East Germany at The 1972 Summer Olympics - Handball

Handball

Men's Team Competition

As expected, the East Germans dominated the first round, defeating Iceland, Tunisia, and Czechoslovakia in turn to win their division. The second round began with a loss to the Soviet Union. Czechoslovakia's wins over the Soviet Union and Sweden meant that the East Germans had to defeat Sweden as well just to tie the Czechoslovakian team in the standings, which they did. However, the tie-breaker went against the East Germans and they placed second in the division. They played the other division's second place team, Romania in the bronze medal game and lost, receiving fourth place.

• Preliminary Round (Group B)

• East Germany – Iceland 16-11 (7-6)
• East Germany – Tunisia 21-9 (11-2)
• East Germany – Czechoslovakia 14-12 (5-4)

• Second Round (Group A)

• East Germany – Soviet Union 8-11 (4-4)
• East Germany – Sweden 14-11 (8-6)

• Bronze Medal Game

• East Germany – Romania 16-19 (8-11) → 4th place

• Team Roster

• Harry Zörnack
• Horst Jankhöfer
• Josef Rose
• Jürgen Hildebrand
• Klaus Langhoff
• Klaus Weiß
• Peter Larisch
• Peter Randt
• Rainer Würdig
• Rainer Zimmermann
• Reiner Frieske
• Reiner Ganschow
• Siegfried Voigt
• Udo Röhrig
• Wolfgang Böhme
• Wolfgang Lakenmacher