Handball at the 1998 Asian Games
The Handball events at the 1998 Asian Games were held in Bangkok, Thailand between December 7 and December 16, 1998.
Medalists
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men |
 South Korea (KOR)Baek Sang-suh Chang Joon-sung Cho Bum-yun Choi Hyun-ho Han Kyung-tai Hwangbo Sung-il Jung Kang-wook Kim Sung-heon Lee Jae-woo Lee Suik-houng Lim Seong-sik Paek Won-chul Park Jung-jin Shin Chang-ho Yoon Kyung-min Yoon Kyung-shin |
 Kuwait (KUW)Qaied Al-Adwani Saad Al-Azemi Abdulrazzaq Al-Boloushi Yousef Al-Fadhli Adel Al-Kahham Ahmad Al-Kandari Khaldoun Al-Khashti Khalifa Al-Khashti Khaled Al-Mulla Raed Al-Zoabi Abu Marzouq Ali Murad Mubarak Mushawih Abdullah Saleh Walid Salmin Meshal Swailem |
 Japan (JPN)Takashi Fujii Yukihiro Hashimoto Kazuyuki Hihara Yoshitaka Hiromasa Masanori Iwamoto Yuji Kakutani Kiyoshi Kayaba Toru Moriyama Tsuyoshi Nakayama Norihiro Sasaki Masahiro Sueoka Yuichi Sugiyama Eiji Tomimoto Toshihiro Tsubone Shoichi Tsuji Osamu Yamaguchi |
| Women |
South Korea (KOR) Cho Hee-jung Han Sun-hee Huh Soon-young Kim Eun-gyung Kim Eun-mi Kim Hyang-ki Kim Hyang-ok Kim Hyun-ok Kwag Hye-jeong Lee Jae-kyung Lee Nam-soo Lee Sang-eun Lee Yoon-jung Oh Soon-yol Oh Yong-ran Yoon Sung-mi |
 North Korea (PRK)Im Hyon-ae Ji Ok-ran Kim Kyong-hui Ku Yong-ae Paek Myong Pak Chun-bok Ri Chung-sil Ri Hui-yong Ri Hyon-sil Ri Mi Rim Kil-hwa Yu Myong-hui Yun Kyong-ok |
Japan (JPN) Akane Aoto Mie Fujiura Namiko Ikeda Naomi Kobayashi Mariko Komatsu Yuko Kumagai Mitsuko Kurachi Emi Matsumoto Naomi Miyamoto Tomomi Nakamura Masako Okidoi Mineko Tanaka Miyoko Tanaka Yumiko Tanaka Ayako Yamaguchi Michiko Yamashita |
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Korea (KOR) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | Kuwait (KUW) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| North Korea (PRK) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 4 | Japan (JPN) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Total | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
Draw
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Final standing
Men
For more details on this topic, see Handball at the 1998 Asian Games – Men.
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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South Korea | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
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Kuwait | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
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Japan | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| 4 |  Iran | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 |  United Arab Emirates | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 |  China | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 |  Qatar | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 |  Thailand | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Women
For more details on this topic, see Handball at the 1998 Asian Games – Women.
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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South Korea | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
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North Korea | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
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Japan | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | China | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 |  Kazakhstan | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 6 | Thailand | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
References
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