# Handball at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Handball at the 1980 Summer Olympics was represented by 2 events - a men's and a women's team competitions. They were held in two venues: in the 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. 100,493 spectators watched 51 matches of handball events at venues, mentioned above.

## Medal summary

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men details | East Germany (GDR)Hans-Georg Beyer Lothar Doering Günter Dreibrodt Ernst Gerlach Klaus Gruner Rainer Höft Hans-Georg Jaunich Hartmut Krüger Peter Rost Dietmar Schmidt Wieland Schmidt Siegfried Voigt Frank-Michael Wahl Ingolf Wiegert | Soviet Union (URS)Aleksandr Anpilogov Vladimir Belov Yevgeni Chernyshov Anatoli Fedyukin Mykhaylo Ishchenko Aleksandr Karshakevich Yury Kidyayev Vladimir Kravtsov Serhiy Kushniryuk Viktor Makhorin Voldemaras Novickis Vladimir Repev Mykola Tomyn Aleksey Zhuk | Romania (ROU)Ştefan Birtalan Iosif Boroş Adrian Cosma Cezar Drăgăniṭă Marian Dumitru Cornel Durău Alexandru Fölker Claudiu Ionescu Nicolae Munteanu Vasile Stîngă Lucian Vasilache Neculai Vasilcă Radu Voina Maricel Voinea |
| Women details | Soviet Union (URS)Larysa Karlova Tetyana Kocherhina Valentyna Lutayeva Aldona Nenėnienė Lyubov Odynokova Iryna Palchykova Lyudmila Poradnyk Yuliya Safina Larisa Savkina Sigita Strečen Nataliya Tymoshkina Zinaida Turchyna Olha Zubaryeva Natalya Lukyanenko | Yugoslavia (YUG)Svetlana Anastasovska Mirjana Đurica Radmila Drljača Katica Ileš Slavica Jeremić Svetlana Kitić Jasna Merdan 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) | 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)