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Handball at the 1980 Summer Olympics

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tourney_nameHandball at the
1980 Summer Olympics
countrySoviet Union
dates20–30 July 1980
image[[Image:Handball pictogram.svg120px]]
cities1
venues2
num_teams18
champion_other(men)
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second_other(men)
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previousHandball at the 1976 Summer Olympics
nextHandball at the 1984 Summer Olympics

1980 Summer Olympics  (women)  (women)  (women)  (women) 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

Women
URSLarysa 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 LukyanenkoYUGSvetlana 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 VojinovićGDRBirgit 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:

  • ALG (men:14 women:0)
  • CGO (men:0 women:14)
  • CUB (men:13 women:0)
  • TCH (men:0 women:13)
  • DEN (men:14 women:0)
  • GDR (men:14 women:14)
  • HUN (men:14 women:14)
  • KUW (men:14 women:0)
  • POL (men:14 women:0)
  • ROU (men:14 women:0)
  • URS (men:14 women:14)
  • ESP (men:13 women:0)
  • SUI (men:14 women:0)
  • YUG (men:14 women:14) () NOTE: There are only players counted, which participated in one game at least.*

Medal table

Remark:country names are not given in the form they were used in the official documents of the IOC in 1980.

Literature

  • (Program magazine)

References

References

  1. "Handball at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games". Sports Reference.
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