The 1986 World Men's Handball Championship was the 11th team handball World Championship. It was held in Switzerland from February 25 to March 8, 1986. Yugoslavia won the championship. The tournament was played in Aarau, Basel, Bern, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Davos, Geneva, Luzern, Olten, St. Gallen, Solothurn, Winterthur and Zürich.
Qualification Competition Vacancies Qualified Host nation 1 1984 Summer Olympics 6 1985 World Men's Handball Championship Group B 6 Asian Qualification Tournament 1 1985 African Men's Handball Championship 1 1985 Pan American Men's Handball Championship 1
Teams Group AGroup BGroup CGroup D
Preliminary round Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Ranking round
Main round Group I
Group II
Final round Eleventh place game
Ninth place game
Seventh place game
Fifth place game
Third place game
Final
Final standings
Rank Team 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Qualified for the 1988 Summer Olympics Qualified for the 1987 World Men's Handball Championship Group B
1986 Men's World Champions YugoslaviaFirst title
Medal summary Yugoslavia Zlatan ArnautovićMirko BašićJovica CvetkovićJovica ElezovićČaslav GrubićJožef HolpertMile IsakovićMuhamed MemićDragan MladenovićJasmin MrkonjaZlatko PortnerRolando PušnikMomir RnićZlatko SaračevićVeselin VujovićVeselin Vuković Hungary Imre BíróJózsef BordásViktor DebreJános FodorJános GyurkaLászló HoffmannGábor HorváthMihály IváncsikJózsef KenyeresZsolt KontraMihály KovácsPéter KovácsLászló MarosiTibor OrossLászló Szabó East Germany Heiko BonathRüdiger BorchardtStephan HauckPeter HofmannAndreas KöckeritzHartmut KrügerAndreas NagoraPeter PysallGunnar SchimrockWieland SchmidtDirk SchnellKlaus-Dieter SchulzFrank-Michael WahlIngolf WiegertHolger WinselmannThomas Zeise
Top goalscorers Rank Player Goals 1 Kang Jae-won 67 2 Roberto Julián Duranona 50 3 Björn Jilsén 47 4 Péter Kovács 45 5 Kristján Arason 416 Ingolf Wiegert 40 Maricel Voinea 8 Jovica Cvetković 379 Michael Fenger 35 Peter Weber
External links IHF Report Men Handball World Championship 1986 Dataesport The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games - Medallists from previous World Championships