Soviet Union Women's National Handball Team
The USSR women's national handball team was the national women's handball team of the Soviet Union. Olympic Games history * 1976 : Champions * 1980 : Champions * 1988 : 3rd place * 1992 : 3rd place World Championship history * 1962 : 6th place * 1973 : 3rd place * 1975 : 2nd place * 1978 : 2nd place * 1982 : Champions * 1986 : Champions * 1990 : Champions National teams of the former Soviet republics External links Former national handball teams Women's national handball teams National sports teams of the Soviet Union National team A national sports team (commonly known as a national team or a national side) is a team that represents a nation, rather than a particular club or region, in an international sport. The term is most commonly associated with team sports, for exam ...

Handball At The 1976 Summer Olympics
Team handball at the 1976 Summer Olympics featured competition for men and women. On 26 July, a Croatian nationalist ran onto the field of play during the men's match between SFR Yugoslavia and West Germany West Germany is the colloquial term used to indicate the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; german: Bundesrepublik Deutschland , BRD) between its formation on 23 May 1949 and the German reunification through the accession of East Germany on 3 O ... and set fire to the Yugoslav flag before being detained by security.Istaknute akcije hrvatskih emigranata

Medal summary

Participating nations

Each qualified country was allowed to enter one team of 14 players and they all were eligible for participation. Five nations competed in ...
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Armenia Women's National Junior Handball Team
Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA World Factbook , , and ''Oxford Reference Online'' also place Armenia in Asia. It is a part of the Caucasus region; and is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia to the north, the Lachin corridor (under a Russian peacekeeping force) and Azerbaijan to the east, and Iran and the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan to the south. Yerevan is the capital, largest city and the financial center. Armenia is a unitary, multi-party, democratic nation-state with an ancient cultural heritage. The first Armenian state of Urartu was established in 860 BC, and by the 6th century BC it was replaced by the Satrapy of Armenia. The Kingdom of Armenia reached its height under Tigranes the Great in the 1st century BC and in the year 301 became the first state in the world to adopt Chr ...
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Latvia Women's National Handball Team
Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is one of the Baltic states; and is bordered by Estonia to the north, Lithuania to the south, Russia to the east, Belarus to the southeast, and shares a maritime border with Sweden to the west. Latvia covers an area of , with a population of 1.9 million. The country has a temperate seasonal climate. Its capital and largest city is Riga. Latvians belong to the ethno-linguistic group of the Balts; and speak Latvian, one of the only two surviving Baltic languages. Russians are the most prominent minority in the country, at almost a quarter of the population. After centuries of Teutonic, Swedish, Polish-Lithuanian and Russian rule, which was mainly executed by the local Baltic German aristocracy, the independen ...
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