| Kabaddi at the 2018 Asian Games | |
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| Venue | Garuda Theatre |
| Dates | 19–24 August 2018 |
| Competitors | 235 from 12 nations |
| Champions | |
| Men |  Iran |
| Women | Iran |
Kabaddi at the 2018 Asian Games was held at the Garuda Theatre, Taman Mini Indonesia Indah, Jakarta, Indonesia, from 19 to 24 August 2018. [1]
| P | Preliminary round | ½ | Semifinals | F | Final |
| Event↓/Date → | 19th Sun | 20th Mon | 21st Tue | 22nd Wed | 23rd Thu | 24th Fri | |
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| Men | P | P | P | P | P | ½ | F |
| Women | P | P | P | P | ½ | F | |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men |  Iran Fazel Atrachali Mohammad Esmaeil Nabibakhsh Mohammad Amin Nosrati Hadi Oshtorak Mohammad Mallak Mohammad Ghorbani Esmaeil Maghsoudloo Meisam Abbasi Mohsen Maghsoudloo Abouzar Mohajer Abolfazl Maghsoudloo Hamid Mirzaei |  South Korea Lee Dong-geon Eom Tae-deok Ok Yong-joo Lee Jang-kun Hong Dong-ju Kim Dong-gyu Park Chan-sik Jo Jae-pil Kim Seong-ryeol Park Hyun-il Kim Gyung-tae Ko Young-chang |  Pakistan Nasir Ali Waseem Sajjad Muhammad Nadeem Muhammad Rizwan Abid Hussain Waqar Ali Tahseen Ullah Usman Zada Mudassar Ali Kashif Razzaq Muhammad Imran Hassan Raza |
 India Monu Goyat Rahul Chaudhari Mohit Chhillar Ajay Thakur Girish Maruti Ernak Pardeep Narwal Sandeep Narwal Raju Lal Choudhary Rishank Devadiga Rohit Kumar Deepak Niwas Hooda Gangadhari Mallesh | |||
| Women | Iran Ghazal Khalaj Mahboubeh Sanchouli Farideh Zarifdoust Saeideh Jafari Raheleh Naderi Roya Davoudian Samira Atarodian Fatemeh Karami Azadeh Seidi Sedigheh Jafari Zahra Karimi Zahra Abbasi | India Sakshi Kumari Kavita Thakur Shalini Pathak Randeep Kaur Khehra Payel Chowdhury Sonali Vishnu Shingate Priyanka Negi Ritu Negi Sayali Sanjay Keripale Usha Rani Narasimhaiah Manpreet Kaur Madhu |  Chinese Taipei Lin I-min Lin Yu-fen Chuang Ya-han Huang Ssu-chin Yen Chiao-wen Chen Yung-ting Hu Yu-chen Feng Hsiu-chen Qin Pei-jyun Huang Yi-yun Liao Yu-tzu Wu Yu-jung |
 Thailand Alisa Limsamran Namfon Kangkeeree Nuntarat Nuntakitkoson Kamontip Suwanchana Wassana Rachmanee Saowapa Chueakhao Atchara Puangngern Charinda Yindee Panthida Khamthat Kannika Munmai Bencharat Khwanchai Naleerat Ketsaro |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Iran (IRI) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | India (IND) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | South Korea (KOR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Pakistan (PAK) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Thailand (THA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (6 entries) | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | |
A draw ceremony was held on 17 August 2018 to determine the groups for the men's and women's competitions. The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 2014 Asian Games.
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| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Iran | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
 |  South Korea | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
 |  India | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
|  Pakistan | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 |  Bangladesh | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 |  Indonesia | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 |  Japan | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 |  Sri Lanka | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 |  Nepal | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 9 |  Thailand | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 11 |  Malaysia | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iran | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| India | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
|  Chinese Taipei | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Thailand | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | South Korea | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Sri Lanka | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | Bangladesh | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 | Indonesia | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 | Japan | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
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