# Handball at the 2010 Asian Games

Handball at the 2010 Asian Games was held in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China from November 13 to 26, 2010. In this tournament, 11 teams played in the men's competition, and 9 teams participated in the women's competition.

## Schedule

| P | Preliminary round | C | Classification | ½ | Semifinals | F | Finals |
| Event↓/Date → | 13th Sat | 14th Sun | 15th Mon | 16th Tue | 17th Wed | 18th Thu | 19th Fri | 20th Sat | 21st Sun | 22nd Mon | 23rd Tue | 24th Wed | 25th Thu | 26th Fri |
| Men | P | P | | P | P | P | P | P | | C | ½ | C | | F |
| Women | | | | | | P | P | P | P | P | P | | ½ | F |

## Medalists

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men details | South Korea Lee Chang-woo Jeong Yi-kyeong Sim Jae-bok Park Kyung-suk Kim Tea-wan Jung Su-young Park Jung-geu Lee Sang-uk Park Chan-young Oh Yun-suk Lee Tea-young Kang Il-koo Lee Jae-woo Yu Dong-geun Paek Won-chul Yoon Kyung-shin | Iran Abbas Asadzadeh Milad Masaeli Mohammad Reza Rajabi Ehsan Abouei Omid Sekenari Sajjad Esteki Masoud Zohrabi Mostafa Sadati Allahkaram Esteki Javad Khorramipour Erfan Saeidi Mehrdad Samsami Jalal Kiani Saeid Barkhordari Mohammad Mehdi Askari Mehdi Bijari | Japan Katsuyuki Shinouchi Kenji Toyoda Makoto Suematsu Hideyuki Murakami Daisuke Miyazaki Toru Takeda Satoshi Fujita Hidenori Kishigawa Morihide Kaido Toshihiro Tsubone Kyosuke Tomita Jun Mori Masayuki Matsumura Yoshiaki Nomura Tetsuya Kadoyama Shusaku Higashinagahama |
| Women details | China Xu Mo Wei Qiuxiang Ma Ling Li Bing Luan Zheng Li Yao Zhou Meiwei Wang Shasha An Ni Huang Hong Liu Xiaomei Sun Mengying Sha Zhengwen Li Weiwei Zhao Jiaqin Yan Meizhu | Japan Megumi Takahashi Aimi Ito Akie Uegaki Akina Shinjo Kaori Nakamura Shio Fujii Kumi Mori Karina Maki Hiromi Tashiro Yuko Arihama Kaoru Yokoshima Mayuko Ishitate Rika Wakamatsu Kaori Fujima Aiko Hayafune Sayo Shiota | South Korea Woo Sun-hee Kim On-a Huh Soon-young Baek Seung-hee Bae Min-hee Kim Cha-youn Yoon Hyun-kyung Moon Kyeong-ha Ryu Eun-hee Nam Hyun-hwa Lee Min-hee Myoung Bok-hee Kang Ji-hey Jung Ji-hae Moon Pil-hee Lee Eun-bi |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | South Korea (KOR) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | China (CHN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | Japan (JPN) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | Iran (IRI) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals (4 entries) | Totals (4 entries) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |

## Draw

The draw ceremony for the team sports was held on 7 October 2010 at Guangzhou. The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 2006 Asian Games.

### Women

Kazakhstan was later added to Group A.

## Final standing
### Men

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L |
| | South Korea | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| | Iran | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 |
| | Japan | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | Saudi Arabia | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Qatar | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| 6 | Bahrain | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 | China | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 8 | Athletes from Kuwait | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 9 | India | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 10 | Hong Kong | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 11 | Mongolia | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |

### Women

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L |
| | China | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| | Japan | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| | South Korea | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Kazakhstan | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | North Korea | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | Chinese Taipei | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 | Thailand | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | India | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 9 | Qatar | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |