Handball at the 2002 Asian Games
# Handball at the 2002 Asian Games

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

| ● | Round | ● | 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 details | 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 details | 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 |
| 2 | Kuwait (KUW) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | China (CHN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | Qatar (QAT) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (5 entries) | 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.

* Withdrew.

## Final standing

### Men

| 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

| 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 |
