IHF Beach Handball Showcase: Officials announced

19 Jul. 2024

IHF Beach Handball Showcase: Officials announced

From 27 to 29 July, the ‘IHF Beach Handball Showcase’ will take place on the fringes of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. 

Following on from the player, coach and team announcements, the IHF can now reveal the officials for the showcase.

Three sets of IHF referees will be participating, including the French pair of Mathieu Fanack and Cedric Dare, the Swedish brothers Johan and Martin Gomer, plus Sylwia Bartkowiak and Weronika Lakomy from Poland.

Most recently, Fanack and Dare took charge of the men’s semi-final between Denmark and Germany and women’s final between Argentina and Germany at the 2024 IHF Men’s and Women’s Beach Handball World Championships in China. Last year they whistled the men’s final of the European Games, between Spain and Hungary, and also appeared as both referees and delegates at the 2022 IHF Men’s and Women’s Beach Handball World Championships in Greece.

Johan and Martin Gomer took charge of the 2022 IHF Men’s Beach Handball World Championship final between Croatia and Denmark, part of the new generation of referees who appeared at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina where they whistled the gold medal match between the host nation and Croatia.

The Polish pair of Sylwia Bartkowiak and Weronika Lakomy have just finished whistling at the 2024 EHF Men’s and Women’s U16 European Championship in Bulgaria and have been mainstays on the global level in recent years, including whistling on home sand at both the IHF Beach Handball Global Tour, and the European Games last year. The pair also appeared at Greece 2022.

IHF delegates include the experienced Jerome Rolland (France), Paola Gonzales Casales (Spain) – who was delegate for the final of the 2023 EHF Men’s European Beach Handball Championships – and IHF Beach Handball Working Group member responsible for officiating, Ioannis Meimaridis from Greece.

IHF Beach Handball Showcase – IHF Officials

Referees
Mathieu Fanack / Cedric Dare (FRA)
Johan Gomer / Martin Gomer (SWE)
Sylwia Bartkowiak / Weronika Lakomy (POL)

Delegates
Jerome Rolland (FRA)
Paola Gonzales Casales (ESP)
Ioannis Meimaridis (GRE)

The IHF Beach Handball Showcase is a collaborative effort between the IHF, Paris 2024 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games (COJOP2024), French Handball Federation (FFHB) and International Olympic Committee (IOC).