Rio 2016 – Handball most popular sport after football

29 Aug. 2016

Rio 2016 – Handball most popular sport after football

All around the world millions of sports fans were following the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio and in total 6,149,289 tickets were sold, which is about 90% of the available tickets. Good news for handball – according to statistics published by the Brazilian newspaper O Globo, handball was only beaten by football in terms of sold tickets.


Top 5 sports in terms of ticket sales:

1. Football

2. Handball

3. Beach Volleyball

4. Basketball

5. Gymnastics