Team handball at the 1976 Summer Olympics featured competition for men and women. It was the first time women's handball was a part of the Olympics.
Medal summary
Men Aleksandr AnpilogovYevgeni ChernyshovAnatoli FedyukinValeri GassyVasily IlyinMykhaylo IshchenkoYuri KidyaevYuri KlimovVladimir KravtsovSerhiy KushniryukYuriy LahutynVladimir MaksimovOleksandr RezanovMykola Tomyn Ștefan BirtalanAdrian CosmaCezar DrăgăniṭăAlexandru FölkerCristian GațuMircea GrabovschiRoland GuneschGabriel KicsidGhiță LicuNicolae MunteanuCornel PenuWerner StöcklConstantin TudosieRadu Voina Zdzisław AntczakJanusz BrzozowskiPiotr CieślaJan GmyrekAlfred KałuzińskiJerzy KlempelZygfryd KuchtaJerzy MelcerRyszard PrzybyszHenryk RozmiarekAndrzej SokołowskiAndrzej SzymczakMieczysław WojczakWłodzimierz Zieliński Women Lyubov BerezhnayaLyudmyla BobrusAldona ČesaitytėTetyana HlushchenkoLarysa KarlovaMariya LitoshenkoNina LobovaTetyana MakaretsLyudmyla PanchukRafiga ShabanovaNataliya SherstyukLyudmila ShubinaZinaida TurchynaHalyna Zakharova Gabriele BadorekHannelore BuroschRoswitha KrauseWaltraud KretzschmarEvelyn MatzLiane MichaelisEva PaskuyKristina RichterChristina RostSilvia SiefertMarion TietzPetra UhligChristina VoßHannelore Zober Éva AngyalMária BerzsenyiÁgota BujdosóKlára CsíknéZsuzsanna KézinéKatalin LakinéRozália LelkesnéMárta MegyerinéIlona NagyMarianna NagyErzsébet NémethAmália SterbinszkyBorbála Tóth HarsányiMária Vadászné
Participating nations Each qualified country was allowed to enter one team of 14 players and they all were eligible for participation. Five nations competed in both tournaments. Japan entered only a squad of twelve women and twelve men. Only four male reserve players did not participate (one from Denmark, two from Hungary, and one from Czechoslovakia).
A total of 230(*) handball players (148 men and 82 women) from 12 nations (men from 11 nations – women from 6 nations) competed at the Montreal Games:
(men:14 women:14) (men:13 women:0) (men:13 women:0) (men:0 women:14) (men:14 women:0) (men:12 women:14) (men:12 women:12) (men:14 women:0) (men:14 women:14) (men:14 women:14) (men:14 women:0) (men:14 women:0) (*) NOTE: There are only players counted, which participated in one game at least.
Medal table
References
External links Official Olympic Report