| Handball at the 2010 Asian Games | |
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| Venue | Huashi Gymnasium Guanggong Gymnasium |
| Date | 13–26 November |
| Competitors | 313 from 15 nations |
Handball at the 2010 Asian Games was held in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China from November 13 to 26, 2010. In this tournament, 11 teams played in the men's competition, and 9 teams participated in the women's competition.
| P | Preliminary round | C | Classification | ½ | Semifinals | F | Finals |
| Event↓/Date → | 13th Sat | 14th Sun | 15th Mon | 16th Tue | 17th Wed | 18th Thu | 19th Fri | 20th Sat | 21st Sun | 22nd Mon | 23rd Tue | 24th Wed | 25th Thu | 26th Fri |
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| Men | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | C | ½ | C | F | |||
| Women | P | P | P | P | P | P | ½ | F |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 |  South Korea (KOR) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2 |  China (CHN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 |  Japan (JPN) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 |  Iran (IRI) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals (4 entries) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
The draw ceremony for the team sports was held on 7 October 2010 at Guangzhou. The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 2006 Asian Games.
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Kazakhstan was later added to Group A. [1]
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L |
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 |  South Korea | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
 |  Iran | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 |
 |  Japan | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 |  Saudi Arabia | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 |  Qatar | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| 6 |  Bahrain | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 |  China | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 8 |  Athletes from Kuwait | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 9 |  India | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 10 |  Hong Kong | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 11 |  Mongolia | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L |
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| China | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Japan | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| South Korea | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Kazakhstan | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 |  North Korea | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 |  Chinese Taipei | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 |  Thailand | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | India | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 9 | Qatar | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
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