Women's Handball Asian Championship

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The women's handball Asian Championship is an Asian indoor handball competition that has been held at regular intervals since 1987. In the tournament, the Asian champions will be determined among the Asian women's national handball teams . In addition, the top three will qualify for the next handball world championship .

The first Asian Cup took place in 1987 in the Jordanian capital Amman , and the tournament has been held 17 times so far, most recently in 2018 in Kumamoto, Japan . The record winner with fourteen successes is the South Korean women's national handball team , which is also the reigning Asian champion.

Tournaments at a glance

year venue gold silver bronze
1987 Amman , Jordan Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China China JapanJapan Japan
1989 Beijing , China Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China China JapanJapan Japan
1991 Hiroshima , Japan Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China China JapanJapan Japan
1993 Shantou , China Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China China Korea NorthNorth Korea North Korea
1995 Seoul , South Korea Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China China JapanJapan Japan
1997 Amman, Jordan Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China China JapanJapan Japan
2000 (1) Kumamoto , Japan Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China China JapanJapan Japan
2000 (2) Shanghai , China Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea JapanJapan Japan Korea NorthNorth Korea North Korea
2002 Almaty , Kazakhstan KazakhstanKazakhstan Kazakhstan Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China China
2004 Hiroshima, Japan JapanJapan Japan China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China China Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea
2006 Guangzhou , China Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China China JapanJapan Japan
2008 Bangkok , Thailand 1 Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China China JapanJapan Japan
2010 Almaty, Kazakhstan KazakhstanKazakhstan Kazakhstan Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China China
2012 Yogyakarta , Indonesia Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China China JapanJapan Japan
2015 Jakarta , Indonesia Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea JapanJapan Japan China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China China
2017 Suwon , South Korea Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea JapanJapan Japan China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China China
2018 Kumamoto, Japan Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea JapanJapan Japan China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China China
1 China was automatically qualified to host the 2009 World Cup. The teams from 4th place (Thailand) and 5th (Kazakhstan) were thus also qualified alongside those from 1st and 3rd place.

Ranking list

rank country Asian champion Second Third total
1 Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 14th 2 1 17th
2 KazakhstanKazakhstan Kazakhstan 2 0 0 2
3 JapanJapan Japan 1 5 8th 14th
4th China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 0 10 6th 16
5 Korea NorthNorth Korea North Korea 0 0 2 2
total 17th 17th 17th 51

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