Soviet Union women's national handball team

Soviet Union women's national handball team
Information
Colours
1st
2nd
Results
Summer Olympics
Appearances3 (First in 1976)
Best result 1st (1976, 1980)
World Championship
Appearances7 (First in 1962)
Best result 1st (1982, 1986, 1990)
Last updated on Unknown.
Soviet Union women's national handball team
Medal record
Olympic Games
1976 Montreal Team
1980 Moscow Team
1988 Seoul Team
World Championship
1982 Hungary
1986 Netherlands
1990 South Korea
1975 Soviet Union
1978 Czechoslovakia
1973 Yugoslavia

The USSR women's national handball team was the national women's handball team of the Soviet Union. It was considered one of the strongest national teams in the world, and won 2 Olympic gold medals and 3 world championships. Together with their successor, Russia, they are the only women's team to have won three successive World Championships (Denmarks men's team equalled the record in 2023).

The Soviet Handball Federation joined IHF in 1958, and in 1962 the women's national team was founded. Their first major international tournament was the 1962 World Women's Handball Championship, where they finished 6th.[1]

The last major international tournament for the Soviet Union was the 1992 Olympics, where they competed as the Unified team.[2]

Competitive record

  Champions    Runners-up    Third place    Fourth place  

Olympic Games

Year Position GP W D L GS GA GD
1976 1st 5 5 0 0 92 40 +52
1980 1st 5 5 0 0 99 52 +47
1984 Boycott
1988 3rd 5 3 1 1 112 85 +27
Total 3/4 15 13 1 1 303 177 +126

World Championship

Year Position GP W D L GS GA GD
1957 Did not enter
1962 6th 5 1 0 4 35 56 −21
1965 Did not qualify
1971
1973 3rd 5 3 1 1 50 39 +11
1975 2nd 7 5 1 1 118 70 +48
1978 2nd 7 6 0 1 126 69 +57
1982 1st 7 6 0 1 128 109 +19
1986 1st 6 5 1 0 138 96 +42
1990 1st 6 6 0 0 150 128 +22
Total 7/10 43 32 3 8 745 567 +178

Other competitions

National teams of the former Soviet republics

 Armenia
 Azerbaijan
 Belarus
 Estonia
 Georgia
 Kazakhstan
 Kyrgyzstan
 Latvia
 Lithuania
 Moldova
 Russia
 Tajikistan
 Turkmenistan
 Ukraine
 Uzbekistan

Rererences

  1. ^ "1962 World Women's Handball Championship" (PDF). International Handball Federation. Retrieved January 21, 2025.
  2. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Unified Team at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2011-12-28.