Handball at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Final results for the Handball competition at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Men's Tournament

Preliminary Round

Group A

Group B

Final Round

5th to 12th places

Bronze Medal match

Final

Team Rosters

4.  Hungary: Imre Bíró, József Bordás, Ottó Csicsay, János Fodor, János Gyurka, László Hoffmann, Mihály Iváncsik, Mihály Kovács, Péter Kovács, László Marosi, Tibor Oross, Jakab Sibalin, László Szabó, Géza Tóth
5.  Sweden: Per Carlén, Per Carlsson, Johan Eklund, Mats Fransson, Erik Hajas, Claes Hellgren, Peder Järphag, Björn Jilsén, Per Jilsén, Ola Lindgren, Staffan Olsson, Mats Olsson, Sten Sjögren, Magnus Wislander
6.  Czechoslovakia: Miroslav Bajgar, Michal Barda, Tomáš Bártek, Petr Baumruk, Milan Brestovanský, Karel Jindřichovský, Jiří Kotrč, Peter Mesiarik, Jan Novák, Jozef Škandík, Libor Sovadina, František Štika, Zdeněk Vaněk, Lubomír Švajlen
7.  East Germany: Rüdiger Borchardt, Jens Fiedler, Mike Fuhrig, Matthias Hahn, Stephan Hauck, Peter Hofmann, Bernd Metzke, Andreas Neitzel, Peter Pysall, Wieland Schmidt, Holger Schneider, Frank-Michael Wahl, Holger Winselmann
8.  Iceland: Kristján Arason, Alfreð Gíslason, Guðmundur Guðmundsson, Sigurður Gunnarsson, Atli Hilmarsson, Guðmundur Hrafnkelsson, Brynjar Kvaran, Þorgils Mathiesen, Páll Ólafsson, Bjarki Sigurðsson, Jakob Sigurðsson, Geir Sveinsson, Sigurður Sveinsson, Einar Þorvarðarson, Karl Þráinsson
9.  Spain: Juan Javier Cabanas, Juan de la Puente, Jesús Ángel Fernández, Jaume Fort, Jesús Gómez, Ricardo Marín, Juan Francisco Muñoz, Jaime Puig, Javier Reino, Lorenzo Rico, Julián Ruiz, Joan Sagalés, Eugenio Serrano, Juan José Uría, Miguel Ángel Zúñiga
10.  Algeria: Makhlouf Ait Hocine, Omar Azeb, Benali Beghouach, Abdeslam Benmaghsoula, Mahmoud Bouanik, Salah Bouchekriou, Abdelhak Bouhalissa, Brahim Boudrali, Mourad Boussebt, Ahcene Djeffal, Alousofiane Draouci, Fethnour Lacheheb, Zine Eddine Seghir Mohamed, Kamel Ouchia
11.  Japan: Izumi Fujii, Yukihiro Hashimoto, Hidetada Ito, Kazuhiro Miyashita, Yoshihiko Nikawadori, Kiyoshi Nishiyama, Shinji Okuda, Shinichi Shudo, Koji Tachiki, Takashi Taguchi, Seiichi Takamura, Kenji Tamamura, Kodo Yamamoto, Toshiyuki Yamamura, Hiroshi Yanai
12.  United States: James Buehning, Scott Driggers, Craig Fitschen, Steven Goss, Bob Hillary, Boyd Janny, Bryant Johnson, William Kessler, Stephen Kirk, Peter Lash, Joseph McVein, Rod Oshita, Joe Story, Mike Sullivan (handballer), Brian Bennett

Women's Tournament

Preliminary Round

Group A

Group B

Final Round

5th - 8th

1st - 4th

Team Rosters

Summary

Participating nations

Each qualified country was allowed to enter one team of 15 players and they all were eligible for participation. Five nations competed in both tournaments.

A total of 282(*) handball players (171 men and 111 women) from 15 nations (men from 12 nations - women from 8 nations) competed at the Seoul Games:

• Algeria (14) (men:14 women:0)
• China (12) (men:0 women:12)
• Côte d'Ivoire (14) (men:0 women:14)
• Czechoslovakia (29) (men:14 women:15)
• East Germany (13) (men:13 women:0)
• Hungary (14) (men:14 women:0)
• Iceland (15) (men:15 women:0)
• Japan (15) (men:15 women:0)
• Norway (15) (men:0 women:15)
• South Korea (26) (men:14 women:12)
• Soviet Union (29) (men:14 women:15)
• Spain (15) (men:15 women:0)
• Sweden (14) (men:14 women:0)
• United States (28) (men:14 women:14)
• Yugoslavia (29) (men:15 women:14)

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

Medal table

References

• Official Olympic Report