1986 World Men's Handball Championship

The 11th World Handball Championship for men was held from February 25 to March 8, 1986 in Switzerland. A total of 16 teams participated in the tournament. The world title won Yugoslavia with a 24:22 win over Hungary. Bronze won the GDR selection, the team of the Federal Republic of Germany finished in seventh place.

  • 4.1 World Cup: Yugoslavia
  • 4.2 Second Place: Hungary
  • 4.3 Third place: German Democratic Republic
  • 4.4 Seventh place: Federal Republic of Germany

Schedule

Preliminary round

In the preliminary round, the teams competed in four groups against each other. Play the first three teams in each group qualified for the main round.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Main Round

The top three teams in each group reached the main round. The teams came from the qualifying groups A and B in group I, the teams from Groups C and D in the Group II results from the direct duels of the teams from the same preliminary group were taken with the main round.

Group I

Group II

Placement Round 13-16

The fourth place of the preliminary groups AD were playing for places 13 to 16

Placement matches

Place play- 15

Place play- 13

Final Games

The two first of the two main round groups played in the finals, the two second -place play 3 other teams were playing for the other placings.

Place play- 11

Place play- 9

Game for 7th place

Match for 5th place

3rd Place Match

Final

Full Time

Top scorers

FT ... field goals; 7m ... Seven meters

The Squad

World Cup: Yugoslavia

  • Mirko Bašić
  • Rolando Pušnik
  • Veselin Vukovic
  • Jovica Elezović
  • Jasmin Mrkonja
  • Veselin Vujović
  • Jožef Holpert
  • Muhamed MeMIC
  • Zlatan Arnautović
  • Momir Rnić
  • Zlatko Saračević
  • Caslav Grubić
  • Zlatko Portner
  • Jovica Cvetkovic
  • Dragan Mladenovic
  • Mile Isaković

Coach: Zoran Zivkovic

Second Place: Hungary

  • Imre Biro
  • Jozsef Bordas
  • Viktor Debre
  • Janos Fodor
  • Janos Gyurka
  • Laszlo Hoffmann
  • Gabor Horvath
  • Jozsef Kenyeres
  • Zsolt Contra
  • Péter Kovács
  • Laszlo Marosi
  • Tibor Orosz
  • László Szabó

Coach: Lajos Mocsai

Third Place: German Democratic Republic

  • Thomas Zeise
  • Stephen Hauck
  • Rüdiger Borchardt
  • Frank - Michael Wahl
  • Peter Pysall
  • Ingolf Wiegert
  • Hartmut Krüger
  • Holger Winselmann
  • Dirk Quick
  • Klaus -Dieter Schulz

Coach: Paul Tiedemann

Seventh Place: Federal Republic of Germany

  • Christian Fitzek
  • Stephan Beautiful
  • Michael Roth
  • Thomas Happe
  • Erhard Wunderlich

Swell

László Marosi Frank-Michael Wahl Michael Roth (handball) Ulrich Roth (handballer) Simon Schobel
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