Great girls! Hungarian women’s handball team qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympics

The qualifying tournament for the 2024 Paris Olympics was held in Debrecen, Hungary, Japan, Great Britain and Japan’s women’s handball teams all qualified for the event.

To qualify for the Games, they had to finish in the top two of the four teams in the tournament, which ran from 11-14 April.

Hungary first beat Great Britain 49-11, then Sweden, who were considered the favourites, by three goals (28-25). The Hungarian girls secured their qualification on Sunday in the tournament’s final match against Japan (37–28), and made it back to the Olympic qualifying round after 2021.

The team reached the quarter-finals at the Tokyo Olympics, and this could be a realistic goal again. Sweden also qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympics.