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Team Handball at the Olympics

Handball was first introduced at the Olympic Games at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, in a competition for men only. It was dropped from the program after this, and not played again at the Olympics until the 1972. The women's handball competition was added to the program at the 1976 Summer Games.

Trivia

• The best all-time performing handball player at the Olympic Games is Russian Andrey Lavrov, who is the only handball player to win three Olympic gold medals. (results up until 2012). See more on the Greatest Handball Players at the Olympics.

Related Pages

• List of Olympic Sports
• more about the sport of Handball