Participating Nations
Each country was allowed to enter a team of 16 players and they all were eligible for participation. Japan entered only a squad of twelve.
A total of 242(*) handball players from 16 nations competed at the Munich Games:
- Czechoslovakia (16)
- Denmark (16)
- East Germany (16)
- West Germany (16)
- Hungary (15)
- Iceland (15)
- Japan (12)
- Norway (16)
- Poland (15)
- Romania (15)
- Soviet Union (15)
- Spain (15)
- Sweden (16)
- Tunisia (15)
- United States (15)
- Yugoslavia (14)
Not all reserve players are known.
Read more about this topic: Handball At The 1972 Summer Olympics
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