The 2018 Asian Women's Handball Championship was the 17th edition of the

Asian Women's Handball Championship The AHF Asian Women's Handball Championship is a biennial continental handball competition contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of Asian Handball Federation (AHF). Since 2018, it also includes teams from Oceania. The comp ...

, which took place from 30 November to 9 December 2018 in

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. The tournament was held under the aegis of

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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

. 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.

Preliminary round

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Group A

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Group B

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Knockout stage

Bracket

;5–8th place bracket

5–8th place semifinals

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Semifinals

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Ninth place game

Seventh place game

Fifth place game

Third place game

Final

Final standing

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.

Statistics

Top goalscorers

Top goalkeepers

References

External links

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Results at todor66
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