Denmark/Norway/Sweden 2023: Paris 2024 Olympic Games qualification update

14 Dec. 2023

Denmark/Norway/Sweden 2023: Paris 2024 Olympic Games qualification update

The 2023 IHF Women’s World Championship is also a qualification event for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, where five sides have already secured their berths for the competition which will take place next July and August.

Hosts France were the first qualified side, being followed by Norway, after the EHF EURO 2022, where the Scandinavian side secured the title. The AHF Asian Olympic Women's Qualification Tournament saw the Republic of Korea seal the ticket for Paris 2024, while Angola made it through via CAHB African Olympic Women's Qualification Tournament this autumn.

One more ticket was awarded to the winners of the Pan American Games, Brazil, with the last direct spot being reserved via the 2023 IHF Women’s World Championship, provided a team which is not qualified progresses to the final.

With Denmark, France, Norway and Sweden being qualified to the semi-finals, Denmark can seal that ticket either via qualifying into the final, or if France progress to the final with a win against Sweden, as the runners-up at the EHF EURO 2022, via the place allocated to the best continent at the 2023 IHF Women’s World Championship, which is Europe.

The other six spots will be awarded in April, when three Olympic Qualification Tournaments are played. The 2023 IHF Women’s World Championship had six spots allocated for these tournaments, for the teams which ranked between 2nd and 7th.

However, with France and Norway making it to the quarter-finals, this opened up two other spots, the 8th and the 9th, but with Brazil finishing 9th, another spot went to the 10th place, Hungary.

Therefore, the teams which are sure of a place in the Olympic Qualification Tournaments in next April via the 2023 IHF Women’s World Championship are Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Czechia and Hungary, the 10th placed side at Denmark/Norway/Sweden 2023.

The best continent in the competition, Europe, also had two places allocated via their continental qualification, the EHF EURO 2022 in this instance, but with the teams ranked 2nd to 7th already qualified, then the teams placed 8th and 9th, Slovenia and Spain, also made it through to the Olympic Qualification Tournaments.

The second-best continent, South and Central America, which saw Brazil finish 9th, have two places – Argentina and Paraguay – the teams ranked second and third in the Pan-American Games, the continental qualification competition for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

The other two best-placed continents, Africa and Asia, are sending one representant each in the Olympic Qualification Tournaments, namely Cameroon and Japan, the second-placed sides in the continental Olympic Women's Qualification Tournaments.