Handball at the 2002 Asian Games

Handball at the 2002 Asian Games
Venue	Changwon Gymnasium
Date	30 September – 13 October 2002
Competitors	214 from 11 nations

The Handball events at the 2002 Asian Games were held in South Korea between 30 September and 13 October 2002. The competition took place at the Changwon Gymnasium.

Schedule

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Round

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Last round

P

Preliminary round

C

Classification

½

Semifinals

F

Finals

Event↓/Date →	30th Mon	1st Tue	2nd Wed	3rd Thu	4th Fri	5th Sat	6th Sun	7th Mon	8th Tue	9th Wed	10th Thu	11th Fri	12th Sat	13th Sun
Men	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P		½	C	F
Women		●		●		●		●		●		●	●

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	South Korea Han Kyung-tai Hwangbo Sung-il Kim Tea-wan Yoon Kyung-min Jeong Seo-yoon Lim Seong-sik Chang Joon-sung Nam Kwang-hyun Yoon Kyung-shin Park Min-chul Lee Jun-hee Kang Il-koo Lee Jae-woo Park Jung-jin Lee Byung-ho Paek Won-chul	Kuwait Abdulrazzaq Al-Boloushi Hasan Al-Shatti Fahad Al-Azemi Waleed Al-Hajraf Husain Siwan Ali Al-Haddad Ahmad Al-Kandari Abdullah Al-Theyab Yousef Al-Fadhli Salah Al-Marzouq Abdulaziz Balous Meshal Swailem Mohammad Al-Fadhli Saad Al-Azemi Ali Murad Faisal Siwan	Qatar Nawaf Al-Suwaidi Mohamed Saad Al-Saad Rashid Al-Remaihi Mohammed Al-Mansoori Abdulla Saad Al-Saad Adnan Al-Ali Khalid Al-Sabea Ahmed Saad Al-Saad Mubarak Bilal Al-Ali Yousef Ashoor Nasser Saad Al-Saad Mahmoud Ali Shayef Badi Johar Yousef Al-Maalem Borhan Al-Turki Meshaal Al-Sulaiti
Women	South Korea Lee Nam-soo Kim Hyang-ki Huh Soon-young Kim Eun-gyung Jang So-hee Kim Hyun-ok Kim Cha-youn Lee Seul-hee Huh Young-sook Moon Kyeong-ha Kim Cheong-sim Chung Eun-hee Woo Sun-hee Son Myung-hee Myoung Bok-hee Choi Im-jeong	Kazakhstan Olga Travnikova Yelena Kozlova Olga Zolina Irina Borechko Marina Buzmakova Svetlana Grasmik Lyazzat Kilibayeva Olga Yegunova Liliya Zubkova Lyudmila Sidorenko Natalya Kubrina Irina Lang Natalya Shapovalova Irina Melnikova Yuliya Puzanova Olga Adzhiderskaya	China Wang Xiaojiong Zhai Chao Liu Yun Li Bing Shi Wei Li Yang Chen Haiyun Zhu Hongxia Wu Yanan Liu Xiaomei Che Zhihong Yu Geli Zhao Ying Li Weiwei Li Xin

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea (KOR)	2	0	0	2
2	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	1	0	1
	Kuwait (KUW)	0	1	0	1
4	China (CHN)	0	0	1	1
	Qatar (QAT)	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 entries)		2	2	2	6

Draw

The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 1998 Asian Games. The women were played in round robin format.

Group A

• South Korea (1)
• Japan (3)
• China (6)
• Bahrain
• Mongolia

Group B

• Kuwait (2)
• United Arab Emirates (5)
• Qatar (7)
• Chinese Taipei
• Uzbekistan*

* Withdrew.

Final standing

Men

Further information: Handball at the 2002 Asian Games – Men's tournament

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L
	South Korea	6	6	0	0
	Kuwait	5	3	1	1
	Qatar	5	3	0	2
4	Japan	6	3	0	3
5	Chinese Taipei	4	2	0	2
6	Bahrain	5	2	0	3
7	China	5	2	0	3
8	United Arab Emirates	4	0	1	3
9	Mongolia	4	0	0	4

Women

Further information: Handball at the 2002 Asian Games – Women's tournament

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L
	South Korea	4	4	0	0
	Kazakhstan	4	2	1	1
	China	4	1	2	1
4	Japan	4	0	2	2
5	North Korea	4	0	1	3

References

• www.busanasiangames.org
• www.handball.jp

External links

• Asian Handball Federation