| Kabaddi at the 2022 Asian Games | |
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| Venue | Xiaoshan Guali Sports Centre |
| Dates | 2–7 October 2023 |
| Competitors | 187 from 10 nations |
Kabaddi was incorporated into the Asian Games in 1990. Kabaddi at the 2022 Asian Games was held at Guali Cultural & Sports Centre, [1] Xiaoshan District, China, from 2 to 7 October 2023. [2]
| P | Preliminary round | ½ | Semifinals | F | Final |
| Event↓/Date → | 2nd Mon | 3rd Tue | 4th Wed | 5th Thu | 6th Fri | 7th Sat |
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| Men | P | P | P | P | ½ | F |
| Women | P | P | P | P | ½ | F |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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| Men |  India Nitesh Kumar Aslam Inamdar Nitin Rawal Parvesh Bhainswal Surjeet Singh Narwal Vishal Bhardwaj Naveen Kumar Sunil Kumar Pawan Sehrawat Arjun Deshwal Akash Shinde Sachin Tanwar |  Iran Fazel Atrachali Mohammad Esmaeil Nabibakhsh Milad Jabbari Hamid Mirzaei Reza Mirbagheri Amir Hossein Bastami Alireza Mirzaeian Mohammad Reza Shadloo Moein Shafaghi Mohammad Kazem Nasseri Mohammad Reza Kaboudarahangi Amir Mohammad Zafardanesh |  Pakistan Mudassar Ali Tahseen Ullah Sajjad Shaukat Adil Hussain Akhlaq Ahmed Muzammil Zafar Umair Khan Usman Ahmed Muhammad Imran Waqar Ali Mazhar Iqbal Muhammad Safian |
 Chinese Taipei Huang Tzu-ming Li Hao-wei Lin I-ching Chang Chia-ming Li Jyun-jie Yu Hao-cheng Wu Wei-jheng Wang Lunchu Huang Jih-hung Chang Chung-mao Chen Zheng-wei Tsai Chung-hao | |||
| Women | India Sushma Sharma Sakshi Kumari Pushpa Rana Nidhi Sharma Muskan Malik Priyanka Pilaniya Ritu Negi Pooja Hathwala Pooja Narwal Jyoti Thakur Akshima Singh Snehal Pradeep Shinde | Chinese Taipei Lin I-min Chuang Ya-hun Hu Yu-chen Huang Ssu-chin Yen Chiao-wen Ren Ming-xiu Kang Yung-chiao Feng Hsiu-chen Qin Pei-jyun Huang Yi-yun Liu Yi-ju Wu Yu-jung |  Nepal Manmati Bist itu Gurung Menuka Kumari Rajbanshi Jayanti Badu Isha Rai Arpana Chaudhary Srijana Kumari Tharu Sunita Thapa Rabina Chaudhary Kalawati Pant Anuja Kulung Rai Ganga Ghimire |
| Iran Ghazal Khalaj Mahboubeh Sanchouli Zahra Karimi Saeideh Jafari Sedigheh Jafari Roya Davoudian Farideh Zarifdoust Mohaddeseh Rajabloo Fatemeh Khodabandehloo Fatemeh Mansouri Maryam Solgi Raheleh Naderi |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 | India (IND) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Iran (IRI) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 4 | Nepal (NEP) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Pakistan (PAK) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (5 entries) | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | |
A draw ceremony was held on 28 September 2023 in Hangzhou to determine the groups for the men's and women's competitions.
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| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L |
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 |  India | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
 |  Iran | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
 |  Chinese Taipei | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
|  Pakistan | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 |  Bangladesh | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 |  Malaysia | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 |  South Korea | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 |  Thailand | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 |  Japan | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L |
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| India | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| Chinese Taipei | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Iran | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Nepal | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | Bangladesh | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | Thailand | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | South Korea | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
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