The men's tournament was one of two handball tournaments at the 1976 Summer Olympics. It was the third appearance of a men's handball tournament as a medal event at the Olympic Games, after 1936 and 1972 (a demonstration event was held in 1952).
Qualification Mean of qualification Date Host Berths Qualified Host nation 12 May 1970 Amsterdam 1 1974 World Championship 28 February – 10 March 1974 1 European qualification tournament 4 November 1975 – 7 March 1976 Various 7 Asian qualification tournament 15 March – April 1976 Various 1 African qualification tournament 10–18 April 1976 Tunis 1 American qualification tournament 1 Total 12
Results Preliminary round Group A
Group B
Final round Ninth place game
Seventh place game
Fifth place game
Bronze medal game
Gold medal game
Rankings and statistics
Final ranking Rank Team 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 –
Top goalscorers Rank Name Goals1 Ștefan Birtalan 32 Bent Larsen 3 Zdravko Miljak 30 4 Joachim Deckarm 28 5 Kenji Fujinaka 266 Valeri Gassy 25 Pavel Mikeš8 Richard Abrahamson 24 Randy Dean10 Jerzy Klempel 23 Vladimir Maksimov
Team rosters Wolfgang BlankenauChristian ChagnonFrançois DauphinHugues de RoussanPierre DésormeauxPierre FerdaisRobert JohnsonRichard LambertClaude LefebvreDanny PowerPierre St. MartinStan ThorsethLuc TousignantClaude ViensCoach: Eugen TrofinBohumil CepákJozef DobrotkaVladimír HaberJiří HanzlVladimír JarýJiří KavanJindřich KrepindlJiří LiškaPavel MikešJán PackaJaroslav PapiernikIvan SatrapaFrantišek ŠulcCoach: Jiří VíchaŠtefan KatušákSøren AndersenLars BockAnders Dahl-NielsenJørgen FrandsenClaus FromHenrik JacobsgaardPalle JensenKay JørgensenBent LarsenThor MunkagerThomas PazyjJesper PetersenJohnny PiechnikCoach: Jørgen GaarskjærMorten Stig ChristensenBéla Bartalos (Honvéd Szondy SE)Ferenc Buday (Budapest Honvéd SE)Ernő Gubányi (TBSC)László Jánovszki (Budapest Spartacus SC)József Kenyeres (Budapest Honvéd SE)Zsolt Kontra (Honvéd Szondy SE)Péter Kovács (Budapest Honvéd SE)Mihály Süvöltős (Debreceni Dózsa)István Szilágyi (FTC)István Varga (Debreceni Dózsa)Károly Vass (Elektromos SE)Gábor Verőci (Budapest Honvéd SE)Coach: Mihály FaludiZoltán BartalosPál KocsisKenji FujinakaSeimei GamoHiroshi HanawaHiroshi HondaToyohiko HozumiSatoshi KikuchiMinoru KinoKozo MatsubaraTakezo NakaiKenichi SasakiYoji SatoMasaki ShibataCoach: Tomoaki TakenoZdzisław AntczakJanusz BrzozowskiPiotr CieślaJan GmyrekAlfred KałuzińskiJerzy KlempelZygfryd KuchtaJerzy MelcerRyszard PrzybyszHenryk RozmiarekAndrzej SokołowskiAndrzej SzymczakMieczysław WojczakWłodzimierz ZielińskiCoach: Janusz Czerwiński Ștefan BirtalanAdrian CosmaCezar DrăgăniṭăAlexandru FölkerCristian GațuMircea GrabovschiRoland GuneschGabriel KicsidGhiță LicuNicolae MunteanuCornel PenuWerner StöcklConstantin TudosieRadu VoinaCoach: Nicolae Nedef Aleksandr AnpilogovYevgeni ChernyshovAnatoli FedyukinValeri GassyVasily IlyinMykhaylo IshchenkoYury KidyayevYury KlimovVladimir KravtsovSerhiy KushniryukYuriy LahutynVladimir MaksimovOleksandr RezanovMykola TomynCoach: Anatoli Yevtushenko Mohamed Abdel KhaledKhaled AchourHabib AmmarAhmed Bechir Bel HadjAbderraouf Ben SamirMoncef BesbesRaouf ChabchoubSlaheddine DeguechiMohamed Naceur JeliliMounir JeliliHabib KhederLotfi RebaiRichard AbrahamsonRoger BakerPeter Buehning, Jr.Randolph DeanRobert DeanVincent DiCalogeroEzra GlantzWilliam JohnsonPatrick O'NeillSandor RivnyakJames RogersKevin SerrapedeRobert SparksHarry WinklerCoach: Dennis BerkholtzGerd BeckerGünter BöttcherHeiner BrandBernhard BuschJoachim DeckarmArno EhretJürgen HahnManfred HofmannPeter JaschkePeter KleibrinkKurt KlühspiesRudolf RauerHorst SpenglerWalter von OepenCoach: Vlado ŠtenclAbaz ArslanagićVlado BojovićHrvoje HorvatMilorad KaralićRadivoj KrivokapićZdravko MiljakŽeljko NimšRadisav PavićevićBranislav PokrajacNebojša PopovićZdravko RađenovićZvonimir SerdarušićPredrag TimkoZdenko ZorkoCoach: Ivan Snoj
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