# Handball at the Summer Youth Olympics

Handball was inducted at the Youth Olympic Games at the inaugural edition in 2010 for both boys and girls.
From the 2018 edition in Buenos Aires, beach handball replaced handball.

## Boys
### Summaries

| Year | Host | Event | Gold medal game | Gold medal game | Gold medal game | Bronze medal game | Bronze medal game | Bronze medal game |
| Year | Host | Event | Gold medalist | Score | Silver medalist | Bronze medalist | Score | Fourth place |
| 2010 Details | Singapore | Handball | Egypt | 35 – 25 | South Korea | France | 40 – 27 | Brazil |
| 2014 Details | Nanjing | Handball | Slovenia | 31 – 25 | Egypt | Norway | 33 – 25 | Qatar |
| 2018 Details | Buenos Aires | Beach handball | Spain | 2 – 1 | Portugal | Argentina | 2 – 0 | Croatia |
| 2026 Details | Dakar | Beach handball | | | | | | |

### Team appearances

| Team | 2010 | 2014 | 2018 | 2026 |
| Argentina | - | - | 3rd | |
| Brazil | 4th | 5th | - | |
| Chinese Taipei | - | - | 9th | |
| Cook Islands | 6th | – | - | |
| Croatia | - | - | 4th | |
| Egypt | 1st | 2nd | - | |
| France | 3rd | – | - | |
| Hungary | - | - | 5th | |
| Italy | - | - | 8th | |
| Mauritius | - | - | 12th | |
| Norway | – | 3rd | - | |
| Paraguay | - | - | 11th | |
| Portugal | - | - | 2nd | |
| Qatar | – | 4th | - | |
| Senegal | | – | - | Q |
| Singapore | 5th | – | - | |
| Slovenia | – | 1st | - | |
| South Korea | 2nd | – | - | |
| Spain | - | – | 1st | |
| Thailand | - | – | 6th | |
| Tunisia | – | 6th | - | |
| Uruguay | - | – | 10th | |
| Venezuela | - | – | 7th | |
| Total teams | 6 | 6 | 12 | 12 |

## Girls
### Summaries

| Year | Host | Event | Gold medal game | Gold medal game | Gold medal game | Bronze medal game | Bronze medal game | Bronze medal game |
| Year | Host | Event | Gold medalist | Score | Silver medalist | Bronze medalist | Score | Fourth place |
| 2010 Details | Singapore | Handball | Denmark | 28 – 26 | Russia | Brazil | 45 – 23 | Kazakhstan |
| 2014 Details | Nanjing | Handball | South Korea | 32 – 31 | Russia | Sweden | 23 – 16 | Brazil |
| 2018 Details | Buenos Aires | Beach handball | Argentina | 2 – 0 | Croatia | Hungary | 2 – 0 | Netherlands |
| 2026 Details | Dakar | Beach handball | | | | | | |

### Team appearances

| Team | 2010 | 2014 | 2018 | 2026 |
| American Samoa | - | – | 11th | |
| Angola | 5th | 5th | - | |
| Argentina | - | – | 1st | |
| Australia | 6th | – | - | |
| Brazil | 3rd | 4th | - | |
| China | – | 6th | - | |
| Chinese Taipei | - | – | 6th | |
| Croatia | - | – | 2nd | |
| Denmark | 1st | – | - | |
| Hong Kong | - | - | 10th | |
| Hungary | - | - | 3rd | |
| Kazakhstan | 4th | – | - | |
| Mauritius | - | - | 12th | |
| Netherlands | - | - | 4th | |
| Paraguay | - | - | 5th | |
| Russia | 2nd | 2nd | 7th | |
| Senegal | – | - | - | Q |
| South Korea | – | 1st | - | |
| Sweden | – | 3rd | - | |
| Turkey | - | - | 9th | |
| Venezuela | - | - | 8th | |
| Total teams | 6 | 6 | 12 | 12 |

## Medal table

    As of the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Egypt | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1 | South Korea | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | Argentina | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | Denmark | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Slovenia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Spain | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Russia | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | Croatia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Portugal | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Brazil | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | France | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | Hungary | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | Norway | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | Sweden | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (14 entries) | Totals (14 entries) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 |