Handball at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Handball at the
1988 Summer Olympics

Tournament details
Host country	South Korea
Venue(s)	Olympic Gymnastics Arena Suwon Gymnasium
Dates	20 September – 1 October 1988
Teams	20
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)

Korean handball players' uniforms at the 1988 Olympics

Final results for the handball competition at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Soviet Union (URS) Vyacheslav Atavin Igor Chumak Valeri Gopin Aleksandr Karshakevich Andrey Lavrov Yuri Nesterov Voldemaras Novickis Aleksandr Rymanov Konstantin Sharovarov Yuri Shevtsov Georgi Sviridenko Aleksandr Tuchkin Andrey Tyumentsev Mikhail Vasilev Leonid Doroshenko	South Korea (KOR) Choi Suk-jae Kang Jae-won Kim Jae-hwan Koh Suk-chang Lee Sang-hyo Lim Jin-suk Noh Hyun-suk Oh Young-ki Park Do-hun Park Young-dae Shim Jae-hong Shin Young-suk Yoon Tae-il	Yugoslavia (YUG) Mirko Bašić Jožef Holpert Boris Jarak Slobodan Kuzmanovski Muhamed Memić Alvaro Načinović Goran Perkovac Zlatko Portner Iztok Puc Rolando Pušnik Momir Rnić Zlatko Saračević Irfan Smajlagić Ermin Velić Veselin Vujović
Women	South Korea (KOR) Han Hyun-sook Ki Mi-sook Kim Choon-rye Kim Hyun-mee Kim Kyung-soon Kim Myung-soon Lee Ki-soon Lim Mi-kyung Shon Mi-Na Song Ji-hyun Suk Min-hee Sung Kyung-hwa Lee Mi-young	Norway (NOR) Kjerstin Andersen Berit Digre Marte Eliasson Susann Goksør Trine Haltvik Hanne Hegh Hanne Hogness Vibeke Johnsen Kristin Midthun Karin Pettersen Karin Singstad Annette Skotvoll Ingrid Steen Heidi Sundal Cathrine Svendsen	Soviet Union (URS) Natalya Anisimova Maryna Bazhanova Tatyana Dzhandzhgava Elina Guseva Tetyana Horb Larysa Karlova Natalya Lapitskaya Svitlana Mankova Nataliya Matryuk Natalya Morskova Olena Nemashkalo Nataliya Rusnachenko Olha Semenova Yevheniya Tovstohan Zinaida Turchyna

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:15 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
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

External links

• Official Olympic Report