Handball at the 2006 Asian Games
The handball events at the 2006 Asian Games were held in Doha, 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.
Medalists
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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| Men |
 Kuwait (KUW)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 (QAT)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 (IRI)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 Peiman Sadeghi Hojjat Rahshenas |
| Women |
 South Korea (KOR)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 (KAZ)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 (JPN)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
| 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 | |
| Total | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
Draw
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.
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Final standing
Men
For more details on this topic, see Handball at the 2006 Asian Games – Men.
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L |
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Kuwait | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
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Qatar | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 |
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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
For more details on this topic, see Handball at the 2006 Asian Games – Women.
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L |
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South Korea | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
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Kazakhstan | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
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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
- Official website
- Asian Games Handball Women, goalzz.com, retrieved 18 November 2006
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