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Soviet Union women's national handball team

The USSR women's national handball team was the national women's handball team of the Soviet Union.

Competitive record

  Champions    Runners-up    Third place    Fourth place  

Olympic Games

Year Position GP W D L GS GA GD
Canada 1976 1st Gold 5 5 0 0 92 40 +52
Soviet Union 1980 1st Gold 5 5 0 0 99 52 +47
United States 1984 Boycott
South Korea 1988 3rd Bronze 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
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1957 Did not enter
Romania 1962 6th 5 1 0 4 35 56 −21
West Germany 1965 Did not qualify
Netherlands 1971
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1973 3rd 5 3 1 1 50 39 +11
Soviet Union 1975 2nd 7 5 1 1 118 70 +48
Czechoslovakia 1978 2nd 7 6 0 1 126 69 +57
Hungary 1982 1st 7 6 0 1 128 109 +19
Netherlands 1986 1st 6 5 1 0 138 96 +42
South Korea 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