The women's tournament was one of two handball tournaments at the 1976 Summer Olympics. It was the first appearance of a women's handball tournament at the Olympic Games. won the tournament ahead of and .
The tournament was a single round robin format.
Qualification
Results
Top goalscorers Rank Name Goals 1 Terumi Kurata 28 2 Kristina Richter 27 3 Tetyana Makarets 24 4 Zinaida Turchyna 22 5 Amália Sterbinszky 18 6 Roswitha Krause 16 7 Hitomi Matsushita 158 Magdalena Mikloș 14 Marion Tietz10 Maria Bosi 13 Lyudmyla Panchuk
Team rosters Lucie BalthazarLouise BeaumontFrancine Boulay-ParizeauManon CharetteDanielle ChenardNicole GénierMariette HouleLouise HurtubiseDenise LemaireMonique Prud'hommeJoanes RailNicole Robert (handball player)Hélène TétreaultJohanne ValoisCoach: Maurice LoeubGabriele BadorekHannelore BuroschRoswitha KrauseWaltraud KretzschmarEvelyn MatzLiane MichaelisEva PaskuyKristina RichterChristina RostSilvia SiefertMarion TietzPetra UhligChristina VoßHannelore ZoberCoach: Peter Kretzschmar Éva Angyal (Vasas SC)Mária Berzsenyi (FTC)Ágota Bujdosó (Vasas SC)Klára Csík (Vasas SC)Zsuzsanna Kézi (TBSC)Katalin Laki (Bakony Vegyész)Rozália Lelkes (FTC)Márta Megyeri (Csepel SC)Ilona Nagy (Csepel SC)Marianna Nagy (TFSE)Erzsébet Németh (FTC)Amália Sterbinszky (Vasas SC)Borbála Tóth Harsányi (Bakony Vegyész)Mária Vadász (Vasas SC)Coach: Bódog TörökMihoko HozumiMikiko KatoEiko KawadaNanami KinoKuriko KomoriHiroko KosaharaTokuko KuboTerumi KurataHitomi MatsushitaNatsue ShimadaShoko WadaEmiko YamashitaCoach: Kaoru IeSimona ArghirMaria BosiDoina CojocaruDoina FurcoiIuliana HobincuElisabeta IonescuViorica IonicăMaria LackovicsGeorgeta LăcustaMagdalena MikloșCristina PetroviciConstantina PițigoiNiculina SasuRozalia ȘooșCoach: Constantin PopescuLyubov BerezhnayaLyudmyla BobrusAldona ČesaitytėTetyana HlushchenkoLarysa KarlovaMariya LitoshenkoNina LobovaTetyana MakaretsLyudmyla PanchukRafiga ShabanovaNataliya SherstyukLyudmila ShubinaZinaida TurchynaHalyna ZakharovaCoach: Igor Turchyn
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