International Handball Federation confirmed list of 15 referees for the Olympic Games in Rio. Experienced “people in black” will have serious task to implement the five new rules as Olympic tournament will be the first major event with significant changes in some aspect of the game.
Here are the 15 pairs for Rio:
Nilson Aires Menezes BRA Rogéro Pinto BRA
Yalatima Nanga Coulibaly CIV Mamoudou Diabate CIV
Vaclav Horacek CZE Jiri Novotny CZE
Martin Gjeding DEN Mads Hansen DEN
Mohamed Rashed EGY Tamer El Sayed EGY
Oscar Raluy Lopez ESP Angel Luis Sabroso Ramirez ESP
Charlotte Bonaventura FRA Julie Bonaventura FRA
Lars Geipel GER Marcus Helbig GER
Majid Kolahdouzan IRI Alireza Mousaviyan IRI
Jonas Eliasson ISL Anton Gylfi Palsson ISL
Bon -Ok Koo KOR Seok Lee KOR
Gjorgji Nachevski MKD Slave Nikolov MKD
Kjersti Arntsen NOR Guro Roen NOR
Viktoria Alpaidze RUS Tatiana Berekzina RUS
Bojan Lah SLO David Sok SLO
