Handball at the 2018 Asian Games

Handball at the 2018 Asian Games was held at the POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta, Indonesia, from 13 August to 31 August 2018.^[1] In this tournament, 13 teams participated in the men's competition while 10 teams participated in the women's competition.

Handball at the 2018 Asian Games
Venue	POPKI Sports Hall
Date	13–31 August 2018
Competitors	362 from 17 nations
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Schedule

P

Preliminary round

S

Second round

C

Classification

½

Semifinals

F

Finals

Event↓/Date →	13th Mon	14th Tue	15th Wed	16th Thu	17th Fri	18th Sat	19th Sun	20th Mon	21st Tue	22nd Wed	23rd Thu	24th Fri	25th Sat	26th Sun	27th Mon	28th Tue	29th Wed	30th Thu	31st Fri
Men	P		P		P			S	C	S		S		C	½		C		F
Women		P		P			P		P		P		C		½		C	F

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	Qatar Rasheed Yusuff Bertrand Roiné Rafael Capote Frankis Carol Abdulrazzaq Murad Danijel Šarić Goran Stojanović Firas Chaieb Amine Guehis Allaedine Berrached Wajdi Sinen Ahmad Madadi Youssef Benali Moustafa Heiba Anis Zouaoui Ameen Zakkar	Bahrain Ali Merza Hasan Al-Samahiji Isa Khalaf Mahmood Abdulqader Mohamed Abdulredha Mohamed Merza Mohamed Abdulhusain Bilal Basham Hasan Madan Husain Al-Baboor Komail Mahfoodh Jasim Al-Salatna Ali Abdulqader Hasan Al-Fardan Mohamed Habib Husain Al-Sayyad	South Korea Jeong Yi-kyeong Sim Jae-bok Choi Beom-mun Jung Su-young Park Jung-geu Jo Tae-hun Jang Dong-hyun Lee Hyeon-sik Yoon Ci-yoel Na Seung-do Hwang Do-yeop Kim Dong-cheol Jeong Jae-wan Lee Dong-myung Ku Chang-eun Lee Chang-woo
Women details	South Korea Park Sae-young Kim Seon-hwa Song Hai-rim Shin Eun-joo Kim On-a Park Mi-ra Yoo Hyun-ji Kang Eun-hye Choi Su-min Han Mi-seul Jung Ji-hae Gim Bo-eun Song Ji-eun Lee Hyo-jin Jung Yu-ra Yu So-jeong	China Lin Yanqun Zhang Haixia Li Xiaoqing Wu Yin Wu Nana Yu Yuanyuan Wang Haiye Si Wen Liu Xiaomei Sha Zhengwen Yang Jiao Zhao Jiaqin Yang Yurou Li Yao Qiao Ru Lan Xiaoling	Japan Kimiko Hida Mika Nagata Kaho Sunami Sayo Shiota Asuka Fujita Aya Yokoshima Minami Itano Chie Katsuren Hitomi Tada Natsumi Akiyama Nozomi Hara Mana Ohyama Shiori Nagata Miyuki Terada Tomomi Kawata Mayuko Ishitate

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea (KOR)	1	0	1	2
2	Qatar (QAT)	1	0	0	1
3	Bahrain (BRN)	0	1	0	1
	China (CHN)	0	1	0	1
5	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 entries)		2	2	2	6

Draw

The draw for the competition was done at the JS Luwansa Hotel, Jakarta on 5 July 2018. The draw was conducted by Indonesian Asian Games Organizing Committee (Inasgoc) in the presence of Asian Handball Federation events officer.^[2] The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 2014 Asian Games.^[3][4]

Men

Group A  Qatar (1)  Iran (4)  Malaysia

Group B  South Korea (2)  Japan (9)  Pakistan

Group C  Indonesia (Host)  Saudi Arabia (7)  Hong Kong (11)

Group D  Bahrain (3)  Chinese Taipei (8)  India (14)  Iraq

Women

Group A  South Korea (1)  Kazakhstan (3)  China (4)  India (8)  North Korea

Group B  Indonesia (Host)  Japan (2)  Hong Kong (6)  Thailand (7)  Malaysia

Final standing

Men

Further information: Handball at the 2018 Asian Games – Men

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L
	Qatar	7	7	0	0
	Bahrain	8	7	0	1
	South Korea	7	4	1	2
4	Japan	7	2	2	3
5	Iran	6	3	0	3
6	Saudi Arabia	6	2	2	2
7	Iraq	7	3	1	3
8	Hong Kong	6	1	0	5
9	Chinese Taipei	7	5	0	2
10	India	7	3	0	4
11	Pakistan	6	2	0	4
12	Indonesia	6	1	0	5
13	Malaysia	6	0	0	6

Women

Further information: Handball at the 2018 Asian Games – Women

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L
	South Korea	6	6	0	0
	China	6	3	0	3
	Japan	6	5	0	1
4	Thailand	6	3	0	3
5	North Korea	6	4	0	2
6	Kazakhstan	6	3	0	3
7	Hong Kong	6	3	0	3
8	Indonesia	6	1	0	5
9	India	5	1	0	4
10	Malaysia	5	0	0	5