Handball at the 1984 Summer Olympics featured competition for men and women. Due to the USSR-led boycott some strong handball nations from Eastern Bloc did not compete; this gave an opportunity to the Yugoslav team to take both gold medals. Games were played at Titan Gym in Fullerton, California, and the finals were at the Forum, later the Kia Forum, in Inglewood, California.
Qualification Men QualificationDateHostVacanciesQualified Host nation 18 May 1978 Athens 1 1982 World Championship 23 February – 7 March 1982 6 111 1983 World Championship B 25 February – 6 March 1983 2 3 112 Asian qualification tournament 12–20 November 1983 Sagamihara 1 1983 Pan American Men's Handball Championship 2–6 February 1972 Colorado Springs 1 0 12 1983 African Men's Handball Championship 22–31 July 1983 Cairo 1 Total 12
Women QualificationDateHostVacanciesQualified Host nation 18 May 1978 Athens 1 1982 World Championship 2–12 December 1982 4 2 111 Intercontinental Olympic Qualification - - 1 3 1983 World Championship B 7–15 December 1983 0 2 Total 6 1:Teams joined Soviet lead boycott 2: was invited to replace , but rejected the invitation, because COA supposed the team is not good enough. Then, IHF invited . 3: and withdraw. So qualified without play.
Medal summary
Men Zlatan ArnautovićMirko BašićJovica ElezovićMile IsakovićPavle JurinaMilan KalinaSlobodan KuzmanovskiDragan MladenovićZdravko RađenovićMomir RnićBranko ŠtrbacVeselin VujovićVeselin VukovićZdravko ZovkoRolando Pušnik Jochen FraatzThomas HappeArnulf MeffleRüdiger NeitzelMichael PaulDirk RauinSiegfried RochMichael RothUlrich RothMartin SchwalbUwe SchwenkerThomas SpringelAndreas ThielKlaus WöllerErhard Wunderlich Mircea BedivanDumitru BerbeceIosif BoroşAlexandru BuliganGheorghe CovaciuGheorghe DogărescuMarian DumitruCornel DurăuAlexandru FölkerNicolae MunteanuVasile OpreaAdrian SimionVasile StîngăNeculai VasilcăMaricel Voinea Women Svetlana AnastasovskaAlenka CudermanSvetlana Dašić-KitićSlavica ĐukićDragica ĐurićMirjana ĐuricaEmilija ErčićLjubinka JankovićJasna Kolar-MerdanLjiljana MugošaSvetlana MugošaMirjana OgnjenovićZorica PavićevićJasna PtujecBiserka Višnjić Han Hwa-SooJeong Hyoi-SoonJeung Soon-BokKim Choon-RyeKim Kyung-SoonKim Mi-sookKim Ok-HwaLee Soon-EiLee Young-JaShon Mi-NaSung Kyung-HwaYoon Byung-SoonYoon Soo-Kyung Chen ZhenGao Xiumin He JianpingLi LanLiu LipingLiu YumeiSun XiulanWang LinweiWang MingxingWu XingjiangZhang WeihongZhang PeijunZhu Juefeng
Participating nations
Each qualified country was allowed to enter one team of 15 players and they all were eligible for participation. Four nations competed in both tournaments.
A total of 259(*) handball players (177 men and 82 women) from 14 nations (men from 12 nations - women from 6 nations) competed at the Los Angeles Games:
(men:15 women:0) (men:0 women:15) (men:0 women:13) (men:14 women:0) (men:15 women:13) (men:15 women:0) (men:15 women:0) (men:15 women:0) (men:15 women:13) (men:15 women:0) (men:15 women:0) (men:15 women:0) (men:14 women:13) (men:14 women:15) (*) NOTE: There are only players counted, which participated in one game at least.
Medal table
Railing collapse
The only multi-casualty event noted in the 1984 official report of the Los Angeles Olympics was a small one at team handball where a railing on the bleachers collapsed. The first aid team and the chief medical officer handled the situation quickly and professionally. First aid teams were responsible for moving victims from the stands and broken railings. However, a concern that was not anticipated was the lack of experience in carrying patients from the stands. Four of eight spectators who fell through a wooden railing while trying to catch bouquets from victorious Olympic medal-winners suffered minor injuries but were not hospitalized.
References
External links Official Olympic Report