Handball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification

•  Japan

There were three Olympic Qualification Tournaments. Only twelve teams that have not yet qualified through the five events mentioned above could play in the tournament:[5]

• The top six teams from the 2019 World Championship that did not already qualify through their continental championships are eligible to participate in the tournament.
• The best ranked teams of each continent in the 2019 World Championship represent the continent in order to determine the continental ranking. The first ranked continent received two more places for the tournament. The second, third and fourth ranked continent received one place each. The last place belongs to a team from Oceania, if one was ranked between 8th–12th at the World Championship. If no team from Oceania met this condition, the second ranked continent receives an extra place instead. The teams that already earned their places through their World Championship ranking will not be considered for receiving places through the continental criterion.
• The twelve teams were allocated in three pools of four teams according to the table below. The top two teams from each pool qualified for the 2020 Olympic Games.[6]

On 10 January 2020, North Korea withdrew and was replaced by Kazakhstan.[7][8]

On 3 February 2020, China and Hong Kong withdrew and were replaced by Thailand.[9][10][11] In October 2020, China requested to be reinstated because the tournaments were moved and the IHF granted that request.[12] On 1 March 2021, China withdrew from the tournament due to COVID-19 travel restrictions. Because of that, Kazakhstan was moved to Tournament 2 and no other Asian team was available (Hong Kong declined a participation and Thailand did not respond prior to the deadline), meaning that Tournament 3 will be played with three teams.[13] Senegal withdrew on 9 March 2021 and was not replaced by another African team.[14]

The referees were announced on 25 February 2021.[15]

Tournament 1  Bosnia and Herzegovina Amar Konjičanin Dino Konjičanin  Russia Viktoriia Alpaidze Tatyana Berezkina  South Korea Koo Bon-ok Lee Se-ok  Uruguay Matías Sosa Christian Lemes

Tournament 2  Algeria Youcef Belkhiri Sid Ali Hamidi  Argentina María Paolantoni Mariana García  France Charlotte Bonaventura Julie Bonaventura  Romania Cristina Năstase Simona Stancu

Tournament 3  Denmark Karina Christiansen Line Hesseldal Hansen  Slovenia Bojan Lah David Sok  Spain Ignacio García Andreu Marín

• 2020 IHF Men's Olympic Qualification Tournaments

• IHF website

2020 Olympic Qualification Tournament #1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain (H)	2	1	1	0	59	44	+15	3[lower-alpha 1]	2020 Summer Olympics
2	Sweden	2	1	1	0	62	49	+13	3[lower-alpha 1]
3	Argentina	2	0	0	2	37	65	−28	0

Source: IHF
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Goals scored; 7) Draw.
(H) Host
Notes:

1. Spain 28–28 Sweden

2020 Olympic Qualification Tournament #2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Russia	3	3	0	0	91	73	+18	6	2020 Summer Olympics
2	Hungary (H)	3	2	0	1	100	71	+29	4
3	Serbia	3	1	0	2	89	90	−1	2
4	Kazakhstan	3	0	0	3	75	121	−46	0

Source: IHF
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Goals scored; 7) Draw.
(H) Host

2020 Olympic Qualification Tournament #3

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Montenegro (H)	2	1	0	1	53	51	+2	2	2020 Summer Olympics
2	Norway	2	1	0	1	52	52	0	2
3	Romania	2	1	0	1	52	54	−2	2

Source: IHF
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Goals scored; 7) Draw.
(H) Host