Handball at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Handball at the
1980 Summer Olympics
Tournament details
Host country	Soviet Union
Venue(s)	2 (in 1 host city)
Dates	20–30 July 1980
Teams	18
Final positions
Champions	East Germany (men); Soviet Union (women)
Runner-up	Soviet Union (men); Yugoslavia (women)
Third place	Romania (men); East Germany (women)
Fourth place	Hungary (men); Hungary (women)
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Sokolniki Sports Palace (central part of Moscow) and in the Dynamo Sports Palace at Khimki-Khovrino (north-eastern part of Moscow). The schedule began on July 20 and ended on July 30.^[1]

100,493 spectators watched 51 matches of handball events at venues, mentioned above.

RIAN

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RIAN

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Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	Peter Rost Dietmar Schmidt Wieland Schmidt Siegfried Voigt Frank-Michael Wahl Ingolf Wiegert	Vladimir Repev Mykola Tomyn Aleksey Zhuk	Nicolae Munteanu Vasile Stîngă Lucian Vasilache Neculai Vasilcă Radu Voina Maricel Voinea
Women details	Lyudmila Poradnyk Yuliya Safina Larisa Savkina Sigita Strečen Nataliya Tymoshkina Zinaida Turchyna Olha Zubaryeva Natalya Lukyanenko	Vesna Milosević Mirjana Ognjenović Vesna Radović Radmila Savić Ana Titlić Biserka Višnjić Zorica Vojinović	East Germany (GDR) Birgit Heinecke Roswitha Krause Waltraud Kretzschmar Katrin Krüger Kornelia Kunisch Evelyn Matz Kristina Richter Christina Rost Sabine Röther Renate Rudolph Marion Tietz Petra Uhlig Claudia Wunderlich Hannelore Zober

Participating nations

Each qualified country was allowed to enter one team of 14 players and they all were eligible for participation. Four nations competed in both tournaments.

A total of 248(*) handball players (166 men and 82 women) from 14 nations (men from 12 nations - women from 6 nations) competed at the Moscow Games:

Algeria (14) (men:14 women:0)
Republic of the Congo (14) (men:0 women:14)
Cuba (13) (men:13 women:0)
Czechoslovakia (13) (men:0 women:13)
Denmark (14) (men:14 women:0)
East Germany (28) (men:14 women:14)
Hungary (28) (men:14 women:14)
Kuwait (14) (men:14 women:0)
Poland (14) (men:14 women:0)
Romania (14) (men:14 women:0)
Soviet Union (27) (men:14 women:14)
Spain (13) (men:13 women:0)
Switzerland (14) (men:14 women:0)
Yugoslavia (28) (men:14 women:14)

(*) 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)	1	1	0	2
2	East Germany (GDR)	1	0	1	2
3	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	1	0	1
4	Romania (ROU)	0	0	1	1
Totals (4 entries)		2	2	2	6

Remark:country names are not given in the form they were used in the official documents of the

IOC

in 1980.

Literature

Гандбол [Handball] (in Russian). Moskau: ФИЗКУЛЬТУРА И СПОРТ. 1980. (Program magazine)

References

^ "Handball at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 19 March 2020.

External links

Official Olympic Report

[SR-1] "Handball at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 19 March 2020.

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