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Handball At The 1992 Summer Olympics – Women's Tournament
The women's handball tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics was contested by eight teams divided in two groups, with the top two proceeding to the semifinals and the bottom two proceeding to placement matches. Qualification Squads Preliminary round Group A ---- ---- Group B ---- ---- Playoffs Bracket Semifinals ---- Seventh place game Fifth place game Bronze medal game Gold medal game Rankings and statistics References {{DEFAULTSORT:Handball at the 1992 Summer Olympics - Women's tournament Women's tournament A woman is an adult female human. Before adulthood, a female child or adolescent is referred to as a girl. Typically, women are of the female sex and inherit a pair of X chromosomes, one from each parent, and women with functional uteruses ... Women's handball in Spain Olymp 1992 in Spanish women's sport Women's events at the 1992 Summer Olympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granollers
Granollers (; ) is a city in central Catalonia, about 30 kilometres north-east of Barcelona. It is the capital and most densely populated city in the comarca of Vallès Oriental. Granollers is now a bustling business centre, having grown from a town dominated by Catalonia's textile industry that was prominent during the 19th Century. However, in the southern portion of the municipality, the Palou area retains the agricultural characteristics of the past. Granollers forms a conurbation with Canovelles, Les Franqueses del Vallès and the district of La Torreta in La Roca del Vallès. The city is crossed by the Congost river, a tributary of the Besòs. It is considered to be the other jewel of the Barcelona metropolitan area. It is around 25 km north-east of the centre of Barcelona. History Spanish Civil War During the Spanish Civil War, in May 1938, the Bombing of Granollers was carried out by Italian bombers, resulting in 100-200 civilian fatalities. Notable land ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathrine Svendsen
Cathrine Roll-Matthiesen, née Svendsen (born 23 September 1967, in Porsgrunn) is a Norwegian former handball player. She played in the clubs IF Borg, IL Vestar, Lunner IL, Bouillargues (France), Larvik HK, Tertnes Håndball and Tjølling IF Tjølling is a former municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1988. The area is now part of Larvik Municipality. The administrative centre was the village of Tjøllingvollen. Other vi .... Between 1985 and 1996 she played in 233 matches for the Norwegian National team, scoring 918 goals. References 1967 births Living people Norwegian female handball players Olympic handball players for Norway Olympic silver medalists for Norway Handball players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Porsgrunn Olympic medalists in handball Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susann Goksør Bjerkrheim
Susann Goksør Bjerkrheim (born 7 July 1970) is a Norwegian former handball player. She played in the clubs Nordstrand IF and Bækkelagets SK. She has played in 296 games for the Norwegian National team, scoring 844 goals. Between 1993 and 2000 she was the captain of the team. She is a graduate of the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences The Norwegian School of Sport Sciences (, NIH) is a public university located at Sognsvann in Oslo, Norway. It has the national responsibility for education and research related within sport sciences. It provides education at the Bachelor, Mast .... She is married to teacher and handball player Svein-Erik Bjerkrheim. In 2025 Goksør Bjerkrheim was a participant of ''The Farm Celebrity'', a reality show on TV 2. Here she reached the final, but lost to former team mate Kjersti Grini. References External links * 1970 births Living people Norwegian female handball players Olympic handball players for Norway Olympic silver medali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lim O-kyeong
Lim O-Kyeong (; born December 11, 1971), also spelled as Im Oh-Gyeong, is a South Korean politician who previously competed in three Olympics as a South Korean handball player.Profile: "O-Kyeong Lim" – ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on December 23, 2007) Sports and Education At the in , she was part of the |
Siri Eftedal
Siri Eftedal (born 22 May 1966) is a Norwegian team handball player and Olympic medalist. She received a silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona with the Norwegian national team."1992 Summer Olympics – Barcelona, Spain – Handball" ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on 12 February 2008) Siri Eftedal played 110 games for the national team during her career, scoring 258 goals. She was awarded the Håndballstatuetten trophy from the Norwegian Handball Feder ...
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Raquel Vizcaíno
Raquel Vizcaíno Torre (born 22 June 1967) is a Spanish team handball player who played for the club Vifirehati and for the Spanish national team. She was born in Madrid. She competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ..., where the Spanish team placed seventh.Profile: Raquel Vizcaíno ''sports-reference.com'' (Retrieved on 24 January 2014) References 1967 births[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jasna Kolar-Merdan
Jasna Kolar-Merdan ( Jasna Merdan, (bosnian: ''Јасна Мердан'') born 19 October 1956 in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Yugoslavia) is a formerly Yugoslav and now Austrian former handball player, who is considered one of the best Austrian players of all time. She played for both the Yugoslavia national team and the Austria national team. She competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics, in the 1984 Summer Olympics for Yugoslavia and in the 1992 Summer Olympics for Austria. She was voted World Handball Player of 1990 by the International Handball Federation. She is also in the Austrian Handball Federation hall of fame. Career Jasnar Kolar-Merdan started playing handball at her hometown club ŽRK Lokomotiva Mostar. In 1977 she helped the club get promoted to the top league in 1977. In 1983 she finished second in the Yugoslavian championship with the club. In 1984 she joined the Austrian top club Hypo Südstadt (later called Hypo Niederösterreich). Here she won the EHF Champion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carola Ciszewski
Carola Ciszewski (born 1 June 1968 in Merseburg, DDR) is a German handball player, won the 1993 World Championship. She also participated at the 1992 Summer Olympics, where the German national team placed fourth. Career Carola Ciszewski started playing handball at BSG Wismut Schneeberg, before joining SC Leipzig in 1981 at the age of 13. Here she played in the top division in East Germany and later in the Handball-Bundesliga Frauen after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Here she won the EHF European League twice in 1985-86 and 1991-92. She also won the DDR Championship in 1987-88 and in 1990-91, the last edition of the tournament. She won the United Germany Championship twice in a row in 1997-98 and 1998-99. National team Ciszewski played for both the East Germany and the Unified Germany national teams. With East Germany East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from Foundation of East Germany, its formation on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agustina Nkechi Abi
Agustina Nkechi Abi (born 2 December 1969) is a Nigerian handball player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics (, ), officially the Games of the XXV Olympiad (, ) and officially branded as Barcelona '92, were an international multi-sport event held from 25 July to 9 August 1992 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Beginning in 1994 .... References External links * 1969 births Living people Nigerian female handball players Olympic handball players for Nigeria Handball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) {{Nigeria-handball-bio-stub Igbo sportspeople ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena Grölz
Elena Grölz (née Leonte; 26 July 1960 – 9 February 2025) was a Romanian-German handball player. She participated at the 1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics (, ), officially the Games of the XXV Olympiad (, ) and officially branded as Barcelona '92, were an international multi-sport event held from 25 July to 9 August 1992 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Beginning in 1994 ..., where the Germany national team placed fourth. Grölz died on 9 February 2025, at the age of 64. Honours * 4× Romanian champion * 3× Romanian Cup winner * 3× German champion with[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silke Gnad
Silke Gnad, also known as Silke Fittinger ( Silke Thiel 20 November 1966 in Stralsund, Germany), is a German former handball player. She participated at the 1992 Summer Olympics, where the German national team placed fourteenth. She has won both the DDR championship with ASV Vorwärts Frankfurt and the unified German Championship with TuS Walle Bremen Turn- und Sportverein Walle Bremen von 1891 e. V., more commonly known as TuS Walle Bremen was a German multisports team from the Walle district of Bremen, founded in 1891. It was most famous for its handball women's team, which won the Handball-B .... References Profileat sports-reference.com External links * 1966 births Living people Sportspeople from Stralsund Handball players from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Sportspeople from Bezirk Rostock German female handball players Olympic handball players for Germany Handball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics 20th-century German sportswomen East German female handb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |