Handball at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Handball at the 1976 Summer Olympics featured competition for men and women.

On July 26, a Croatian nationalist ran onto the field of play during the men's match between SFR Yugoslavia and West Germany and burned the Yugoslav flag.^[1]

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Men's tournament

Medal summary

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Soviet Union (URS) Aleksandr Anpilogov Yevgeni Chernyshov Anatoli Fedyukin Valeri Gassy Vasily Ilyin Mykhaylo Ishchenko Yuri Kidyaev Yuri Klimov Vladimir Kravtsov Serhiy Kushniryuk Yuriy Lahutyn Vladimir Maksimov Oleksandr Rezanov Mykola Tomyn	Romania (ROU) Ştefan Birtalan Adrian Cosma Cezar Drăgăniṭă Alexandru Fölker Cristian Gaţu Mircea Grabovschi Roland Gunesch Gabriel Kicsid Ghiţă Licu Nicolae Munteanu Cornel Penu Werner Stöckl Constantin Tudosie Radu Voina	Poland (POL) Zdzisław Antczak Janusz Brzozowski Piotr Cieśla Jan Gmyrek Alfred Kałuziński Jerzy Klempel Zygfryd Kuchta Jerzy Melcer Ryszard Przybysz Henryk Rozmiarek Andrzej Sokołowski Andrzej Szymczak Mieczysław Wojczak Włodzimierz Zieliński

Results

Group A

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
1.	Soviet Union (URS)	5	4	0	1	111	77	8		X	18:16	18:20	24:16	26:16	25:9
2.	West Germany (FRG)	5	4	0	1	97	76	8		16:18	X	18:17	18:14	19:16	26:11
3.	Yugoslavia (YUG)	5	4	0	1	110	93	8		20:18	17:18	X	25:17	26:22	22:18
4.	Denmark (DEN)	5	2	0	3	92	102	4		16:24	14:18	16:24	X	21:17	24:18
5.	Japan (JPN)	5	1	0	4	96	111	2		16:26	16:19	22:26	14:21	X	25:19
6.	Canada (CAN)	5	0	0	5	75	122	0		9:25	11:26	18:22	18:24	19:25	X

Group B

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
1.	Romania (ROU)	4	3	1	0	91	71	7		X	17:15	23:18	19:19	32:19
2.	Poland (POL)	4	3	0	1	80	71	6		15:17	X	18:16	21:18	26:20
3.	Hungary (HUN)	4	2	0	2	92	82	4		18:23	16:18	X	22:20	36:21
4.	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	4	1	1	2	85	82	3		19:19	18:21	20:22	X	28:20
5.	United States (USA)	4	0	0	4	80	122	0		19:32	20:26	21:36	20:28	X

Tunisia withdrew after 2 matches which they lost to Poland (12:26) and Czechoslovakia (9:21). The results were annulled.

Summary

Place	Nation
1	Soviet Union (URS)
	Coach: Anatoli Yevtushenko
2	Romania (ROU)
	Coach: Nicolae Nedef
3	Poland (POL)
	Coach: Janusz Czerwiński
4	West Germany (FRG) Coach: Vlado Štencl Gerd Becker Günter Böttcher Heiner Brand Bernhard Busch Joachim Deckarm Arno Ehret Jürgen Hahn Manfred Hofmann Peter Jaschke Peter Kleibrink Kurt Klühspies Rudolf Rauer Horst Spengler Walter von Oepen
5	Yugoslavia (YUG) Coach: Ivan Snoj Abaz Arslanagić Vlado Bojović Hrvoje Horvat Milorad Karalić Radivoj Krivokapić Zdravko Miljak Željko Nimš Radisav Pavićević Branislav Pokrajac Nebojša Popović Zdravko Rađenović Zvonimir Serdarušić Predrag Timko Zdenko Zorko
6	Hungary (HUN) Coach: Mihály Faludi Béla Bartalos (Honvéd Szondy SE) Ferenc Buday (Budapest Honvéd SE) Ernő Gubányi (TBSC) László Jánovszki (Budapest Spartacus SC) József Kenyeres (Budapest Honvéd SE) Zsolt Kontra (Honvéd Szondy SE) Péter Kovács (Budapest Honvéd SE) Mihály Süvöltős (Debreceni Dózsa) István Szilágyi (FTC) István Varga (Debreceni Dózsa) Károly Vass (Elektromos SE) Gábor Verőci (Budapest Honvéd SE) Zoltán Bartalos Pál Kocsis
7	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Coach: Jiří Vícha Bohumil Cepák Jozef Dobrotka Vladimír Haber Jiří Hanzl Vladimír Jarý Jiří Kavan Jindřich Krepindl Jiří Liška Pavel Mikeš Ján Packa Jaroslav Papiernik Ivan Satrapa František Šulc Štefan Katušák
8	Denmark (DEN) Coach: Jørgen Gaarskjær Søren Andersen Lars Bock Anders Dahl-Nielsen Jørgen Frandsen Claus From Henrik Jacobsgaard Palle Jensen Kay Jørgensen Bent Larsen Thor Munkager Thomas Pazyj Jesper Petersen Johnny Piechnik Morten Stig Christensen
9	Japan (JPN) Coach: Tomoaki Takeno Kenji Fujinaka Seimei Gamo Hiroshi Hanawa Hiroshi Honda Toyohiko Hozumi Satoshi Kikuchi Minoru Kino Kozo Matsubara Takezo Nakai Kenichi Sasaki Yoji Sato Masaki Shibata
10	United States (USA)[2] Coach: Dennis Berkholtz Richard Abrahamson Roger Baker Peter Buehning, Jr. Randolph Dean Robert Dean Vincent DiCalogero Ezra Glantz William Johnson Patrick O'Neill Sandor Rivnyak James Rogers Kevin Serrapede Robert Sparks Harry Winkler
11	Canada (CAN) Coach: Eugen Trofin Wolfgang Blankenau Christian Chagnon François Dauphin Hugues de Roussan Pierre Désormeaux Pierre Ferdais Robert Johnson Richard Lambert Claude Lefebvre Danny Power Pierre St. Martin Stan Thorseth Luc Tousignant Claude Viens

Women's tournament

Medal summary

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Soviet Union (URS) Lyubov Berezhnaya Lyudmyla Bobrus Aldona Česaitytė Tetyana Hlushchenko Larysa Karlova Mariya Litoshenko Nina Lobova Tetyana Makarets Lyudmyla Panchuk Rafiga Shabanova Nataliya Sherstyuk Lyudmila Shubina Zinaida Turchyna Halyna Zakharova	East Germany (GDR) Gabriele Badorek Hannelore Burosch Roswitha Krause Waltraud Kretzschmar Evelyn Matz Liane Michaelis Eva Paskuy Kristina Richter Christina Rost Silvia Siefert Marion Tietz Petra Uhlig Christina Voß Hannelore Zober	Hungary (HUN) Éva Angyal Mária Berzsenyi Ágota Bujdosó Klára Csíkné Zsuzsanna Kéziné Katalin Lakiné Rozália Lelkesné Márta Megyeriné Ilona Nagy Marianna Nagy Erzsébet Németh Amália Sterbinszky Borbála Tóth Harsányi Mária Vadászné

Results

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
	Soviet Union (URS)	5	5	0	0	92	40	10		X	14:11	12:9	14:8	31:9	21:3
	East Germany (GDR)	5	3	1	1	89	47	7		11:14	X	7:7	18:12	24:10	29:4
	Hungary (HUN)	5	3	1	1	85	55	7		9:12	7:7	X	20:15	25:18	24:3
4.	Romania (ROU)	5	2	0	3	73	83	4		8:14	12:18	15:20	X	21:20	18:11
5.	Japan (JPN)	5	1	0	4	72	115	2		9:31	10:24	18:25	20:21	X	15:14
6.	Canada (CAN)	5	0	0	5	35	106	0		3:21	4:29	3:24	11:17	14:15	X

Summary

Place	Nation
1	Soviet Union (URS)
	Coach: Igor Turchyn
2	East Germany (GDR)
	Coach: Peter Kretzschmar
3	Hungary (HUN)
	Coach: Bódog Török Éva Angyal (Vasas SC) Mária Berzsenyi (FTC) Ágota Bujdosó (Vasas SC) Klára Csíkné (Vasas SC) Zsuzsanna Kéziné (TBSC) Katalin Lakiné (Bakony Vegyész) Rozália Lelkesné (FTC) Márta Megyeriné (Csepel SC) Ilona Nagy (Csepel SC) Marianna Nagy (TFSE) Erzsébet Németh (FTC) Amália Sterbinszky (Vasas SC) Borbála Tóth Harsányi (Bakony Vegyész) Mária Vadászné (Vasas SC)
4	Romania (ROU) Coach: Constantin Popescu Simona Arghir Maria Bosi Doina Cojocaru Doina Furcoi Iuliana Hobincu Elisabeta Ionescu Viorica Ionică Maria Lackovics Georgeta Lăcusta Magdalena Mikloş Cristina Petrovici Constantina Piţigoi Niculina Sasu Rozalia Şoş
5	Japan (JPN) Coach: Kaoru Ie Mihoko Hozumi Mikiko Kato Eiko Kawada Nanami Kino Kuriko Komori Hiroko Kosahara Tokuko Kubo Terumi Kurata Hitomi Matsushita Natsue Shimada Shoko Wada Emiko Yamashita
6	Canada (CAN) Coach: Maurice Loeub Lucie Balthazar Louise Beaumont Francine Boulay-Parizeau Manon Charette Danielle Chenard Nicole Génier Mariette Houle Louise Hurtubise Denise Lemaire Monique Prud'homme Joanes Rail Nicole Robert Hélène Tétreault Johanne Valois

Participating nations

Each qualified country was allowed to enter one team of 14 players and they all were eligible for participation. Five nations competed in both tournaments. Japan entered only a squad of twelve women respectively men. Only four male reserve players did not participate (one from Denmark, two from Hungary, and one from Czechoslovakia).

A total of 230(*) handball players (148 men and 82 women) from 12 nations (men from 11 nations - women from 6 nations) competed at the Montreal Games:

• Canada (28) (men:14 women:14)
• Czechoslovakia (13) (men:13 women:0)
• Denmark (13) (men:13 women:0)
• East Germany (14) (men:0 women:14)
• West Germany (14) (men:14 women:0)
• Hungary (26) (men:12 women:14)
• Japan (24) (men:12 women:12)
• Poland (14) (men:14 women:0)
• Romania (28) (men:14 women:14)
• Soviet Union (28) (men:14 women:14)
• United States (14) (men:14 women:0)
• Yugoslavia (14) (men:14 women:0)

(*) NOTE: There are only players counted, which participated in one game at least.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	2	0	0	2
2	Romania (ROU)	0	1	0	1
	East Germany (GDR)	0	1	0	1
4	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	1	1

References

1. Istaknute akcije hrvatskih emigranata
2. "Roster of U.S. Athletes for Olympic Games at Montreal". The New York Times. 1976-07-11. p. 152.

External links

• Official Olympic Report