Handball at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

1992 Men's Olympic handball tournament

Tournament details
Host country	Spain
Dates	27 July - 8 August
Teams	12
Venue(s)	(in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Unified Team
Runner-up	Sweden
Third place	France
Fourth place	Iceland
Tournament statistics
Matches	38
Goals scored	1616 (42.53 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Talant Duyshebaev (EUN), 47 goals
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Handball at the 1992 Summer Olympics
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The men's handball tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics was contested by twelve teams divided in two groups, with the top two proceeding to the semifinals and the bottom four proceeding to placement matches.

Preliminary round

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Points
Sweden	5	5	0	0	120	86	+44	10
Iceland	5	3	1	1	101	99	+2	7
South Korea	5	3	0	2	114	117	−3	6
Hungary	5	2	0	3	102	108	−6	4
Czechoslovakia	5	1	1	3	94	92	+2	3
Brazil	5	0	0	5	96	125	−29	0

Results
Sweden		25–18	28–18	25–21	20–14	22–15
Iceland	18–25		26–24	22–16	16–16	19–18
South Korea	18–28	24–26		22–18	20–19	30–26
Hungary	21–25	16–22	18–22		20–18	27–21
Czechoslovakia	14–20	16–16	19–20	18–20		27–16
Brazil	15–22	18–19	26–30	21–27	16–27

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Points
Unified Team	5	5	0	0	121	98	+23	10
France	5	4	0	1	111	98	+13	8
Spain	5	3	0	2	97	98	−1	6
Romania	5	1	1	3	107	115	−8	3
Germany	5	1	1	3	97	103	−6	3
Egypt	5	0	0	5	92	113	−21	0

Results
Unified Team		23–22	24–18	27–25	25–15	22–18
France	22–23		18–16	26–20	23–20	22–19
Spain	18–24	16–18		21–20	19–18	23–18
Romania	25–27	20–26	20–21		20–20	22–21
Germany	15–25	20–23	18–19	20–20		24–16
Egypt	18–22	19–22	18–23	21–22	16–24

Playoffs

	Semi-finals				Final
	Sweden	25
	France	22
					Sweden	20
					Unified Team	22
	Unified Team	23
	Iceland	19
					Bronze medal match
					France	24
					Iceland	20

Semifinals

August 6 19:00	Sweden	25–22	France
		(10-10)

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August 6 21:00	Unified Team	23–19	Iceland
		(11-9)

11th/12th classification

August 7 14:00	Egypt	27–24 (ET)	Brazil
		(10-8)
	FT: 19-19 ET: 22-22, 24-24

9th/10th classification

August 7 16:00	Czechoslovakia	20–19	Germany
		(11-8)

7th/8th classification

August 7 19:00	Romania	19–23	Hungary
		(13-9)

5th/6th classification

August 7 21:00	South Korea	21–36	Spain
		(10-18)

Bronze medal match

August 8 15:00	France	24–20	Iceland
		(12-9)

Final

August 8 17:00	Sweden	20–22	Unified Team
		(9-9)

Rankings and statistics

Final rankings 1  Unified Team 2  Sweden 3  France 4  Iceland 5  Spain 6  South Korea 7  Hungary 8  Romania 9  Czechoslovakia 10  Germany 11  Egypt 12  Brazil	Top goalscorers Player Games Goals 1. Talant Duyshebaev (EUN) 7 47 2. Chi-Hyo Cho (KOR) 6 45 3. Valdimar Grimsson (ISL) 7 35 4. Robert Licu (ROM) 6 30 4. Erik Hajas (SWE) 6 30 4. Alberto Urdiales (ESP) 4 30 7. Mikhail Yakimovich (EUN) 7 29 8. Valeri Gopin (EUN) 7 27 8. Valentin Zaharia (ROM) 6 27
All-star team Andrei Lavrov (EUN) Chi-Hyo Cho (KOR) Talant Duyshebaev (EUN) Denis Lathoud (FRA) Per Carlen (SWE) Pierre Thorsson (SWE) Valeri Gopine (EUN)

References

• Handball & Olympic Games 1936-2000, International Handball Federation, pp. 30–32
• Barcelona 1992: Handball at marcolympics.org