Women's Handball Qualification to Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games

[Laraja 1,498]

According to Brazilian press. China has regreted its decision of not take place at last Olympic Tournament.

 

They decided come back, and IHF has accepted their participation.

 

In this case the groups come back to previous draw.

[LDOG 2,472]

Senegal withdrew. Only 3 teams will play tournament 1.

[hckošice 15,799]

Updated and Completed.

 

21st of March 2021

[EupenM 150]

These 12 teams will be seeded for the draw as follows:

Row 1: Netherlands, Spain
Row 2: Russian Olympic Committee, Montenegro
Row 3: Norway, Hungary
Row 4: Sweden, Japan
Row 5: France, Republic of Korea
Row 6: Angola, Brazil

[Vektor 3,326]

6 hours ago, EupenM said:

These 12 teams will be seeded for the draw as follows:

Row 1: Netherlands, Spain
Row 2: Russian Olympic Committee, Montenegro
Row 3: Norway, Hungary
Row 4: Sweden, Japan
Row 5: France, Republic of Korea
Row 6: Angola, Brazil

These don't seem to be balanced at all. I mean, look at this potential draw outcome:

 

Group A:            

 

Group B:             

[CCB 611]

Draw for the handball tournament is 1st of April. 

 

Incomprehensible that organiser Japan has the prerogative to assign itself to a group of their choice, after 10 of the 12 team are drawn into a group. I think it's unfair.

[Agger 1,709]

On 22/03/2021 at 22:18, Vektor said:

These don't seem to be balanced at all. I mean, look at this potential draw outcome:

 

Group A:            

 

Group B:             

Just the same as the last what, 3 Olympics? It's discussed at every Olympics

[dcro 10,210]

Since Japan gets their pick, the odds of having the three weakest teams in the same group are as high as 50%.

 

Well, maybe Korea is stronger than Brazil atm.

[Vektor 3,326]

4 minutes ago, dcro said:

Since Japan gets their pick, the odds of having the three weakest teams in the same group are as high as 50%.

 

Well, maybe Korea is stronger than Brazil atm.

Oh, I forgot that Japan will pick their group. We can expect and  to be in the same group in that case, so we will have one non-European team in the Top8 at the very least. This also means that  and  will be in the same group. No matter how they will draw this, one group will be significantly stronger (the one with 5 strong European teams). 

[Vektor 3,326]

Anyway, this means that we are deeply fucked if we aren't in the  /  group. 

 

The draw will be on April 1st at 10am CET.