Handball at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Handball at the
1984 Summer Olympics
Tournament details
Host country	United States
Venue(s)	Titan Gym
Dates	31 July – 11 August 1984
Teams	18
Final positions
Champions	Yugoslavia (men); Yugoslavia (women)
Runner-up	West Germany (men); South Korea (women)
Third place	Romania (men); China (women)
Fourth place	Denmark (men); West Germany (women)

Handball at the 1984 Summer Olympics featured competition for men and women. Due to the USSR-led boycott some strong handball nations from Eastern Bloc did not compete; this gave an opportunity to the Yugoslav team to take both gold medals. Games were played at Titan Gym in Fullerton, California.

Qualification

Men

Qualification	Date	Host	Vacancies	Qualified
Host nation	18 May 1978	Athens	1	United States
1982 World Championship	23 February – 7 March 1982	West Germany	6	~~Soviet Union~~¹ Yugoslavia ~~Poland~~¹ Denmark Romania ~~East Germany~~¹ West Germany Spain Japan
1983 World Championship B	25 February – 6 March 1983	Netherlands	2 3	~~Hungary~~¹ ~~Czechoslovakia~~¹ Sweden Switzerland Iceland²
Asian qualification tournament	12–20 November 1983	Sagamihara	1	~~Japan~~ South Korea
1983 Pan American Men's Handball Championship	2–6 February 1972	Colorado Springs	1 0	~~Cuba~~¹ ~~Canada~~²
1983 African Men's Handball Championship	22–31 July 1983	Cairo	1	Algeria
Total			12

Women

Qualification	Date	Host	Vacancies	Qualified
Host nation	18 May 1978	Athens	1	United States
1982 World Championship	2–12 December 1982	Hungary	4 2	~~Soviet Union~~¹ ~~Hungary~~¹Yugoslavia ~~East Germany~~¹ South Korea
Intercontinental Olympic Qualification	-	-	1	China³
1983 World Championship B	7–15 December 1983	Poland	0 2	West Germany Austria
Total			6

¹:Teams joined Soviet lead boycott
²:Canada was invited to replace Cuba, but rejected the invitation, because COA supposed the team is not good enough. Then, IHF invited Iceland.
³:Brazil and Canada withdraw. So China qualified without play.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Yugoslavia (YUG) Zlatan Arnautović Mirko Bašić Jovica Elezović Mile Isaković Pavle Jurina Milan Kalina Slobodan Kuzmanovski Dragan Mladenović Zdravko Rađenović Momir Rnić Branko Štrbac Veselin Vujović Veselin Vuković Zdravko Zovko	West Germany (FRG) Jochen Fraatz Thomas Happe Arnulf Meffle Rüdiger Neitzel Michael Paul Dirk Rauin Siegfried Roch Michael Roth Ulrich Roth Martin Schwalb Uwe Schwenker Thomas Springel Andreas Thiel Klaus Wöller Erhard Wunderlich	Romania (ROU) 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
Women	Yugoslavia (YUG) Svetlana Anastasovska Alenka Cuderman Svetlana Dašić-Kitić Slavica Đukić Dragica Đurić Mirjana Đurica Emilija Erčić Ljubinka Janković Jasna Kolar-Merdan Ljiljana Mugoša Svetlana Mugoša Mirjana Ognjenović Zorica Pavićević Jasna Ptujec Biserka Višnjić	South Korea (KOR) Han Hwa-Soo Jeong Hyoi-Soon Jeung Soon-Bok Kim Choon-Rye Kim Kyung-Soon Kim Mi-sook Kim Ok-Hwa Lee Soon-Ei Lee Young-Ja Shon Mi-Na Sung Kyung-Hwa Yoon Byung-Soon Yoon Soo-Kyung	China (CHN) Chen Zhen Gao Xiumin He Jianping Li Lan Liu Liping Liu Yumei Sun Xiulan Wang Linwei Wang Mingxing Wu Xingjiang Zhang Weihong Zhang Peijun Zhu Juefeng

Participating nations

Each qualified country was allowed to enter one team of 15 players and they all were eligible for participation. Four nations competed in both tournaments.

A total of 259(*) handball players (177 men and 82 women) from 14 nations (men from 12 nations - women from 6 nations) competed at the Los Angeles Games: