Teams
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Women's handball at the 2015 Summer Universiade was held in Gwangju, South Korea from 6 to 13 July 2015.
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All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00)
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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 South Korea | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 175 | 125 | 50 | 9 |
 Serbia | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 133 | 117 | 16 | 8 |
 Romania | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 135 | 131 | 4 | 5 |
 Ukraine | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 127 | 139 | –12 | 4 |
 Montenegro | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 114 | 139 | –25 | 3 |
 Japan | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 129 | 162 | –33 | 1 |
| Team qualified to the gold-medal match | |
| Team qualified to the bronze-medal match |
| 6 July 14:00 | Japan | 27–28 | Montenegro | Gochang County Gymnasium, Gochang |
| Tada 7 | (15–15) | Jauković 16 | ||
2× 5× 1× | Report | 3× 4× |
| 6 July 14:00 | Romania | 25–27 | Serbia | Gurye Indoor Gymnasium, Gurye |
| zamfirescu 7 | (12–12) | Georgijev 6 | ||
| 4× 6× | Report | 3× 5× |
| 6 July 14:00 | South Korea | 39–28 | Ukraine | Naju Indoor Gymnasium, Naju |
| Kim, Yu 7 | (19–12) | Stelmakh 8 | ||
| 2× 4× | Report | 2× 2× |
| 7 July 14:00 | Serbia | 25–30 | South Korea | Gochang County Gymnasium, Gochang |
| Janjušević 7 | (12–15) | Kim 13 | ||
| 3× 3× | Report | 3× 4× |
| 7 July 14:00 | Montenegro | 25–25 | Romania | Gurye Indoor Gymnasium, Gurye |
| Jauković 6 | (13–14) | Zamfirescu 10 | ||
| 2× 4× | Report | 3× 2× |
| 7 July 14:00 | Ukraine | 31–23 | Japan | Naju Indoor Gymnasium, Naju |
| Stelmakh 9 | (13–10) | Kawashima, Akiyama 6 | ||
| 3× 3× | Report | 3× 6× |
| 9 July 14:00 | Romania | 32–32 | Japan | Gochang County Gymnasium, Gochang |
| Tiron 10 | (18–14) | Kawashima 9 | ||
| 3× 2× | Report | 3× 4× |
| 9 July 14:00 | South Korea | 39–26 | Montenegro | Gurye Indoor Gymnasium, Gurye |
| Kim 7 | (18–11) | Jauković 6 | ||
| 1× 3× | Report | 3× 4× |
| 9 July 14:00 | Serbia | 29–21 | Ukraine | Naju Indoor Gymnasium, Naju |
| Janjušević, Radojević 7 | (14–8) | Stelmakh 6 | ||
| 1× 2× | Report | 3× 4× |
| 10 July 14:00 | Ukraine | 22–28 | Romania | Gurye Indoor Gymnasium, Gurye |
| Stelmakh 9 | (8–11) | Tiron 14 | ||
| 3× 5× | Report | 3× 4× |
| 10 July 14:00 | Japan | 21–42 | South Korea | Gochang County Gymnasium, Gochang |
| Ohyama, Kawashima 5 | (8–21) | Choi 6 | ||
| 2× | Report | 3× 1× |
| 10 July 14:00 | Montenegro | 15–23 | Serbia | Naju Indoor Gymnasium, Naju |
| Three players with 3 | (5–11) | Janjušević 6 | ||
| 2× 3× | Report | 2× 1× |
| 12 July 14:00 | Montenegro | 20–25 | Ukraine | Gurye Indoor Gymnasium, Gurye |
| Grbić 7 | (10–13) | Stelmakh 7 | ||
| 4× 4× | Report | 3× 2× |
| 12 July 14:00 | Serbia | 29–26 | Japan | Gochang County Gymnasium, Gochang |
| Georgijev 10 | (13–13) | Tada, Kawashima 6 | ||
| 3× 4× | Report | 3× 4× |
| 12 July 14:00 | South Korea | 25–25 | Romania | Naju Indoor Gymnasium, Naju |
| Migyeong 8 | (15–10) | Tiron 9 | ||
| 3× 7× | Report | 3× 6× |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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 Russia | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 178 | 84 | 94 | 10 |
 Czech Republic | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 135 | 120 | 15 | 8 |
 Brazil | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 133 | 105 | 28 | 6 |
 China | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 110 | 137 | –27 | 4 |
 Slovakia | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 94 | 116 | –22 | 2 |
 Uruguay | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 73 | 161 | –88 | 0 |
| Team qualified to the gold-medal match | |
| Team qualified to the bronze-medal match |
| 6 July 16:00 | Brazil | 27–17 | China | Naju Indoor Gymnasium, Naju |
| Rodrigues 6 | (13–10) | Huang 5 | ||
| 3× 5× | Report | 3× 4× |
| 6 July 16:00 | Russia | 41–6 | Uruguay | Gochang County Gymnasium, Gochang |
| Reshetnikova, Vyakhireva 7 | (19–4) | Garcia 4 | ||
| 1× | Report | 2× 6× |
| 6 July 16:00 | Czech Republic | 22–17 | Slovakia | Gurye Indoor Gymnasium, Gurye |
| Adamkova 6 | (11–7) | Blazekova, Habankova 5 | ||
| 3× 2× | Report | 3× 1× |
| 7 July 16:00 | Uruguay | 11–33 | Brazil | Gurye Indoor Gymnasium, Gurye |
| Jaurena 4 | (6–13) | Araújo 7 | ||
| 2× 5× | Report | 3× |
| 7 July 16:00 | China | 23–32 | Czech Republic | Naju Indoor Gymnasium, Naju |
| Huang 10 | (9–16) | Kubackova 7 | ||
| 4× 4× | Report | 2× 1× |
| 7 July 16:00 | Slovakia | 14–29 | Russia | Gochang County Gymnasium, Gochang |
| Minarcikova, Gajdosova 4 | (10–12) | Vyakhireva 9 | ||
| 2× 5× | Report | 3× 2× |
| 9 July 16:00 | Brazil | 26–16 | Slovakia | Gochang County Gymnasium, Gochang |
| Anselmo 5 | (15–4) | Kluckova 6 | ||
| 3× 4× | Report | 3× 1× |
| 9 July 16:00 | Russia | 37–21 | Czech Republic | Naju Indoor Gymnasium, Naju |
| Vyakhireva 7 | (17–11) | Adamkova 6 | ||
| 3× 4× | Report | 3× 4× |
| 9 July 16:00 | Uruguay | 20–28 | China | Gurye Indoor Gymnasium, Gurye |
| Lachaise 6 | (8–11) | Si 6 | ||
| 3× 4× | Report | 2× 2× |
| 10 July 16:00 | China | 22–39 | Russia | Gurye Indoor Gymnasium, Gurye |
| Huang 7 | (11–20) | Garanina 8 | ||
| 2× 3× | Report | 2× 3× |
| 10 July 16:00 | Czech Republic | 29–26 | Brazil | Gochang County Gymnasium, Gochang |
| Kubackova 10 | (15–14) | Goncalves 8 | ||
| 4× | Report | 4× 3× |
| 10 July 16:00 | Slovakia | 28–19 | Uruguay | Naju Indoor Gymnasium, Naju |
| Three players with 5 | (13–9) | Jaurena 5 | ||
| 1× | Report | 2× 5× |
| 12 July 16:00 | Brazil | 21–32 | Russia | Naju Indoor Gymnasium, Naju |
| Araújo 5 | (9–15) | Makeeva 6 | ||
| 3× 4× | Report | 3× 5× |
| 12 July 16:00 | Slovakia | 19–20 | China | Gochang County Gymnasium, Gochang |
| Kostelna 7 | (10–11) | Huang 6 | ||
| 2× 1× | Report | 3× 3× |
| 12 July 16:00 | Uruguay | 17–31 | Czech Republic | Gurye Indoor Gymnasium, Gurye |
| Gonzalez 6 | (10–18) | Adamkova, Stellnerova 8 | ||
| 3× 4× | Report | 3× 2× |
| 13 July 10:00 | Japan | 31–18 | Uruguay | Gochang County Gymnasium, Gochang |
| Tamura, Yamashita 4 | (14–9) | Elzaurdia 6 | ||
| 2× 3× | Report | 3× 4× |
| 13 July 10:00 | Montenegro | 32–27 | Slovakia | Gurye Indoor Gymnasium, Gurye |
| Pejović 6 | (12–12) | Minarcikova 7 | ||
| 4× 3× | Report | 4× 1× |
| 13 July 10:00 | Ukraine | 33–25 | China | Naju Indoor Gymnasium, Naju |
| Konovalova 6 | (14–13) | Huang 8 | ||
| 3× | Report | 3× 1× |
| 13 July 12:00 | Romania | 20–22 | Brazil | Gochang County Gymnasium, Gochang |
| Zamfirescu, Preda 4 | (11–11) | Ansolin 4 | ||
| 3× 2× | Report | 3× 5× |
| 13 July 14:00 | Serbia | 23–18 | Czech Republic | Naju Indoor Gymnasium, Naju |
| Georgijev 6 | (12–12) | Salasova 5 | ||
| 3× 6× | Report | 2× 2× |
| 13 July 18:00 | South Korea | 36–38 | Russia | Naju Indoor Gymnasium, Naju |
| Kim 8 | (15–22) | Vyakhireva 12 | ||
| 3× 2× | Report | 3× 4× |
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