Handball at the 1976 Summer Olympics

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.^[1]

Handball at the
1976 Summer Olympics

Handball
Tournament details
Host country	Canada
Dates	18–28 July 1976
Teams	18
Final positions
Champions	Soviet Union (men)  Soviet Union (women)
Runners-up	Romania (men)  East Germany (women)
Third place	Poland (men)  Hungary (women)
Fourth place	West Germany (men)  Romania (women)
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Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	Soviet Union (URS) Aleksandr Anpilogov Yevgeni Chernyshov Anatoli Fedyukin Valeri Gassy Vasily Ilyin Mykhaylo Ishchenko Yuri Kidyaev Yuri Klimov Vladimir Kravtsov Serhiy Kushniryuk Yuriy Lahutyn Vladimir Maksimov Oleksandr Rezanov Mykola Tomyn	Romania (ROU) Ștefan Birtalan Adrian Cosma Cezar Drăgăniṭă Alexandru Fölker Cristian Gațu Mircea Grabovschi Roland Gunesch Gabriel Kicsid Ghiță Licu Nicolae Munteanu Cornel Penu Werner Stöckl Constantin Tudosie Radu Voina	Poland (POL) Zdzisław Antczak Janusz Brzozowski Piotr Cieśla Jan Gmyrek Alfred Kałuziński Jerzy Klempel Zygfryd Kuchta Jerzy Melcer Ryszard Przybysz Henryk Rozmiarek Andrzej Sokołowski Andrzej Szymczak Mieczysław Wojczak Włodzimierz Zieliński
Women details	Soviet Union (URS) Lyubov Berezhnaya Lyudmyla Bobrus Aldona Česaitytė Tetyana Hlushchenko Larysa Karlova Mariya Litoshenko Nina Lobova Tetyana Makarets Lyudmyla Panchuk Rafiga Shabanova Nataliya Sherstyuk Lyudmila Shubina Zinaida Turchyna Halyna Zakharova	East Germany (GDR) Gabriele Badorek Hannelore Burosch Roswitha Krause Waltraud Kretzschmar Evelyn Matz Liane Michaelis Eva Paskuy Kristina Richter Christina Rost Silvia Siefert Marion Tietz Petra Uhlig Christina Voß Hannelore Zober	Hungary (HUN) Éva Angyal Mária Berzsenyi Ágota Bujdosó Klára Csíkné Zsuzsanna Kéziné Katalin Lakiné Rozália Lelkesné Márta Megyeriné Ilona Nagy Marianna Nagy Erzsébet Németh Amália Sterbinszky Borbála Tóth Harsányi Mária 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:

•  Canada (28) (men:14 women:14)
•  Czechoslovakia (13) (men:13 women:0)
•  Denmark (13) (men:13 women:0)
•  East Germany (14) (men:0 women:14)
•  West Germany (14) (men:14 women:0)
•  Hungary (26) (men:12 women:14)
•  Japan (24) (men:12 women:12)
•  Poland (14) (men:14 women:0)
•  Romania (28) (men:14 women:14)
•  Soviet Union (28) (men:14 women:14)
•  United States (14) (men:14 women:0)
•  Yugoslavia (14) (men:14 women:0)

(*) NOTE: There are only players counted, which participated in one game at least.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	2	0	0	2
2	East Germany (GDR)	0	1	0	1
	Romania (ROU)	0	1	0	1
4	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 entries)		2	2	2	6