# 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. In this tournament, 13 teams participated in the men's competition while 10 teams participated in the women's competition.

## 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 |
| 3 | China (CHN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Japan (JPN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (5 entries) | 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. The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 2014 Asian Games.

### Women
## Final standing
### 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

| 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 |