Handball
Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...
at the
Friendship Games is the handball tournament organized for the
1984 Summer Olympics
The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, United States. It marked the secon ...
boycotting
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countries. Given that the
Eastern Bloc
The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc and the Soviet Bloc, was the group of socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America under the influence of the Soviet Union that existed du ...
countries and allies were at that time amongst the most competitive teams the tournament's level was rather high.
It was contested in two events. Men's event took place in
Rostock and
Magdeburg,
East Germany between 17 and 21 July 1984, with eight teams competing. The women's event was contested at Hala na Sihoti in
Trenčín,
Czechoslovakia between 21 and 25 August 1984, with six teams competing.
Men's event
Eight teams were drawn into two groups.
The host nation, East Germany, had two teams in the tournament. However, the East Germany "B" team competed "off competition". Despite ending the tournament on the sixth place, this result was not included in the final rankings. The seventh team (i. e. Czechoslovakia) was instead counted as the sixth place team, etc.
[Chmielewski (1987), p. 227]
Group A
All matches played in
Magdeburg.
Results
Group B
All matches played in
Rostock.
Results
Final round
Classification 5th–8th
Final ranking
* – East Germany B competed "off competition" and was not included in the final ranking table.
Top scorer
* – 26 goals
Women's event
Six teams competed in a
round-robin tournament
A round-robin tournament (or all-go-away-tournament) is a competition
Competition is a rivalry where two or more parties strive for a common goal which cannot be shared: where one's gain is the other's loss (an example of which is a zero ...
.
Results
Winning teams' squads
Medal table
See also
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Handball at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Notes
References
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