/6th place play off

August 29	14:30	Spain	29 - 38	Hungary

Women's Bronze Medal Match

August 28	16:30	Ukraine	21 - 18	France

Women's Final

August 29	08:45	Denmark	34* - 34	South Korea

(* = won by penalty shoot-out 4-2)

Rankings and Statistics

Classification
1 	Denmark
2 	South Korea
3 	Ukraine
4	France
5	Hungary
6	Spain
7	Brazil
8	China
9	Angola
10	Greece

References