Handball at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

The men's tournament was one of two handball tournaments at the 1976 Summer Olympics. It was the third appearance of a men's handball tournament as a medal event at the Olympic Games, after 1936 and 1972 (a demonstration event was held in 1952).

1976 Men's Olympic handball tournament
Tournament details
Host country Canada
Dates18–28 July
Teams12
Venue(s) (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions Soviet Union
Runner-up Romania
Third place Poland
Fourth placeTemplate:Country data RFN
Tournament statistics
Matches30
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Results

Preliminary round

Group A

Rank Team Pld W D L GF GA Pts
1.  Soviet Union (URS) 5401111778X18:1618:2024:1626:1625:9
2.  West Germany (FRG) 54019776816:18X18:1718:1419:1626:11
3.  Yugoslavia (YUG) 540111093820:1817:18X25:1726:2222:18
4.  Denmark (DEN) 520392102416:2414:1816:24X21:1724:18
5.  Japan (JPN) 510496111216:2616:1922:2614:21X25:19
6.  Canada (CAN) 50057512209:2511:2618:2218:2419:25X

Group B

Rank Team Pld W D L GF GA Pts
1.  Romania (ROU) 431091717X17:1523:1819:1932:19
2.  Poland (POL) 43018071615:17X18:1621:1826:20
3.  Hungary (HUN) 42029282418:2316:18X22:2036:21
4.  Czechoslovakia (TCH) 41128582319:1918:2120:22X28:20
5.  United States (USA) 400480122019:3220:2621:3620:28X

Tunisia withdrew after 2 matches which they lost to Poland (12:26) and Czechoslovakia (9:21). The results were annulled.

Final Round

9th place match

  • Japan 27–20 United States

7th place match

  • Czechoslovakia 25–21 Denmark

5th place match

  • Yugoslavia 21–19 Hungary

3rd place match

  • Poland 21–18 West Germany

1st place match

  • Soviet Union 19–15 Romania

Summary

PlaceNation
1 Soviet Union (URS)
Coach: Anatoli Yevtushenko
Aleksandr Anpilogov
Yevgeni Chernyshov
Anatoli Fedyukin
Valeri Gassy
Vasily Ilyin
Mykhaylo Ishchenko
Yuri Kidyaev
Yuri Klimov
Vladimir Kravtsov
Serhiy Kushniryuk
Yuriy Lahutyn
Vladimir Maksimov
Oleksandr Rezanov
Mykola Tomyn
2 Romania (ROU)
Coach: Nicolae Nedef
Ștefan Birtalan
Adrian Cosma
Cezar Drăgăniṭă
Alexandru Fölker
Cristian Gațu
Mircea Grabovschi
Roland Gunesch
Gabriel Kicsid
Ghiță Licu
Nicolae Munteanu
Cornel Penu
Werner Stöckl
Constantin Tudosie
Radu Voina
3 Poland (POL)
Coach: Janusz Czerwiński
Zdzisław Antczak
Janusz Brzozowski
Piotr Cieśla
Jan Gmyrek
Alfred Kałuziński
Jerzy Klempel
Zygfryd Kuchta
Jerzy Melcer
Ryszard Przybysz
Henryk Rozmiarek
Andrzej Sokołowski
Andrzej Szymczak
Mieczysław Wojczak
Włodzimierz Zieliński
4 West Germany (FRG)
Coach: Vlado Štencl
Gerd Becker
Günter Böttcher
Heiner Brand
Bernhard Busch
Joachim Deckarm
Arno Ehret
Jürgen Hahn
Manfred Hofmann
Peter Jaschke
Peter Kleibrink
Kurt Klühspies
Rudolf Rauer
Horst Spengler
Walter von Oepen
5 Yugoslavia (YUG)
Coach: Ivan Snoj
Abaz Arslanagić
Vlado Bojović
Hrvoje Horvat
Milorad Karalić
Radivoj Krivokapić
Zdravko Miljak
Željko Nimš
Radisav Pavićević
Branislav Pokrajac
Nebojša Popović
Zdravko Rađenović
Zvonimir Serdarušić
Predrag Timko
Zdenko Zorko
6 Hungary (HUN)
Coach: Mihály Faludi
Béla Bartalos (Honvéd Szondy SE)
Ferenc Buday (Budapest Honvéd SE)
Ernő Gubányi (TBSC)
László Jánovszki (Budapest Spartacus SC)
József Kenyeres (Budapest Honvéd SE)
Zsolt Kontra (Honvéd Szondy SE)
Péter Kovács (Budapest Honvéd SE)
Mihály Süvöltős (Debreceni Dózsa)
István Szilágyi (FTC)
István Varga (Debreceni Dózsa)
Károly Vass (Elektromos SE)
Gábor Verőci (Budapest Honvéd SE)
Zoltán Bartalos
Pál Kocsis
7 Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Coach: Jiří Vícha
Bohumil Cepák
Jozef Dobrotka
Vladimír Haber
Jiří Hanzl
Vladimír Jarý
Jiří Kavan
Jindřich Krepindl
Jiří Liška
Pavel Mikeš
Ján Packa
Jaroslav Papiernik
Ivan Satrapa
František Šulc
Štefan Katušák
8 Denmark (DEN)
Coach: Jørgen Gaarskjær
Søren Andersen
Lars Bock
Anders Dahl-Nielsen
Jørgen Frandsen
Claus From
Henrik Jacobsgaard
Palle Jensen
Kay Jørgensen
Bent Larsen
Thor Munkager
Thomas Pazyj
Jesper Petersen
Johnny Piechnik
Morten Stig Christensen
9 Japan (JPN)
Coach: Tomoaki Takeno
Kenji Fujinaka
Seimei Gamo
Hiroshi Hanawa
Hiroshi Honda
Toyohiko Hozumi
Satoshi Kikuchi
Minoru Kino
Kozo Matsubara
Takezo Nakai
Kenichi Sasaki
Yoji Sato
Masaki Shibata
10 United States (USA)[1]
Coach: Dennis Berkholtz
Richard Abrahamson
Roger Baker
Peter Buehning, Jr.
Randolph Dean
Robert Dean
Vincent DiCalogero
Ezra Glantz
William Johnson
Patrick O'Neill
Sandor Rivnyak
James Rogers
Kevin Serrapede
Robert Sparks
Harry Winkler
11 Canada (CAN)
Coach: Eugen Trofin
Wolfgang Blankenau
Christian Chagnon
François Dauphin
Hugues de Roussan
Pierre Désormeaux
Pierre Ferdais
Robert Johnson
Richard Lambert
Claude Lefebvre
Danny Power
Pierre St. Martin
Stan Thorseth
Luc Tousignant
Claude Viens
12 Tunisia (TUN)
Mohamed Abdel Khaled
Khaled Achour
Habib Ammar
Ahmed Bechir Bel Hadj
Abderraouf Ben Samir
Moncef Besbes
Raouf Chabchoub
Slaheddine Deguechi
Mohamed Naceur Jelili
Mounir Jelili
Habib Kheder
Lotfi Rebai

References

  1. "Roster of U.S. Athletes for Olympic Games at Montreal". The New York Times. 11 July 1976. p. 152.
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