Handball at the 1984 Summer Olympics

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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 opportunity to the Yugoslav team to take both gold medals.

Contents 1 Men's Tournament 1.1 Medal summary 1.2 Preliminary Round 1.2.1 Group A 1.2.2 Group B 1.3 Final Round 1.4 Summary 2 Women's Tournament 2.1 Medal summary 2.2 Results 2.3 Summary 3 Participating nations 4 Medal table

[edit] Men's Tournament

[edit] Medal summary

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Yugoslavia (YUG) Zlatan Arnautović Mirko Bašić Jovica Elezović Mile Isaković Pavle Jurina Milan Kalina Slobodan Kuzmanovski Dragan Mladenović Zdravko Rađenović Momir Rnić Branko Štrbac Veselin Vujović Veselin Vuković Zdravko Zovko	West Germany (FRG) Jochen Fraatz Thomas Happe Arnulf Meffle Rüdiger Neitzel Michael Paul Dirk Rauin Siegfried Roch Michael Roth Ulrich Roth Martin Schwalb Uwe Schwenker Thomas Springel Andreas Thiel Klaus Wöller Erhard Wunderlich	Romania (ROU) Mircea Bedivan Dumitru Berbece Iosif Boroş Alexandru Buligan Gheorghe Covaciu Gheorghe Dogărescu Marian Dumitru Cornel Durău Alexandru Fölker Nicolae Munteanu Vasile Oprea Adrian Simion Vasile Stîngă Neculai Vasilcă Maricel Voinea

[edit] 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.

[edit] Group A

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
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	23:27	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

[edit] Group B

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
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
6.	South Korea (KOR)	5	0	1	4	123	157	1		25:37	28:31	23:36	25:31	22:22	X

[edit] 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

[edit] Summary

Place	Nation
1	Yugoslavia (YUG)
	Coach: Branislav Pokrajac Zlatan Arnautović (Borac Banja Luka) Mirko Bašić (Metaloplastika Šabac) Jovica Elezović (Proleter Zrenjanin) Mile Isaković (Metaloplastika Šabac) Pavle Jurina (Partizan Bjelovar) Milan Kalina (Crvena zvezda Beograd) Slobodan Kuzmanovski (Metaloplastika Šabac) Dragan Mladenović (Železničar Niš) Zdravko Rađenović (Schwabing/FRG) Momir Rnić (Proleter Zrenjanin) Branko Štrbac (Crvena zvezda Beograd) Veselin Vujović (Metaloplastika Šabac) Veselin Vuković (Metaloplastika Šabac) Zdravko Zovko (Medveščak-Infosistem) Rolando Pušnik (RK Crvenka)
2	West Germany (FRG)
3	Romania (ROU)
	Coach: Radu Voina
4	Denmark (DEN) Morten Stig Christensen Anders Dahl-Nielsen Peter Fenger Jørgen Gluver Hans Hattesen Carsten Haurum Klaus Jensen Mogens Jeppesen Keld Nielsen Erik Rasmussen Jens Roepstorff Per Skaarup Poul Sørensen Mikael Strøm
5	Sweden (SWE) Göran Bengtsson Per Carlsén Lennart Ebbinge Lars-Erik Hansson Claes Hellgren Rolf Hertzberg Björn Jilsén Per Jilsén Mats Lindau Christer Magnusson Per Öberg Peter Olofsson Mats Olsson Sten Sjögren Danny Sjöberg-Augustsson
6	Iceland (ISL) Þorbergur Aðalsteinsson Kristján Arason Steinar Birgisson Jens Einarsson Alfreð Gíslason Bjarni Guðmundsson Guðmundur Guðmundsson Sigurður Gunnarsson Atli Hilmarsson Þorbjörn Jensson Brynjar Kvaran Þorgils Mathiesen Jakob Sigurðsson Sigurður Sveinsson Einar Þorvarðarson
7	Switzerland (SUI) Jürgen Bätschmann René Barth Markus Braun Max Delhees Roland Gassmann Martin Glaser Peter Hürlimann Peter Jehle Heinz Karrer Uwe Mall Martin Ott Norwin Platzer Martin Rubin Max Schär Ruedi Weber
8	Spain (ESP) Cecilio Alonso Juan Javier Cabanas Juan de la Puente Juan Pedro de Miguel Pere García Rafael López Agustín Millán Juan Francisco Muñoz José Ignacio Novoa Jaime Puig Javier Reino Lorenzo Rico Julián Ruiz Eugenio Serrano Juan José Uría
9	United States (USA) Coach: Javier Garcia James Buehning Robert Djokcvich Tim Dykstra Craig Gilbert Steven Goss William Kessler Stephen Kirk Peter Lash Michael Lenard Joseph McVein Gregory Morava Rod Oshita Thomas Schneeberger Joe Story Tim Funk
10	Japan (JPN) Seimei Gamo Takashi Ikenoue Yasou Ikona Hidetada Ito Koji Matsui Mitsuaki Nakamoto Kiyoshi Nishiyama Takahiro Ohata Nobuo Sasaki Kenzo Seki Yoshihiro Shiga Katsutoshi Taguchi Seiichi Takamura Yukihiko Uemura Shinji Yamamoto
11	South Korea (KOR) An Jin-Soo Choi Geun-Yeon Choi Tai-Sub Hwang Yo-Na Kang Duck-Soo Kang Jae-Won Kang Tae-Koo Koh Suk-Chang Lee Kwang-Nam Lee Sang-Hyo Lim Kyu-Ha Lim Young-Chul Park Byung-Hong Park Young-Dae Shim Jung-Man
12	Algeria (ALG) Omar Azeb Djaffar Belhocine Abdelkrim Bendjemil Abdesselam Benmaghsoula Brahim Boudrali Mourad Boussebt Mustapha Doballah Alousofiane Draouci Hocine Ledra Kamel Maoudj Mouloud Meknache Zine Mohamed Seghir Rachid Mokrani Kamel Ouchia Azzedine Ouhib

[edit] Women's Tournament

[edit] Medal summary

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Yugoslavia (YUG) Svetlana Anastasovska Alenka Cuderman Svetlana Dašić-Kitić Slavica Đukić Dragica Đurić Mirjana Đurica Emilija Erčić Ljubinka Janković Jasna Kolar-Merdan Ljiljana Mugoša Svetlana Mugoša Mirjana Ognjenović Zorica Pavićević Jasna Ptujec Biserka Višnjić	South Korea (KOR) Han Hwa-Soo Jeong Hyoi-Soon Jeung Soon-Bok Kim Choon-Rye Kim Kyung-Soon Kim Mi-Sook Kim Ok-Hwa Lee Soon-Ei Lee Young-Ja Shon Mi-Na Sung Kyung-Hwa Yoon Byung-Soon Yoon Soo-Kyung	China (CHN) Chen Zhen Gao Xiumin He Jianping Li Lan Liu Liping Liu Yumei Sun Xiulan Wang Linwei Wang Mingxing Wu Xingjiang Zhang Weihong Zhang Peijun Zhu Juefeng

[edit] Results

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
	Yugoslavia (YUG)	5	5	0	0	143	102	10		X	29:23	31:25	33:20	20:19	30:15
	South Korea (KOR)	5	3	1	1	125	119	7		23:29	X	24:24	29:27	26:17	23:22
	China (CHN)	5	2	1	2	112	115	5		25:31	24:24	X	22:25	20:19	21:16
4.	United States (USA)	5	2	0	3	114	123	4		20:33	27:29	25:22	X	17:18	25:21
	West Germany (FRG)	5	2	0	3	91	100	4		19:20	17:26	19:20	18:17	X	18:17
6.	Austria (AUT)	5	0	0	5	91	117	0		15:30	22:23	16:21	21:25	17:18	X

[edit] Summary

Place	Nation
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 Podgorica) Svetlana Mugoša (Budućnost Podgorica) Mirjana Ognjenović (Lokomotiva Zagreb) Zorica Pavićević (Budućnost Podgorica) Jasna Ptujec (Lokomotiva Zagreb) Biserka Višnjić (Trešnjevka Zagreb)
2	South Korea (KOR)
3	China (CHN)
4	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
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
6	Austria (AUT) Gabriele Gebauer Milena Gschiessl-Foltyn Karin Hilinger Ulrike Huber Martina Neubauer Gutrun Neunteufel Ulrike Popp Karin Prokop Vesna Radovic Silvia Steinbauer Maria Sykora Monika Unger Susanne Unger Elisabeth Zehetner Teresa Zielewicz

[edit] 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.

[edit] Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
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

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