Women's European Handball Championship 2012

On September 27, 2008, at the Congress of the European Handball Federation (EHF) in Vienna, it was announced that the final tournament of the European Championship 2012 will be held in the Netherlands . Ukraine also claimed the right to host UEFA EURO 2012, but the Dutch application gained more votes (32 versus 17) ^{[1] [2]} .

On June 4, 2012, the Netherlands Handball Union announced its refusal to organize a tournament ^[3] . The next day, representatives of Denmark , Iceland , Macedonia , Norway , Poland , Russia , Serbia , Slovakia , Croatia and Sweden announced their readiness to host the championship in their countries ^[4] , on June 6, Romania was also added to the list of interested parties ^[5] . On June 18, the EHF decided to postpone the tournament to Serbia , which in January of the same year successfully hosted the European Men's Championship ^[6] .

The draw for the qualifying tournament was held on April 27, 2011 in Vienna . The Netherlands did not initially participate in the qualification; the Norwegian national team announced the organizer of EURO 2012;

In June 2011, pre-qualification butt matches took place with the participation of four teams, the winners of which (Greece and the UK), along with 26 other teams from October 19, 2011 to June 3, 2012 participated in the main qualification phase. Permits for the final tournament were won by the teams that took first and second places in their groups. On June 18, 2012, after the Netherlands refused to hold the tournament and declared Serbia the host of EURO 2012, the Icelandic national team was added to its participants, having the best result among the teams that took 3rd place in the qualifying groups ^[6] .

Draw

The draw for the final tournament was originally scheduled for June 6, 2012 and was scheduled to take place in Rotterdam . After the Dutch handball union refused to hold EURO 2012, the draw procedure was postponed to Monaco on June 22 ^{[6] [7]} .

Arenas

Matches are held in four cities of Serbia in five sports complexes that hosted the men's European Championship in January 2012.

Compositions

Preliminary Stage

Teams that took places from 1st to 3rd in the groups reached the main stage of the championship.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Milestone

At the main stage, the results of matches played by teams among themselves in the preliminary stage groups were taken into account. Two best teams from groups I and II reached the semifinals, and the teams that finished third in the groups played in the match for 5th place.

Group I

Group II

Playoffs

Semifinals

5th Place Match

3rd place match

Final

Bombardiers

Symbolic Team

• Goalkeeper - Katrina Lunde Haraldsen ( Norway )
• Left extreme - Polina Kuznetsova ( Russia )
• Right extreme - Jovanka Radicevic ( Montenegro )
• Linear - Heidi Löke ( Norway )
• Left Welterweight - Sanya Damnyanovich ( Serbia )
• Right Welterweight - Katarina Bulatovich ( Montenegro )
• Point guard - Andrea Lekic ( Serbia )

Individual Prizes

• MVP - Anya Edin ( Norway )
• Best Defensive Player - Anya Althaus ( Germany )

• Official website (unopened) (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment November 26, 2012. Archived June 23, 2012. (eng.)
• Tournament on the EHF website (neopr.) . Archived January 24, 2013. (eng.)