# Handball at the 2022 Asian Games

Handball at the 2022 Asian Games was held at the Zhejiang Gongshang University Sports Centre and Zhejiang Normal University Xiaoshan Gymnasium, Hangzhou, China, from 24 September to 5 October 2023. In this tournament, 13 teams participated in the men's competition while nine teams participated in the women's competition.

## Schedule

| P | Preliminary round | S | Second round | ½ | Semifinals | F | Finals |
| Event↓/Date → | 24th Sun | 25th Mon | 26th Tue | 27th Wed | 28th Thu | 29th Fri | 30th Sat | 1st Sun | 2nd Mon | 3rd Tue | 4th Wed | 5th Thu |
| Men | P | P | | P | | S | S | S | | ½ | | F |
| Women | P | P | | P | | P | P | | | ½ | | F |

## Medalists

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men details | Qatar Ahmad Madadi Rafael Capote Frankis Carol Abdulrazzaq Murad Bilal Lepenica Eldar Memišević Irhad Alihodžić Amir Denguir Abdelrahman Abdalla Allaedine Berrached Wajdi Sinen Yassine Sami Youssef Benali Amine Guehis Moustafa Heiba Ameen Zakkar | Bahrain Ali Abdulla Eid Hasan Al-Samahiji Mohamed Hameed Rabia Hesham Ahmed Qasim Qambar Mohamed Abdulredha Ahmed Jalal Mohamed Merza Mohamed Abdulhusain Hasan Madan Ali Merza Hasan Merza Mahdi Saad Mohamed Habib Mohamed Habib Naser Husain Al-Sayyad | Kuwait Abdullah Al-Khamees Saleh Al-Musawi Abdulaziz Al-Shammari Fahad Slbokh Mohammad Al-Sanea Mohammad Al-Hendal Mishaal Al-Harbi Hasan Safar Abdulaziz Naseeb Fawaz Mubarak Mohammad Qambar Abdulaziz Salmeen Abdulrahman Al-Shammari Haider Dashti Yousef Zayef Mohammad Buyabes |
| Women details | Japan Naoko Sahara Miyako Hatsumi Yumi Kitahara Saki Hattori Chikako Kasai Atsuko Baba Kaho Nakayama Ayaka Omatsuzawa Hikaru Matsumoto Naho Saito Natsuki Aizawa Ayame Okada Reina Dan Kana Ozaki Yuki Yoshidome Sora Ishikawa | South Korea Kim Seon-hwa Song Ji-young Shin Eun-joo Kim Min-seo Ryu Eun-hee Jeong Jin-hui Park Sae-young Jo Su-yeon Kang Eun-hye Song Hye-soo Lee Mi-gyeong Kang Kyung-min Kang Eun-seo Yun Ye-jin Gim Bo-eun Park Jo-eun | China Lu Chang Zhang Haixia Lin Yanqun Tian Xiuxiu Liu Chan Li Xiaoqing Zhou Mengxue Hu Yunuo Zhang Guisi Yang Yurou Zhuang Hongyan Xin Yan Gong Lei Liu Xuedan Jin Mengqing Liu Yuting |

## Medal table

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

## Draw

The draw for the competition was done at 27 July 2023. The draw was conducted by Hangzhou Asian Games Organizing Committee (HAGOC) in the presence of an Asian Handball Federation events officer.

### Men

The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 2022 Asian Men's Handball Championship.

### Women

The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 2022 Asian Women's Handball Championship.

## Final standing
### Men

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L |
| | Qatar | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| | Bahrain | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 |
| | Kuwait | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | Japan | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | China | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | South Korea | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 | Iran | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | Kazakhstan | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 9 | Hong Kong | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | Saudi Arabia | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | Thailand | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | Uzbekistan | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 13 | Mongolia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |

### Women

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L |
| | Japan | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| | South Korea | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| | China | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | Kazakhstan | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | India | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | Uzbekistan | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | Hong Kong | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | Thailand | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 | Nepal | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |