Handball at the 2006 Asian Games

The handball events at the 2006 Asian Games were held in Al-Rayyan, Qatar between 3 December and 14 December 2006. It was the seventh time handball was included at the Asian Games. All matches were held in the Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall.

Handball at the 2006 Asian Games
Venue	Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall
Date	3–14 December 2006
Competitors	355 from 18 nations
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Schedule

P

Preliminary round

S

Second round

C

Classification

½

Semifinals

F

Finals

Event↓/Date →	3rd Sun	4th Mon	5th Tue	6th Wed	7th Thu	8th Fri	9th Sat	10th Sun	11th Mon	12th Tue	13th Wed	14th Thu
Men	P	P	P	P	S	S	S	C	½	C	C	F
Women				P	P	P	P	P	½	C	F

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	Kuwait Torki Al-Khalidi Bader Abbas Abdulaziz Al-Zoabi Faisal Al-Mutairi Saleh Al-Jaimaz Husain Siwan Fahad Rabie Abdullah Al-Theyab Yousef Al-Fadhli Ali Al-Haddad Mahdi Al-Qallaf Meshal Swailem Hamad Al-Rashidi Ali Al-Mithin Saad Al-Azemi Ali Murad	Qatar Anas Al-Suweidan Adnan Al-Ali Khalid Al-Hashmi Rashid Al-Remaihi Samir Hashim Abdulla Saad Al-Saad Mohamed Bajawi Mohammed Walid Ghazal Ahmed Saad Al-Saad Mubarak Bilal Al-Ali Mohsin Yafai Yousef Ashoor Fawaz Al-Moadhadi Khalid Al-Marri Yousef Al-Maalem Badi Johar	Iran Iman Ehsannejad Mohammad Reza Rajabi Mohammad Reza Jafarnia Hani Zamani Masoud Zohrabi Saeid Pourghasemi Mostafa Sadati Allahkaram Esteki Farid Alimoradi Alireza Rabie Hossein Shahabi Ali Akbar Khoshnevis Rasoul Dehghani Peyman Sadeghi Hojjat Rahshenas
Women details	South Korea Woo Sun-hee Yoon Hyun-kyung Huh Soon-young Lee Gong-joo An Jung-hwa Yu Ji-yeong Kim Cha-youn Huh Young-sook Moon Kyeong-ha Park Chung-hee Kwon Geun-hae Lee Min-hee Myoung Bok-hee Kang Ji-hey Choi Im-jeong Moon Pil-hee	Kazakhstan Olga Travnikova Olga Adzhiderskaya Marina Buzmakova Irina Borechko Marina Pikalova Alexandra Yefimova Lyazzat Kilibayeva Yelena Kozlova Gulnar Mendybayeva Yelena Portova Natalya Kubrina Anastassiya Batuyeva Yuliya Goncharova Yevgeniya Nikolayeva Natalya Yakovleva Yana Vassilyeva	Japan Sachiko Katsuda Yuko Arihama Mariko Komatsu Kaori Onozawa Akiko Kinjo Hitomi Sakugawa Tomoko Sakamoto Aiko Hayafune Kimiko Hida Keiko Mizuno Noriko Omae Hisayo Taniguchi Mami Tanaka Kazusa Nagano Eiko Yamada Akie Uegaki

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Kuwait (KUW)	1	0	0	1
	South Korea (KOR)	1	0	0	1
3	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	1	0	1
	Qatar (QAT)	0	1	0	1
5	Iran (IRI)	0	0	1	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		2	2	2	6

Draw

A draw ceremony was held on 7 September 2006 to determine the groups for the men's and women's competitions. The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 2002 Asian Games.

Men

Group A  Bahrain (6)  Qatar (Host)  India  Macau

Group B  Kuwait (2)  China (7)  Hong Kong  Iran

Group C  Japan (4)  United Arab Emirates (8)  Uzbekistan  Saudi Arabia

Group D  South Korea (1)  Lebanon  Syria

Women

Group A  Kazakhstan (2)  China (3)  Uzbekistan  India

Group B  South Korea (1)  Japan (4)  Thailand  Chinese Taipei

Final standing

Men

Further information: Handball at the 2006 Asian Games – Men's tournament

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L
	Kuwait	8	8	0	0
	Qatar	8	7	0	1
	Iran	8	5	0	3
4	South Korea	7	3	1	3
5	Syria	6	3	0	3
6	Japan	7	3	1	3
7	Bahrain	7	3	0	4
8	Saudi Arabia	7	3	0	4
9	Lebanon	4	2	0	2
10	United Arab Emirates	5	2	0	3
11	China	5	2	0	3
12	India	5	1	0	4
13	Hong Kong	4	1	0	3
14	Uzbekistan	5	1	0	4
15	Macau	4	0	0	4

Women

Further information: Handball at the 2006 Asian Games – Women's tournament

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L
	South Korea	5	5	0	0
	Kazakhstan	5	4	0	1
	Japan	5	3	0	2
4	China	5	2	0	3
5	Chinese Taipei	4	2	0	2
6	Uzbekistan	4	1	0	3
7	Thailand	4	1	0	3
8	India	4	0	0	4