Goalball at the 1988 Summer Paralympics

Goalball at the VIII Paralympic Games
Paralympic Goalball

Goalball at the 1988 Summer Paralympics consisted of men's and women's team events.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Yugoslavia (YUG) Muhamed Arnautovic Miroslav Jancic Adam Kablar Rajko Kopac Dragan Sremcevic	United States (USA) Darryl Holden Reni Jackson Jeffrey May George Morris James Neppl Jerry Windell	Egypt (EGY) Ahmed Mamoud Abouzeed Hussein Mohamed Ahmed Ahmed Mohamed Aween El Said Mohamed El Said Bekhit Gad Mohamed Mohamed Sherief
Women	Denmark (DEN) Ella Andersen Helle Brodersen Kirste Christensen Ann Howalt Katja Hunersen Lene Skov Jensen	United States (USA) Patricia Baxter Donna Budeau Angie Garlick Karen Helmacy Maureen Ryan April Saunders	Canada (CAN) Patricia Campion Lucy Greco Danielle Lessard Lisa McLeod Dianne Robitaille Helena Rooyakkers

Men's tournament

15 men's teams competed.

Qualification

Group A

Team	W	L	D	PF	PA	PD
United States (USA)	5	1	1	14	5	+9
Yugoslavia (YUG)	5	1	1	10	5	+5
Canada (CAN)	4	0	3	22	13	+9
Italy (ITA)	4	0	3	14	9	+ 5
Bulgaria (BUL)	3	2	2	14	7	+7
Australia (AUS)	3	0	4	14	14	0
Denmark (DEN)	1	2	4	1	9	−8
South Korea (KOR)	0	0	7	5	32	–27

	South Korea (KOR)	0 – 1	Denmark (DEN)

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	Canada (CAN)	1 – 3	Bulgaria (BUL)

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	United States (USA)	1 – 2	Yugoslavia (YUG)

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	Australia (AUS)	0 – 1	Italy (ITA)

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	Denmark (DEN)	0 – 0	Yugoslavia (YUG)

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	South Korea (KOR)	0 – 5	Bulgaria (BUL)

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	United States (USA)	3 – 2	Australia (AUS)

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	Canada (CAN)	3 – 2	Italy (ITA)

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	South Korea (KOR)	1 – 4	Yugoslavia (YUG)

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	Bulgaria (BUL)	2 – 3	Italy (ITA)

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	Denmark (DEN)	0 – 1	Australia (AUS)i

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	Canada (CAN)	1 – 2	United States (USA)

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	South Korea (KOR)	1 – 5	Italy (ITA)

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	Yugoslavia (YUG)	1 – 0	Australia (AUS)

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	Bulgaria (BUL)	0 – 0	United States (USA)

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	Denmark (DEN)	0 – 4	Canada (CAN)

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	South Korea (KOR)	2 – 4	Australia (AUS)

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	Italy (ITA)	0 – 1	United States (USA)

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	Yugoslavia (YUG)	1 – 0	Canada (CAN)

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	Bulgaria (BUL)	0 – 0	Denmark (DEN)

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	South Korea (KOR)	0 – 5	United States (USA)

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	Australia (AUS)	4 – 5	Canada (CAN)

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	Italy (ITA)	2 – 0	Denmark (DEN)

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	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0 – 2	Bulgaria (BUL)

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	South Korea (KOR)	1 – 8	Canada (CAN)

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	United States (USA)	2 – 0	Denmark (DEN)

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	Australia (AUS)	3 – 2	Bulgaria (BUL)

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	Italy (ITA)	1 – 2	Yugoslavia (YUG)

Group B

Team	W	L	D	PF	PA	PD
Hungary (HUN)	2	4	0	6	2	+4
Egypt (EGY)	2	4	0	2	0	+2
West Germany (FRG)	2	3	1	7	5	+2
Israel (ISR)	1	5	0	5	3	+2
Finland (FIN)	1	3	2	7	5	+2
Netherlands (NED)	0	1	5	0	12	–12
Iran (IRI)	0	0	6	0	6	-6

	Hungary (HUN)	1 – 1	Israel (ISR)

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	West Germany (FRG)	4 – 0	Netherlands (NED)

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	Finland (FIN)	1 – 0	Iran (IRI)

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	Egypt (EGY)	1 – 0	Israel (ISR)

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	West Germany (FRG)	1 – 0	Iran (IRI)

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	Hungary (HUN)	1 – 1	Finland (FIN)

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	Netherlands (NED)	0 – 1	Egypt (EGY)

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	Egypt (EGY)	1 – 0	Finland (FIN)

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	Iran (IRI)	0 – 1	Netherlands (NED)

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	West Germany (FRG)	0 – 3	Hungary (HUN)

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	Israel (ISR)	1 – 1	Finland (FIN)

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	Netherlands (NED)	0 – 1	Hungary (HUN)

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	Egypt (EGY)	0 – 0	West Germany (FRG)

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	Iran (IRI)	0 – 1	Israel (ISR)

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	Finland (FIN)	1 – 2	West Germany (FRG)

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	Iran (IRI)	0 – 1	Egypt (EGY)

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	Israel (ISR)	2 – 0	Netherlands (NED)

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	Iran (IRI)	0 – 1	Hungary (HUN)

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	Israel (ISR)	1 – 1	West Germany (FRG)

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	Hungary (HUN)	0 – 0	Egypt (EGY)

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	Finland (FIN)	4 – 0	Netherlands (NED)

Classification rounds

Classification 11-12

	Australia (AUS)	3 – 3 (6 – 5 a.e.t.)	Netherlands (NED)

Classification 9-10

	Bulgaria (BUL)	1 – 1 (2 – 3 a.e.t)	Finland (FIN)

Classification 7-8

	Italy (ITA)	0 – 1	Israel (ISR)

Final round

Semifinals

	Yugoslavia (YUG)	1 – 0	Hungary (HUN)

	Egypt (EGY)	0 – 0 (0 – 2 pen.)	United States (USA)

Bronze medal match

	Egypt (EGY)	0 – 0 (2 – 1 pen.)	Hungary (HUN)

Gold medal match

	United States (USA)	0 – 0 (0 – 2 a.e.t.)	Yugoslavia (YUG)

Women's tournament

7 women's teams competed.

Preliminaries

Team	W	L	D	PF	PA	PD
United States (USA)	6	0	0	20	0	+20
Denmark (DEN)	3	2	1	15	3	+12
Canada (CAN)	3	1	2	11	9	+2
Netherlands (NED)	2	3	1	21	9	+12
West Germany (FRG)	2	2	2	20	10	+10
South Korea (KOR)	1	0	5	10	46	−36
Australia (AUS)	0	0	6	9	29	–20

	Denmark (DEN)	1 – 1	Netherlands (NED)

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	West Germany (FRG)	6 – 2	Australia (AUS)

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	Canada (CAN)	0 – 2	United States (USA)

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	South Korea (KOR)	0 – 8	Denmark (DEN)

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	West Germany (FRG)	12 – 2	South Korea (KOR)

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	Canada (CAN)	2 – 2	Netherlands (NED)

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	United States (USA)	4 – 0	Australia (AUS)

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	Canada (CAN)	0 – 1	Denmark (DEN)

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	South Korea (KOR)	1 – 9	West Germany (FRG)

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	United States (USA)	7 – 0	South Korea (KOR)

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	Australia (AUS)	1 – 5	Netherlands (NED)

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	South Korea (KOR)	2 – 3	Canada (CAN)

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	United States (USA)	3 – 0	West Germany (FRG)

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	Australia (AUS)	0 – 4	Denmark (DEN)

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	Netherlands (NED)	12 – 1	South Korea (KOR)

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	Australia (AUS)	2 – 5	Canada (CAN)

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	South Korea (KOR)	0 – 6	United States (USA)

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	Netherlands (NED)	1 – 1	West Germany (FRG)

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	South Korea (KOR)	5 – 4	Australia (AUS)

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	Netherlands (NED)	0 – 3	United States (USA)

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	Denmark (DEN)	1 – 1	West Germany (FRG)

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	Denmark (DEN)	0 – 1	United States (USA)

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	West Germany (FRG)	0 – 1	Canada (CAN)

Final round

Semifinals

	United States (USA)	4 – 0	Netherlands (NED)

	Denmark (DEN)	3 – 2	Canada (CAN)

Bronze medal match

	Netherlands (NED)	2 – 5	Canada (CAN)

Gold medal match

	Denmark (DEN)	0 – 0 (3 – 1 pen.)	United States (USA)

Controversy

The Iranian team chanted an aggressive "war cry" at the Israeli team and refused to play them. They were subsequently deemed to have committed a "gross misuse of the sporting platform for political aims" and were disqualified. Iranian team manager Asghar Dadkhan formally apologised the following day and stated that other Iranian athletes would comply with the regulations.

References

• Goalball at the 1988 Summer Paralympics (Seoul) from the International Paralympic Committee (archived)