Handball at the 2006 Asian Games

2006 Asian Games event

Handball
at the 2006 Asian Games

Venue| Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall
Date| 3–14 December 2006
Competitors| 355 from 18 nations

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The handball events at the 2006 Asian Games were held in Al-Rayyan, Qatar between 3 December and 14 December 2006. It was the seventh time handball was included at the Asian Games. All matches were held in the Al-Gharafa Indoor Hall.

## Schedule

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P | Preliminary round  | S | Second round  | C | Classification  | ½ | Semifinals  | F | Finals

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Event↓/Date → | 3rd
Sun | 4th
Mon | 5th
Tue | 6th
Wed | 7th
Thu | 8th
Fri | 9th
Sat | 10th
Sun | 11th
Mon | 12th
Tue | 13th
Wed | 14th
Thu

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Men | P | P | P | P | S | S | S | C | ½ | C | C | F
Women |  |  |  | P | P | P | P | P | ½ | C | F

## Medalists

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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Men
details |  Kuwait
Torki Al-Khalidi
Bader Abbas
Abdulaziz Al-Zoabi
Faisal Al-Mutairi
Saleh Al-Jaimaz
Husain Siwan
Fahad Rabie
Abdullah Al-Theyab
Yousef Al-Fadhli
Ali Al-Haddad
Mahdi Al-Qallaf
Meshal Swailem
Hamad Al-Rashidi
Ali Al-Mithin
Saad Al-Azemi
Ali Murad |  Qatar
Anas Al-Suweidan
Adnan Al-Ali
Khalid Al-Hashmi
Rashid Al-Remaihi
Samir Hashim
Abdulla Saad Al-Saad
Mohamed Bajawi
Mohammed Walid Ghazal
Ahmed Saad Al-Saad
Mubarak Bilal Al-Ali
Mohsin Yafai
Yousef Ashoor
Fawaz Al-Moadhadi
Khalid Al-Marri
Yousef Al-Maalem
Badi Johar |  Iran
Iman Ehsannejad
Mohammad Reza Rajabi
Mohammad Reza Jafarnia
Hani Zamani
Masoud Zohrabi
Saeid Pourghasemi
Mostafa Sadati
Allahkaram Esteki
Farid Alimoradi
Alireza Rabie
Hossein Shahabi
Ali Akbar Khoshnevis
Rasoul Dehghani
Peyman Sadeghi
Hojjat Rahshenas
Women
details |  South Korea
Woo Sun-hee
Yoon Hyun-kyung
Huh Soon-young
Lee Gong-joo
An Jung-hwa
Yu Ji-yeong
Kim Cha-youn
Huh Young-sook
Moon Kyeong-ha
Park Chung-hee
Kwon Geun-hae
Lee Min-hee
Myoung Bok-hee
Kang Ji-hey
Choi Im-jeong
Moon Pil-hee |  Kazakhstan
Olga Travnikova
Olga Adzhiderskaya
Marina Buzmakova
Irina Borechko
Marina Pikalova
Alexandra Yefimova
Lyazzat Kilibayeva
Yelena Kozlova
Gulnar Mendybayeva
Yelena Portova
Natalya Kubrina
Anastassiya Batuyeva
Yuliya Goncharova
Yevgeniya Nikolayeva
Natalya Yakovleva
Yana Vassilyeva |  Japan
Sachiko Katsuda
Yuko Arihama
Mariko Komatsu
Kaori Onozawa
Akiko Kinjo
Hitomi Sakugawa
Tomoko Sakamoto
Aiko Hayafune
Kimiko Hida
Keiko Mizuno
Noriko Omae
Hisayo Taniguchi
Mami Tanaka
Kazusa Nagano
Eiko Yamada
Akie Uegaki

## Medal table

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Kuwait (KUW)| 1| 0| 0| 1
South Korea (KOR)| 1| 0| 0| 1
3|  Kazakhstan (KAZ)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Qatar (QAT)| 0| 1| 0| 1
5|  Iran (IRI)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Japan (JPN)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (6 entries)| 2| 2| 2| 6

## Draw

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A draw ceremony was held on 7 September 2006 to determine the groups for the men's and women's competitions. The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 2002 Asian Games.

### Men

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Group A

* Bahrain (6)
* Qatar (Host)
* India
* Macau

Group B

* Kuwait (2)
* China (7)
* Hong Kong
* Iran

Group C

* Japan (4)
* United Arab Emirates (8)
* Uzbekistan
* Saudi Arabia

Group D

* South Korea (1)
* Lebanon
* Syria

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### Women

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Group A

* Kazakhstan (2)
* China (3)
* Uzbekistan
* India

Group B

* South Korea (1)
* Japan (4)
* Thailand
* Chinese Taipei

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## Final standing

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### Men

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Further information: Handball at the 2006 Asian Games – Men

Rank  | Team  | Pld | W | D | L

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|  Kuwait | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0
|  Qatar | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1
|  Iran | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3
4  |  South Korea | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3
5  |  Syria | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3
6  |  Japan | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3
7  |  Bahrain | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4
8  |  Saudi Arabia | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4
9  |  Lebanon | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2
10  |  United Arab Emirates | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3
11  |  China | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3
12  |  India | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4
13  |  Hong Kong | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3
14  |  Uzbekistan | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4
15  |  Macau | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4

### Women

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Further information: Handball at the 2006 Asian Games – Women

Rank  | Team  | Pld | W | D | L

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|  South Korea | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0
|  Kazakhstan | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1
|  Japan | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2
4  |  China | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3
5  |  Chinese Taipei | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2
6  |  Uzbekistan | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3
7  |  Thailand | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3
8  |  India | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4

## References

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* Official website
* Asian Games Handball Women, goalzz.com, retrieved 18 November 2006

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