Ice hockey at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Ice hockey
at the XIV Olympic Winter Games
VenueOlympic Hall Zetra
Medalists
 
 
 

At the 1984 Winter Olympics held in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, one ice hockey event was held: men's ice hockey. Most of the games were held at the Olympic Hall Zetra and some of the games in Skenderija II olympic hall.

Medalists

Gold: Silver: Bronze:
 Soviet Union (URS)
Vladislav Tretyak
Zinetula Biljaletdinov
Sergei Chepelev
Nikolai Drozdetski
Viacheslav Fetisov
Aleksandr Gerasimov
Alexei Kasatonov
Andrei Komutov
Vladimir Kovin
Aleksandr Kozhevnikov
Vladimir Krutov
Igor Larionov
Sergei Makarov
Vladimir Myshkin
Vasili Pervukhine
Aleksandr Skvortsov
Sergei Starikov
Igor Stelnov
Viktor Tumenev
Mikhail Vasiliev
 Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Milan Chalupa
Jaroslav Benák
Vladimír Caldr
František Černík
Miloslav Hořava
Jiří Hrdina
Arnold Kadlec
Jaroslav Korbela
Jiří Králík
Vladimír Kýhos
Jiří Lála
Igor Liba
Vincent Lukáč
Dušan Pašek
Pavel Richter
Darius Rusnák
Vladimír Růžička
Jaromír Šindel
Radoslav Svoboda
Eduard Uvíra
 Sweden (SWE)
Thomas Aahlen
Per-Eric Eklund
Thomas Eklund
Bo Ericsson
Håkan Eriksson
Peter Gradin
Mats Hessel
Peter Michael Hjälm
Göran Lindblom
Tommy Mörth
Leif Haakan Nordin
Rolf Riddervall
Jens Öhling
Thomas Rundqvist
Tomas Sandström
Karl Haakan Södergren
Mats Thelin
Michael Thelvén
Mats Waltin
Göte Wälitalo

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Qualification

The final standings of the 1983 championships were used to establish qualification. All pool 'A' teams were included however the German Democratic Republic declined to send a team. The host Yugoslavians as well as the top pool 'B' teams were added. A play-off between the fourth placed pool 'B' team and the pool 'C' champion was used to determine the final place at the Olympics.

9 April 1983 Norway  4 – 4
 Netherlands West Germany
10 April 1983 Norway  10 – 2
 Netherlands West Germany

The Norwegian team proceeded to compete at the Olympics.

First round

Group A

Top two teams (shaded ones) advanced to the medal round.

Team GP W L T GF GA Pts
 Soviet Union 550042510
 Sweden 531134157
 West Germany 531127177
 Poland 514016372
 Italy 514015312
 Yugoslavia 51408372
7 February 1984 Sweden  11 – 3
(2-1, 3-2, 6-0)
 Italy
7 February 1984 Soviet Union  12 – 1
(3-1, 4-0, 5-0)
 Poland
7 February 1984 West Germany  8 – 1
(1-1, 4-0, 3-0)
 Yugoslavia
9 February 1984 Soviet Union  5 – 1
(4-0, 1-1, 0-0)
 Italy
9 February 1984 Poland  5 – 8
(2-2, 1-3, 2-3)
 West Germany
9 February 1984 Yugoslavia  0 – 11
(0-4, 0-1, 0-6)
 Sweden
11 February 1984 Yugoslavia  1 – 9
(0-4, 1-1, 0-4)
 Soviet Union
11 February 1984 Italy  6 – 1
(0-1, 4-0, 2-0)
 Poland
11 February 1984 West Germany  1 – 1
(1-0, 0-0, 0-1)
 Sweden
13 February 1984 West Germany  1 – 6
(1-4, 0-2, 0-0)
 Soviet Union
13 February 1984 Sweden  10 – 1
(2-1, 7-0, 1-0)
 Poland
13 February 1984 Yugoslavia  5 – 1
(0-0, 2-1, 3-0)
 Italy
15 February 1984 Soviet Union  10 – 1
(5-0, 4-0, 1-1)
 Sweden
15 February 1984 Yugoslavia  1 – 8
(1-2, 0-3, 0-3)
 Poland
15 February 1984 West Germany  9 – 4
(1-0, 5-1, 3-3)
 Italy

Group B

Top two teams (shaded ones) advanced to the medal round.

Team GP W L T GF GA Pts
 Czechoslovakia 550038710
 Canada 541024108
 Finland 522127195
 United States 512216174
 Austria 514013372
 Norway 504115431
7 February 1984 United States  2 – 4
(1-2, 1-1, 0-1)
 Canada
7 February 1984 Austria  3 – 4
(0-1, 1-2, 2-1)
 Finland
7 February 1984 Czechoslovakia  10 – 4
(2-0, 5-2, 3-2)
 Norway
9 February 1984 Canada  8 – 1
(2-0, 4-0, 2-1)
 Austria
9 February 1984 Czechoslovakia  4 – 1
(2-1, 1-0, 1-0)
 United States
9 February 1984 Finland  16 – 2
(5-0, 6-1, 5-1)
 Norway
11 February 1984 Austria  0 – 13
(0-0, 0-6, 0-7)
 Czechoslovakia
11 February 1984 Norway  3 – 3
(1-2, 1-0, 1-1)
 United States
11 February 1984 Canada  4 – 2
(1-0, 0-2, 3-0)
 Finland
13 February 1984 Canada  8 – 1
(2-0, 3-0, 3-1)
 Norway
13 February 1984 Finland  2 – 7
(1-4, 1-1, 0-2)
 Czechoslovakia
13 February 1984 United States  7 – 3
(2-1, 0-1, 5-1)
 Austria
15 February 1984 Czechoslovakia  4 – 0
(1-0, 1-0, 2-0)
 Canada
15 February 1984 Finland  3 – 3
(1-0, 1-2, 1-1)
 United States
15 February 1984 Norway  5 – 6
(1-4, 3-2, 1-0)
 Austria

Final round

The top two teams from each group play the top two teams from the other group once. Points from previous games against their own group carry over, excluding teams who failed to make the medal round. First place team wins gold, second silver and third bronze.

Team GP W L T GF GA Pts
 Soviet Union 33001616
 Czechoslovakia 3210624
 Sweden 31203122
 Canada 30300100

The two carried over group matches were

15 February 1984 Soviet Union  10 – 1
(5-0, 4-0, 1-1)
 Sweden
15 February 1984 Czechoslovakia  4 – 0
(1-0, 1-0, 2-0)
 Canada

The remaining games were

17 February 1984 Soviet Union  4 – 0
(0-0, 2-0, 2-0)
 Canada
17 February 1984 Czechoslovakia  2 – 0
(0-0, 0-0, 2-0)
 Sweden
19 February 1984 Sweden  2 – 0
(0-0, 1-0, 1-0)
 Canada
19 February 1984 Soviet Union  2 – 0
(1-0, 1-0, 0-0)
 Czechoslovakia

Classification round

Those countries that finished 3rd and 4th in their groups then played a further game to define their classification

5th place game

17 February 1984 West Germany  7 – 2
(1-2, 1-2, 5-0)
 Finland

7th place game

17 February 1984 United States  7 – 4
(2-2, 4-2, 1-0)
 Poland

Leading scorers

Rk Player GP G A Pts
1 Germany Erich Kuhnhackl 68614
2 Sweden Peter Gradin 69413
3 Soviet Union Nikolai Drozdetsky 710212
4 Finland Raimo Summanen 64711
4 Czech Republic Darius Rusnak 74711
6 Soviet Union Viacheslav Fetisov 73811
6 Finland Petri Skriko 66410
8 Czech Republic Vladimir Ruzicka 74610
8 Czech Republic Jiri Hrdina 74610
10 Czech Republic Vincent Lukac 7459

Final ranking

  1.  Soviet Union
  2.  Czechoslovakia
  3.  Sweden
  4.  Canada
  5.  West Germany
  6.  Finland
  7.  United States
  8.  Poland
  9.  Italy
  10.  Austria
  11.  Yugoslavia
  12.  Norway

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