Baltic Sea Cup (handball) 1989

16th Baltic Cup 1989
1989 Baltic Cup
Number of nations	8th
winner	Soviet Union (7th title)
venue	BR Germany
Opening game	January 17, 1989
Endgame	January 22, 1989
Games	20th
Gates	895   (∅: 44.75 per game)
spectator	62,300   (∅: 3,115 per game)
Top scorer	Vyacheslav Atawin (40 goals) Rüdiger Borchardt (40 goals)
←  1987

The Ostseepokal 1989 or Baltic Cup 1989 was the 16th and final handball tournament for national teams. The game was played from January 17 to 22, 1989 in eleven German cities, spread across four different federal states .

The Soviet Union won the title for the seventh time with a 21:16 (8:11) win against the Federal Republic of Germany . The GDR took third place, ahead of Poland .

Venues

• Braunschweig (a preliminary round game)
• Stadthalle , Bremen (two preliminary round matches)
• Stadthalle , Bremerhaven (a preliminary round game)
• Celle (a preliminary round match)
• Westfalenhallen , Dortmund (games for places seven, five, three and the final)
• Sports hall , Hamburg (two preliminary round games)
• Hanover (both semi-finals)
• Lemgo (two preliminary round matches)
• Kreissporthalle , Lübbecke (both semi-finals of the placement round)
• Osterode (two preliminary round matches)
• Wilhelmshaven (a preliminary round game)

mode

In this event, eight teams played in two groups of four in the " everyone against everyone " mode .

The teams that finished 1st and 2nd in their group after the preliminary rounds qualified for the semi-finals. The losers in the semi-finals played a game for third place and the winners in the final for the title.

The teams in places 3 and 4 played the placement round for places 5 to 8.

game schedule

The preliminary round began on January 17th with the opening game Czechoslovakia against Poland in Osterode . The tournament ended on January 22nd with the final between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Soviet Union in Dortmund .

Preliminary round

Evaluation criteria

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

Legend

Qualified for the semi-finals

Qualified for the placement games 5th to 8th place

Group A

table

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
01.	Soviet Union	03	03	00	00	0078:6200	+16	0006-0000
02.	Poland	03	02	00	01	0074:7100	+3	0004: 2000
03.	Czechoslovakia	03	00	01	02	0058:6600	−8	0001: 5000
04th	Federal Republic of Germany B	03	00	01	02	0057:6800	−11	0001: 5000

January 17, 1989 6:30 p.m.	Czechoslovakia	22:26	Poland	Osterode spectators: 1,800
	Sovadina 7	(11:14)	Plechoć 8

January 17, 1989 8:00 p.m.	Federal Republic of Germany B	20:26	Soviet Union	Osterode spectators: 1,800 Referees: Berndtsson, Hansson
	Hartz 8	(11:14)	Atawin 8

January 18, 1989 7:30 p.m.	Czechoslovakia	17:17	Federal Republic of Germany B	Braunschweig Spectators: 900 Referees: Øie, Høgsnes
	Lipták 10	(10: 9)	Hartz , Marquardt 5 each

January 18, 1989 7:30 p.m.	Poland	23:29	Soviet Union	Celle spectators: 1,200
	Antczak 7	(12:16)	Atawin 10

January 20, 1989 6:30 p.m.	Soviet Union	23:19	Czechoslovakia	Lemgo spectators: 2,800
	Atawin , Tutschkin 7th each	(9:11)	Lipták 6

January 20, 1989 8:00 p.m.	Poland	25:20	Federal Republic of Germany B	Lemgo spectators: 2,800 Referees: Arnaldsson, Haraldsson
	Wenta 9	(12:14)	Hartz 5

Group B

table

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
01.	Federal Republic of Germany A	03	03	00	00	0067:4800	+19	0006-0000
02.	GDR	03	02	00	01	0075:6900	+6	0004: 2000
03.	Finland	03	01	00	02	0066:6900	−3	0002: 4000
04th	Hungary	03	00	00	03	0051:7300	−22	0000: 6000

January 17, 1989 7:30 p.m.	GDR	26:21	Hungary	Wilhelmshaven spectators: 1,000
	Borchardt 8	(11:12)	Marosi 7

January 17, 1989 7:30 p.m.	Finland	16:22	Federal Republic of Germany A	Stadthalle , Bremerhaven Spectators: 2,500 Referees: Vorderleitner, Wille
	M. Källman , Mäkinen 4 each	(9: 9)	Fitzek , Neitzel 6 each

January 18, 1989 6:30 p.m.	GDR	29:26	Finland	Sports hall , Hamburg Spectators: 4,100
	Borchardt 7	(13:15)	M. Källman 11

January 18, 1989 8:00 p.m.	Hungary	12:23	Federal Republic of Germany A	Sporthalle, Hamburg Spectators: 4,100 Referees: Arnaldsson, Haraldsson
	Marosi 5	(5: 9)	Fitzek 6

January 20, 1989 6:30 p.m.	Hungary	18:24	Finland	Stadthalle , Bremen Spectators: 5,800
	Iváncsik , Marosi 6 each	(7:12)	M. Källman 9

January 20, 1989 8:00 p.m.	Federal Republic of Germany A	22:20	GDR	Stadthalle, Bremen Spectators: 5,800 Referees: Berndtsson, Hansson
	Neitzel 6	(11: 9)	Borchardt 10

Finals and placement round

Overview

Semi-finals     Finals                 B1 Federal Republic of Germany A 20th       A2 Poland 19th     final after two extensions B1 Federal Republic of Germany A 16     A1 Soviet Union 21st A1 Soviet Union 26th B2 GDR 23       3rd place match   A2 Poland 22nd B2 GDR 30th

Placement games place 5-8     Play for 5th and 7th place                 A3 Czechoslovakia 26th       B4 Hungary 24     Play for 5th place A3 Czechoslovakia 19th     A4 Federal Republic of Germany B 21st B3 Finland 26th A4 Federal Republic of Germany B 27       Game for 7th place   B3 Finland 20th B4 Hungary 29

Semi-finals

January 21, 1989 3:00 p.m.	Federal Republic of Germany A	20:19 n.2V.	Poland	Hanover spectators: 3,800 Referees: Øie, Høgsnes
	Fitzek 7	(9: 8), (18:18), (19:19)	Tłuczyński 7

January 21, 1989 4:30 p.m.	Soviet Union	26:23	GDR	Hanover spectators: 3,800
	Atawin 5	(15: 9)	Borchardt 7

3rd place match

January 22, 1989 1:00 p.m.	Poland	22:30	GDR	Westfalenhallen , Dortmund Spectators: 6,000 Referees: Lienhop, Meuler
	Wenta 6	(10:16)	Borchardt 8
	5 ×		3 ×

final

January 22, 1989 2:30 p.m.	Soviet Union	21:16	Federal Republic of Germany A	Westfalenhallen, Dortmund Spectators: 6,000 Referees: Arnaldsson, Haraldsson
	Atawin 10	(8:11)	Swallow 4

Placement games place 5-8

January 21, 1989 3:00 p.m.	Czechoslovakia	26:24	Hungary	Kreissporthalle , Lübbecke spectators: 500
	Sovadina 7	(14:10)	Marosi , Putics 5 each

January 21, 1989 4:30 p.m.	Finland	26:27	Federal Republic of Germany B	District sports hall, Lübbecke spectators: 600
	M. Källman 9	(15:14)	Hartz 10

Game for 7th place

January 22, 1989 9:30 am	Finland	20:29	Hungary	Westfalenhallen , Dortmund spectators: 3,500
	Rönnberg 7	(14:13)	Iváncsik 10

Play for 5th place

January 22, 1989 11:00 a.m.	Czechoslovakia	19:21	Federal Republic of Germany B	Westfalenhallen, Dortmund Spectators: 3,500 Referees: Berndtsson, Hansson
	Baumruk , Lipták , Sedláček 4 each	(12:10)	Harting , winter 5 each

Final placements

rank	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.
	Soviet Union	5	5	0	0	125: 101	+ 24
	Federal Republic of Germany A	5	4th	0	1	103: 880	+ 15
	GDR	5	3	0	2	128: 117	+ 11
4th	Poland	5	2	0	3	115: 121	- 06
5.	Federal Republic of Germany B	5	2	1	2	105: 113	- 08
6th	Czechoslovakia	5	1	1	3	103: 111	- 08
7th	Hungary	5	1	0	4th	104: 119	- 15
8th.	Finland	5	1	0	4th	112: 125	- 13

Bids

1.	2.  A.	3.	4th	5.  B.	6th	7th	8th.
Andrei Lavrov (goalkeeper) Igor Chumak (Goalkeeper) Vyacheslav Atawin Valeri Gopin Mikhail Jakimowitsch Dmitri Karlow Aleksandr Karshakevich Yuri Ladugin Alexander Maistrenko Vadim Mursakow Yuri Nesterov Konstantin Scharowarow Georgi Sviridenko Andrei Tjumenzew Alexander Tutschkin Andrei Xepkin	Stefan Hecker (goalkeeper) Michael Krieter (goalkeeper) Andreas Thiel (goalkeeper) Andreas Dörhöfer Christian Fitzek Dirk Kelle Michael Klemm Frank Löhr Jörg Löhr Hans-Jürgen Müller Rüdiger Neitzel Peter Quarti Ulrich Roth Martin Schwalb Uwe Schwenker	Lutz Grosser (goalkeeper) Uwe Kern (goalkeeper) Gunar Schimrock (goalkeeper) Rüdiger Borchardt Jens Fiedler Mike Fuhrig Matthias Hahn Maik Handschke Stephan Hauck Stephan Lache Holger Langhoff Bernd Metzke Jürgen Querengässer Jörg Sonnefeld Andreas Tam Holger Winselmann	Mariusz Dudek (goalkeeper) Wiesław Goliat (Goalkeeper) Ryszard Antczak Dariusz Bugaj Adam Dawidziuk Mariusz Kędziora Tomasz Lebiedzinski Ryszard Masłoń Andrzej Młoczyński Zbigniew Plechoć Grzegorz Subocz Andrzej Tłuczyński Daniel Waszkiewicz Bogdan Wenta	Hans-Peter Fries (goalkeeper) Frank Hofstötter (goalkeeper) Frank Harting Jürgen Hartz Michael Hein Andreas Hertelt Martin Heuberger Ralph Köhring Jörg Krewinkel Sven Marquardt Thomas Schulz Wolfgang Winter Volker Zerbe	Michal Barda (goalkeeper) Ľubomír Švajlen (goalkeeper) Miroslav Bajgar Petr Baumruk Roman Bečvář Milan Foľta Libor Hrabal Jiří Krčmář Martin Lipták Jan Novák Ján Sedláček Martin Šetlík Libor Sovadina Csaba Szücs Josef Toma Zdeněk	Imre Bíró (Goalkeeper) Zsolt Cziráki (Goalkeeper) Gábor Adorjan Otto Csicsai Gábor Felföldi Ferenc Füzesi Mihály Iváncsik Balázs Kertesz László Marosi László Polgár István Pribék Jenő Putics Géza Tóth Vilmos Varjú	Tommy Ruponen (goalkeeper) Jarkko Salo (goalkeeper) Sami Goman Joumi Hämäläinen Jan Källman Mikael Källman Peter Kihlstedt Jari Laine Markus Lindberg Markku Mäkinen Thomas Nyberg Thomas Pökelmann Jan Rönnberg Robert Stubb Ari-Pekka Tuomi Tomas Westerlund
Note			Note		Note	Note	Note
Spartak Mironowitsch (trainer)	Petre Ivănescu (coach)	Klaus Langhoff (trainer)	Zenon Łakomy (coach)	Horst Bredemeier (trainer)	Vojtech Mareš (trainer)	Lajos Mocsai (Trainer)	Claes Åström (coach)

^Note List may be incomplete.

List of goalscorers

Pl.	Surname	team	Gates	FT	7m	Sp.	T / S
01	Vyacheslav Atavin	Soviet Union	40	20th	20th	5	8th
	Rüdiger Borchardt	GDR	40	13	27	5	8th
03	Mikael Kallman	Finland	37	25th	12	5	7.4
04th	Jürgen Hartz	Federal Republic of Germany B	30th	21st	9	5	6th
05	Martin Lipták	Czechoslovakia	28	12	16	5	5.6
	László Marosi	Hungary	28	18th	10	5	5.6
07th	Christian Fitzek	Federal Republic of Germany A	26th	25th	1	5	5.2
08th	Mihály Iváncsik	Hungary	25th	16	9	5	5
09	Alexander Tutschkin	Soviet Union	23	23	0	5	4.6
	Bogdan Wenta	Poland	23	18th	5	5	4.6
11	Wolfgang Winter	Federal Republic of Germany B	20th	20th	0	5	4th
12	Stephan Hauck	GDR	19th	19th	0	5	3.8

Others

• Spartak Mironowitsch represented the regular coach of the Soviet Union Anatoly Evtushenko , who had to undergo a bypass operation.
• Icelandic referees Stefán Arnaldsson and Ólafur Haraldsson received an anonymous death threat shortly after the final.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ dpa : Hope of victory for only one half. USSR defended with the 21:16 Handball Baltic Cup . In: Weser courier . No. 19/1989 , January 23, 1989, pp. 18 ( Weser-Kurier of January 23, 1989 [PDF; 749 kB ; accessed on June 14, 2020]).
2. ↑ n.v .: USSR without Yevtushenko . Ed .: Mindener Tageblatt ; Rainer Thomas. Minden January 19, 1989, p. 19 , right, lower third .
3. ↑ n.v . : death threat against Schiris . Ed .: Mindener Tageblatt ; Rainer Thomas. Minden January 23, 1989, p. 15 , left, upper third .