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[Asian Games] First ‘No Gold’ Handball in History, Outlook for Paris Olympics ‘Cloudy’

 

 

 

The men"s national team will immediately qualify for the Paris Olympics starting on the 18th, and the women"s team, which has already confirmed its qualifications for the Olympics, is concerned about weakening international competitiveness.

Last year, Korean handball, which recruited a foreigner as national team coach for the first time in history, ended up winning no gold at the Asian Games, and the prospects for the 2024 Paris Olympics became dim.

The Korean women"s national team lost 19-29 to Japan in the finals of the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China on the 5th.

It was an unexpected result for the Korean women"s handball team, which prided itself on being the strongest in Asia, losing to Japan, but the fact that the team lost by as much as 10 goals was also shocking.

The men"s national team lost to Qatar after defeating Hong Kong in the group stage, and failed to advance to the semifinals after losing to Bahrain and Kuwait in the final league.

This is the first time that Korean men"s and women"s handball failed to win a single gold medal at the Asian Games since women"s handball became an official sport at the 1990 Beijing Games.

The Korea Handball Association promised good results at the Hangzhou Asian Games and the 2024 Paris Olympics by recruiting Hollando Freitas (Portugal) as coach for the men"s team and Kim Rasmussen (Denmark) as the women"s coach in May last year.

However, Coach Freitas only ranked 28th out of 32 countries at the World Championships in January of this year, and failed to advance to the semifinals at the Asian Games as well, failing to achieve any notable results.

The men"s national team will immediately compete in the 2024 Paris Olympics Asian regional qualifying tournament in Doha, Qatar, starting on the 18th.

If you win here, you can advance to the Olympic finals, and if you come in second place, you can participate in the final world qualifiers, which do not have regional divisions.

Korea was in Group A along with Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (UAE), India, and China, and must place second to advance to the semifinals.

In terms of objective power, Qatar is superior, and Korea is likely to compete with Saudi Arabia for second place.

Group B consists of Bahrain, Iran, Kuwait, Japan, and Kazakhstan.

Four countries, excluding the weak Kazakhstan, are expected to compete for first and second place.

No matter who comes up, they are difficult opponents for whom we cannot guarantee victory.

Korean men"s handball failed to participate in the finals of both the 2016 Rio de Janeiro and 2021 Tokyo Olympics.

The situation is slightly better for the women"s national team as they passed the Asian regional preliminaries held in August and have already secured a ticket to Paris.

However, in the Olympic finals, after reaching the semifinals of the 2012 London Games, they were eliminated in the group stage of the 2016 Rio Games and the quarterfinals of the 2021 Tokyo Games.

In particular, the women"s national team was exposed to some creaks as Coach Rasmussen, who was hired in May of last year, was dismissed in February of this year and Coach Henrik Signel (Sweden) was appointed in May.

Coach Signel said in an interview after the runner-up finish on the 5th, "We need to improve our individual skills more until the Olympics,"

"It would be nice to have the opportunity to understand the strengths of ourselves and the strong European teams by playing against European teams several times."

Korean handball, which announced the launch of an integrated professional league starting this year instead of the existing unemployment league, has taken on the task of turning the failure of the Asian Games into an opportunity for "return to fortune" by using it as a foundation for a new league to start and success in next year"s Olympics.

 

 

 

 

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