Handball at the 2013 Mediterranean Games – Women's tournament

The women's tournament of handball at the 2013 Mediterranean Games in Adana, Turkey, were held between June 23 and June 30. All games were held at the Yüreğir Serinevler Arena.

Women'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	Serbia
Runner-up	Slovenia
Third place	Croatia
Fourth place	Montenegro

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
•  Italy
•  Macedonia
•  Montenegro
•  Serbia
•  Slovenia
•  Spain
•  Tunisia
•  Turkey

Group stage

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Serbia	4	4	0	0	111	86	+25	8
Montenegro	4	2	0	2	81	88	−7	4
Turkey	4	2	0	2	96	98	−2	4
Algeria	4	1	0	3	89	95	−6	2
Italy	4	1	0	3	94	104	−10	2

Source:

Matches

22 June 2013 11:00	Serbia	38-27	Italy	Yüreğir Serinevler Arena, Adana
		(21-10)

22 June 2013 17:00	Algeria	23–25	Turkey	Yüreğir Serinevler Arena, Adana Referees: Carlos Javier Gude, Juan Jose Gude (ESP)
	Ait Ahmed 5	(14-12)	Şahin 7

23 June 2013 15:30	Turkey	22–25	Montenegro	Yüreğir Serinevler Arena, Adana Referees: Mansour Al Suwaidi, Saleh Bamutref (QAT)
	B. Yılmaz 8	(10–10)	Mehmedovic 10

23 June 2013 17:30	Serbia	28-20	Algeria	Yüreğir Serinevler Arena, Adana
		(18-8)

24 June 2013 11:00	Montenegro	18-21	Serbia	Yüreğir Serinevler Arena, Adana
		(13-11)

24 June 2013 13:00	Algeria	19-23	Italy	Yüreğir Serinevler Arena, Adana
		(11-13)

25 June 2013 14:00	Serbia	24–21	Turkey	Yüreğir Serinevler Arena, Adana Referees: Andrei Gousko, Siharhei Repkin
	Atanaskovic 6	(11–7)	İskenderoğlu, B. Yılmaz 4

25 June 2013 16:00	Montenegro	19-18	Italy	Yüreğir Serinevler Arena, Adana
		(13-13)

26 June 2013 11:00	Montenegro	19-27	Algeria	Yüreğir Serinevler Arena, Adana
		(11-11)

26 June 2013 13:00	Turkey	28–26	Italy	Yüreğir Serinevler Arena, Adana Referees: Amer Konjicanin, Dino Konjicanin (BIH)
	İskit, Şahin 6	(11–14)	Gheorghe 8

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Slovenia	4	3	1	0	118	98	+20	7
Croatia	4	2	1	1	108	116	−8	5
Spain	4	2	0	2	93	80	+13	4
Tunisia	4	2	0	2	117	108	+9	4
North Macedonia	4	0	0	4	82	116	−34	0

Source:

22 June 2013 13:00	Croatia	29-26	North Macedonia	Yüreğir Serinevler Arena, Adana
		(16-15)

22 June 2013 15:00	Slovenia	35-29	Tunisia	Yüreğir Serinevler Arena, Adana
		(17-12)

23 June 2013 11:30	North Macedonia	21-32	Slovenia	Yüreğir Serinevler Arena, Adana
		(10-12)

23 June 2013 13:30	Spain	24-25	Croatia	Yüreğir Serinevler Arena, Adana
		(11-11)

24 June 2013 15:00	Spain	17-20	Slovenia	Yüreğir Serinevler Arena, Adana
		(9-12)

24 June 2013 17:00	North Macedonia	22-31	Tunisia	Yüreğir Serinevler Arena, Adana
		(8-17)

25 June 2013 10:00	Spain	28-22	Tunisia	Yüreğir Serinevler Arena, Adana
		(12-11)

25 June 2013 12:00	Croatia	31-31	Slovenia	Yüreğir Serinevler Arena, Adana
		(14-14)

26 June 2013 15:00	Croatia	35-23	Tunisia	Yüreğir Serinevler Arena, Adana
		(19-12)

26 June 2013 17:00	Spain	24-13	North Macedonia	Yüreğir Serinevler Arena, Adana
		(9-9)

Playoffs

Semifinals

	Semi-finals				Final
	28 June 2013 17:00
	Serbia	25
					29 June 2013 18:00
	Croatia	16
					Serbia	25
	28 June 2013 15:00
					Slovenia	19
	Slovenia	24
	Montenegro	22
					Third place
					29 June 2013 16:00
					Croatia	25
					Montenegro	24

28 June 2013 17:00	Serbia	25-16	Croatia	Yüreğir Serinevler Arena, Adana
		(13-7)

28 June 2013 15:00	Slovenia	24-22	Montenegro	Yüreğir Serinevler Arena, Adana
		(10-11)

9th/10th classification

28 June 2013 09:00	Algeria	24-27	North Macedonia	Yüreğir Serinevler Arena, Adana
		(11-12)

7th/8th classification

28 June 2013 11:00	Tunisia	26-24	Italy	Yüreğir Serinevler Arena, Adana
		(10-14)

5th/6th classification

28 June 2013 13:00	Spain	29 – 23	Turkey	Yüreğir Serinevler Arena, Adana

Bronze medal match

29 June 2013 18:00	Serbia	25-19	Slovenia	Yüreğir Serinevler Arena, Adana
		(13-12)

Final

29 June 2013 16:00	Croatia	25-24	Montenegro	Yüreğir Serinevler Arena, Adana
		(12-11)

References