Mens Handball, Advance to the Olympic Finals
Men's handball is playing again, challenging to advance to the Olympic finals for the first time in 12 years
The Korean men's handball team is attempting to advance to the Olympic finals for the first time in 12 years.
The men's handball team, led by coach Hollando Freitas, will participate in the Asian qualifiers for the 2024 Paris Olympics to be held in Doha, Qatar from the 18th to the 28th.
The national team, which left the country in the early morning of the 15th and entered Doha, is doing final preparations there.
The Asian preliminaries, in which 11 countries participate, are divided into two groups, and the top two teams from each group advance to the semifinals. 카지노사이트탑
The first place goes directly to the Olympic finals, and the second place secures a spot in the world qualifiers to be held in March next year.
Korea is in Group A with Qatar, China, India, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and will play its first group match against the UAE on the 18th at 5 PM (Korean time).
Competition is not expected to be easy.
Korea failed to advance to the semifinals of the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games, which ended this month.
At the Asian Championships held in January last year, he finished in 5th place.
Qatar and Saudi Arabia, who were in the same group as Korea in this tournament, took first and third places, respectively, at the Asian Championships.
The national team entered the Jincheon Athletes' Village immediately after the Asian Games and have been working hard to prepare for this tournament.
Kim Yeon-bin (Doosan) and Ahn Young-woong (Kyung Hee University) joined the 16 players who participated in the Asian Games.
Korea has advanced to the Olympic finals a total of seven times.
They advanced to the Olympic finals three times in a row from the 1984 Los Angeles Games to the 1992 Barcelona Games, and four times in a row from the 2000 Sydney Games to the 2012 London Games.
However, they have not been able to advance to the finals since the 2016 Rio de Janeiro competition.
In men's handball, only 12 countries can compete in the Olympic finals.
A total of 12 tickets to the finals will be given to the host country of the Olympic Games, the winning country of the World Championships, the winners of the preliminary round on four continents (Europe, America, Africa, Asia), and the top six countries in the Olympic world qualifying round.
France, the host country, and Denmark, the winner of the 2022 European Championships (European qualifiers), confirmed their participation in the finals.
Men's handball Paris Olympics Asian qualifying national team list
▲ Coach = Hollando Freitas
▲ Coach = Elander Silva, Vanja Radic (GK)
▲ Goalkeeper = Dong-wook Kim (Doosan) Chang-woo Lee (Korea National Sport University)
▲ Left wing = Dong-hyun Jang (SK) Song Jewoo (Korea National Sports University)
▲ Left back = Lee Hyun-sik (SK) Park Young-jun (Incheon Urban Development Corporation) Park Gwang-sun (Hanam City Hall) Ahn Young-woong (Kyung Hee University)
▲ Center back = Lee Joseph (Seoul) Kang Jeon-gu (Doosan)
▲ Right back = Kim Yeon-bin and Cho Tae-hoon (Doosan) Kim Jin-young
▲ Right wing = Shin Jae-seop (Hanam City Hall) Ha Min-ho (Incheon Urban Development Corporation)
▲ Pivot = Koo Chang-eun (Chungnam Provincial Office) Lee Seong-min (Doosan) Park Se-woong (SK)
