Maldives at the 2018 Asian Games

Maldives at the
2018 Asian Games
Maldives at the; 2018 Asian Games
IOC code	MDV
NOC	Maldives Olympic Committee
Website	www.nocmaldives.org (in English)
in Jakarta and Palembang ; August 18 – September 2
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Last updated July 15, 2023

Maldives competed at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang, Indonesia, from 18 August to 2 September 2018.^[1]

Competitors

The following is a list of the number of competitors representing Maldives that participated at the Games:

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Athletics	2	2	4
Badminton	4	4	8
Football	0	20	20
Shooting	3	2	5
Swimming	4	4	8
Table tennis	4	0	4
Tennis	4	3	7
Volleyball	18	0	18
Total	39	35	74

Athletics

Maldives entered four athletes (2 men's and 2 women's) to participate in the athletics competition at the Games.^[2]

Badminton

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Mohamed Ajfan Rasheed	Singles	Bye	Ng K L (HKG) L (9–21, 10–21)	did not advance
Hussein Zayan Shaheed	Singles	Bye	S I Meri (AFG) W (22–20, 21–11)	K Nishimoto (JPN) L (7–21, 10–21)	did not advance
Thoif Ahmed Mohamed Mohamed Ajfan Rasheed	Doubles	—	M Attri / B S Reddy (IND) L (10–21, 8–21)	did not advance
Sarim Mohamed Hussein Zayan Shaheed	Doubles	—	Lee J-h / Lee Y (TPE) L (4–21, 7–21)	did not advance
Hussein Zayan Shaheed Mohamed Ajfan Rasheed Sarim Mohamed Thoif Ahmed Mohamed	Team	—		India (IND) L 0–3	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Moosa Aminath Shahurunaz	Singles	N Okuhara (JPN) L (2–21, 5–21)	did not advance
Fathimath Nabaaha Abdul Razzaq	Singles	N Tamang (NEP) L (19–21, 15–21)	did not advance
Aminath Nabeeha Abdul Razzaq Fathimath Nabaaha Abdul Razzaq	Doubles	D D Haris / R A Pradipta (INA) L (6–21, 4–21)	did not advance
Neela Najeeb Moosa Aminath Shahurunaz	Doubles	G Saddique / S Waqas (PAK) L (20–22, 21–18, 15–21)	did not advance
Aminath Nabeeha Abdul Razzaq Fathimath Nabaaha Abdul Razzaq Moosa Aminath Shahurunaz Neela Najeeb	Team	—	Nepal (NEP) W 3–2	China (CHN) L 0–3	did not advance

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Thoif Ahmed Mohamed Fathimath Nabaaha Abdul Razzaq	Mixed	Seo S-j / Chae Y-j (KOR) L (2–21, 6–21)	did not advance
Sarim Mohamed Moosa Aminath Shahurunaz	Mixed	Che P N / Gong X X (MAC) L (8–21, 8–21)	did not advance

Football

Maldives women's team were drawn in the Group A at the Games.^[3]

Summary

Team	Event	Group Stage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Team	Event	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Rank	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Rank
Maldives women's	Women's tournament	Indonesia L 0–6	South Korea L 0–8	Chinese Taipei L 0–7	4	did not advance			10

Women's tournament

Roster

The following is the Maldives squad in the women's football tournament of the 2018 Asian Games.^[4]

Head Coach: Athif Mohamed

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1 GK	Aminath Leeza	(1986-11-25)25 November 1986 (aged 31)	Police Club
18	1 GK	Aishath Abdul Razzaq	(1980-10-20)20 October 1980 (aged 37)
22	1 GK	Saiga Hussain	(1993-03-26)26 March 1993 (aged 25)	MNDF

2	2 DF	Fathimath Zahira	(1991-03-31)31 March 1991 (aged 27)	Police Club
4	2 DF	Aishath Maahin	(1988-08-06)6 August 1988 (aged 30)	Ooredoo Maldives
6	2 DF	Fathimath Afza	(1988-11-01)1 November 1988 (aged 29)	Dhivehi Sifainge Club
15	2 DF	Aminath Zaahiya	(1993-07-11)11 July 1993 (aged 25)	Team Fenaka
17	2 DF	Hawwa Haneefa	(1990-01-31)31 January 1990 (aged 28)	WAMCO
19	2 DF	Sheeneez Mohamed	(1986-11-25)25 November 1986 (aged 31)	Police Club
21	2 DF	Sanfa Ibrahim Didi	(1985-04-27)27 April 1985 (aged 33)	Police Club

5	3 MF	Shiyana Ahmed Zubair	(1988-01-01)1 January 1988 (aged 30)	STO
7	3 MF	Fadhuwa Zahir	(1986-05-07)7 May 1986 (aged 32)	Police Club
9	3 MF	Shahula Thaufeeq	(1992-12-08)8 December 1992 (aged 25)	Team Fenaka
11	3 MF	Aishath Samaa	(1994-03-26)26 March 1994 (aged 24)	New Radiant
14	3 MF	Mariyam Mirfath	(1985-05-16)16 May 1985 (aged 33)	Club Immigration
24	3 MF	Azina Abdul Matheen	(1991-09-10)10 September 1991 (aged 26)	Customs RC

8	4 FW	Mariyam Rifa	(1992-08-29)29 August 1992 (aged 25)	MPL
10	4 FW	Aminath Shamila	(1993-05-14)14 May 1993 (aged 25)	MPL
12	4 FW	Mariyam Nishfa Faid	(2002-03-08)8 March 2002 (aged 16)
13	4 FW	Safiyya Rafa	(1998-04-09)9 April 1998 (aged 20)	WAMCO

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	South Korea	3	3	0	22	1	+21	9	Advance to Knockout stage
2	Chinese Taipei	3	2	1	12	2	+10	6	Advance to Knockout stage
3	Indonesia (H)	3	1	2	6	16	−10	3
4	Maldives	3	0	3	0	21	−21	0

Source: Asian Games 2018
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Host

16 August 2018

18:30 UTC+7

Indonesia	6–0	Maldives
Musdalifah 10', 72' Zp 15' (pen.), 55' Sada 30' Sari 61'	Report

Gelora Sriwijaya Stadium, Palembang

Referee: Thein Thein Aye (Myanmar)

19 August 2018

15:00 UTC+7

Maldives	0–8	South Korea
	Report	Ji So-yun 25' (pen.) Shamila 35' (o.g.) Son Hwa-yeon 35', 60', 87' Moon Mi-ra 45', 54' (pen.) Lee Eun-mi 88'

Gelora Sriwijaya Stadium, Palembang

Referee: Law Bik Chi (Hong Kong)

21 August 2018

18:30 UTC+7

Chinese Taipei	7–0	Maldives
Yu Hsiu-chin 6' (pen.) Pan Shin-yu 12', 31' Zhuo Li-ping 17', 74' Michelle Pao 55' Lee Hsiu-chin 63'	Report

Bumi Sriwijaya Stadium, Palembang

Referee: Pansa Chaisanit (Thailand)

Shooting

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Mohamed Abdulla	10 m air rifle	595.2	41	did not advance
Ahmed Yaaniu	10 m air rifle	563.2	43	did not advance
Mohamed Abdulla	50 m rifle three positions	1116	31	did not advance
Ibrahim Ahmed	50 m rifle three positions	1060	32	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Asma Hawwa	10 m air pistol	510	42	did not advance
Riusha Mohamed	10 m air pistol	531	38	did not advance
Asma Hawwa	25 m pistol	515	31	did not advance
Riusha Mohamed	25 m pistol	535	30	did not advance

Swimming

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Imaan Ali	50 m freestyle	27.60	49	did not advance
	100 m freestyle	1:01.60	46	did not advance
	200 m freestyle	2:17.58	33	did not advance
	50 m backstroke	32.47	36	did not advance
	100 m backstroke	1:10.03	27	did not advance
	200 m backstroke	2:48.36	22	did not advance
Ashraf Hassan	50 m freestyle	28.68	50	did not advance
	50 m breaststroke	36.32	36	did not advance
	100 m breaststroke	1:22.12	31	did not advance
Haish Hassan Hussain	100 m freestyle	1:02.64	47	did not advance
	400 m freestyle	5:11.70	22	did not advance
	50 m backstroke	31.95	35	did not advance
	100 m backstroke	1:13.65	28	did not advance
	50 m breaststroke	35.85	35	did not advance
	100 m breaststroke	1:22.34	32	did not advance
Mubal Azzam Ibrahim	200 m freestyle	2:11.26	30	did not advance
	400 m freestyle	4:48.44	20	did not advance
	800 m freestyle	—		10:12.07	14
	1500 m freestyle	—		19:26.54	15
	200 m individual medley	2:32.87	21	did not advance
	400 m individual medley	5:35.41	17	did not advance
Imaan Ali Ashraf Hassan Haish Hassan Hussain Mubal Azzam Ibrahim	4×100 m freestyle relay	4:10.12	16	did not advance
	4×100 m medley relay	4:47.94	17	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Aishath Hulva Khulail	50 m backstroke	41.83	23	did not advance
	100 m backstroke	1:33.70	21	did not advance
	50 m breaststroke	42.08	30	did not advance
	100 m breaststroke	1:33.31	25	did not advance
	200 m breaststroke	3:34.83	17	did not advance
Aishath Sajna	50 m freestyle	33.50	30	did not advance
	100 m freestyle	1:17.91	26	did not advance
	50 m breaststroke	41.34	29	did not advance
	100 m breaststroke	1:34.07	26	did not advance
Anmau Ahmed Saleem	100 m freestyle	1:14.64	24	did not advance
	50 m butterfly	35.83	25	did not advance
	100 m butterfly	1:29.46	24	did not advance
	200 m butterfly	3:34.62	15	did not advance
Aishath Sausan	50 m freestyle	31.95	27	did not advance
	50 m backstroke	36.50	21	did not advance
	100 m backstroke	1:18.96	20	did not advance
	200 m backstroke	2:57.91	18	did not advance
	50 m butterfly	34.40	23	did not advance
	200 m individual medley	3:03.64	18	did not advance
Aishath Sajina Aishath Hulva Khulail Anmau Ahmed Saleem Aishath Sausan	4×100 m freestyle relay	5:09.90	10	did not advance
	4×100 m medley relay	5:42.33	10	did not advance

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Aishath Sausan Aishath Sajina Mubal Azzam Ibrahim Imaan Ali	4x100 m mixed medley relay	5:06.67	12	did not advance

Table tennis

Individual

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Ahmed Moosa Munsif	Men's singles	MA Haiqal (MAS) L 0–4	did not advance
Ismail Mohamed Shaffan	Men's singles	FS Santoso (INA) L 0–4	did not advance

Team

Athlete	Event	Group Stage					Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Rank	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Rank
Ahmed Moosa Munsif Ismail Mohamed Shaffan Naseem Mohamed Zeesth Sujau Mohamed Thabin	Men's	Japan (JPN) L 0–3	Thailand (THA) L 0–3	Iran (IRI) L 0–3	Kyrgyzstan (KGZ) L 1–3	5	did not advance

Tennis

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Ahmed Saai Waheed	Singles	Bye	Lý NH (VIE) W 0–6, 0–4^r	did not advance
Abdulla Faaih Fazeel	Singles	S Dissanayake (SRI) L 1–6, 3–6	did not advance
Abdulla Faaih Fazeel Ahmed Saai Waheed	Doubles	DA Susanto / IA Susanto (INA) L 1–6, 0–6	did not advance
Ahmed Akram Ali Faris Mohammed	Doubles	Bye	Li Z / Wu D (CHN) L 0–6, 1–6	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Ayani Moosa Kaleem	Singles	Bye	G Ainitdinova (KAZ) L 0–6, 0–6	did not advance
Zeina Abdul Rasheed	Singles	B Gumulya (INA) L 0–6, 0–6	did not advance
Zeina Abdul Rasheed Aminath Irufa Mahir	Doubles	—	Mah Rana / May Rana (NEP) L 4–6, 1–6	did not advance

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Ayani Moosa Kaleem Abdulla Faaih Fazeel	Doubles	Kim N-r / Lee J-m (KOR) L 1–6, 0–6	did not advance
Zeina Abdul Rasheed Ahmed Saai Waheed	Doubles	Bye	Liang E-s / Peng H-y (TPE) L 0–6, 1–6	did not advance

Volleyball

Beach volleyball

Athlete	Event	Preliminary		Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Oppositions Scores	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Mohamed Ahmed Asfag Adam	Men's tournament	Inkiew – Padsawud (THA): L 0–2 Chui – Yeung (HKG): L 0–2 Al-Jalbubi – Al-Hashmi (OMA): L 0–2	4	did not advance
Sajid Ismail Shiunaz Abdul Waahid	Men's tournament	Abdelrasoul – Sammoud (QAT): L 1–2 Vakili – Salemiinjehboroun (IRI): L 0–2 Jongklang – Khaolumtarn (THA): L 0–2	4	did not advance

Indoor volleyball

Team	Event	Group Stage		Playoffs	Quarterfinals / Pl.	Semifinals / Pl.	Final / BM / Pl.
Team	Event	Oppositions Scores	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Maldives men's	Men's tournament	Qatar: L 0–3 Hong Kong: L 0–3 India: L 0–3	4	Did not advance	Sri Lanka L 1–3	Did not advance	Hong Kong L 0–3	20

Men's tournament

Team roster

The following is the Maldives roster in the men's volleyball tournament of the 2018 Asian Games.^[5]

Head coach: Sajid Mohamed

No.	Name	Date of birth	Height	Weight	Spike	Block	Club
1	Naeem Mohamed	15 October 1989	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)	59 kg (130 lb)	254 cm (100 in)	246 cm (97 in)
2	Abdul Latheef Shuaib	30 October 1993	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)	65 kg (143 lb)	289 cm (114 in)	269 cm (106 in)	Police
3	Javam Ali	17 September 1994	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	70 kg (150 lb)	254 cm (100 in)	249 cm (98 in)
4	Mauroof Ali	13 March 1987	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)	69 kg (152 lb)	285 cm (112 in)	275 cm (108 in)	Maldivian Sport & Recreation
5	Mohamed Mimrah Hassan	19 January 1998	1.56 m (5 ft 1 in)	57 kg (126 lb)	240 cm (94 in)	237 cm (93 in)	Maldives Volleyball Family
6	Adam Fairooz	26 November 1994	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)	73 kg (161 lb)	315 cm (124 in)	309 cm (122 in)	Maldivian Sport & Recreation
8	Mimrah Mohamed	15 April 1999	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)	63 kg (139 lb)	243 cm (96 in)	231 cm (91 in)	Sea Life
4	Mauroof Ali	13 March 1987	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)	69 kg (152 lb)	285 cm (112 in)	275 cm (108 in)	Maldivian Sport & Recreation
9	Shimau Ahmed	30 August 1991	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	69 kg (152 lb)	250 cm (98 in)	245 cm (96 in)
10	Ahmed Abdul Kareem (c)	10 August 1986	1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)	80 kg (180 lb)	302 cm (119 in)	297 cm (117 in)	Dhivehi Sifainge
11	Nilaam Hassan	21 December 1995	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)	59 kg (130 lb)	289 cm (114 in)	270 cm (110 in)
12	Huzam Ali	6 May 1993	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)	67 kg (148 lb)	310 cm (120 in)	300 cm (120 in)	STO
13	Visam Hussain	7 August 1994	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)	67 kg (148 lb)	283 cm (111 in)	275 cm (108 in)	Maldivian Sport & Recreation
14	Naseem Adam	1 May 1992	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)	70 kg (150 lb)	312 cm (123 in)	302 cm (119 in)	Maldivian Sport & Recreation

Pool F

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR
1	Qatar	3	3	0	9	9	0	MAX	225	143	1.573
2	India	3	2	1	6	6	3	2.000	207	191	1.084
3	Hong Kong	3	1	2	3	3	6	0.500	197	206	0.956
4	Maldives	3	0	3	0	0	9	0.000	136	225	0.604

Source: OCA

20 August 2018 (2018-08-20) 19:00 UTC+7	Qatar	3–0	Maldives	Bulungan Sport Hall, Jakarta Attendance: 950 Referees: Thalgasdhuwage Chandrapala Hewa (SRI), Gautam Prasad Lasiwa (NEP)
	(25–11, 25–8, 25–13) Report

23 August 2018 (2018-08-23) 19:00 UTC+7	Hong Kong	3–0	Maldives	Bulungan Sport Hall, Jakarta Attendance: 200 Referees: Nguyễn Viết Hòa (VIE), Wang Jun (CHN)
	(25–16, 25–21, 25–17) Report

25 August 2018 (2018-08-25) 10:00 UTC+7	Maldives	0–3	India	Bulungan Sport Hall, Jakarta Referees: Nurbek Kalykov (KGZ), Komsun Gettaworn (THA)
	(12–25, 21–25, 17–25) Report

13th–20th quarterfinal

26 August 2018 (2018-08-26) 10:00 UTC+7	Sri Lanka	3–1	Maldives	Bulungan Sport Hall, Jakarta Attendance: 350 Referees: Nguyễn Quốc Huy (VIE), Ebrahim Firouzi (IRI)
	(16–25, 25–18, 27–25, 25–15) Report (AG18) Report (AVC)

19th place game

28 August 2018 (2018-08-28) 19:20 UTC+7	Maldives	0–3	Hong Kong	Bulungan Sport Hall, Jakarta Attendance: 100 Referees: Indra Muflih (INA), Rameshwar Singh Chauhan (IND)
	(20–25, 22–25, 16–25) Report

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