Handball, Women

Competition	1978 World Women's Handball Championship
Venue	various TCH
Held	30 November – 10 December 1978
Status	Medal
Competitors	48
Countries	3

Pos	Athlete(s)	Country	Mark
🥇	East Germany	GDR	—
	Hannelore Burosch / Kornelia Kunisch / Birgit Heinecke / Roswitha Krause / Waltraud Kretzschmar / Eva Langenberg / Evelyn Matz / Katrin Krüger / Kristina Richter / Christina Rost / Sabine Röther / Renate Rudolph / Marion Tietz / Petra Uhlig / Claudia Wunderlich / Hannelore Zober
🥈	Soviet Union	URS	—
	Lyubov Berezhnaya-Odinokova / Lyudmila Bobrus-Poradnik / Aldona Česaitytė-Nenėnienė / Svetlana Pinchuk-Dubinina / Tatyana Glushchenko / Olga Yatrusheva / Larisa Karlova / Tatyana Makarets-Kochergina / Galina Kolotilova / Irina Palchikova / Galina Shmarova / Sigita Strečen-Mažeikaitė / Larisa Subar / Nataliya Sherstyuk-Timoshkina / Zinaida Turchina / Olga Zubareva
🥉	Hungary	HUN	—
	Éva Angyal / Ferencné Barath / Mária Berzsenyi / Erzsébet Németh-Csajbók / Éva Csulik / Klára Elias / Mária Hajós-Ihász / Erika Magyar-Kocsis / Rozália Tomann-Lelkes / Ilona Nagy / Marianna Nagy-Gódor / Györgyi Őri-Győrvári / Ilona Samus-Mihályka / Amália Sterbinszky / Anikó Szabadfi / Mária Vanya-Vadász