Handball at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Handball at the 1984 Summer Olympics featured competition for men and women. Due to the USSR-led boycott some strong handball nations from Eastern Bloc did not compete; this gave an opportunity to the Yugoslav team to take both gold medals.
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Men's Tournament
Medal summary
Preliminary Round
Teams in two groups played each other in a round to decide, for which place each of them should compete in the Final Round.
Group A
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | Pts |  |
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| 1. | Yugoslavia (YUG) |
5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 123 | 76 | 9 | X | 19:18 | 22:22 | 25:11 | 32:15 | 25:10 | |
| 2. | Romania (ROU) |
5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 120 | 91 | 8 | 18:19 | X | 26:17 | 23:17 | 28:22 | 25:16 | |
| 3. | Iceland (ISL) |
5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 102 | 96 | 7 | 22:22 | 17:26 | X | 23:16 | 21:17 | 19:15 | |
| 4. | Switzerland (SUI) |
5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 83 | 102 | 4 | 11:25 | 17:23 | 16:23 | X | 20:13 | 19:18 | |
| 5. | Japan (JPN) |
5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 84 | 107 | 2 | 15:32 | 22:28 | 17:21 | 13:20 | X | 17:16 | |
| 6. | Algeria (ALG) |
5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 75 | 105 | 0 | 10:25 | 16:25 | 15:19 | 18:19 | 16:17 | X |
Group B
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | Pts |  |
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| 1. | West Germany (FRG) |
5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 114 | 95 | 10 | X | 20:18 | 18:17 | 18:16 | 21:19 | 37:25 | |
| 2. | Denmark (DEN) |
5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 115 | 99 | 8 | 18:20 | X | 26:19 | 21:16 | 19:16 | 31:28 | |
| 3. | Sweden (SWE) |
5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 119 | 110 | 6 | 17:18 | 19:26 | X | 26:25 | 21:18 | 36:23 | |
| 4. | Spain (ESP) |
5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 105 | 106 | 4 | 16:18 | 16:21 | 25:26 | X | 17:16 | 31:25 | |
| 5. | United States (USA) |
5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 91 | 100 | 1 | 19:21 | 16:19 | 18:21 | 16:17 | X | 22:22 | |
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5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 123 | 157 | 1 | 25:37 | 28:31 | 23:36 | 25:31 | 22:22 | X |
Final Round
- 1st-placed teams from each group competed for the 1st place in this round;
- 2nd-placed - competed for the 3rd place
- 3rd-placed - competed for the 5th place
- 4th-placed - competed for the 7th place
- 5th-placed - competed for the 9th place
- 6th-placed - competed for the 11th place
All matches were held on August 10.
11th place match
- South Korea 25-21 Algeria
9th place match
- United States 24-16 Japan
7th place match
- Switzerland 18-17 Spain
5th place match
- Sweden 26-24 Iceland
3rd place match
- Romania 23-19 Denmark
1st place match
- Yugoslavia 18-17 West Germany
Summary
Women's Tournament
Medal summary
Results
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | Pts | |
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Yugoslavia (YUG) |
5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 143 | 102 | 10 | X | 29:23 | 31:25 | 33:20 | 20:19 | 30:15 | |
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South Korea (KOR) |
5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 125 | 119 | 7 | 23:29 | X | 24:24 | 29:27 | 26:17 | 23:22 | |
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China (CHN) |
5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 112 | 115 | 5 | 25:31 | 24:24 | X | 22:25 | 20:19 | 21:16 | |
| 4. | West Germany (FRG) |
5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 91 | 100 | 4 | 19:20 | 17:26 | 19:20 | 18:17 | X | 18:17 | |
| 5. | United States (USA) |
5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 114 | 123 | 4 | 20:33 | 27:29 | 25:22 | X | 17:18 | 25:21 | |
| 6. | Austria (AUT) |
5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 91 | 117 | 0 | 15:30 | 22:23 | 16:21 | 21:25 | 17:18 | X |
Summary
| Place | Nation |
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| 1 | Yugoslavia (YUG) |
| Coach: Josip Samaržija Svetlana Anastasovska (ORK Beograd) Alenka Cuderman (Olimpija Ljubljana) Svetlana Dašić-Kitić (Radnički Beograd) Slavica Đukić (Radnički Beograd) Dragica Đurić (Radnički Beograd) Mirjana Đurica (Radnički Beograd) Emilija Erčić (Radnički Beograd) Ljubinka Janković (Radnički Beograd) Jasna Kolar-Merdan (Lokomotiva Mostar) Ljiljana Mugoša (Budućnost Titograd) Svetlana Mugoša (Budućnost Titograd) Mirjana Ognjenović (Lokomotiva Zagreb) Zorica Pavićević (Budućnost Titograd) Jasna Ptujec (Lokomotiva Zagreb) Biserka Višnjić (Trešnjevka Zagreb) | |
| 2 | South Korea (KOR) |
| 3 | China (CHN) |
| 4 | West Germany (FRG) Maike Becker Elke Blumauer Sabine Erbs Astrid Huhn Kerstin Jonsson Sabrina Koschella Corinna Kunze Roswitha Mroczynski Petra Platen Vanadis Putzke Silvia Schmitt Dagmar Stelberg Claudia Sturm |
| 5 | United States (USA) Coach: Klement Capilar Pamela Boyd Reita Clanton Theresa Contos Sandra de la Riva Mary Dwight Carmen Forest Melinda Hale Leora Jones Carol Lindsey Cynthia Stinger Penelope Stone Janice Trombly Sherry Winn Dorothy Franco-Reed Kim Howard |
| 6 | Austria (AUT) Gabriele Gebauer Milena Gschiessl-Foltyn Karin Hillinger Ulrike Huber Martina Neubauer Gudrun Neunteufel Ulrike Popp Karin Prokop Vesna Radovic Silvia Steinbauer Maria Sykora Monika Unger Susanne Unger Elisabeth Zehetner Teresa Zielewicz |
Participating nations
Each qualified country was allowed to enter one team of 15 players and they all were eligible for participation. Four nations competed in both tournaments.
A total of 259(*) handball players (177 men and 82 women) from 14 nations (men from 12 nations - women from 6 nations) competed at the Los Angeles Games:
- Algeria (15) (men:15 women:0)
- Austria (15) (men:0 women:15)
- China (13) (men:0 women:13)
- Denmark (14) (men:14 women:0)
- West Germany (28) (men:15 women:13)
- Iceland (15) (men:15 women:0)
- Japan (15) (men:15 women:0)
- Romania (15) (men:15 women:0)
- South Korea (28) (men:15 women:13)
- Spain (15) (men:15 women:0)
- Sweden (15) (men:15 women:0)
- Switzerland (15) (men:15 women:0)
- United States (27) (men:14 women:13)
- Yugoslavia (29) (men:14 women:15)
(*) NOTE: There are only players counted, which participated in one game at least.
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | West Germany (FRG) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| South Korea (KOR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 4 | Romania (ROU) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| China (CHN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
See also
References
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