Handball at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Handball at the 1984 Summer Olympics featured competition for men and women. Due to the USSR-led boycott some strong handball nations from Eastern Bloc did not compete; this gave an opportunity to the Yugoslav team to take both gold medals. Games were played at Titan Gym in Fullerton, California.

Women
1:Teams joined Soviet lead boycott 2: was invited to replace, but rejected the invitation, because COA supposed the team is not good enough. Then, IHF invited. 3: and withdraw. So qualified without play.

Participating nations
Each qualified country was allowed to enter one team of 15 players and they all were eligible for participation. Four nations competed in both tournaments.

A total of 259(*) handball players (177 men and 82 women) from 14 nations (men from 12 nations - women from 6 nations) competed at the Los Angeles Games:

(*) NOTE: There are only players counted, which participated in one game at least.
 * (men:15 women:0)
 * (men:0 women:15)
 * (men:0 women:13)
 * (men:14 women:0)
 * (men:15 women:13)
 * (men:15 women:0)
 * (men:15 women:0)
 * (men:15 women:0)
 * (men:15 women:13)
 * (men:15 women:0)
 * (men:15 women:0)
 * (men:15 women:0)
 * (men:14 women:13)
 * (men:14 women:15)