Handball at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Handball at the
1988 Summer Olympics
Tournament details
Host country	South Korea
Venue(s)	Olympic Gymnastics Arena; Suwon Gymnasium
Dates	20 September – 1 October 1988
Teams	20
Final positions
Champions	Soviet Union (men); South Korea (women)
Runner-up	South Korea (men); Norway (women)
Third place	Yugoslavia (men); Soviet Union (women)
Fourth place	Hungary (men); Yugoslavia (women)
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Final results for the

Handball competition at the 1988 Summer Olympics.^[1]

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	Mikhail Vasilev	South Korea (KOR) Choi Suk-jae Kang Jae-won Kim Jae-hwan Koh Suk-chang Lee Sang-hyo Lim Jin-suk Noh Hyun-suk Oh Young-ki Park Do-hun Park Young-dae Shim Jae-hong Shin Young-suk Yoon Tae-il	Momir Rnić Zlatko Saračević Irfan Smajlagić Ermin Velić Veselin Vujović
Women details	Shon Mi-Na Song Ji-hyun Suk Min-hee Sung Kyung-hwa	Norway (NOR) Kjerstin Andersen Berit Digre Marte Eliasson Susann Goksør Trine Haltvik Hanne Hegh Hanne Hogness Vibeke Johnsen Kristin Midthun Karin Pettersen Karin Singstad Annette Skotvoll Ingrid Steen Heidi Sundal Cathrine Svendsen	Maryna Bazhanova Tatyana Dzhandzhgava Elina Guseva Tetyana Horb Larysa Karlova Natalya Lapitskaya Svitlana Mankova Nataliya Matryuk Natalya Morskova Olena Nemashkalo Nataliya Rusnachenko Olha Semenova Yevheniya Tovstohan Zinaida Turchyna

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: