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.
Video Handball at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Men's tournament
Medal summary
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.
Group A
Group B
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
Summary
Maps Handball at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Women's tournament
Medal summary
Results
Summary
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.
Medal table
See also
- Handball at the Friendship Games
References
- Official Olympic Report
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