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Korean Women's Handball Went Straight to the Paris Olympics Finals

23 august 2023

Korean Women's Handball Went Straight to the Paris Olympics Finals

  • Korean Women's Handball Went Straight to the Paris Olympics Finals, The Match Between Korea and Japan on the 23rd


Defeated Kazakh and won 3 consecutive wins in the qualifiers… Likewise, the final match against Japan, which won three consecutive victories  온라인카지노

Korean women's handball left only one win against Korea and Japan to advance to the 2024 Paris Olympics.

The Korean women's handball team, led by coach Henrik Signel (Sweden), beat Kazakhstan 45-24 in the third round of the Asian qualifiers for the Paris Olympics held in Hiroshima, Japan on the 21st.

Korea, which won the previous matches against India (53-14) and China (33-20), was on a three-game winning streak.

Korea will play the final match against Japan at 3:00 pm on the 23rd.

Japan also defeated China 35-18 on the same day and recorded three consecutive victories.

The winner of the match between Korea and Japan will win a direct ticket to Paris as the first place in the preliminaries.

Only the first-place team in this preliminary round, held as a full league, will be given the right to advance to the Paris Olympics.

The second place must continue the challenge for the finals again through an intercontinental playoff.

Korea has not skipped a single match since the 1984 LA Olympics and made it to the Olympic finals.

Of these, except for the 2004 Athens Games and the 2008 Beijing Games, all of them went directly to the Olympic stage through Asian qualifiers.

In 2004, Korea placed 2nd in the Asian Qualifiers and won the Olympic ticket by finishing 3rd in the World Championships held immediately after.

Korean women's handball, which holds the record for the most consecutive Olympic finals for both men and women, will challenge to advance to the finals for the 11th time in a row through this event.

Song Hye-soo (Gwangju Urban Corporation), who scored 6 points, was selected as the MVP of the match, and veteran Ryu Eun-hee (Hungarian Gyeryong), who participated for the first time in this tournament, scored the most 8 points in the team, including 4 goals in 7m throws. .

Kang Eun-hye (6 goals, SK), Kang Gyeong-min (Gwangju Urban Corporation), and Song Ji-young (Seoul City Hall, 4 goals) also contributed.

Coach Signel said, "The game against Japan will be completely different from the matches we've played so far." said.

▲ 2024  Paris Olympic Women's Handball Asian Preliminary Results
Korea 45 (19-12 26 12)24 Kazakhstan