Excluding the one-time inclusion of “field handball,” which was played outside, the men have been competing at the Summer Games since 1972. The women’s event was added in 1976. A handball ...

During play, each team has seven athletes on the court at one time - six field players and a goalie. What are the positions in Olympic handball? When on offense, most teams use three backcourt players ...

In addition, the three host teams managed to succeed. In Neu-Ulm, Slovenia’s rise in the women’s handball field resulted in the first Olympic qualification in its history. Never before ...

Pablo Simonet, a member of Argentina’s Olympic handball team, proposed to fellow Argentina Olympian Maria Pilar Campoy, a field hockey star, Wednesday in Paris. Simonet and Campoy have been together ...

In handball, a goal is scored when the whole of ... depending on who is attacking, one is called field referee and the other goal referee. Officials have a whistle and 18 hand signals to ...