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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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.[1]

Squads

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

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

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

11th/12th classification

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

	FT: 19-19 ET: 22-22, 24-24

9th/10th classification

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

7th/8th classification

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

5th/6th classification

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

Bronze medal match

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

Final

8 August 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 at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games: Men's Handball". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 21 March 2020.

External links

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

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[SR-1] "Handball at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games: Men's Handball". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 21 March 2020.