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 |
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1 | Soviet Union | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
2 | East Germany | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
3 | Yugoslavia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
4 | Romania | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Medalists[]
Event | |||
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Men | 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 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 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 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 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 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.