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Handball, Women

Date21 – 29 July 1980
StatusOlympic
LocationDvorets sporta Dynamo, Moskva / Dvorets sporta Sokolniki, Mosvka
Participants82 from 6 countries
FormatRound-robin tournament.

The top four of the 1978 worlds (DDR, USSR, Hungary, Czechslovakia) plus the host nation (5th place Yugoslavia substituted for the Soviets) were pre-qualified. The sixth nation was decided in a tournament between South Korea, Congo-Brazzaville and the US. The South Koreans won, but as they ended up boycotting the Games, second-placed Congo was promoted to the Olympics. The African side turned out to be horribly outmatched by the other five competitors. They lost all five games, scoring only 9.2 goals per game, while having to deal with an average 31.8 goals against. Their loss against Yugoslavia (9-39), stands out as the most lopsided women’s match in Olympic history, second only to the 44-10 thrashing of Kuwait in the men’s competition in Moscow.

The East German women were favored because they had won the 1978 world title (as well as in 1971 and 1975), but they first faltered in a draw with Yugoslavia (15-15). Pitted against the Soviets in the final match, they could still win the tournament if they could claim a victory, similar to the 1976 Olympics. But there was no chance of that happening. The Soviets, who had solidly won all their prior matches, led 7-6 at half-time and then moved away from their opponents to win 18-13. Woman of the match was Olha Zubareva, who scored eight times.

This meant Yugoslavia and East Germany were equal in points, and because they had drawn in their match, goal difference would decide. The Yugoslav women ended with the aforementioned wash-out of Congo, brushing up their goal difference to +40, which beat the +33 advantage of the German women, who had “only” beaten Congo by 22 points.

PosTeamNOC
1Soviet UnionURSGold
Nataliya Sherstyuk-Timoshkina
Larisa Karlova
Irina Palchikova
Zinaida Turchina
Tatyana Makarets-Kochergina
Lyudmila Bobrus-Poradnik
Larisa Savkina
Aldona Česaitytė-Nenėnienė
Yuliya Safina
Olga Zubareva
Valentina Lutayeva
Lyubov Berezhnaya-Odinokova
Sigita Strečen-Mažeikaitė
Nataliya Lukyanenko DNS
CoachMikhail Lutsenko
2YugoslaviaYUGSilver
Ana Titlić
Slavica Jeremić
Zorica Vojinović
Radmila Drljača
Katica Ileš
Mirjana Ognjenović
Svetlana Anastasovska-Obućina
Rada Savić
Svetlana Dašić-Kitić
Mirjana Đurica
Biserka Višnjić
Vesna Radović
Jasna Kolar-Merdan
Vesna Milošević
CoachMilorad Milatović
3East GermanyGDRBronze
Hannelore Zober
Katrin Krüger
Evelyn Matz
Roswitha Krause
Christina Rost
Petra Uhlig
Claudia Wunderlich
Sabine Röther
Kornelia Kunisch
Marion Tietz
Kristina Richter
Waltraud Kretzschmar
Birgit Heinecke
Renate Rudolph
CoachPeter Kretzschmar
4HungaryHUN
Mária Berzsenyi
Erzsébet Németh-Csajbók
Rozália Tomann-Lelkes
Éva Csulik
Amália Sterbinszky
Klára Horváth
Marianna Nagy-Gódor
Ilona Samus-Mihályka
Mária Vanya-Vadász
Erzsébet Balogh
Éva Angyal
Györgyi Őri-Győrvári
Piroska Budai
Klára Bonyhádi
CoachLájos Gati
5CzechoslovakiaTCH
Mária Končeková
Elena Boledovičová
Daniela Trandžíková-Nováková
Katarína Lamrichová
Alena Horalová
Jolana Némethová
Viola Pavlasová
Priska Polačeková
Jana Kuťková
Věra Datínská
Milena Foltýnová-Gschiessl
Elena Brezányová
Petra Komínková
Mária Benová DNS
CoachLubomír Snitzer
6CongoCGO
Madeleine Mitsotso
Pascaline Bobeka
Angelik Abebame
Nicole Oba
Henriette Koula
Solange Koulinka
Isabelle Azanga
Micheline Okemba
Viviane Okoula
Germaine Djimbi
Yolande Kada-Gango
Pemba Lopez
Julienne Malaki
Yvonne Makouala
CoachSebastian Bitambiki

Round-Robin

Date21 – 29 July 1980
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #121 Jul 17:00Soviet UnionURS30 – 11CongoCGO
Match #221 Jul 18:30East GermanyGDR16 – 10CzechoslovakiaTCH
Match #321 Jul 20:00YugoslaviaYUG19 – 10HungaryHUN
Match #423 Jul 17:00Soviet UnionURS17 – 7CzechoslovakiaTCH
Match #523 Jul 18:30HungaryHUN39 – 10CongoCGO
Match #623 Jul 20:00East GermanyGDR15 – 15YugoslaviaYUG
Match #725 Jul 17:00Soviet UnionURS16 – 12HungaryHUN
Match #825 Jul 18:30East GermanyGDR28 – 6CongoCGO
Match #925 Jul 20:00YugoslaviaYUG25 – 15CzechoslovakiaTCH
Match #1027 Jul 17:00Soviet UnionURS18 – 9YugoslaviaYUG
Match #1127 Jul 18:30CzechoslovakiaTCH23 – 10CongoCGO
Match #1227 Jul 20:00East GermanyGDR19 – 9HungaryHUN
Match #1329 Jul 13:00YugoslaviaYUG39 – 9CongoCGO
Match #1429 Jul 14:30HungaryHUN10 – 10CzechoslovakiaTCH
Match #1529 Jul 18:30Soviet UnionURS18 – 13East GermanyGDR