Handball at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament explained

Tourney Name:	1984 Men's Olympic handball tournament
Country:	United States
Dates:	July 31 – August 11
Num Teams:	12
Venues:	1
Cities:	1
Count:	2
Matches:	36
Goals:	1502
Top Scorer:	Björn Jilsén (50 goals)
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The men's tournament was one of two handball tournaments at the 1984 Summer Olympics. It was the fifth appearance of a men's handball tournament as a medal event at the Olympic Games.^[1]

Results

Preliminary round

Teams in two groups played each other in a round to decide, for which place each of them should compete in the Final Round.

Group A

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
1.		5	4	1	0	123	76	9		X	19:18	22:22	25:11	32:15	25:10
2.		5	4	0	1	120	91	8		18:19	X	26:17	23:17	28:22	25:16
3.		5	3	1	1	102	96	7		22:22	17:26	X	23:16	21:17	19:15
4.		5	2	0	3	83	102	4		11:25	17:23	16:23	X	20:13	19:18
5.		5	1	0	4	84	117	2		15:32	22:28	17:21	13:20	X	17:16
6.		5	0	0	5	75	105	0		10:25	16:25	15:19	18:19	16:17	X

Group B

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
1.		5	5	0	0	114	95	10		X	20:18	18:17	18:16	21:19	37:25
2.		5	4	0	1	115	99	8		18:20	X	26:19	21:16	19:16	31:28
3.		5	3	0	2	119	110	6		17:18	19:26	X	26:25	21:18	36:23
4.		5	2	0	3	105	106	4		16:18	16:21	25:26	X	17:16	31:25
5.		5	0	1	4	91	100	1		19:21	16:19	18:21	16:17	X	22:22
6.		5	0	1	4	123	157	1		25:37	28:31	23:36	25:31	22:22	X

Final Round

• 1st-placed teams from each group competed for the 1st place in this round;
• 2nd-placed - competed for the 3rd place
• 3rd-placed - competed for the 5th place
• 4th-placed - competed for the 7th place
• 5th-placed - competed for the 9th place
• 6th-placed - competed for the 11th place

All matches were held on 10 August.

11th place match

• South Korea 25-21 Algeria

9th place match

• United States 24-16 Japan

7th place match

• Switzerland 18-17 Spain

5th place match

• Sweden 26-24 Iceland

3rd place match

• Romania 23-19 Denmark

1st place match

• Yugoslavia 18-17 West Germany

Summary

Place	Nation
1
	Coach: Branislav Pokrajac Zlatan Arnautović (Borac Banja Luka) Mirko Bašić (Metaloplastika Šabac) Jovica Elezović (Proleter Zrenjanin) Mile Isaković (Metaloplastika Šabac) Pavle Jurina (Partizan Bjelovar) Milan Kalina (Crvena zvezda Beograd) Slobodan Kuzmanovski (Metaloplastika Šabac) Dragan Mladenović (Železničar Niš) Zdravko Rađenović (Schwabing/FRG) Momir Rnić (Proleter Zrenjanin) Branko Štrbac (Crvena zvezda Beograd) Veselin Vujović (Metaloplastika Šabac) Veselin Vuković (Metaloplastika Šabac) Zdravko Zovko (Medveščak-Infosistem) Rolando Pušnik (RK Crvenka)
2
	13 Jochen Fraatz Thomas Happe Arnulf Meffle Rüdiger Neitzel 6 Michael Paul Dirk Rauin Siegfried Roch Michael Roth Ulrich Roth 4 Martin Schwalb Uwe Schwenker 10 Thomas Springel 1 Andreas Thiel 12 Klaus Wöller Erhard Wunderlich
3
	Coach: Radu Voina Mircea Bedivan Dumitru Berbece Iosif Boroş Alexandru Buligan Gheorghe Covaciu Gheorghe Dogărescu Marian Dumitru Cornel Durău Alexandru Fölker Nicolae Munteanu Vasile Oprea Adrian Simion Vasile Stîngă Neculai Vasilcă Maricel Voinea
4	Morten Stig Christensen Anders Dahl-Nielsen Michael Fenger Jørgen Gluver Hans Henrik Hattesen Carsten Haurum Klaus Jensen Mogens Jeppesen Keld Nielsen Erik Veje Rasmussen Jens Erik Roepstorff Per Skaarup Poul Sørensen Mikael Strøm
5	Göran Bengtsson Per Carlén Lennart Ebbinge Lars-Erik Hansson Claes Hellgren Rolf Hertzberg Björn Jilsén Pär Jilsén Mats Lindau Christer Magnusson Per Öberg Peter Olofsson Mats Olsson Sten Sjögren Danny Sjöberg-Augustsson
6	Þorbergur Aðalsteinsson Kristján Arason Steinar Birgisson Jens Einarsson Alfreð Gíslason Bjarni Guðmundsson Guðmundur Guðmundsson Sigurður Gunnarsson Atli Hilmarsson Þorbjörn Jensson Brynjar Kvaran Þorgils Mathiesen Jakob Sigurðsson Sigurður Sveinsson Einar Þorvarðarson
7	Jürgen Bätschmann René Barth Markus Braun Max Delhees Roland Gassmann Martin Glaser Peter Hürlimann Peter Jehle Heinz Karrer Uwe Mall Martin Ott Norwin Platzer Martin Rubin Max Schär Peter Weber
8	Cecilio Alonso Juan Javier Cabanas Juan de la Puente Juan Pedro de Miguel Pedro García Rafael López Agustín Millán Juan Francisco Muñoz José Ignacio Novoa Jaime Puig Javier Reino Lorenzo Rico Julián Ruiz Eugenio Serrano Juan José Uría
9	Coach: Javier Garcia James Buehning Robert Djokcvich Tim Dykstra Craig Gilbert Steven Goss William Kessler Stephen Kirk Peter Lash Michael Lenard Joseph McVein Gregory Morava Rod Oshita Thomas Schneeberger Joe Story Tim Funk
10	Seimei Gamo Takashi Ikenoue Yasou Ikona Hidetada Ito Koji Matsui Mitsuaki Nakamoto Kiyoshi Nishiyama Takahiro Ohata Nobuo Sasaki Kenzo Seki Yoshihiro Shiga Katsutoshi Taguchi Seiichi Takamura Yukihiko Uemura Shinji Yamamoto
11	An Jin-su Choi Geun-nyeon Choi Tae-seop Hwang Yak-na Gang Deok-su Gang Jae-won Gang Tae-gu Go Seok-chang Lee Gwang-nam Lee Sang-hyo Im Gyu-ha Im Yeong-cheol Park Byeong-hong Park Yeong-dae Sim Jeong-man
12	Omar Azeb Djaffar Bel Hocine Abdelkrim Bendjemil Abdel Salem Ben Magh Soula Brahim Boudrali Mourad Boussebt Mustapha Doballah Abu Sofiane Draouci Hocine Ledra Kamel Maoudj Mouloud Meknache Zineddine Mohamed Seghir Rachid Mokrani Kamel Ouchia Azzedine Ouhib

Notes and References

1. Web site: Men's Handball at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games. November 2, 2023. Olympedia.