Handball at the Friendship Games

Handball at the Friendship Games is the handball tournament organized for the 1984 Summer Olympics boycotting countries. Given that the Eastern Bloc 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.^[1]

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.^[2]

Group A[]

All matches played in Magdeburg.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Points
Soviet Union	3	3	0	0	69	53	+16	6
Hungary	3	2	0	1	72	66	+6	4
East Germany B	3	1	0	2	63	71	-8	2
Czechoslovakia	3	0	0	3	57	71	-14	0

Results[]

Results			B
Soviet Union		28:20	24:17	17:16
Hungary	20:28		26:18	26:20
East Germany B	17:24	18:26		28:21
Czechoslovakia	16:17	20:26	21:28

Group B[]

All matches played in Rostock.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Points
East Germany A	3	3	0	0	88	56	+32	6
Poland	3	2	0	1	80	69	+11	4
Bulgaria	3	1	0	2	61	78	-17	2
Cuba	3	0	0	3	70	96	-26	0

Results[]

Results	A
East Germany A		24:20	29:16	35:20
Poland	20:24		26:18	34:27
Bulgaria	16:29	18:26		27:23
Cuba	20:35	27:34	23:27

Final round[]

	Final
	A1	East Germany A	18
	B1	Soviet Union	17

	3rd place match
	A2	Hungary	21
	B2	Poland	22

Classification 5th–8th[]

	5th place match
	A3	East Germany B	22
	B3	Bulgaria	25

	7th place match
	A4	Czechoslovakia	32
	B4	Cuba	20

Final ranking[]

	East Germany A
	Soviet Union
	Poland
4	Hungary
5	Bulgaria
6	Czechoslovakia
7	Cuba
–	East Germany B*

* – East Germany B competed "off competition" and was not included in the final ranking table.^[2]

Top scorer[]

•  Péter Kovács (HUN) – 26 goals

Women's event[]

Six teams competed in a round-robin tournament.

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Points
	Soviet Union	5	5	0	0	129	93	+36	10
	Czechoslovakia	5	3	1	1	96	99	–3	7
	East Germany	5	2	1	2	101	95	+6	5
4	Hungary	5	1	1	3	96	97	–1	3
5	Poland	5	1	1	3	100	121	–21	3
6	Bulgaria	5	1	0	4	95	112	–17	2

Results[]

Results
Soviet Union		24:15	24:21	22:20	31:16	28:21
Czechoslovakia	15:24		15:15	20:19	20:18	26:23
East Germany	21:24	15:15		16:22	27:21	22:13
Hungary	20:22	19:20	22:16		22:22	13:17
Poland	16:31	18:20	21:27	22:22		23:21
Bulgaria	21:28	23:26	13:22	17:13	21:23

Winning teams' squads[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's	East Germany A Heiko Bonath Rüdiger Borchardt Günter Dreibrodt Stephan Hauck Peter Hofmann Hartmut Krüger Peter Pysall Peter Rost Dietmar Schmidt Wieland Schmidt Frank-Michael Wahl Ingolf Wiegert Holger Winselmann	Soviet Union Aleksandr Anpilogov Vladimir Belov Mykhaylo Ishchenko Aleksandr Karshakevich Yuri Kidyaev Serhiy Kushniryuk Voldemaras Novickis Aleksandr Rymanov Yuri Shevtsov Mikhail Vasilev	Poland Jerzy Garpiel Zbigniew Gawlik Andrzej Kącki Grzegorz Kosma Andrzej Szymczak Zbigniew Tłuczyński Daniel Waszkiewicz Bogdan Wenta
Women's	Soviet Union Maryna Bazhanova Tatyana Shalimova Tetyana Horb Natalya Guskova Larysa Karlova Svitlana Mankova Nataliya Matryuk Lyubov Odynokova Iryna Popova Yuliya Safina Sigita Strečen Zinaida Turchyna Olha Zubaryeva	Czechoslovakia Alena Damitšová Mária Ďurišinová Anna Hradská Marta Pösová Jana Stašová Daniela Trandžíková	East Germany Evelyn Hübscher Katrin Krüger Kornelia Kunisch Andrea Stolletz Claudia Wunderlich

Medal table[]

  *   Host nation (East Germany)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	1	1	0	2
2	East Germany (GDR)*	1	0	1	2
3	Czechoslovakia (TCH)*	0	1	0	1
4	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (4 nations)		2	2	2	6

See also[]

• Handball at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Notes[]

References[]

• Chmielewski, Zbigniew; et al. (1987). Na olimpijskim szlaku 1984. Sarajewo, Los Angeles (in Polish). Warsaw: Sport i Turystyka. pp. 204, 226–227. ISBN 83-217-2610-0.
• Trzciński, Tomasz; et al. (1985). Gwiazdy sportu '84 (in Polish). Warsaw: Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza. p. 89. ISBN 83-03-01177-4.