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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men | women | |
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]
Qualification | Date | Host | Vacancies | Qualified |
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Host nation | 18 May 1978 | Athens | 1 | United States |
1982 World Championship | 23 February – 7 March 1982 | West Germany | 6 | Yugoslavia Denmark Romania West Germany Spain Japan |
1983 World Championship B | 25 February – 6 March 1983 | Netherlands | Sweden Switzerland Iceland 2 | |
Asian qualification tournament | 12–20 November 1983 | Sagamihara | 1 | South Korea |
1983 Pan American Men's Handball Championship | 2–6 February 1972 | Colorado Springs | ||
1983 African Men's Handball Championship | 22–31 July 1983 | Cairo | 1 | Algeria |
Total | 12 |
Qualification | Date | Host | Vacancies | Qualified |
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Host nation | 18 May 1978 | Athens | 1 | United States |
1982 World Championship | 2–12 December 1982 | Hungary | South Korea | |
Intercontinental Olympic Qualification | - | - | 1 | China 3 |
1983 World Championship B | 7–15 December 1983 | Poland | West Germany Austria | |
Total | 6 |
1:Teams joined Soviet lead boycott
2: Canada was invited to replace Cuba, but rejected the invitation, because COA supposed the team is not good enough. Then, IHF invited Iceland. [2]
3: Brazil and Canada withdraw. So China qualified without play. [3]
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:
(*) NOTE: There are only players counted, which participated in one game at least.
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 |
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