Handball at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification

The qualification for the 1976 Women's Olympic Handball Tournament assigned quota places to six teams: the host, four teams from the world championships and one team from the qualification tournament respectively.

Handball at the
1976 Summer Olympics
Qualification
menwomen
Tournament
menwomen
Rosters
menwomen

Qualification
QualificationDateHostBerthsQualified
Host nation12 May 1970 Amsterdam1 Canada
1975 World Championship2–13 December 1975 Soviet Union4 East Germany
 Soviet Union
 Hungary
 Romania
Intercontinental qualification28 June – 3 July 1976 Milwaukee1 Japan
Total6

Modus

The IHF proposed that the host and the top five from the last world championships (WC) would qualify. The USA proposed that besides the host only the top four from the WC would qualify. The last spot would be given to the winner of an additional tournament. At this tournament, the champions from Africa, America, and Asia would attend. Finland proposed that the sixth place would be given to the winner of a game between the 5th place team at the WC and the winner of a tournament between the champions from Africa, America, and Asia.

France presented the following arguments for the American proposal:

  • The Olympic thought is that all continents are represented
  • It would be great propaganda for handball on these continents
  • It's not technical risk. Because the level of Japan is good enough and they would most likely win the qualification tournament.

The proposal from the USA received 25 votes, from Finland 12 votes, and the proposal from the IHF 10 votes.[1]

Legend for qualification type
Qualified
Key From To
World ChampionshipOlympic Tournament
World ChampionshipQualification Tournament

World Championship
Main article: 1975 World Women's Handball Championship
Rank Team
 East Germany
 Soviet Union
 Hungary
4 Romania
5 Yugoslavia
6 Czechoslovakia
7 Poland
8 Norway
9 Denmark
10 Japan
11 United States
12 Tunisia

Qualification tournament
Qualification tournament
Tournament details
Host country United States
Dates28 June – 3 July 1976
Teams3 (from 3 confederations)
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
Tournament statistics
Matches6
Goals scored182 (30 per match)

The 1976 IHF Olympic qualification tournament was held in the United States. The winner of the tournament qualified for the 1976 Summer Olympics. Japan represented Asia, Tunisia represented Africa and the United States represented America.[2]

Qualification
QualificationDateHostBerthsQualified
1975 World Championship – Asian qualification1 Japan
1976 African Championship18. April 1976 Algeria1 Tunisia
American representative1 United States
Total3

Standings
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Japan 4 4 0 0 80 46 +34 8 1976 Summer Olympics
2  United States (H) 4 2 0 2 64 63 +1 4
3  Tunisia 4 0 0 4 38 73 −35 0
Source: www.todor66.com
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Goals scored; 7) Draw.
(H) Host

Matches

All times are local (UTC-5).

28 June 1976 United States  13–8  Tunisia Whitefish Bay Field House, Milwaukee
[3]
29 June 1976 Japan  20–9  Tunisia Whitefish Bay Field House, Milwaukee
[4]
30 June 1976
21:00		 United States  17–23  Japan Whitefish Bay Field House, Milwaukee
[5][6] Kurata & Shimada 6
1 July 1976 United States  22–13  Tunisia Whitefish Bay Field House, Milwaukee
Lillis 8 [7]
2 July 1976 Japan  18–8  Tunisia Whitefish Bay Field House, Milwaukee
[8]
3 July 1976
19:00		 United States  12–19  Japan Whitefish Bay Field House, Milwaukee
[9]

References
  1. "Les Jeux Olympiques Feminins de Montréal". handball. 109: 17. December 1974.
  2. "Olympic Handball Squad Readies For Montreal". Messenger-Press: 17. 1 July 1976.
  3. "Leigh's Idle As U.S. Wins In Handball". Pensacola News Journal: 19. 30 June 1976.
  4. "Japanese win at Handball". The South Bend Tribune: 47. 30 June 1976.
  5. "Japan Trips U.S. In Handball, 23-17". Pensacola News Journal: 49. 1 July 1976.
  6. "U.S. Loses in Handball". Lancaster New Era: 40. 1 July 1976.
  7. "U.S. wins in handball". The Minneapolis Star: 28. 2 July 1976.
  8. "Japanese Leads In Tourney". Ironwood Daily Globe: 11. 3 July 1976.
  9. "U.S. Women Ousted in Team Handball". The Los Angeles Times: 46. 4 July 1976.
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