Handball at the Friendship Games

Handball at the Friendship Games is the handball tournament organized for the 1984 Summer Olympics boycotting countries. Given that the Eastern Bloc countries and allies were at that time amongst the most competitive teams the tournament's level was rather high.

It was contested in two events. Men's event took place in Rostock and Magdeburg, East Germany between 17 and 21 July 1984, with eight teams competing. The women's event was contested at Hala na Sihoti in Trenčín, Czechoslovakia between 21 and 25 August 1984, with six teams competing.

Men's event
Eight teams were drawn into two groups.

The host nation, East Germany, had two teams in the tournament. However, the East Germany "B" team competed "off competition". Despite ending the tournament on the sixth place, this result was not included in the final rankings. The seventh team (i. e. Czechoslovakia) was instead counted as the sixth place team, etc.

Group A
All matches played in Magdeburg.

Group B
All matches played in Rostock.

Final

 * : Wieland Schmidt, Peter Hofmann — Günter Dreibrodt 6, Peter Rost, Udo Rothe 2/1, Holger Winselmann, Ingolf Wiegert 1, Frank-Michael Wahl 4, Stephan Hauck 3, Dietmar Schmidt, Hartmut Krüger 2, Peter Pysall
 * : Aleksandr Shypenko, Mikhail Ishchenko — Oleg Gagin 1, Vladimir Belov 1, Mikhail Vasilyev 4, Yuri Shevtsov 2, Sergey Kushniryuk 2, Yuri Kidyaev 2, Aleksandr Rymanov 2, Aleksandr Karshakevich 1, Aleksandr Anpilogov 2/2, Voldemaras Novickis.
 * Score: 3-6 (20'), 5-8 (20'), 6-8 (half-time) ; 11-10 (42'), 16-14 (52'), 17-14 (53'), 17-16 (56'), 18-16 (57'), 18-17 (58'), 18-17 (end of the game).

Final ranking
* – East Germany B competed "off competition" and was not included in the final ranking table.

Top scorer
Top scorers are:
 * 🇭🇺 Péter Kovács (HUN) – 26 goals
 * Andreas Nagora - 25 goals
 * 🇵🇱 Daniel Waszkiewicz (POL) – 22 goals
 * 🇨🇺 Roberto Casuso (CUB) – 21 goals
 * 🇭🇺 János Gyurka (HUN) – 21 goals
 * Ingolf Wiegert – 20 goals
 * Yuri Kidyaev – 16 goals

Women's event
Six teams competed in a round-robin tournament.