# Handball at the Friendship Games

Handball at the Friendship Games is the handball tournament organized for the 1984 Summer Olympics boycotting countries. Given that the Eastern Bloc countries and allies were at that time amongst the most competitive teams the tournament's level was rather high.
It was contested in two events. Men's event took place in Rostock and Magdeburg, East Germany between 17 and 21 July 1984, with eight teams competing. The women's event was contested at Hala na Sihoti in Trenčín, Czechoslovakia between 21 and 25 August 1984, with six teams competing.

## Men's event

Eight teams were drawn into two groups.
The host nation, East Germany, had two teams in the tournament. However, the East Germany "B" team competed "off competition". Despite ending the tournament on the sixth place, this result was not included in the final rankings. The seventh team (i. e. Czechoslovakia) was instead counted as the sixth place team, etc.

### Group phase
#### Group A

All matches played in Magdeburg.
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Points |
| Soviet Union | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 69 | 53 | +16 | 6 |
| Hungary | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 72 | 66 | +6 | 4 |
| East Germany B | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 63 | 71 | -8 | 2 |
| Czechoslovakia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 57 | 71 | -14 | 0 |
| Results | | | B | |
| Soviet Union | | 28:20 | 24:17 | 17:16 |
| Hungary | 20:28 | | 26:18 | 26:20 |
| East Germany B | 17:24 | 18:26 | | 28:21 |
| Czechoslovakia | 16:17 | 20:26 | 21:28 | |

#### Group B

All matches played in Rostock.
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Points |
| East Germany A | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 88 | 56 | +32 | 6 |
| Poland | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 80 | 69 | +11 | 4 |
| Bulgaria | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 61 | 78 | -17 | 2 |
| Cuba | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 70 | 96 | -26 | 0 |
| Results | A | | | |
| East Germany A | | 24:20 | 29:16 | 35:20 |
| Poland | 20:24 | | 26:18 | 34:27 |
| Bulgaria | 16:29 | 18:26 | | 27:23 |
| Cuba | 20:35 | 27:34 | 23:27 | |

### Final round
#### Final

| Date | Location | Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| 21.07.1984 | Magdeburg | East Germany A | 18-17 (6-8) | Soviet Union |
* East Germany A: Wieland Schmidt, Peter Hofmann — Günter Dreibrodt 6, Peter Rost, Udo Rothe 2/1, Holger Winselmann, Ingolf Wiegert 1, Frank-Michael Wahl 4, Stephan Hauck 3, Dietmar Schmidt, Hartmut Krüger 2, Peter Pysall
* Soviet Union: Aleksandr Shypenko, Mikhail Ishchenko — Oleg Gagin 1, Vladimir Belov 1, Mikhail Vasilyev 4, Yuri Shevtsov 2, Sergey Kushniryuk 2, Yuri Kidyaev 2, Aleksandr Rymanov 2, Aleksandr Karshakevich 1, Aleksandr Anpilogov 2/2, Voldemaras Novickis.
* Score: 3-6 (20'), 5-8 (20'), 6-8 (half-time) ; 11-10 (42'), 16-14 (52'), 17-14 (53'), 17-16 (56'), 18-16 (57'), 18-17 (58'), 18-17 (end of the game).

#### 3rd / 4th place

| Date | Location | Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| 21.07.1984 | Magdeburg | Hungary | 21-22 (aOT, 18-18, 12-9) | Poland |

#### 5th / 6th place

| Date | Location | Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| 21.07.1984 | Schwerin | East Germany B | 22-25 (11-12) | Bulgaria |

#### 7th / 8th place

| Date | Location | Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| 21.07.1984 | Schwerin | Czechoslovakia | 32-20 (16-11) | Cuba |

### Final ranking

| | East Germany A |
| | Soviet Union |
| | Poland |
| 4 | Hungary |
| 5 | Bulgaria |
| 6 | Czechoslovakia |
| 7 | Cuba |
| – | East Germany B* |
* – East Germany B competed "off competition" and was not included in the final ranking table.

### Top scorer

Top scorers are:
* Péter Kovács (HUN) – 26 goals
* Andreas Nagora [de] (DDR B) - 25 goals
* Daniel Waszkiewicz (POL) – 22 goals
* Roberto Casuso (CUB) – 21 goals
* János Gyurka (HUN) – 21 goals
* Ingolf Wiegert (DDR) – 20 goals
* Yuri Kidyaev (URS) – 16 goals

## Women's event

Six teams competed in a round-robin tournament.
| | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Points |
| | Soviet Union | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 129 | 93 | +36 | 10 |
| | Czechoslovakia | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 96 | 99 | –3 | 7 |
| | East Germany | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 101 | 95 | +6 | 5 |
| 4 | Hungary | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 96 | 97 | –1 | 3 |
| 5 | Poland | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 100 | 121 | –21 | 3 |
| 6 | Bulgaria | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 95 | 112 | –17 | 2 |

### Results

| Results | | | | | | |
| Soviet Union | | 24:15 | 24:21 | 22:20 | 31:16 | 28:21 |
| Czechoslovakia | 15:24 | | 15:15 | 20:19 | 20:18 | 26:23 |
| East Germany | 21:24 | 15:15 | | 16:22 | 27:21 | 22:13 |
| Hungary | 20:22 | 19:20 | 22:16 | | 22:22 | 13:17 |
| Poland | 16:31 | 18:20 | 21:27 | 22:22 | | 23:21 |
| Bulgaria | 21:28 | 23:26 | 13:22 | 17:13 | 21:23 | |

## Winning teams' squads

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's | East Germany A Heiko Bonath Rüdiger Borchardt Günter Dreibrodt Lutz Grosser Stephan Hauck Peter Hofmann Hartmut Krüger Peter Pysall Peter Rost Udo Rothe Dietmar Schmidt Wieland Schmidt Dirk Schnell Frank-Michael Wahl Ingolf Wiegert Holger Winselmann | Soviet Union Aleksandr Anpilogov Leonid Berenstein Vladimir Belov Oleg Gagin Mykhaylo Ishchenko Aleksandr Karshakevich Yuri Kidyaev Serhiy Kushniryuk Ivan Levin Voldemaras Novickis Aleksandr Rymanov Yuri Shevtsov Aleksandr Shypenko Raimondas Valuckas [de] Mikhail Vasilev Mykola Zhukov | Poland Ryszard Antczak Lesław Dziuba Jerzy Garpiel Zbigniew Gawlik Andrzej Kącki Grzegorz Kosma Andrzej Mientus Henryk Mrowiec Marek Pazdur Zbigniew Plechoć Andrzej Szymczak Andrzej Tłuczyński Zbigniew Tłuczyński Zbigniew Urbanowicz Daniel Waszkiewicz Bogdan Wenta |
| Women's | Soviet Union Asmira Aksierova Maryna Bazhanova Tatyana Shalimova Olga Dyedusienko Tetyana Horb Natalya Guskova Larysa Karlova Svitlana Mankova Nataliya Matryuk Lyubov Odynokova Tamila Oleksiuk Irina Popova [fr] Yuliya Safina Sigita Strečen Zinaida Turchyna Olha Zubaryeva | Czechoslovakia Mária Beňová Mária Borošová Mária Chlpeková Štefánia Čorbová Alena Damitšová Mária Ďurišinová Erika Gombošová Anna Hradská Jaroslava Ivančíková Marta Jurišičová Božena Mažgútová Blažena Novosadová Marta Pösová Bibiána Ščerbáková Jana Stašová Daniela Trandžíková | East Germany Britta Franke Cornelia Franz Ramona Grobman Evelyn Hübscher Liane Kämpf Katrin Krüger Kornelia Kunisch Annegret Matthäus Annett Partusch Sabina Picken Kerstin Rast Kerstin Schmidt Marion Schulz Andrea Stolletz Sybille Wagner Claudia Wunderlich |

## Medal table

* Host nation (East Germany)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Soviet Union (URS) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | East Germany (GDR)* | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | Czechoslovakia (TCH)* | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Poland (POL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (4 entries) | Totals (4 entries) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |