Handball at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Appearance
Tournament details | |
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Host country | United States |
Venue(s) | Titan Gym |
Dates | 31 July – 11 August 1984 |
Teams | 18 |
Final positions | |
Champions | Yugoslavia (men) Yugoslavia (women) |
Runner-up | West Germany (men) South Korea (women) |
Third place | Romania (men) China (women) |
Fourth place | Denmark (men) West Germany (women) |
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.[1]
Medal 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
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
2 | South Korea (KOR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
West Germany (FRG) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
4 | China (CHN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Romania (ROU) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (5 entries) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
See also
References
- ^ "Handball at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 20 March 2020.