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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 an opportunity to the Yugoslav team to take both gold medals. Games were played at Titan Gym in Fullerton, California.

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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.

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

    • 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.

    References

    Handball at the 1984 Summer Olympics Wikipedia
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