Tournament details | |
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Host country | South Korea |
Dates | 20 September – 1 October 1988 |
Teams | 20 |
Venue(s) | Olympic Gymnastics Arena Suwon Gymnasium |
Final positions | |
Champions | Soviet Union (men) South Korea (women) |
Runner-up | South Korea (men) Norway (women) |
Third place | Yugoslavia (men) Soviet Union (women) |
Fourth place | Hungary (men) Yugoslavia (women) |
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Final results for the Handball competition at the 1988 Summer Olympics.[1]
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Medal summary
Participating nations
Each qualified country was allowed to enter one team of 15 players and they all were eligible for participation. Five nations competed in both tournaments.
A total of 282(*) handball players (171 men and 111 women) from 15 nations (men from 12 nations - women from 8 nations) competed at the Seoul Games:
- Algeria (14) (men:14 women:0)
- China (12) (men:0 women:12)
- Ivory Coast (14) (men:0 women:14)
- Czechoslovakia (29) (men:14 women:15)
- East Germany (13) (men:13 women:0)
- Hungary (14) (men:14 women:0)
- Iceland (15) (men:15 women:0)
- Japan (15) (men:15 women:0)
- Norway (15) (men:0 women:15)
- South Korea (26) (men:14 women:12)
- Soviet Union (29) (men:14 women:15)
- Spain (15) (men:15 women:0)
- Sweden (14) (men:14 women:0)
- United States (28) (men:14 women:14)
- Yugoslavia (29) (men:15 women:14)
(*) NOTE: There are only players counted, which participated in one game at least.
Medal table
* Host nation (South Korea)
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | South Korea (KOR)* | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
2 | Soviet Union (URS) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
3 | Norway (NOR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
4 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Totals (4 entries) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
References
- ^ "Handball at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 20 March 2020.