Handball at the 2022 Asian Games – Men

Men
at the 2023 Asian Games
Men ; at the 2023 Asian Games
Venue	ZJSU Sports Centre; ZJNU Xiaoshan Gymnasium
Date	24 September – 5 October 2023
Competitors	201 from 13 nations
Medalists
	Qatar
	Bahrain
	Kuwait

The men's tournament of Handball at the 2022 Asian Games at Hangzhou, China, was held from 24 September to 5 October 2023.^[1]

Squads

Bahrain	China	Hong Kong	Iran
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	Zhang Tianjin He Zheng Sun Fangwei Xie Qinglong Cheng Haijin Zhao Wenxuan Wang Quan Zhang Jianjie He Xinian Hu Jinming Li Shuang Liu Zhaoliang Huang Peijie Chen Xu Rao Yuanyuan Zhu Shijie	Kenny Wong Chan Tsz Long Wong Ling Chung Tse Wing Fai Lee Siu Chung Eddy Ip Wong Chun Ho Chow Kam Lun Chan Ho Yin Leung Laam Hei Kuo Sze Ming Cheung Ka Ho Lau Kin Pan Wong Kin Kan Yik Fai Kan Yik Man	Mojtaba Heidarpour Milad Ghalandari Hossein Jahani Yasin Kabirianjoo Kiarash Taheri Reza Yadegari Mohammad Siavoshi Mehran Rahnama Younes Asari Ali Shirani Ali Rahimi Mohammad Mehdi Behnamnia Mohammad Reza Kazemi Afshin Sadeghi Shahab Sadeghzadeh Ali Kouhzad
Japan	Kazakhstan	Kuwait	Mongolia
Motoki Sakai Kenya Kasahara Kohei Narita Hiroki Motoki Yuto Agarie Naoki Sugioka Tatsuki Yoshino Hiroyasu Tamakawa Shinnosuke Tokuda Takumi Nakamura Shinya Yamada Adam Yuki Baig Shuto Kawahara Daiki Kani Taiga Tsutaya Shin Izumoto	Bekzat Anarbayev Yerzhan Kenzhebayev Artyom Melnichenko Aibek Turanov Konstantin Milyayev Kuanbay Kuantyr Askan Oxikbayev Daniil Yakubovich Odilzhan Gaziyev Assylkhan Nabiyev Dauren Tilekkabyl Asset Kali Miras Kaldykhan Dilmurad Yuldashev Ilya Pobochenko Daniyar Irismetov	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	Pürevboldyn Altansoyombo Mönkhbaataryn Baljinnyam Nasanjargalyn Ganchödör Batmönkhiin Bayarjargal Battsengeliin Mönkhbat Dashdelgeriin Tsogtbayar Urtnasany Baatarsükh Sanjjavyn Batkhuyag Ganboldyn Lkhagvatsend
Qatar	Saudi Arabia	South Korea	Thailand
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	Hassan Al-Janabi Jehad Abualwah Abdullah Al-Hammad Ahmed Al-Abdulali Mahdi Al-Salem Abdullah Al-Hulaili Ali Al-Tarouti Ali Al-Saffar Mohammed Al-Abbas Haidar Al-Hassan Abdullah Al-Abbas Haidar Al-Khadrawi Marhoon Al-Maa Hussain Furaij Sadiq Al-Mohsin Abbas Al-Saffar	Shin Jae-seop Kang Jeon-gu Ku Chang-eun Park Young-jun Jang Dong-hyun Jo Tae-hun Song Jea-woo Park Kwang-soon Kim Jin-young Lee Yo-seb Ha Min-ho Lee Seong-min Kim Dong-uk Lee Hyeon-sik Lee Chang-woo Park Se-ung	Thanawat Sanyamud Kanin Deetalod Kajonwit Saengsan Sudthawee Prueprak Atsawamethee Barameechuay Kong Srathongdee Sarawut Rungruangnara Tanakorn Ekchiaochan Samarn Saelee Pattana Changtom Theephop Puapan Teerapat Taotiamton Yothin Limwongphatthana Pongsaphatchai Doungsuwan Wannapong Phumphio Sitthipong Saneha
Uzbekistan
Jasurbek Abdullaev Gayrat Baratov Akromali Yangiboev Mukhtor Tuliboev Elyor Eshboev Jakhongir Zaripov Sindor Farkhodov Azizbek Alimbekov Dilshod Turapov Shokhrukhbek Takhirov Nikita Shcherbakov Rakhat Joldasbaev Rajabboy Islomov Yusuf Akhmedov Khushnudbek Khusinov Sardor Elmuratov

Results

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00)

Preliminary round

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Kuwait	2	2	0	76	43	+33	4	Main round
2	China	2	1	1	64	44	+20	2	Main round
3	Thailand	2	0	2	36	89	−53	0

Source: AHF

24 September 18:00	Thailand	17–40	China	ZJSU Sports Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Al-Wahibi, Al-Shahi (OMA)
	Saengsan 8	(11–20)	Zhang J.J. 8
	2× 1×		4×

25 September 12:00	Kuwait	49–19	Thailand	ZJSU Sports Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Al-Marhoon, Al-Mawt (BHR)
	Al-Hendal 8	(24–8)	Saengsan 6
	1× 6×		4×

27 September 18:00	China	24–27	Kuwait	ZJSU Sports Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Furukawa, Murata (JPN)
	Zhang J.J., Rao Y.Y. 5	(13–14)	Al-Khamees 6
	1× 3×		1× 5× 1×

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Qatar	2	2	0	67	45	+22	4	Main round
2	South Korea	2	1	1	59	45	+14	2	Main round
3	Hong Kong	2	0	2	32	68	−36	0

Source: AHF

24 September 14:00	Hong Kong	18–36	Qatar	ZJSU Sports Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Faraj, Taqi (KUW)
	Kuo S.M., Wong Ki., Kan Y.M. 4	(11–20)	Madadi 8
	4×		3×

25 September 12:00	South Korea	32–14	Hong Kong	ZJNU Xiaoshan Gymnasium, Hangzhou Referees: Al-Naseem, Al-Enezi (KUW)
	Shin J.S., Jang D.H., Song J.W. 5	(17–6)	Wong C.H., Kan Y.M. 3
	3×		1× 6×

27 September 16:00	Qatar	31–27	South Korea	ZJSU Sports Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Tavakkoli, Valadkhanian (IRI)
	Capote 7	(16–12)	Shin J.S., Song J.W. 4
	4×		1× 4×

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Bahrain	2	2	0	92	47	+45	4	Main round
2	Kazakhstan	2	1	1	53	72	−19	2	Main round
3	Uzbekistan	2	0	2	52	78	−26	0

Source: AHF

24 September 12:00	Kazakhstan	22–45	Bahrain	ZJNU Xiaoshan Gymnasium, Hangzhou Referees: Al-Zayyat, Awwad (JOR)
	Melnichenko 7	(11–22)	Qambar 7
	1×		1× 5×

25 September 14:00	Uzbekistan	27–31	Kazakhstan	ZJSU Sports Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Murata, Furukawa (JPN)
	Yangiboev 7	(11–15)	Oxikbayev 8
	4×		1× 5×

27 September 12:00	Bahrain	47–25	Uzbekistan	ZJSU Sports Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Lee, Lee (KOR)
	Saad, Al-Sayyad 7	(25–8)	Zaripov 7
	4×		1×

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Japan	3	3	0	0	124	66	+58	6	Main round
2	Iran	3	1	1	1	94	72	+22	3^[a]	Main round
3	Saudi Arabia	3	1	1	1	97	76	+21	3^[a]
4	Mongolia	3	0	0	3	47	148	−101	0

Source: AHF
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Head-to-head result: IRI 23–23 KSA. Overall goal difference was used as the tiebreaker.

24 September 12:00	Mongolia	16–50	Iran	ZJSU Sports Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Cheng, Zhou (CHN)
	Batkhuyag 5	(7–30)	Heidarpour 7
	6×		2×

24 September 16:00	Japan	38–29	Saudi Arabia	ZJSU Sports Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Lee, Koo (KOR)
	Sugioka 7	(20–14)	A. Al-Abbas 5
	4×		1× 3×

25 September 16:00	Mongolia	15–45	Saudi Arabia	ZJSU Sports Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Lee, Lee (KOR)
	Baljinnyam 6	(9–19)	Furaij 8
	5×

25 September 18:00	Japan	33–21	Iran	ZJSU Sports Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Shakir, Kadhim (IRQ)
	Sugioka 8	(13–8)	Heidarpour 5
	1× 4×		1× 3×

27 September 11:00	Mongolia	16–53	Japan	ZJNU Xiaoshan Gymnasium, Hangzhou Referees: Ghofli, Hassanzadeh (IRI)
	Lkhagvatsend 9	(11–28)	Agarie, Izumoto 11
	6×		1×

27 September 14:00	Saudi Arabia	23–23	Iran	ZJSU Sports Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Cheng, Zhou (CHN)
	Al-Abdulali, Al-Hassan 4	(14–15)	Heidarpour 5
	1× 3× 1×		1× 7×

Main round

Group I

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Bahrain	3	3	0	92	71	+21	6	Semifinals
2	Kuwait	3	2	1	74	80	−6	4	Semifinals
3	South Korea	3	1	2	75	78	−3	2
4	Iran	3	0	3	66	78	−12	0

Source: AHF

29 September 12:00	Iran	22–24	Kuwait	ZJSU Sports Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Ismoilov, Ismoilov (UZB)
	Taheri, Behnamnia 5	(10–10)	Al-Musawi 5
	2×		3×

29 September 18:00	Bahrain	29–26	South Korea	ZJSU Sports Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Shakir, Kadhim (IRQ)
	Al-Sayyad 11	(13–10)	Jang D.H., Lee H.S. 6
	2× 6×		1× 3×

30 September 14:00	Iran	20–29	Bahrain	ZJSU Sports Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Furukawa, Murata (JPN)
	Sadeghi 5	(7–12)	Habib 7
	1× 5×		2×

30 September 18:00	Kuwait	25–24	South Korea	ZJSU Sports Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Cheng, Zhou (CHN)
	Al-Hendal 7	(9–13)	Jang D.H. 6
	1× 4×		1× 5× 1×

1 October 14:00	South Korea	25–24	Iran	ZJSU Sports Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Al-Wahibi, Al-Shahi (OMA)
	Lee H.S. 5	(11–12)	Kabirianjoo, Asari 5
	6×		1× 10×

1 October 18:00	Kuwait	25–34	Bahrain	ZJSU Sports Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Ismoilov, Ismoilov (UZB)
	Abdula. Al-Shammari, Al-Harbi 7	(11–21)	Naser 8
	2×		1× 5×

Group II

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Qatar	3	3	0	115	62	+53	6	Semifinals
2	Japan	3	2	1	105	75	+30	4	Semifinals
3	China	3	1	2	83	82	+1	2
4	Kazakhstan	3	0	3	50	134	−84	0

Source: AHF

29 September 14:00	Japan	28–23	China	ZJSU Sports Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Al-Mawt, Al-Marhoon (BHR)
	Motoki 8	(12–12)	Zhu S.J. 8
	1× 4×		3× 2× 1×

29 September 16:00	Kazakhstan	13–46	Qatar	ZJSU Sports Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Awwad, Al-Zayyat (JOR)
	Milyayev 4	(6–23)	Denguir 8
	1×		1× 2×

30 September 12:00	Japan	48–20	Kazakhstan	ZJSU Sports Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Al-Enezi, Al-Naseem (KUW)
	Kani 13	(26–12)	Milyayev, Kali 4
	1× 1×		3×

30 September 16:00	China	20–37	Qatar	ZJSU Sports Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Lee, Koo (KOR)
	Sun F.W., Xie Q.L. 4	(6–17)	Carol 9
	4×		2× 1×

1 October 12:00	China	40–17	Kazakhstan	ZJSU Sports Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Lee, Lee (KOR)
	Zhang T.J., Liu Z.L. 6	(16–7)	Gaziyev 6
	3×		4×

1 October 16:00	Qatar	32–29	Japan	ZJSU Sports Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Cheng, Zhou (CHN)
	Carol 11	(16–15)	Motoki 6
	1× 3×

Final round

Semifinals		Gold medal match

3 October

Bahrain	30
		5 October
Japan	28
		Bahrain	25
3 October
		Qatar	32
Qatar	29

Kuwait	24
		Bronze medal match

		5 October

		Japan	30

		Kuwait	31

Semifinals

3 October 16:00	Bahrain	30–28	Japan	ZJSU Sports Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Ismoilov, Ismoilov (UZB)
	Al-Sayyad 9	(17–13)	Izumoto 6
	5×		3×

3 October 18:00	Qatar	29–24	Kuwait	ZJSU Sports Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Murata, Furukawa (JPN)
	Carol 7	(12–12)	Al-Musawi, Salmeen 4
	1× 3×		1× 7× 1×

Bronze medal match

5 October 15:00	Japan	30–31	Kuwait	ZJSU Sports Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Cheng, Zhou (CHN)
	Yoshino 9	(14–14)	Abdula. Al-Shammari 7
	1× 3×		1× 4×

Gold medal match

5 October 19:00	Bahrain	25–32	Qatar	ZJSU Sports Centre, Hangzhou Referees: Lee, Koo (KOR)
	Qambar 5	(14–12)	Capote 8
	1× 7× 1×		2× 4×

Final standing

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

References

^ "Handball". HAGOC. Retrieved 10 September 2023.

External links

Schedule

[table_hth_IRI0.34269208151041-2] Head-to-head result: IRI 23–23 KSA. Overall goal difference was used as the tiebreaker.

[1] "Handball". HAGOC. Retrieved 10 September 2023.

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