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Handball at the 1976 Summer Olympics

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FieldValue
tourney_nameHandball at the
1976 Summer Olympics
image[[Image:Handball pictogram.svg120px]]
captionHandball pictogram
countryCanada
dates18–28 July 1976
num_teams18
champion_other(men)
(women)
second_other(men)
(women)
third_other(men)
(women)
fourth_other(men)
(women)
previousHandball at the 1972 Summer Olympics
nextHandball at the 1980 Summer Olympics

1976 Summer Olympics  (women)  (women)  (women)  (women) Team handball at the 1976 Summer Olympics featured competition for men and women. It was the first time women's handball was a part of the Olympics.

Medal summary

Women
URS Lyubov Berezhnaya
Lyudmyla Bobrus
Aldona Česaitytė
Tetyana Hlushchenko
Larysa Karlova
Mariya Litoshenko
Nina Lobova
Tetyana Makarets
Lyudmyla Panchuk
Rafiga Shabanova
Nataliya Sherstyuk
Lyudmila Shubina
Zinaida Turchyna
Halyna ZakharovaGDR Gabriele Badorek
Hannelore Burosch
Roswitha Krause
Waltraud Kretzschmar
Evelyn Matz
Liane Michaelis
Eva Paskuy
Kristina Richter
Christina Rost
Silvia Siefert
Marion Tietz
Petra Uhlig
Christina Voß
Hannelore ZoberHUN Éva Angyal
Mária Berzsenyi
Ágota Bujdosó
Klára Csíkné
Zsuzsanna Kéziné
Katalin Lakiné
Rozália Lelkesné
Márta Megyeriné
Ilona Nagy
Marianna Nagy
Erzsébet Németh
Amália Sterbinszky
Borbála Tóth Harsányi
Mária Vadászné

Participating nations

Each qualified country was allowed to enter one team of 14 players and they all were eligible for participation. Five nations competed in both tournaments. Japan entered only a squad of twelve women and twelve men. Only four male reserve players did not participate (one from Denmark, two from Hungary, and one from Czechoslovakia).

A total of 230*() handball players (148 men and 82 women) from 12 nations (men from 11 nations – women from 6 nations) competed at the Montreal Games:

  • CAN (men:14 women:14)
  • TCH (men:13 women:0)
  • DEN (men:13 women:0)
  • GDR (men:0 women:14)
  • FRG (men:14 women:0)
  • HUN (men:12 women:14)
  • JPN (men:12 women:12)
  • POL (men:14 women:0)
  • ROU (men:14 women:14)
  • URS (men:14 women:14)
  • USA (men:14 women:0)
  • YUG (men:14 women:0) () NOTE: There are only players counted, which participated in one game at least.*

Medal table

References

References

  1. "Handball at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games". Sports Reference.
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