Venues

Essen Essen - Origin of the name :In German-speaking countries, the name of the city Essen often causes confusion as to its origins, because it is commonly known as the German infinitive of the verb for the act of eating, and/or the German noun for food. Although scholars still dispute the interpretation of...	Böblingen Böblingen Böblingen is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, seat of Böblingen District. Physically Sindelfingen and Böblingen are continuous.-History:Böblingen was founded by Count Wilhelm von Tübingen-Böblingen in 1253. Württemberg acquired the town in 1357, and on 12 May 1525 one of the bloodiest battles...
Grugahalle Grugahalle Grugahalle is an indoor sports arena, located in Essen, Germany. Opened in 1958, the seating capacity of the arena is 5,309 people, for sporting events and 7,800, for concerts.It is currently home to the TUSEM Essen handball team.... Capacity 10 000	Sporthalle Sporthalle (Böblingen) Sporthalle was an indoor arena in Böblingen, Germany. It opened in 1966 and was torn down in 2008. Sporthalle had a capacity to hold 6,500 people.The venue played host to six team handball competitions for the 1972 Summer Olympics in neighboring Munich.... Capacity 8 000

Final rankings

Group A - Essen

		66-79
		55-83
		78-73
		65-64
		70-83
		91-54
		91-65
		79-69
		118-58
		74-80
		75-63
		73-69
		94-73
		76-72
		64-88

Pos.	Team	Matches	Wins	Loses	Results	Points	Diff.
1.		5	5	0	461:303	10	+158
2.		5	4	1	405:381	8	+24
3.		5	3	2	349:368	6	-19
4.		5	2	3	352:412	4	-60
5.		5	1	4	353:385	2	-32
6.		5	0	5	322:398	0	-76

Group B - Böblingen

		68-87
		88-69
		70-69
		97-88
		66-81
		78-69
		63-86
		75-98
		74-60
		85-74
		92-118
		53-67
		85-113
		87-60
		79-68

Pos.	Team	Matches	Wins	Loses	Results	Points	Diff.
1.		5	5	0	434:358	10	+76
2.		5	4	1	374:329	8	+45
3.		5	3	2	408:357	6	+51
4.		5	2	3	401:394	4	+7
5.		5	1	4	342:416	2	-74
6.		5	0	5	408:513	0	-105

Places 9 - 12 in Essen

Team 1	Team 2	Res.
		99-76
		82-60

Places 5 - 8 in Essen

Team 1	Team 2	Res.
		84-95
		74-87

Places 1 - 4 in Essen

Team 1	Team 2	Res.
		75-100
		93-66

Finals - all games in Essen

Placement	Team 1	Team 2	Res.
11th place			74-84
9th place			70-76
7th place			86-71
5th place			76-99
3rd place			85-67
Final			69-64

Team rosters

1.Soviet Union: Sergei Belov

Sergei Belov

Sergei Alexandrovich Belov is a former basketball player, most notably playing for the Soviet Union at the Olympic Games. He trained at Trud Voluntary Sports Society and later at Armed Forces sports society.- Career :...

, Alexander Belov, Modestas Paulauskas

Modestas Paulauskas

Modestas Paulauskas is a retired Lithuanian basketball player who won gold with the Soviet basketball team in the 1972 Olympic basketball tournament. He also won a bronze medal with the team at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Paulauskas trained at VSS Žalgiris in Kaunas. He is known as one of the best...

, Anatoly Polivoda, Vladimir Andreev

Vladimir Andreev

Vladimir Mikhailovich Andreyev is a retired Soviet alpine skier.He raced in the Alpine Skiing World Cup from 1979 to 1984. His highest placing in a single race was second, in the January 1981 slalom race in Kitzbühel...

, Priit Tomson

Priit Tomson

Priit Tomson is a retired Estonian professional basketball player, who competed for the Soviet Union.-External links:* at sports-reference.com* at databaseOlympics.com...

, Ivan Edeshko

Ivan Edeshko

Ivan Ivanovich Edeshko is a retired Belarusian professional basketball player who won gold with the Soviet national team in the 1972 Olympics, in which his all court inbound pass led to Alexander Belov's game-winning basket with no time left in the gold medal game against the American national...

, Alzhan Zharmukhamedov

Alzhan Zharmukhamedov

Alzhan Musurbekovich Zharmukhamedov is a retired Kazakh basketball player who won gold medal in 1972 Olympic Games while playing for the USSR basketball team. He can be considered as the first ethnic Kazakh to become an Olympic champion....

, Zurab Sakandelidze

Zurab Sakandelidze

Zurab Aleksandrovich Sakandelidze was a Georgian basketball player who won gold with the Soviet basketball team in Basketball at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He trained at Dynamo club in Tbilisi....

, Mikheil Korkia, Aleksander Boloshev, Aleksei Tammiste

Aleksei Tammiste

Aleksei Tammiste is a retired Estonian professional basketball player, who competed for the Soviet Union. He won a gold medal at the 1971 EuroBasket Championship held in West Germany...

 (Coach: Vladimir Kondrashin

Vladimir Kondrashin

Vladimir Petrovich Kondrashin was a Russian basketball coach....

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2.Yugoslavia: Krešimir Ćosić

Krešimir Cosic

Krešimir Ćosić was a Croatian professional basketball player who represented Yugoslavia internationally, a member of FIBA Hall of Fame and Basketball Hall of Fame...

, Nikola Plećaš

Nikola Plecaš

Nikola Plećaš is a former Croatian basketball player.-Sources:*...

, Aljoša Žorga, Vinko Jelovac

Vinko Jelovac

Vinko Jelovac , is a former Croatian basketball player and coach.A long time KK Olimpija player, Jelovac competed at 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics with Yugoslav basketball team. He also competed at World basketball Championships. Jelovac was named Slovenian Sportsman of the year in 1973 and 1974.-...

, Ljubodrag Simonović

Ljubodrag Simonović

Ljubodrag "Duci" Simonović, PhD is a Serbian retired basketball player and author. He played with Red Star Belgrade, with which he won two National Championships, three Radivoj Korać National Cups and one Saporta Cup. From 1976 to 1978, he played for 1. FC 01 Bamberg in the German Basketball...

, Dragutin Čermak, Borut Bassin, Dragan Kapičić

Dragan Kapičić

Dragan Kapičić is a Serbian retired basketball player.He played with Red Star Belgrade. With Red Star Belgrade he won two National Championships, three National Cups and one Saporta Cup...

, Blagoje Georgijevski, Žarko Knežević, Dragiša Vučinic, Davor Rukavina (Coach: Ranko Žeravica

Ranko Žeravica

Ranko Žeravica is a retired Serbian basketball coach.- Club level :On the club level, he has coached:...

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3.Italy: Dino Meneghin

Dino Meneghin

Dino Meneghin is an Italian former professional basketball player. He is widely considered as the best Italian player ever, as well as one of Europe's all time greats. A 2.06 m tall center, Meneghin was born in Alano di Piave, Veneto...

, Pierluigi Marzorati

Pierluigi Marzorati

Pierluigi Marzorati is an Italian former basketball player who won the silver medal with Italy at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, the title in the 1983 European Championship, plus three bronze medals at the 1971, 1975 and 1985 European Championships.Marzorati eventually played 278 matches for...

, Massimo Masini, Ivan Bisson, Renzo Bariviera, Carlo Recalcati

Carlo Recalcati

Carlo Recalcati is an Italian basketball coach and a former player.He has been the coach of the Italy national basketball team from 2001 to 2009 and has led them to the silver medal in the 2004 Olympics and bronze medal in the Eurobasket 2003.As a player on the club level, he played for...

, Ottorino Flaborea, Marino Zanatta, Giulio Iellini, Giorgio Giomo, Luigi Serafini, Massimo Cosmelli (Coach: Giancarlo Primo

Giancarlo Primo

Giancarlo Primo was an Italian basketball player and coach.As a player for the Italian national team, he participated in the 1948 Olympics, 1947 European Championship and 1949 European Championship.After retiring as a player, he became an assistant coach for the Italian national team,...

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4.Poland: Edward Jurkiewicz, Grzegorz Korcz, Andrzej Seweryn

Andrzej Seweryn

Andrzej Seweryn is a Polish and French actor and director. One of the most successful Polish theatre actors, he starred in over 50 films, mostly in Poland, France and Germany. He is also one of only three non-French actors to be hired by the Paris-based Comédie-Française.- Biography :Andrzej...

, Jan Dolczewski, Henryk Cegielski, Marek Ladniak, Jerzy Frolow, Janusz Ceglinski, Waldemar Kozak, Miroslaw Kalinowski, Eugeniusz Durejko, Zbigniew Jedlinski (Coach: Witold Zagórski

Witold Zagórski

Witold Zagórski is a Polish basketball player and coach.As a basketball player, Zagórski was a member of Poland national basketball team 49 times . He was a player of Polonia Warszawa and CWKS Legia Warszawa teams.In the years of 1961–1975 he was a coach of Poland national basketball team...

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