|  Finals played in Munchen |  | Game | date | time | team 1 | score | team 2 | HT |  | Final | 10.09 |   |   Yugoslavia | 21-16 |   Czechoslovakia | 12-5 |  | 3-4 | 10.09 |   |   Romania | 19-16 |   East Germany | 11-8 |  | 5-6 | 10.09 |   |   Soviet Union | 17-16 |   West Germany | 10-9 |  | 7-8 | 10.09 |   |   Sweden | 19-18 |   Hungary | 11-8 |  | 9-10 | 09.09 |   |   Norway | 23-20 |   Poland | 10-10 |  |  after over time. FT: 19-19. |  | 11-12 | 09.09 |   |   Japan | 19-18 |   Iceland | 11-12 |  | 13-14 | 09.09 |   |   Denmark | 19-18 |   United States | 12-6 |  | 15-16 | 09.09 |   |   Spain | 23-20 |   Tunisia | 11-10 |  | 9-12 | 07.09 |   |   Poland | 20-17 |   Iceland | 10-7 |  | 9-12 | 07.09 |   |   Norway | 19-17 |   Japan | 8-9 |  | 13-16 | 07.09 |   |   Denmark | 29-21 |   Tunisia | 11-9 |  | 13-16 | 07.09 |   |   United States | 22-20 |   Spain | 8-11 |   
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| Final Ranking | Pts | gf | ga |  | 1. Yugoslavia | 12 | 122: | 89 |  | 2. Czechoslovakia | 7 | 102: | 85 |  | 3. Romania | 10 | 98: | 81 |  | 4. East Germany | 8 | 89: | 73 |  | 5. Soviet Union | 8 | 80: | 73 |  | 6. West Germany | 5 | 87: | 93 |  | 7. Sweden | 6 | 82: | 81 |  | 8. Hungary | 4 | 110: | 101 |  | 9. Norway | 7 | 90: | 87 |  | 10.Poland | 5 | 75: | 78 |  | 11.Japan | 4 | 82: | 93 |  | 12.Iceland | 3 | 92: | 90 |  | 13.Denmark | 5 | 78: | 78 |  | 14.United States | 2 | 86: | 112 |  | 15.Spain | 2 | 82: | 89 |  | 16.Tunisia | 0 | 73: | 125 |   
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| Final Ranking | Pts | w | d | l | gf | ga |  | 1. Yugoslavia | 12 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 122: | 89 |  | 2. Czechoslovakia | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 102: | 85 |  | 3. Romania | 10 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 98: | 81 |  | 4. East Germany | 8 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 89: | 73 |  |  eliminated in Second Groups Round. |  | 5. Soviet Union | 8 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 80: | 73 |  | 6. West Germany | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 87: | 93 |  | 7. Sweden | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 82: | 81 |  | 8. Hungary | 4 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 110: | 101 |  |  eliminated in First Groups Round. |  | 9. Norway | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 90: | 87 |  | 10.Poland | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 75: | 78 |  | 11.Japan | 4 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 82: | 93 |  | 12.Iceland | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 92: | 90 |  | 13.Denmark | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 78: | 78 |  | 14.United States | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 86: | 112 |  | 15.Spain | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 82: | 89 |  | 16.Tunisia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 73: | 125 |   
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|  Goalscorers |  | 1. Gruia | ROU | 32 |  | 2. Varga | HUN | 28 |  | 3. Lavrnic | YUG | 28 |  | 4. Hansen | DEN | 27 |  | 4. Lazarevic | YUG | 27 |  | 6. Eriksson | SWE | 25 |   
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| Group E | p | w | d | l | gf | ga |  | 1.Czechoslovakia | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 42: | 38 |  | 2.East Germany | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 36: | 34 |  | 3.Soviet Union | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 34: | 34 |  | 4.Sweden | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 34: | 40 |   
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| Team | Czec | EaGe | Sovi | Swed |  | Czechoslovakia | ---- | 14:12 | 15:12 | 15:12 |  | East Germany |   | ---- |   | 14:11 |  | Soviet Union |   | 11:8 | ---- | 11:11 |  | Sweden |   |   |   | ---- |   
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| date | time | team 1 | score | team 2 | HT |  |  played in Munchen |  | 05.09 |   |   Czechoslovakia | 15-12 |   Sweden | 7-6 |  | 06.09 |   |   Soviet Union | 11-8 |   East Germany | 4-4 |  | 08.09 |   |   East Germany | 14-11 |   Sweden | 8-6 |  | 08.09 |   |   Czechoslovakia | 15-12 |   Soviet Union | 7-7 |   
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| Group F | p | w | d | l | gf | ga |  | 1.Yugoslavia | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 56: | 44 |  | 2.Romania | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 46: | 39 |  | 3.West Germany | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 43: | 51 |  | 4.Hungary | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 44: | 55 |   
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| Team | Yugo | Roma | WeGe | Hung |  | Yugoslavia | ---- | 14:13 | 24:15 | 18:16 |  | Romania |   | ---- | 13:11 | 20:14 |  | West Germany |   |   | ---- | 17:14 |  | Hungary |   |   |   | ---- |   
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| date | time | team 1 | score | team 2 | HT |  |  played in Munchen |  | 06.09 | 18:30 |   Romania | 20-14 |   Hungary | 11-6 |  | 06.09 |   |   Yugoslavia | 24-15 |   West Germany | 14-7 |  | 08.09 | 18:15 |   Yugoslavia | 14-13 |   Romania | 5-4 |  | 08.09 |   |   West Germany | 17-14 |   Hungary | 8-6 |   
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| Group A | p | w | d | l | gf | ga |  | 1.Sweden | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 40: | 34 |  | 1.Soviet Union | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 40: | 34 |  | 3.Poland | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 35: | 38 |  | 4.Denmark | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 30: | 39 |   
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| Team | Swed | Sovi | Pola | Denm |  | Sweden | ---- | 11:11 | 13:13 | 16:10 |  | Soviet Union |   | ---- | 17:11 | 12:12 |  | Poland |   |   | ---- | 11: 8 |  | Denmark |   |   |   | ---- |   
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| date | venue | team 1 | score | team 2 | HT |  | 30.08 | Ulm |   Soviet Union | 12-12 |   Denmark | 6-7 |  | 30.08 | Ulm |   Sweden | 13-13 |   Poland | 5-7 |  | 01.09 | Goppingen |   Poland | 11-8 |   Denmark | 6-4 |  | 01.09 | Goppingen |   Sweden | 11-11 |   Soviet Union | 4-3 |  |  transferred to Group E  |  | 03.09 | Boblingen |   Sweden | 16-10 |   Denmark | 8-4 |  | 03.09 | Boblingen |   Soviet Union | 17-11 |   Poland | 9-4 |   
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| Group B | p | w | d | l | gf | ga |  | 1.East Germany | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 51: | 32 |  | 2.Czechoslovakia | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 56: | 40 |  | 3.Iceland | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 57: | 51 |  | 4.Tunisia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 32: | 73 |   
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| Team | EaGe | Czec | Icel | Tuni |  | East Germany | ---- | 14:12 | 16:11 | 21:9 |  | Czechoslovakia |   | ---- | 19:19 | 25:7 |  | Iceland |   |   | ---- | 27:16 |  | Tunisia |   |   |   | ---- |   
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| date | venue | team 1 | score | team 2 | HT |  | 30.08 | Augsburg |   East Germany | 16-11 |   Iceland | 7-6 |  | 30.08 | Augsburg |   Czechoslovakia | 25- 7 |   Tunisia | 10-3 |  | 01.09 | Ulm |   East Germany | 21- 9 |   Tunisia | 11-2 |  | 01.09 | Ulm |   Czechoslovakia | 19-19 |   Iceland | 8-10 |  | 03.09 | Goppingen |   East Germany | 14-12 |   Czechoslovakia | 5-4 |  |  transferred to Group E  |  | 03.09 | Goppingen |   Iceland | 27-16 |   Tunisia | 14-7 |   
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| Group C | p | w | d | l | gf | ga |  | 1.Romania | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 46: | 37 |  | 2.West Germany | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 39: | 38 |  | 3.Norway | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 48: | 50 |  | 4.Spain | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 39: | 47 |   
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| Team | Roma | WeGe | Norw | Spai |  | Romania | ---- | 13:11 | 18:14 | 15:12 |  | West Germany |   | ---- | 15:15 | 13:10 |  | Norway |   |   | ---- | 19:17 |  | Spain |   |   |   | ---- |   
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| date | venue | time | team 1 | score | team 2 | HT |  | 30.08 | Boblingen | 20:30 |   Romania | 18-14 |   Norway | 11-10 |  | 30.08 | Boblingen |   |   West Germany | 13-10 |   Spain | 7-5 |  | 01.09 | Augsburg | 20:45 |   Romania | 15-12 |   Spain | 6-4 |  | 01.09 | Augsburg |   |   West Germany | 15-15 |   Norway | 7-8 |  | 03.09 | Munchen |   |   Romania | 13-11 |   West Germany | 5-5 |  |  transferred to Group F |  | 03.09 | Munchen |   |   Norway | 19-17 |   Spain | 10-4 |   
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| Group D | p | w | d | l | gf | ga |  | 1.Yugoslavia | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 63: | 45 |  | 2.Hungary | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 64: | 45 |  | 3.Japan | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 46: | 56 |  | 4.United States | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 46: | 73 |   
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| Team | Yugo | Hung | Japa | Unga |  | Yugoslavia | ---- | 18:16 | 20:14 | 25:15 |  | Hungary |   | ---- | 20:12 | 28:15 |  | Japan |   |   | ---- | 20:16 |  | United States |   |   |   | ---- |   
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| date | venue | team 1 | score | team 2 | HT |  | 30.08 | Goppingen |   Yugoslavia | 20-14 |   Japan | 11-7 |  | 30.08 | Goppingen |   Hungary | 28-15 |   United States | 16-8 |  | 01.09 | Boblingen |   Yugoslavia | 25-15 |   United States | 11-9 |  | 01.09 | Boblingen |   Hungary | 20-12 |   Japan | 10-7 |  | 03.09 | Augsburg |   Yugoslavia | 18-16 |   Hungary | 9-8 |  |  transferred to Group F |  | 03.09 | Augsburg |   Japan | 20-16 |   United States | 9-9 |   
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| 1. Yugoslavia |  | Zoran Živković |  | Abaz Arslanagić |  | Miroslav Pribanić |  | Petar Fajfrić |  | Milorad Karalić |  | Lavrnić Đorđe |  | Slobodan Mišković |  | Hrvoje Horvat |  | Branislav Pokrajac |  | Zdravko Miljak |  | Milan Lazarević |  | Nebojša Popović |  | Zdenko Zorko |  | Albin Vidović |   
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| 2. Czechoslovakia |  | František Králík |  | Peter Pospíšil |  | Ivan Satrapa |  | Vladimír Jarý |  | Jiří Kavan |  | Andrej Lukošík |  | Vladimír Haber |  | Jindřich Krepindl |  | Ladislav Beneš |  | Vincent Lafko |  | Jaroslav Konečný |  | Pavel Mikeš |  | František Brůna |  | Zdeněk Škára |  | Jaroslav Škarvan |  | Arnošt Klimčík |   
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| 3. Romania |  | Cornel Penu |  | Alexandru Dincă |  | Gabriel Kicsid |  | Ghiţă Licu |  | Cristian Gaţu |  | Roland Guneš |  | Radu Voina |  | Simion Schöbel |  | Gheorghe Gruia |  | Werner Stöckl |  | Dan Marin |  | Adrian Cosma |  | Valentin Samungi |  | Constantin Tudosie |  | Birtalan Ştefan |   
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| 4. East Germany |  | Harry Zörnack |  | Horst Jankhöfer |  | Josef Rose |  | Hildebrand Jürgen |  | Klaus Langhoff |  | Klaus Weiß |  | Peter Larisch |  | Peter Randt |  | Rainer Würdig |  | Rainer Zimmermann |  | Reiner Frieske |  | Reiner Ganschow |  | Siegfried Voigt |  | Udo Röhrig |  | Wolfgang Böhme |  | Wolfgang Lakenmacher |   
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| 5. Soviet Union |  | Albert Oganezov |  | Aleksandr Panov |  | Aleksandr Rezanov |  | Anatoly Shevchenko |  | Ivan Usaty |  | Vilsons Jānis |  | Mikhail Ishchenko |  | Mikhail Lutsenko |  | Nikolay Semyonov |  | Valentin Kulev |  | Valery Gassy |  | Vasily Ilyin |  | Vladimir Maksimov |  | Yury Klimov |  | Yury Lagutin |   
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| 6. West Germany |  | Diethard Finkelmann |  | Peter Neuhaus |  | Hans-Jürgen Bode |  | Heiner Möller |  | Herbert Lübking |  | Herbert Rogge |  | Herbert Wehnert |  | Herwig Ahrendsen |  | Jochen Feldhoff |  | Josef Karrer |  | Klaus Kater |  | Klaus Lange |  | Klaus Westebbe |  | Peter Bucher |  | Uwe Rathjen |  | Wolfgang Braun |   
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| 7. Sweden |  | Bengt Johansson |  | Benny Johansson |  | Bertil Söderberg |  | Björn Andersson |  | Bo Andersson |  | Dan Eriksson |  | Frank Ström |  | Göran Segerstad |  | Jan Jonsson |  | Johan Fischerström |  | Lars Karlsson |  | Lennart Eriksson |  | Michael Koch |  | Olle Olsson |  | Sten Olsson |  | Thomas Persson |   
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| 9. Norway |  | Carl Graff-Wang |  | Finn Urdal |  | Geir Røse |  | Harald Tyrdal |  | Arnulf Bæk |  | Inge Hansen |  | Jan Økseter |  | Jon Reinertsen |  | Bye Pål |  | Cappelen Pål |  | Per Søderstrøm |  | Per Axel Ankre |  | Roger Hverven |  | Sten Osther |  | Torstein Hansen |  | Ulf Magnussen |   
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| 10.Poland |  | Andrzej Lech |  | Andrzej Sokołowski |  | Andrzej Szymczak |  | Bogdan Kowalczyk |  | Engelbert Szolc |  | Franciszek Gąsior |  | Helmut Pniociński |  | Henryk Rozmiarek |  | Jan Gmyrek |  | Jerzy Melcer |  | Robert Zawada |  | Wachowicz Włodzimierz |  | Zbigniew Dybol |  | Zdzisław Antczak |  | Zygfryd Kuchta |   
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| 11.Japan |  | Hiroshi Honda |  | Katsuhiko Chikamori |  | Kenichi Sasaki |  | Kiyoshi Noda |  | Kiyotaka Hayakawa |  | Masayuki Hyokai |  | Minoru Kino |  | Shuji Arinaga |  | Takezo Nakai |  | Toshihiko Shimosato |  | Toshio Niimi |  | Nobuyuki Iida |   
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| 12.Iceland |  | Ágúst Ögmundsson  |  | Axel Axelsson |  | Birgir Finnbogason |  | Björgvin Björgvinsson |  | Geir Hallsteinsson |  | Gunnstein Skúlason |  | Hjalti Einarsson |  | Magnússon Jón |  | Benediktsson Ólafur |  | Ólafur Jónsson  |  | Sigurbergur Sigsteinsson |  | Sigurður Einarsson |  | Stefán Gunnarsson |  | Stefán Jónsson |  | Viðar Símonarson |   
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| 13.Denmark |  | Arne Andersen |  | Bent Jørgensen |  | Claus From |  | Flemming Hansen |  | Flemming Lauritzen |  | Frandsen Jørgen |  | Heidemann Jørgen |  | Vodsgaard Jørgen |  | Karsten Sørensen |  | Kay Jørgensen |  | Keld Andersen |  | Jensen Søren |  | Svend Lund |  | Thor Munkager |  | Tom Lund |  | Vagn Nielsen |   
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| 14.United States |  | Fletcher Abram, Jr. |  | Roger Baker |  | Dennis Berkholtz |  | Larry Caton |  | Vincent DiCalogero |  | Elmer Edes |  | Thomas Hardiman |  | Rudolph "Matt" Matthews |  | Sandor Rivnyak |  | James Rogers |  | Richard Schlesinger, Jr. |  | Kevin Serrapede |  | Robert Sparks |  | Joel Voelkert |   
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| 15.Spain |  | Antonio Andreu |  | Fernando de Andrés |  | Francisco López |  | Javier García |  | Jesús Guerrero |  | José Perramón |  | José Rochel |  | José Manuel Taure |  | José Villamarín |  | Juan Miguel Igartua |  | Juan Morera |  | Juan Antonio Medina |  | Miguel Ángel Cascallana |  | Santos Labaca |  | Vicente Ortega |   
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| 16.Tunisia |  | Abdel Aziz Zaibi |  | Ahmed Bechir Bel Hadj |  | Aleya Hamrouni |  | Amor Sghaier |  | Faouzi Ksouri |  | Mohamed Naceur Jelili |  | Mohamed Khalladi |  | Mohamed Klai |  | Mohamed Sebabti |  | Moncef Besbes |  | Moncef Loueslati |  | Mounir Jelili |  | Rached Boudhina |  | Ridha Zitoun |  | Abderraouf Ben Samir |  | Taoufik Djemaiel |   
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