Baltic Sea Cup (handball) 1987

15th Baltic Cup 1987
1987 Baltic Cup
Number of nations	6th
winner	Soviet Union (6th title)
venue	GDR ( Rostock , Wismar )
Opening game	January 21, 1987
Endgame	January 25, 1987
Games	15th
Gates	679   (∅: 45.27 per game)
Top scorer	Alexander Tutschkin (29 goals) Bogdan Wenta (29 goals)
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The 1987 Baltic Cup was the 15th edition of the international handball tournament for national teams.

The Soviet Union won the title for the sixth time. The GDR took second place ahead of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Mode and game plan

In this event, six teams played in the " everyone against everyone " mode .

The tournament started on January 21st. On the first four days of the tournament, two games were played in Rostock and one in Wismar . The 5th matchday on January 25th was played entirely in Rostock.

Evaluation criteria

1. higher number of points;
2. better goal difference;
3. higher number of goals scored;
4. the lot.

Closing table

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
01.	Soviet Union	05	03	01	01	0122: 1080	+14	0007: 3000
02.	GDR	05	02	02	01	0107: 1050	+2	0006: 4000
03.	BR Germany	05	02	01	02	0104: 1020	+2	0005: 5000
04th	Sweden	05	01	02	02	0119: 1190	± 0	0004: 6000
05.	Poland	05	02	00	03	0121: 1290	−8	0004: 6000
06th	Iceland	05	01	02	02	0106: 1160	−10	0004: 6000

Games

1st matchday

January 21, 1987	GDR	17:17	Iceland	Sports and congress hall , Rostock
	Choice 5	(11: 7)	Arason 5
			1 ×  4 ×

January 21, 1987	BR Germany	21:21	Sweden	Sports hall , Wismar Spectators: 1,400 Referees: Andorka, Schóber
	Swallow 9	(9:11)	Jilsén 7

January 21, 1987	Soviet Union	24:27	Poland	Sports and congress hall, Rostock
		(10:13)	Clamp 6

2nd matchday

January 22, 1987	Iceland	16:25	BR Germany	Sports and Congress Hall, Rostock Spectators: 2,000
	Gíslason , Arason , Gunnarsson 4 each	(6:12)	Löhr 5
	2 ×  2 ×

January 22, 1987	Poland	18:27	GDR	Sports hall, Wismar
	Dawidziuk , Klempel 4 each	(11:13)	Wiegert 10

January 22, 1987	Sweden	23:24	Soviet Union	Sports and congress hall, Rostock
	Jilsén 5	(8:11)

3rd matchday

January 23, 1987	Iceland	29:28	Poland	Sports hall, Wismar
	Mathiesen 6	(13:14)	Wenta 8
	3 ×  3 ×

January 23, 1987	Soviet Union	24:18	BR Germany	Sports and Congress Hall , Rostock Spectators: 2,500 Referees: Lelong, Tancrez
	Vasilyev 6	(14: 9)	Swallow 5

January 23, 1987	GDR	24:24	Sweden	Sports and congress hall, Rostock
	Wiegert 7	(13:14)	Carlén 6

4th matchday

January 24, 1987	Soviet Union	23:23	Iceland	Sports hall, Wismar
	Gopin , Tutschkin 5 each	(13:13)	Arason 9
			3 ×  4 ×

January 24, 1987	Sweden	28:29	Poland	Sports and congress hall, Rostock
	Jilsén 8	(15:17)	Dziuba 6

January 24, 1987	BR Germany	19:22	GDR	Sports and congress hall, Rostock Spectators: 4,000
	Löhr , beautiful 5 each	(11:10)	Borchardt 7

5th matchday

January 25, 1987	Iceland	21:23	Sweden	Sports and congress hall, Rostock
	Arason 5	(11:13)	Jilsén 7
	3 ×  2 ×

January 25, 1987	Poland	19:21	BR Germany	Sports and congress hall, Rostock
	Dawidziuk , Wenta 6 each	(9: 9)	Müller 6

January 25, 1987	GDR	17:27	Soviet Union	Sports and congress hall, Rostock
	Borchardt , choice of 6 each	(9:10)	Karshakevich 7

Bids

1.	2.	3.	4th	5.	6th
Leonid Doroshenko (goalkeeper) Igor Tschumak (goalkeeper) Oleg Djakow Valery Gopin Aljaksandr Karschakewitsch Valdemaras Novickis Alexander Rymanow Yuri Shevtsov Georgi Sviridenko Andrei Tjumenzew Alexander Tutschkin Raimondas Valuckas Michail Wassiljew Andrei Xepkin	Peter Hofmann (goalkeeper) Wieland Schmidt (goalkeeper) Ralf Bausch Rüdiger Borchardt Udo Dreyer Mike Fuhrig Stephan Hauck Holger Langhoff Andreas Nagora Peter Pysall Dirk Schnell Tilo Strauch Frank-Michael Wahl Ingolf Wiegert	Stefan Hecker (goalkeeper) Michael Krieter (goalkeeper) Andreas Thiel (goalkeeper) Rainer Bauert Stefan Henrich Andreas Hertelt Michael Lehnertz Jörg Löhr Hans-Jürgen Müller Rüdiger Neitzel Ulrich Roth Stephan Schöne Walter Schubert Martin Schwalb Thomas Springel	Håkan Burlin (goalkeeper) Mats Fransson (goalkeeper) Mats Olsson (goalkeeper) Per Carlén Per Carlsson Mikael Ekdahl Johan Eklund Erik Hajas Peder Järphag Björn Jilsén Ulf Larsson Ola Lindgren Staffan Olsson Thomas Olsson Joachim Stenbäcken Magnus Wislander	Wiesław Goliat (Goalkeeper) Krzysztof Latos (Goalkeeper) Robert Wasilewski (Goalkeeper) Adam Dawidziuk Lesław Dziuba Jerzy Klempel Marek Kordowiecki Andrzej Młoczyński Henryk Mrowiec Zbigniew Plechoć Leszek Sadowy Krzysztof Szargiej Zbigniew Tłuczyński Bogdan Wenta	Brynjar Kvaran (Goalkeeper) Einar Thorvardarson (Goalkeeper) Guðmundur Hrafnkelsson (Goalkeeper) alfreð gíslason Bjarni Guðmundsson Geir Sveinsson guðmundur guðmundsson Héðinn Gilsson Jakob Sigurðsson Júlíus Jónasson Karl Thrainsson Kristján Arason Páll Ingvar Guðnason Páll Ólafsson Sigurður Gunnarsson sigurður sveinsson Thorgils Mathiesen
Note				Note
Anatoly Yevtushenko (coach)	Paul Tiedemann (trainer)	Simon Schobel (Trainer)	Roger Carlsson (coach)	Zenon Łakomy (coach)	Bogdan Kowalczyk (Trainer)

^Note The Soviet and Polish contingents are presumably incomplete.

List of goalscorers

Pl.	Surname	team	Gates	FT	7m	Sp.	T / S
1	Alexander Tutschkin	Soviet Union	29	18th	11	?	?
	Bogdan Wenta	Poland	29	27	2	?	?
3	Bjorn Jilsén	Sweden	28	11	17th	5	5.6
	Kristjan Arason	Iceland	28	20th	8th	5	5.6
5	Ingolf Wiegert	GDR	26th	26th	0	5	5.2
6th	Frank-Michael Wahl	GDR	25th	22nd	3	5	5
7th	Martin Schwalb	BR Germany	24	21st	3	5	4.8
8th	Rüdiger Borchardt	GDR	23	17th	6th	5	4.6
9	Jerzy Klempel	Poland	17th	10	7th	?	?
	Rudiger Neitzel	BR Germany	17th	15th	2	5	3.4

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mindener Tageblatt ; Rainer Thomas (Ed.): On a rolling course to the B-WM. The conclusion of the games at the Ostseepokal tournament: performance improvement despite 19:22 against the GDR and a 21:19 over the Poles . Minden January 26, 1987, p. 16 .