Handball at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

The men's tournament was one of two handball tournaments at the 1980 Summer Olympics. It was the fourth appearance of a men's handball tournament as a medal event at the Olympic Games.

1980 Men's Olympic handball tournament

Tournament details
Host country	Soviet Union
Venue(s)	2 (in 1 host city)
Dates	20–30 July
Teams	12
Final positions
Champions	East Germany (1st title)
Runner-up	Soviet Union
Third place	Romania
Fourth place	Hungary
Tournament statistics
Matches played	36
Goals scored	1,560 (43.33 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Jerzy Klempel (44 goals)

Qualification

Qualification	Date	Host	Berths	Qualified
Host nation	23 October 1974	Vienna	1	Soviet Union
1978 World Championship	26 January – 5 February 1978	Denmark	6 5	West Germany East Germany Denmark Yugoslavia Poland Romania
1978 World Championship Group B	22 February – 3 March 1978	Spain	2 3	Spain Switzerland Hungary
1979 African Championship	20–31 July 1979	Brazzaville	1	Tunisia Algeria
1980 Pan American Championship	7–14 January 1980	Mexico City	1	Cuba
1979 Asian Championship	4–9 November 1979	Nanjing	1	Japan Kuwait
Total			12

Results

Preliminary round

12 teams played each other in two groups to decide for which place each of them will compete in the final round.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	East Germany	5	4	1	0	108	92	+16	9	Gold medal game
2	Hungary	5	3	2	0	96	88	+8	8	Bronze medal game
3	Spain	5	2	1	2	102	106	−4	5	Fifth place game
4	Poland	5	2	1	2	123	97	+26	5	Seventh place game
5	Denmark	5	1	0	4	96	104	−8	2	Ninth place game
6	Cuba	5	0	1	4	103	141	−38	1	Eleventh place game

Source:

20 July 1980 17:00	Denmark	30–18	Cuba	Sokolniki Arena
	Poulsen 8	(18–8)	Querol 5

20 July 1980 18:30	Poland	20–20	Hungary	Sokolniki Arena
	Garpiel, Kałuziński 5	(7–11)	Kontra 8

20 July 1980 20:00	East Germany	21–17	Spain	Sokolniki Arena
	Doering, Wahl 6	(6–9)	Uría 6

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22 July 1980 17:00	Poland	34–19	Cuba	Dynamo Sports Palace
	Klempel 11	(14–10)	Prendes 5

22 July 1980 18:30	Denmark	19–20	Spain	Dynamo Sports Palace
	Pazyj 5	(9–9)	Albisu 5

22 July 1980 20:00	East Germany	14–14	Hungary	Dynamo Sports Palace
	Wahl 6	(9–7)	Kontra 4

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24 July 1980 17:00	Spain	17–20	Hungary	Sokolniki Arena
	Serrano 4	(8–10)	Kovács 6

24 July 1980 18:30	Denmark	12–26	Poland	Sokolniki Arena
	Jeppesen 5	(5–9)	Klempel 10

24 July 1980 20:00	East Germany	27–20	Cuba	Sokolniki Arena
	Wahl 6	(13–10)	Agramonte 9

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26 July 1980 17:00	Spain	24–24	Cuba	Dynamo Sports Palace
	Albisu 9	(9–13)	Agramonte, Prendes 7

26 July 1980 18:30	Denmark	15–16	Hungary	Dynamo Sports Palace
	Poulsen 4	(6–8)	Kovács 4

26 July 1980 20:00	East Germany	22–21	Poland	Dynamo Sports Palace
	Dreibrodt, Wahl 5	(11–9)	Panas 7

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28 July 1980 17:00	Hungary	26–22	Cuba	Sokolniki Arena
	Kontra 10	(14–11)	Casuso 8

28 July 1980 18:30	Poland	22–24	Spain	Sokolniki Arena
	Klempel 8	(13–11)	Albisu 7

28 July 1980 20:00	East Germany	24–20	Denmark	Sokolniki Arena
	Krüger 7	(13–9)	Dahl-Nielsen 7

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Soviet Union (H)	5	4	0	1	134	75	+59	8	Gold medal game
2	Romania	5	4	0	1	119	88	+31	8	Bronze medal game
3	Yugoslavia	5	4	0	1	132	92	+40	8	Fifth place game
4	Switzerland	5	2	0	3	110	98	+12	4	Seventh place game
5	Algeria	5	1	0	4	94	124	−30	2	Ninth place game
6	Kuwait	5	0	0	5	64	176	−112	0	Eleventh place game

Source:
(H) Hosts

20 July 1980 17:00	Yugoslavia	22–18	Algeria	Dynamo Sports Palace
	Jovović 6	(12–10)	Mekhnache 6

20 July 1980 18:30	Romania	32–12	Kuwait	Dynamo Sports Palace
	Stîngă, Vasilache 5	(18–3)	J. Al-Qassar 9

20 July 1980 20:00	Soviet Union	22–15	Switzerland	Dynamo Sports Palace
	Anpilogov, Belov 4	(13–8)	Züllig 5

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22 July 1980 17:00	Romania	26–18	Algeria	Sokolniki Arena
	Stîngă 7	(14–7)	Djeffal 10

22 July 1980 18:30	Soviet Union	38–11	Kuwait	Sokolniki Arena
	Anpilogov 11	(22–5)	J. Al-Qassar 4

22 July 1980 20:00	Yugoslavia	26–21	Switzerland	Sokolniki Arena
	Obran 6	(12–8)	Jehle, Züllig 6

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24 July 1980 17:00	Switzerland	32–14	Kuwait	Dynamo Sports Palace
	Züllig 10	(14–6)	J. Al-Qassar 5

24 July 1980 18:30	Soviet Union	33–10	Algeria	Dynamo Sports Palace
	Fedyukin, Zhuk 6	(16–3)	Hamiche 3

24 July 1980 20:00	Yugoslavia	23–21	Romania	Dynamo Sports Palace
	Jurina 8	(12–9)	Stîngă 7

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26 July 1980 17:00	Spain	26–18	Algeria	Sokolniki Arena
	Züllig 11	(11–7)	Bouzerar 5

26 July 1980 18:30	Yugoslavia	44–10	Kuwait	Sokolniki Arena
	Jurina 9	(24–5)	Al-Qena'i 4

26 July 1980 20:00	Soviet Union	19–22	Romania	Sokolniki Arena
	Belov 5	(15–9)	Stîngă 7

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28 July 1980 17:00	Kuwait	17–30	Algeria	Dynamo Sports Palace
	Al-Randi 4	(14–11)	Djeffal 7

28 July 1980 18:30	Romania	18–16	Switzerland	Dynamo Sports Palace
	Birtalan 6	(9–6)	Jehle, Züllig 4

28 July 1980 20:00	Soviet Union	22–17	Yugoslavia	Dynamo Sports Palace
	Fedyukin 5	(12–9)	Jurina 9

Final round

Eleventh place game

30 July 1980 11:00	Cuba	32–24	Kuwait	Dynamo Sports Palace
	Agramonte 9	(16–13)	Al-Randi 11

Ninth place game

30 July 1980 12:30	Denmark	28–20	Algeria	Dynamo Sports Palace
	Jeppesen 8	(15–9)	Djeffal 6

Seventh place game

30 July 1980 14:00	Poland	23–22	Switzerland	Dynamo Sports Palace
	Klempel 9	(11–10)	Huber, Maag 5

Fifth place game

30 July 1980 13:00	Spain	24–23	Yugoslavia	Sokolniki Arena
	Uría 6	(12–7)	Mrkonja 8

Bronze medal game

30 July 1980 14:45	Hungary	18–20	Romania	Sokolniki Arena
	Kovács 5	(7–11)	Stîngă 7

Gold medal game

30 July 1980 18:30	East Germany	23–22 (ET)	Soviet Union	Sokolniki Arena
	Krüger 6	(10–10)	Anpilogov, Belov 5
	FT: 20–20 ET: 3–2

Rankings and statistics

Final ranking

Rank	Team
	East Germany
	Soviet Union
	Romania
4	Hungary
5	Spain
6	Yugoslavia
7	Poland
8	Switzerland
9	Denmark
10	Algeria
11	Cuba
12	Kuwait

Top goalscorers

Rank	Name	Goals
1	Jerzy Klempel	44
2	Ernst Züllig	40
3	Vasile Stîngă	36
4	Jesús Agramonte	34
5	Ahcene Djeffal	33
	Pavle Jurina
	Frank-Michael Wahl
8	Zsolt Kontra	30
	Juan Prendes
10	Aleksandr Anpilogov	29

Team rosters

Algeria	Cuba	Denmark	East Germany	Hungary	Kuwait
Ali Akacha Omar Azzeb Abdel Atif Bakir Abdelkrim Bendjemil Abdel Atif Bergheul Azzedine Bouzerar Ahcen Djeffal Ahmed Farfar Abdel Krim Hamiche Kamel Hebri Mohamed Machou Mouloud Mekhnache Rashid Mokhrani Abdel Madjid Slimani	Jesús Agramonte Moisés Casales Roberto Casuso Ibrain Crombet Miguel Izquierdo Lázaro Jiménez Juan Llanes Sabino Medina José Nenínger Pablo Pedroso Juan Prendes Juan Querol Roberto Zulueta Lázaro Pedroso	Michael Jørn Berg Morten Stig Christensen Anders Dahl-Nielsen Iver Grunnet Hans Hattesen Carsten Haurum Palle Jensen Bjarne Jeppesen Mogens Jeppesen Thomas Pazyj Erik Bue Pedersen Poul Kjær Poulsen Per Skaarup Ole Nørskov Sørensen	Hans-Georg Beyer Lothar Doering Günter Dreibrodt Ernst Gerlach Klaus Gruner Rainer Höft Hans-Georg Jaunich Hartmut Krüger Peter Rost Dietmar Schmidt Wieland Schmidt Siegfried Voigt Frank-Michael Wahl Ingolf Wiegert Coach: Paul Tiedemann	Béla Bartalos (TBSC) János Fodor (FTC) Ernő Gubányi (TBSC) László Jánovszki (Budapest Spartacus SC) Alpár Jegenyés (Budapest Honvéd SE) József Kenyeres (Budapest Honvéd SE) Zsolt Kontra (TBSC) Péter Kovács (Budapest Honvéd SE) Miklós Kovacsics (PMSC) Ambrus Lele (Szegedi Volán) Árpád Pál (TBSC) László Szabó (Szegedi Volán) István Szilágyi (FTC) Sándor Vass (Elektromos SE)	Abdel Aziz Al-Anjri Khamis Bashir Jasem al-Deyab Ahmed al-Emran Majid Al-Khamis Faraj Al-Mutairi Saleh Najem Jasem Al-Qassar Mond al-Qassar Abdullah Al-Qena'i Musa'ed Al-Randi Ismael Shah Al-Zadah Khaled Shah Fawzi Al-Shuwairbat
Poland	Romania	Soviet Union	Spain	Switzerland	Yugoslavia
Janusz Brzozowski Piotr Czaczka Jerzy Garpiel Zbigniew Gawlik Ryszard Jedliński Andrzej Kącki Alfred Kałuziński Jerzy Klempel Grzegorz Kosma Marek Panas Henryk Rozmiarek Zbigniew Tłuczyński Daniel Waszkiewicz Mieczysław Wojczak	Ştefan Birtalan Iosif Boroş Adrian Cosma Cezar Drăgăniṭă Marian Dumitru Cornel Durău Alexandru Fölker Claudiu Ionescu Nicolae Munteanu Vasile Stîngă Lucian Vasilache Neculai Vasilcă Radu Voina Maricel Voinea Coach: Stavru Pană	Aleksandr Anpilogov Vladimir Belov Yevgeni Chernyshov Anatoli Fedyukin Mykhaylo Ishchenko Aleksandr Karshakevich Yury Kidyayev Vladimir Kravtsov Serhiy Kushniryuk Viktor Makhorin Voldemaras Novickis Vladimir Repev Mykola Tomyn Aleksey Zhuk	Jesús María Albisu Vicente Calabuig Juan de la Puente Juan Pedro de Miguel Francisco López Gregorio López Rafael López Agustín Milián Juan Francisco Muñoz José Ignacio Novoa José María Pagoaga Eugenio Serrano Juan José Uría Juan Javier Cabanas	Konrad Affolter Roland Brand Hans Huber Ugo Jametti Peter Jehle Robert Jehle Hanspeter Lutz Peter Maag Walter Müller Martin Ott Max Schär Rudolf Weber Eduard Wickli Ernst Züllig	Zlatan Arnautović Jovica Cvetković Adnan Dizdar Jovica Elezović Mile Isaković Drago Jovović Pavle Jurina Enver Koso Peter Mahne Jasmin Mrkonja Velibor Nenadić Goran Nerić Stjepan Obran Momir Rnić