The 2018 Asian Women's Handball Championship was the 17th edition of the Asian Women's Handball Championship, which took place from 30 November to 9 December 2018 in Kumamoto, Yamaga and Yatsushiro, Japan. The tournament was held under the aegis of Asian Handball Federation and acted as the Asian qualifying tournament for the 2019 World Women's Handball Championship.
South Korea won their fourth straight and 14th overall title after defeating Japan in the final.
Draw The draw was held on 6 August 2018 at the Hotel Nikko in Kumamoto.
Teams were seeded according to the AHF COC regulations and rankings of the previous edition of the championship. Teams who had not participate in the previous edition were in Pot 4.
Pot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4
Preliminary round All times are local (UTC+9).
Group A
Group B
Knockout stage Bracket
5–8th place bracket
5–8th place semifinals
Semifinals
Ninth place game
Seventh place game
Fifth place game
Third place game
Final
Final standing Rank Team 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1. If countries from Oceania (Australia or New Zealand) participating in the Asian Championships finished within the top 5, they qualified for the World Championships. If they had both placed sixth or lower, the place would have been transferred to the wild card spot. Qualified for the 2019 World Women's Handball Championship
Statistics Top goalscorers RankNameTeamGoals 1 Sally Potocki 57 2 Dana Abilda 403 Menika Menika 32 Jung Yu-ra 32 5 Jin Mengqing 31
Top goalkeepers RankNameTeamSaves (exc. 7M)Shots (exc. 7M)7M Saves7M Thr.Total SavesTotal Shots% 1Manon Vernay10021772910724643.49% 2 Nina Shil631842246520831.73% 3Zhannat Aitenova461735185119126.70% 4Fatemeh Khalili Behfar381284174214528.96% 5Sakura Hauge358826379439.36%6Minami Itano336719347644.74%7Park Sae-young276628297439.19%8Ju Hui288105288632.56%9Chan Kam Ling25780332511122.52%10Huang Xia234616245246.15%
References
External links
Results at todor66