Soviet Union national handball team
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The USSR national handball team was the national handball
Team handball
Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...

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Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

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World Championships Record

Year Hosting Country Rank
1954
1954 World Men's Handball Championship
The 1954 World Championship for men in team handball was the second World Handball Championship. It was held in Sweden.-Final standings:-Intermediate round:GROUP AGROUP B-Finals:Source:...

 Sweden Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

Did not participate
1958
1958 World Men's Handball Championship
The 1958 World Championship for men in team handball was the 3rd World Handball Championship. It was held in the German Democratic Republic. Germany sent a united team composed of players from the GDR and the FRG.-Final standings:-Preliminary round:...

 German Democratic Republic East Germany Did not participate
1961
1961 World Men's Handball Championship
The 1961 World Championship for men in team handball was the 4th World Handball Championship. It was held in West Germany. A united team composed of players from the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany competed.-Final standings:...

 West Germany West Germany
West Germany
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Did not participate
1964
1964 World Men's Handball Championship
The 1964 World Championship for men in team handball was the 5th World Handball Championship. It was held in Czechoslovakia.-Final standings:-Preliminary Round:GROUP AGROUP BGROUP CGROUP D-Main Round:...

 Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...

5th Place
1967
1967 World Men's Handball Championship
The 1967 World Championship for men in team handball was the 6th World Handball Championship. It was held in Sweden.-Final standings:# # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # -Preliminary Round:GROUP AGROUP B...

 Sweden Sweden
Sweden
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3rd Place
1970
1970 World Men's Handball Championship
The 1970 World Championship for men in team handball was the 7th World Handball Championship. It was held in France.-Final standings:# # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # -Preliminary Round:GROUP AGROUP B...

 Early Modern France France
France
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9th Place
1974
1974 World Men's Handball Championship
The 1974 World Championship for men in team handball was the 8th World Handball Championship. It was held in East Germany.-Teams:- Group A:-Group B:-Group C:-Group D:- Group 1:-Group 2:-3rd / 4th place:...

 German Democratic Republic East Germany 5th Place
1978
1978 World Men's Handball Championship
The 1978 World Championship for men in team handball was the 9th World Handball Championship. It was held in Denmark.-Teams:-:Group B-:Group C-:Group D-: Group 1-:Group 2-3rd / 4th place:* - In Copenhagen-Final:...

 Denmark Denmark
Denmark
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Runner-Ups
1982
1982 World Men's Handball Championship
The 1982 World Championship for men in team handball was the 10th World Handball Championship. It was held in West Germany.-Teams:- Group A:-Group B:-Group C:-Group D:- Group 1:-Group 2:-3rd / 4th place:* - In Dortmund...

 West Germany West Germany
West Germany
West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....

Champions
1986
1986 World Men's Handball Championship
The 1986 World Championship for men in team handball was the 11th World Handball Championship. It was held in Switzerland from February 25 to March 8, 1986.-Teams:- Group A:-Group B:-Group C:-Group D:- Group 1:-Group 2:...

 Switzerland Switzerland
Switzerland
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10th Place
1990
1990 World Men's Handball Championship
The 1990 World Championship for men in team handball was the 12th edition of the World Handball Championship. It was held in Czechoslovakia from February 28 to March 10, 1990.-Teams:- Group A:-Group B:-Group C:-Group D:- Group 1:...

 Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...

Runner-Ups

Summer Olympics Record

Year Hosting City Rank
1972
1972 Summer Olympics
The 1972 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from August 26 to September 11, 1972....

 West Germany Munich
Munich
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4th Place
1976
1976 Summer Olympics
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 Canada Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

Champions
1980
1980 Summer Olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event celebrated in Moscow in the Soviet Union. In addition, the yachting events were held in Tallinn, and some of the preliminary matches and the quarter-finals of the football tournament...

 Soviet Union Moscow
Moscow
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Runner-Ups
1984
1984 Summer Olympics
The 1984 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Los Angeles, California, United States in 1984...

 United States Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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Boycotted
1988
1988 Summer Olympics
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 South Korea Seoul
Seoul
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Champions
1992
1992 Summer Olympics
The 1992 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event celebrated in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, in 1992. The International Olympic Committee voted in 1986 to separate the Summer and Winter Games, which had been held in the same...

 Spain Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

Champions

National teams of the former Soviet republics

|National team |U-21 team |EHF
National team U-21 team EHF
National team
Belarus national handball team
The Belarus national handball team is the national handball team of Belarus....

U-21 team EHF
National team
Estonia national handball team
The Estonia national handball team is the national handball team of Estonia and is controlled by the Estonian Handball Association....

U-21 team EHF
National team U-21 team EHF
National team U-21 team AHF
National team U-20 team AHF
National team
Latvia national handball team
The Latvia national handball team is the national handball team of Latvia and is controlled by the Latvian Handball Federation....

U-21 team EHF
National team
Lithuania national handball team
The Lithuania national handball team is the national handball team of Lithuania.- Current roster :-References:* *...

U-21 team EHF
National team U-21 team EHF
National team
Russia national handball team
The Russia national handball team is the national handball team of Russia and is controlled by the Handball Union of Russia. Russia is designated by IHF and EHF as the inheritor of the record of USSR until 1990 and the Unified Team during the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.-History of handball...

U-21 team EHF
National team U-20 team AHF
National team U-20 team AHF
National team
Ukraine national handball team
The Ukraine national handball team is the national handball team of Ukraine.-World Men's Handball Championship record:...

U-21 team EHF
National team U-20 team AHF

See also

  • Soviet Union women's national handball team
    Soviet Union women's national handball team
    The USSR women's national handball team was the national women's handball team of the Soviet Union.- World Championship history :* 1962 : 6th* 1973 : 3rd* 1975 : 2nd* 1978 : 2nd* 1982 : Champion* 1986 : Champion* 1990 : Champion...

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