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