1986 World Men's Handball Championship

1986 World Men's Handball Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Switzerland
Final positions
Champions	Yugoslavia
Runner-up	Hungary
Third place	East Germany
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The 1986 World Men's Handball Championship was the 11th team handball World Championship. It was held in Switzerland from February 25 to March 8, 1986. Yugoslavia won the championship.

Teams

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
Cuba	Poland	Czechoslovakia	Algeria
East Germany	Spain	Iceland	Denmark
Soviet Union	Switzerland	Romania	Hungary
Yugoslavia	West Germany	South Korea	Sweden

Preliminary round

Group A

Team	P	W	T	L	G+	G-	GD	Pts.
Yugoslavia	3	3	0	0	80	70	+10	6
East Germany	3	2	0	1	71	64	+7	4
Soviet Union	3	1	0	2	73	72	+1	2
Cuba	3	0	0	3	75	93	-18	0

Group B

Team	P	W	T	L	G+	G-	GD	Pts.
West Germany	3	3	0	0	57	51	+6	6
Switzerland	3	1	1	1	50	50	0	3
Spain	3	0	2	1	49	53	-4	2
Poland	3	0	1	2	57	59	-2	1

Group C

Team	P	W	T	L	G+	G-	GD	Pts.
South Korea	3	2	0	1	76	65	+11	4
Romania	3	2	0	1	68	64	+4	4
Iceland	3	2	0	1	65	71	-6	4
Czechoslovakia	3	0	0	3	58	67	-9	0

Group D

Team	P	W	T	L	G+	G-	GD	Pts.
Hungary	3	3	0	0	71	62	+9	6
Sweden	3	2	0	1	70	60	+10	4
Denmark	3	1	0	2	69	67	+2	2
Algeria	3	0	0	3	53	74	-21	0

Second round

Group 1

Team	P	W	T	L	G+	G-	GD	Pts.
Yugoslavia	5	5	0	0	112	95	+17	10
East Germany	5	3	0	2	109	92	+17	6
Spain	5	2	1	2	92	87	+5	5
West Germany	5	2	0	3	88	97	-9	4
Soviet Union	5	2	0	3	104	109	-5	4
Switzerland	5	0	1	4	82	107	-25	1

Group 2

Team	P	W	T	L	G+	G-	GD	Pts.
Hungary	5	5	0	0	122	108	+14	10
Sweden	5	4	0	1	112	93	+19	8
Iceland	5	2	0	3	114	117	-3	4
Denmark	5	2	0	3	107	117	-10	4
Romania	5	1	0	4	78	93	-15	2
South Korea	5	1	0	4	132	137	-5	2

3rd / 4th place

Date	Match¹			Score
08.03.1986	East Germany	-	Sweden	24-23

• (¹) - In Basel

Final

Date	Match¹			Score
08.03.1986	Yugoslavia	-	Hungary	24-22

• (¹) - In Zurich

Final standings

	Yugoslavia
	Hungary
	East Germany
4	Sweden
5	Spain
6	Iceland
7	West Germany
8	Denmark
9	Romania
10	Soviet Union
11	Switzerland
12	South Korea
13	Czechoslovakia
14	Poland
15	Cuba
16	Algeria

	Qualified for the 1988 Summer Olympics
	Qualified for the 1987 Summer Universiade
	Qualified for the Olympic Qualification Tournament

Medal summary

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Yugoslavia Zlatan Arnautović Mirko Bašić Jovica Cvetković Jovica Elezović Časlav Grubić Jožef Holpert Mile Isaković Muhamed Memić Dragan Mladenović Jasmin Mrkonja Zlatko Portner Rolando Pušnik Momir Rnić Zlatko Saračević Veselin Vujović Veselin Vuković	Hungary Imre Bíró József Bordás Viktor Debre János Fodor János Gyurka László Hoffmann Gábor Horváth Mihály Iváncsik József Kenyeres Zsolt Kontra Mihály Kovács Péter Kovács László Marosi Tibor Oross László Szabó	East Germany Heiko Bonath Rüdiger Borchardt Stephan Hauck Peter Hofmann Andreas Kockeritz Hartmut Krüger Andreas Nagora Peter Pysall Gunnar Schimrock Wieland Schmidt Dirk Schnell Klaus-Dieter Schulz Frank Michael Wahl Ingolf Wiegert Holger Winselmann Thomas Zeise

Top goalscorers

Player	Goals
1. Jae-Won Kang (KOR)	67
2. Julián Duranona (CUB)	50
3. Björn Jilsén (SWE)	47
4. Péter Kovács (HUN)	45
5. Kristján Arason (ISL)	41
6. Ingolf Wiegert (GDR)	40
6. Maricel Voinea (ROM)	40
8. Jovica Cvetković (YUG)	37
9. Peter Morten Fenger (DEN)	35
9. Peter Weber (SWI)	35

External links

• Men Handball World Championship 1986
• Dataesport
• The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games - Medallists from previous World Championships