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Handball at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held from 20 to 30 July 1980 at the Sokolniki Sports Palace and the Dynamo Sports Palace.

Medal Table[]

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Soviet Union Soviet Union 1 1 0 2
2 East Germany East Germany 1 0 1 2
3 Yugoslavia Yugoslavia 0 1 0 1
4 Romania Romania 0 0 1 1

Medalists[]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men East Germany East Germany
Hans-Georg Beyer
Lothar Doering
Gunter Dreibrodt
Ernst Gerlach
Klaus Gruner
Rainer Hoft
Hans-Georg Jaunich
Hartmut Kruger
Peter Rost
Dietmar Schmidt
Wieland Schmidt
Siegfried Voigt
Frank-Michael Wahl
Ingolf Wiegert
Soviet Union Soviet Union
Aleksandr Anpilogov
Vladimir Belov
Evgeni Chernyshov
Anatoli Fediukin
Mikhail Ishchenko
Aleksandr Karshakevich
Yuri Kidiaev
Vladimir Kravtsov
Sergei Kushniriuk
Viktor Makhorin
Valdemar Novitski
Vladimir Repiev
Nikolai Tomin
Aleksei Zhuk
Romania Romania
Stefan Birtalan
Iosif Boros
Adrian Cosma
Cezar Draganita
Marian Dumitru
Cornel Durau
Alexandru Folker
Claudiu Eugen Ionescu
Nicolae Munteanu
Vasile Stinga
Lucian Vasilache
Neculai Vasilca
Radu Voina
Maricel Voinea
Women Soviet Union Soviet Union
Larisa Karlova
Tatiana Kochergina
Natalia Lukianenko
Valentina Lutaeva
Aldona Nenenene
Liubov Odinokova
Irina Palchikova
Liudmila Poradnik
Yulia Safina
Larisa Savkina
Sigita Strechen
Natalia Timoshkina
Zinaida Turchina
Olga Zubareva
Yugoslavia Yugoslavia
Svetlana Anastasovski
Mirjana Djurica
Radmila Drljaca
Katica Iles
Slavica Jeremic
Svetlana Kitic
Jasna Merdan
Vesna Milosevic
Mirjana Ognjenovic
Vesna Radovic
Rada Savic
Ana Titlic
Biserka Visnjic
Zorica Vojinovic
East Germany East Germany
Birgit Heinecke
Roswitha Krause
Waltraud Kretzschmar
Katrin Kruger
Kornelia Kunisch
Evelyn Matz
Kristina Richter
Christina Rost
Sabine Rother
Renate Rudolph
Marion Tietz
Petra Uhlig
Claudia Wunderlich
Hannelore Zober

Statistics[]

  • There were 248 total athletes from 14 countries.
  • Ismaeel Shahzadah was the youngest participant with 17 years and 268 days.
  • Liudmila Poradnik was the oldest participant with 34 years and 200 days.
  • Solange Koulinka of Congo and Kristina Richter of East Germany were the only handball players chosen to be a flag bearer at the opening ceremony.
  • East Germany won its first-ever gold medal in the sport.
  • Yugoslavia won its first medal in the sport since Munich 1972.
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