The
8th AHF Asian Men’s Youth Championship concluded in Amman, Jordan yesterday,
after an initial 14 teams competed for continental honours over the 10-day
championship (16-26 September).
The
tournament had to be reconfigured after Iraq and South Korea were both
disqualified, following their group C match on 18 September which was according
to the Asian
Handball Federation, “suspended
permanently due the fact that both the teams intentionally wanted to lose the
match. Every possible step was taken to continue the game before it was decided
to permanently suspend it. Both the teams are manipulating with scores and
warned twice to play Handball and keep the spirits of Handball.”
This
meant that the results of both the teams in Jordan were nullified and both
teams were disqualified from further matches. The matter is set to be raised in
front of the AHF Executive Committee in the future for further action.
The
Korea Handball Federation and the officials of the team who accompanied the players
to the 8th Asian Men's Youth Handball championship, made an apology to the AHF, participating teams,
spectators, technical officials, referees and organiser for the incident.
On
court, Bahrain won the continental title after beating Japan 34:31 in the final
in a repeat of the 2016 edition, which Bahrain also won.
Chinese
Taipei grabbed third place, beating Saudi Arabia 29:26 in the bronze-medal
match.
All
four teams are now qualified through to the 2019 IHF Men’s Youth World
Championship – which will be held in FYR Macedonia.
RANKING
1
– Bahrain
2
– Japan
3
– Chinese Taipei
4
– Saudi Arabia
5
– Iran
6
– India
7
– Jordan
8
– China
9
– Qatar
10
– UAE
11
– Oman
12
– Syria
RESULTS
Preliminary Round
Group
A: BRN, KSA, CHN, OMA
Group
B: JOR, TPE, SYR
Group C: KOR, IRQ, IND* group annulled
Group D: JPN, QAT, UAE, IRI
Sunday 16 September
IRI vs JPN 29:28 (17:15)
IND vs KOR 30:45 (11:22)*
CHN vs KSA 22:35
(8:19)
OMA vs BRN 17:33
(9:17)
SYR vs JOR 26:29
(10:13)
UAE vs QAT 31:35 (17:17)
Monday 17 September
IRQ vs IND 32:26 (15:11)*
CHN vs BRN 21:34 (11:15)
OMA vs KSA 25:36 (13:21)
IRI vs QAT 26:25 (12:8)
TPE vs SYR 41:28 (18:11)
UAE vs JPN 20:34 (14:15)
Tuesday 18 September
CHN vs OMA 26:25 (10:12)
BRN vs KSA 28:24 (18:8)
KOR vs IRQ* match cancelled
UAE
vs IRI 20:26 (8:14)
JOR
vs TPE 17:29 (6:16)
JPN
vs QAT 31:31 (16:15)
Wednesday
19 September
Rest Day
Thursday
20 September
8-12 Placement Round
SYR
vs OMA 25:30 (14:14)
CHN
vs UAE 30:25 (14:16)
Main Round
JOR
vs IND 26:28 (10:14)
BRN
vs JPN 27:23 (8:14)
KSA
vs IRI 27:27 (13:16)
Friday
21 September
8-12 Placement Round
OMA
vs CHN 25:24 (10:13)
QAT
vs UAE 27:25 (12:12)
Main Round
BRN
vs IND 32:21 (16:7)
JOR
vs JPN 13:33 7:15)
TPE
vs IRI 30:27 (11:10)
Saturday
22 September
8-12 Placement Round
CHN
vs QAT 29:26 (20:11)
UAE
vs SYR 30:28 (16:13)
Main Round
JPN
vs IND 41:18 (20:12)
JOR
vs BRN 30:34 (14:18)
TPE
vs KSA 27:33 (17:16)
Sunday
23 September
Rest Day
Monday
24 September
8-12 Placement Matches
OMA
vs UAE 26:28 (12:15)
QAT
vs SYR 29:24 (13:11)
5-6 Placement Match
IND
vs IRI 25:30 (14:17)
Semi-Finals
BRN vs TPE 33:25 (18:11)
KSA
vs JPN 17:25 (7:11)
Tuesday
25 September
Placement Match
QAT vs OMA 29:28 (15:15)
CHN vs SYR 31:22 (18:10)
Wednesday
26 September
Bronze (3/4 Placement Match)
TPE
vs KSA 29:26 (15:14)
Gold (1/2 Placement Match)
BRN
vs JPN 34:31 (17:16)
Photos:
Asian Handball Federation