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.
Qualification Qualification Date Host Berths Qualified Host nation 23 October 1974 Vienna 1 1978 World Championship 26 January – 5 February 1978 6 5 1978 World Championship Group B 22 February – 3 March 1978 2 3 1979 African Championship 20–31 July 1979 Brazzaville 1 1980 Pan American Championship 7–14 January 1980 Mexico City 1 1979 Asian Championship 4–9 November 1979 Nanjing 1 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
Group B
Final round Eleventh place game
Ninth place game
Seventh place game
Fifth place game
Bronze medal game
Gold medal game
Rankings and statistics
Final ranking Rank Team 4 5 Spain6 7 8 Switzerland9 Denmark10 11 12
Top goalscorers Rank Name Goals 1 Jerzy Klempel 44 2 Ernst Züllig 40 3 Vasile Stîngă 36 4 Jesús Agramonte 345 Ahcene Djeffal 33 Pavle Jurina Frank-Michael Wahl8 Zsolt Kontra 30 Juan Prendes 10 Aleksandr Anpilogov 29
Team rosters Ali AkachaOmar AzzebAbdel Atif BakirAbdelkrim BendjemilAbdel Atif BergheulAzzedine BouzerarAhcen DjeffalAhmed FarfarAbdel Krim HamicheKamel HebriMohamed MachouMouloud MekhnacheRashid MokhraniAbdel Madjid SlimaniCoach: Jesús AgramonteMoisés CasalesRoberto CasusoIbrain CrombetMiguel IzquierdoLázaro JiménezJuan LlanesSabino MedinaJosé NeníngerPablo PedrosoJuan PrendesJuan QuerolRoberto ZuluetaCoach: Lázaro PedrosoMichael Jørn BergMorten Stig ChristensenAnders Dahl-NielsenIver GrunnetHans HattesenCarsten HaurumPalle JensenBjarne JeppesenMogens JeppesenThomas PazyjErik Bue PedersenPoul Kjær PoulsenPer SkaarupOle Nørskov SørensenCoach: Leif MikkelsenHans-Georg BeyerLothar DoeringGünter DreibrodtErnst GerlachKlaus GrunerRainer HöftHans-Georg JaunichHartmut KrügerPeter RostDietmar SchmidtWieland SchmidtSiegfried VoigtFrank-Michael WahlIngolf WiegertCoach: Paul Tiedemann Béla Bartalos (Tatabánya KC)János Fodor (FTC)Ernő Gubányi (Tatabánya KC)László Jánovszki (Bud. Spartacus)Alpár Jegenyés (Bud. Honvéd)József Kenyeres (Bud. Honvéd)Zsolt Kontra (Tatabánya KC)Péter Kovács (Bud. Honvéd)Miklós Kovacsics (Pécsi Mecsek)Ambrus Lele (Szegedi Volán)Árpád Pál (Tatabánya KC)László Szabó (Szegedi Volán)István Szilágyi (FTC)Sándor Vass (Elektromos SE)Coach: Mihály FaludiAbdel Aziz Al-AnjriKhamis BashirJasem al-DeyabAhmed al-EmranMajid Al-KhamisFaraj Al-MutairiSaleh NajemJasem Al-QassarMond al-QassarAbdullah Al-Qena'iMusa'ed Al-RandiIsmael Shah Al-ZadahKhaled ShahFawzi Al-ShuwairbatCoach: János AdorjánJanusz BrzozowskiPiotr CzaczkaJerzy GarpielZbigniew GawlikRyszard JedlińskiAndrzej KąckiAlfred KałuzińskiJerzy KlempelGrzegorz KosmaMarek PanasHenryk RozmiarekZbigniew TłuczyńskiDaniel WaszkiewiczMieczysław WojczakCoach: Ştefan BirtalanIosif BoroşAdrian CosmaCezar DrăgăniṭăMarian DumitruCornel DurăuAlexandru FölkerClaudiu IonescuNicolae MunteanuVasile StîngăLucian VasilacheNeculai VasilcăRadu VoinaMaricel VoineaCoaches: Kunst-Ghermănescu, Nedeff and PanăAleksandr AnpilogovVladimir BelovYevgeni ChernyshovAnatoli FedyukinMykhaylo IshchenkoAleksandr KarshakevichYury KidyayevVladimir KravtsovSerhiy KushniryukViktor MakhorinVoldemaras NovickisVladimir RepevMykola TomynAleksey ZhukCoach: Anatoly YevtushenkoJesús María AlbisuVicente CalabuigJuan de la PuenteJuan Pedro de MiguelFrancisco LópezGregorio LópezRafael LópezAgustín MiliánJuan Francisco MuñozJosé Ignacio NovoaJosé María PagoagaEugenio SerranoJuan José UríaCoach: Javier CabanasKonrad AffolterRoland BrandHans HuberUgo JamettiPeter JehleRobert JehleHanspeter LutzPeter MaagWalter MüllerMartin OttMax SchärRudolf WeberEduard WickliErnst ZülligCoach: Vinko Kandija Zlatan ArnautovićJovica CvetkovićAdnan DizdarJovica ElezovićMile IsakovićDrago JovovićPavle JurinaEnver KosoPeter MahneJasmin MrkonjaVelibor NenadićGoran NerićStjepan ObranMomir RnićCoach: Branislav Pokrajac
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