Handball at the 2018 Asian Games – Men

The men's tournament of Handball at the 2018 Asian Games at Jakarta, Indonesia, was held from 13 to 31 August 2018 at the POPKI Sports Hall.^[1]

Men at the 2018 Asian Games
Venue	POPKI Sports Hall
Date	13–31 August 2018
Competitors	204 from 13 nations
Medalists
Qatar    Bahrain    South Korea
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Main article: Handball at the 2018 Asian Games

Squads

Bahrain	Chinese Taipei	Hong Kong	India
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	Lin You-ting Liu Tzu-fan Huang Hsin-wei Wang Ta-kang Chiu Yi-fan Wu Hsiu-min Lin Kun-ming Lai Hung-sheng Chen Yen-tung Hsu Chih-kun Pan En-chieh Huang Chen-kang Hsu Hsien-ming Hsiao Nien-cheng Chao Hsien-chang Huang Chia-hua	Addy Ip Leung Laam Hei Kenny Wong Wong Shing Yip Chan Ka Him Tse Wing Fai Eddy Ip Ip Shi Yan Cheung Wai Ho Lau Kin Pan Wong Chun Ho Kuo Sze Ming Dilyadav Singh Lin Ming Fai Yuen Hei Yin Tony Lee	Atul Kumar Deepak Ahlawat Adithya Nagaraj Harjinder Singh Naveen Punia Greenidge D'Cunha Navdeep Karamjeet Singh Avin Khatkar Ramesh Chand Sachin Bhardwaj Kamaljeet Singh Rahul Dubey Harender Singh Davinder Singh Bajrang Thakur
Indonesia	Iran	Iraq	Japan
Nur Rahman Effendi Andi Yoga Ananda Fitra Agung Aditya Pratama Oni Arianus Sir Yulianto Effendi Sir Bagas Rufan Pujianto Viktorius Rafael Tolang Alias Ilyas Harun Nurrasyid Saepul Rahman Aryasatya Hidayat Noor Phasa Nurfauzan Rian Kurniawan Dupa Gilang Pratama Wiguna Risky Fidelano	Mojtaba Heidarpour Milad Masaeli Shahoo Nosrati Alireza Mousavi Mehdi Bijari Mehdi Mousavi Salaman Barbat Mohsen Babasafari Ehsan Abouei Farzad Rostami Ali Rahimi Mehrdad Samsami Jalal Kiani Afshin Sadeghi Mohammad Jomepour Amin Kazemi	Bilal Hasan Raed Abd-Zaid Hussein Ali Jasim Ghassab Muntadher Qasim Ahmed Makki Mohanad Adil Ali Abdul-Ridha Majid Abdul-Ridha Mohammed Sahib Karrar Kadhim Maytham Oudah Mustafa Mohammed Ali Adnan Baderaldeen Hammoudi Mohammed Ali	Naoki Sugioka Hozuki Higashinagahama Kenya Kasahara Akihito Kai Kohei Narita Jin Watanabe Motoki Sakai Hiroki Shida Hiroki Motoki Hiroyasu Tamakawa Kairi Kochi Tatsuki Yoshino Yuto Agarie Naohiro Hamaguchi Daichi Komuro Tetsuya Kadoyama
Malaysia	Pakistan	Qatar	Saudi Arabia
Najhan Bohari Izzat Abdul Karim Dzulfiqar Ismail Nabil Abdul Razak Fazrin Jamaluddin Ammar Safwan Nadzarudin Koh Chan Seng Faizan Damanhuri Ridzuan Mohd Razali Salman Sayyidi Hamzah Uzair Zubli Khairul Amirul Abdullah Ahmad Zaidi Rosdi Solihin Mustafa Kamal Amirul Ikram Abdul Razak Fikree Azman	Muhammad Nawaz Hazrat Hussain Naseem Ullah Asim Saeed Muhammad Shahid Pervaiz Muhammad Zubair Muhammad Uzair Atif Nasir Hussain Tahir Ali Asif Hayat Muzamal Hussain Muhammad Shahid Bashir	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	Mohammed Al-Nassfan Abdullah Al-Abbas Hassan Al-Janabi Hisham Al-Obaidi Abdulazez Saeed Ahmed Al-Abdulali Mohammed Al-Salem Ali Al-Ibrahim Mahdi Al-Salem Muneer Abu Al-Rahi Mohammed Al-Abbas Abdullah Al-Hammad Mojtaba Al-Salem Mohammed Al-Zaer Sadiq Al-Mohsin Abbas Al-Saffar
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

Results

All times are Western Indonesia Time (UTC+07:00)

Preliminary round

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Qatar	2	2	0	0	99	31	+68	4	Main round / Group 1–2
2	Iran	2	1	0	1	75	46	+29	2
3	Malaysia	2	0	0	2	22	119	−97	0	Main round / Group 3

Source: AHF

13 August 16:00	Malaysia	11–64	Qatar	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Shakir, Kadhim (IRQ)
	Ismail, Kamal 3	(7–33)	Zouaoui 18
	2× 1×

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15 August 11:00	Iran	55–11	Malaysia	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Li, Ke (CHN)
	Barbat 11	(29–5)	A. Abdul Razak 3
	1× 1×		1× 2×

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17 August 16:00	Qatar	35–20	Iran	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Lee, Koo (KOR)
	Heiba 6	(18–6)	Rostami, Kazemi 4
	3× 2×		2× 5× 1×

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	South Korea	2	1	1	0	73	42	+31	3[lower-alpha 1]	Main round / Group 1–2
2	Japan	2	1	1	0	64	41	+23	3[lower-alpha 1]
3	Pakistan	2	0	0	2	31	85	−54	0	Main round / Group 3

Source: AHF
Notes:

1. Head-to-head result: KOR 26–26 JPN. Overall goal difference was used as the tiebreaker.

13 August 18:00	Pakistan	16–47	South Korea	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Li, Ke (CHN)
	Saeed 6	(4–26)	Hwang D.Y. 11
	1× 3×		1×

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15 August 14:00	Japan	38–15	Pakistan	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Al-Wahibi, Al-Shahi (OMA)
	Shida 7	(20–7)	M. Hussain 5
	3× 2×		2× 1×

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17 August 9:00	South Korea	26–26	Japan	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Al-Marhoon, Al-Mawt (BHR)
	Kim D.C. 10	(13–13)	Motoki, Agarie 6
	3× 5×		3× 5×

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Saudi Arabia	2	2	0	0	89	37	+52	4	Main round / Group 1–2
2	Hong Kong	2	1	0	1	64	59	+5	2
3	Indonesia	2	0	0	2	30	87	−57	0	Main round / Group 3

Source: AHF

13 August 20:00	Hong Kong	40–17	Indonesia	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Tavakkoli, Valadkhanian (IRI)
	Chan K.H. 9	(19–6)	Tolang 5
	3× 2×		2× 3×

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15 August 16:00	Saudi Arabia	42–24	Hong Kong	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Lee, Koo (KOR)
	Saeed, Moj. Al-Salem 5	(21–12)	Ip S.Y. 6
	3×		2× 2×

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17 August 14:00	Indonesia	13–47	Saudi Arabia	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Shakir, Kadhim (IRQ)
	Bagas, Tolang 5	(4–21)	Al-Saffar 8
	2×		2×

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Bahrain	3	3	0	0	99	70	+29	6	Main round / Group 1–2
2	Iraq	3	2	0	1	101	89	+12	4
3	Chinese Taipei	3	1	0	2	89	102	−13	2	Main round / Group 3
4	India	3	0	0	3	82	110	−28	0

Source: AHF

13 August 11:00	India	28–38	Chinese Taipei	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Al-Wahibi, Al-Shahi (OMA)
	Hare. Singh 8	(13–19)	Chiu Y.F. 8
	2× 3×		1× 3×

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13 August 14:00	Iraq	24–30	Bahrain	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Hizaki, Ikebuchi (JPN)
	Hammoudi 5	(16–12)	Al-Samahiji, Al-Sayyad 5
	1× 3×		1× 4×

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15 August 18:00	Iraq	37–30	Chinese Taipei	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Al-Marhoon, Al-Mawt (BHR)
	Adnan 10	(17–14)	Chao H.C. 8
	2× 6×		1× 5× 1×

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15 August 20:00	India	25–32	Bahrain	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Al-Saqer, Al-Suqufi (KSA)
	Ahlawat 6	(11–18)	Habib 6
	2× 4×		3× 5×

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17 August 18:00	India	29–40	Iraq	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Al-Wahibi, Al-Shahi (OMA)
	Ahlawat 8	(13–18)	Adil 9
	2× 5×		3× 1×

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17 August 20:00	Bahrain	37–21	Chinese Taipei	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Tavakkoli, Valadkhanian (IRI)
	Al-Samahiji 6	(18–10)	Pan E.C. 8
	4× 3×		4× 2×

Main round

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Qatar	3	3	0	0	78	60	+18	6	Semifinals
2	Japan	3	1	1	1	70	74	−4	3
3	Saudi Arabia	3	0	2	1	69	74	−5	2	Classification 5th–6th
4	Iraq	3	0	1	2	64	73	−9	1	Classification 7th–8th

Source: AHF

20 August 16:00	Iraq	20–26	Qatar	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Tavakkoli, Valadkhanian (IRI)
	Ghassab 5	(9–15)	Heiba, Zouaoui 5
	1× 2×		2× 4×

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20 August 20:00	Saudi Arabia	26–26	Japan	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Al-Marhoon, Al-Mawt (BHR)
	Al-Abbas 8	(15–11)	Agarie 7
	3× 3× 1×		3× 4×

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22 August 16:00	Japan	27–24	Iraq	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Tavakkoli, Valadkhanian (IRI)
	Motoki 9	(12–15)	Adnan 5
	1× 2×		3× 8× 1×

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22 August 20:00	Qatar	28–23	Saudi Arabia	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Lee, Koo (KOR)
	Capote 6	(16–10)	Al-Hammad 6
	3× 3×		3× 4× 1×

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24 August 16:00	Iraq	20–20	Saudi Arabia	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Tavakkoli, Valadkhanian (IRI)
	Adnan 9	(11–12)	Al-Abbas, Al-Abdulali 5
	1× 4×		2× 3× 2×

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24 August 20:00	Qatar	24–17	Japan	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Shakir, Kadhim (IRQ)
	Zouaoui 6	(13–10)	Higashinagahama 6
	1× 5×		2× 4×

Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Bahrain	3	3	0	0	99	67	+32	6	Semifinals
2	South Korea	3	2	0	1	99	70	+29	4
3	Iran	3	1	0	2	97	83	+14	2	Classification 5th–6th
4	Hong Kong	3	0	0	3	54	129	−75	0	Classification 7th–8th

Source: AHF

20 August 14:00	Bahrain	29–23	Iran	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Shakir, Kadhim (IRQ)
	A. Abdulqader 7	(16–13)	Sadeghi 8
	1× 4× 2×		2× 6×

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20 August 18:00	Hong Kong	15–40	South Korea	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Al-Saqer, Al-Suqufi (KSA)
	Tse W.F. 4	(7–21)	Jang D.H., Hwang D.Y. 7
	3× 1×		1×

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22 August 14:00	South Korea	25–27	Bahrain	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Hizaki, Ikebuchi (JPN)
	Yoon C.Y. 7	(11–13)	Al-Sayyad 8
	1× 6× 1×		3× 6×

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22 August 18:00	Iran	46–20	Hong Kong	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Al-Wahibi, Al-Shahi (OMA)
	Nosrati 12	(18–10)	Tse W.F. 7
	1× 3×		1× 3×

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24 August 14:00	Bahrain	43–19	Hong Kong	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Al-Saqer, Al-Suqufi (KSA)
	M. Abdulqader 14	(21–11)	Kuo S.M. 6
	3×		1×

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24 August 18:00	Iran	28–34	South Korea	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Hizaki, Ikebuchi (JPN)
	Nosrati 10	(12–17)	Jeong Y.K. 9
	3× 2×		2× 3×

Group 3

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Chinese Taipei	4	4	0	0	142	95	+47	8
2	India	4	3	0	1	141	104	+37	6
3	Pakistan	4	2	0	2	134	111	+23	4
4	Indonesia	4	1	0	3	96	124	−28	2
5	Malaysia	4	0	0	4	78	157	−79	0

Source: AHF

20 August 9:00	Chinese Taipei	36–32	Pakistan	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Hizaki, Ikebuchi (JPN)
	Chao H.C. 8	(16–14)	Pervaiz 8
	2× 1×		4×

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20 August 11:00	India	45–19	Malaysia	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Li, Ke (CHN)
	D. Singh 13	(25–8)	Abdul Karim, Jamaluddin 4
	1× 2×		4×

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21 August 9:00	Indonesia	23–28	Pakistan	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Al-Saqer, Al-Suqufi (KSA)
	Tolang 11	(10–12)	M. Hussain 8
	1× 2×		1× 2×

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21 August 11:00	Chinese Taipei	34–13	Malaysia	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Lee, Koo (KOR)
	Liu T.F. 9	(19–6)	Abdul Karim, Ismail 3
	2×		1× 3×

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24 August 9:00	Indonesia	19–37	Chinese Taipei	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Al-Wahibi, Al-Shahi (OMA)
	Tolang 7	(7–18)	Chiu Y.F., Huang C.K., Hsiao N.C. 5
	2× 5×		2×

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24 August 11:00	Pakistan	27–28	India	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Li, Ke (CHN)
	M. Hussain 7	(12–14)	D'Cunha 9
	2× 3×		3× 2×

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26 August 11:00	India	31–35	Chinese Taipei	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Ota, Shimajiri (JPN)
	D. Singh 10	(12–15)	Chiu Y.F. 11
	1× 3×		2× 4×

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26 August 14:00	Indonesia	31–22	Malaysia	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Li, Ke (CHN)
	Bagas 10	(15–8)	Ismail 4
	1× 1×		1× 4×

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29 August 14:00	India	37–23	Indonesia	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Al-Suqufi, Al-Saqer (KSA)
	D. Singh 11	(16–13)	Tolang 9
	3×		2× 7×

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29 August 18:00	Malaysia	24–47	Pakistan	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Al-Marhoon, Al-Mawt (BHR)
	Jamaluddin 6	(9–21)	N. Hussain, M. Hussain 11
	2× 3×		1×

Classification 5th–8th

Classification 7th–8th

26 August 16:00	Iraq	31–24	Hong Kong	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Lee, Koo (KOR)
	M. Abdul-Ridha 7	(15–12)	Ip S.Y. 5
	1× 3×		2× 2×

Classification 5th–6th

26 August 18:00	Saudi Arabia	23–30	Iran	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Hizaki, Ikebuchi (JPN)
	Saeed, Moj. Al-Salem 5	(9–16)	Samsami 6
	1× 4× 1×		3× 3×

Final round

	Semifinals				Gold medal match
	27 August
	Qatar	27
					31 August
	South Korea	20
					Qatar (OT)	32
	27 August
					Bahrain	27
	Bahrain	31
	Japan	20
					Bronze medal match
					31 August
					South Korea	24
					Japan	23

Semifinals

27 August 14:00	Qatar	27–20	South Korea	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Shakir, Kadhim (IRQ)
	Madadi 6	(13–7)	Lee H.S. 7
	4× 2×		1× 3×

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27 August 18:00	Bahrain	31–20	Japan	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Tavakkoli, Valadkhanian (IRI)
	Al-Sayyad 10	(15–9)	Watanabe 7
	2× 4×		2× 1×

Bronze medal match

31 August 16:00	South Korea	24–23	Japan	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Al-Marhoon, Al-Mawt (BHR)
	Hwang D.Y. 6	(13–12)	Watanabe, Agarie 5
	3×		3× 2×

Gold medal match

31 August 18:00	Qatar	32–27 (ET)	Bahrain	POPKI Sports Hall, Jakarta Referees: Hizaki, Ikebuchi (JPN)
	Zouaoui 7	(13–14)	Al-Sayyad 5
	3× 3×		4× 5×
	FT: 25–25 ET: 7–2

Final standing

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

References

1. "Matches Schedule (Men & Women) of 18th Asian Games- 2018 INA" (PDF). AHF. Retrieved 22 August 2018.

External links

• Handball at the 2018 Asian Games – Men's tournament Archived 2018-09-10 at the Wayback Machine