Handball at the 2013 Mediterranean Games – Men's tournament

The men's tournament of handball at the 2013 Mediterranean Games in Mersin, Turkey, were held between June 23 and June 30. All games were held at the Lütfullah Aksungur Sports Hall.

Men's handball
at the 2013 Mediterranean Games

Tournament details
Host country	Turkey
Dates	23 June – 30 June
Teams	10 (from 2 confederations)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Egypt
Runner-up	Croatia
Third place	Turkey
Fourth place	Italy
Tournament statistics
Matches	27
Goals scored	1439 (53.3 per match)

Format

• TEn teams are divided into two preliminary groups. Each group have five teams.
• The top 2 teams from each group will qualify for Semifinals, other teams will qualify for the placement matches.
• Winners of the Semifinals contested the gold medal game and the losers the bronze medal game.

Participating teams

•  Algeria
•  Croatia
•  Egypt
•  Greece
•  Italy
•  North Macedonia
•  Slovenia
•  Serbia
•  Tunisia
•  Turkey

Group stage

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		TUR	ITA	SRB	MKD	ALG
Turkey	4	3	0	1	113	107	+6	6			34–30	23–24	30–29	26–24
Italy	4	2	0	2	109	100	+9	4		30–34		23–22	33–20	23–24
Serbia	4	2	0	2	112	93	+19	4		29–30	22–23		27–19	34–21
North Macedonia	4	2	0	2	90	109	−19	4		24–23	20–33	19–27		27–26
Algeria	4	1	0	3	95	110	−15	2		24–26	24–23	21–34	26–27

Source:

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		CRO	EGY	SLO	TUN	GRE
Croatia	4	3	0	1	120	109	+11	6			28–25	32–34	32–26	28–24
Egypt	4	3	0	1	111	94	+17	6		25–28		33–28	27–22	26–16
Slovenia	4	2	1	1	134	117	+17	5		34–32	28–33		32–32	40–20
Tunisia	4	1	1	2	107	111	−4	3		26–32	22–27	32–32		27–20
Greece	4	0	0	4	80	121	−41	0		24–28	16–26	20–40	20–27

Source:

Playoffs

	Semi-finals				Final
	29 June
	Turkey	22
					30 June
	Egypt	25
					Egypt	28
	29 June
					Croatia	23
	Croatia	23
	Italy	21
					Third place
					30 June
					Turkey	32
					Italy	26

Semifinals

June 29 16:00	Croatia	23–21	Italy	Lütfullah Aksungur Spor Salonu Referees: Gousko, Repkin (BLR)
	Matulić 8	(11-11)	Tokic 7

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June 29 18:00	Turkey	22–25	Egypt	Lütfullah Aksungur Spor Salonu Referees: A.Konjicanin, D.Konjicanin (BIH)
	Catkin 6	(11-13)	five players 4

9th/10th classification

June 29 10:00	Greece	23–27	Algeria	Lütfullah Aksungur Spor Salonu Referees: Jurinović, Mrvica (CRO)
	Palasks 7	(13-11)	Benali 8

7th/8th classification

June 29 12:00	Tunisia	35–19	North Macedonia	Lütfullah Aksungur Spor Salonu Referees: Ozdeniz, Erdogan (TUR)
	Lazarov, Manaskov 4	(16-10)	Boughanmi 13

5th/6th classification

June29 14:00	Slovenia	29–26	Serbia	Lütfullah Aksungur Spor Salonu Referees: Rashed,Elsayed (EGY)
	Razgor 8	(12-9)	Marković 7

Bronze medal match

June 30 10:00	Turkey	32–26	Italy	Lütfullah Aksungur Spor Salonu Referees: Jurinović, Mrvcia (CRO)
	Done 11	(18-14)	three players 5

Final

June 30 12:00	Egypt	28–23	Croatia	Lütfullah Aksungur Spor Salonu Referees: Ozdeniz, Erdogan (TUR)
	Eid 7	(14-11)	Matulic 7

References