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{{Infobox international handball competition
| tourney_name = Asian Championship
| year = 2000
| yearr = 
| other_titles = 
| image = 
| size = 
| caption = 
| country = Japan
| dates = 25–30 January
| num_teams = 5
| confederations = 1
| venues = 2
| cities = 1
| champion = KOR
| count = 6
| second = CHN
| third = JPN
| fourth = TPE
| matches = 10
| goals = 478
| attendance = 
| top_scorer = {{flagicon|TPE}} [[Tan Tsung-sheng]] (31)
| player = 
| previous = 1995 Asian Men's Handball Championship
| next = 2002 Asian Men's Handball Championship
}}
The '''2000 Asian Men's Handball Championship''' was the ninth [[Asian Men's Handball Championship|Asian Championship]], which was taking place from 25 30 January 30 2000 in [[Kumamoto]], [[Japan]]. It acted as the Asian qualifying tournament for the [[2000 Olympic Games]].

==Standings==
{{#invoke:sports table|main|style=WDL
|res_col_header=Q
|winpoints=2
|show_positions=n

|team1=KOR|name_KOR={{hb|KOR}}
|team2=CHN|name_CHN={{hb|CHN}}
|team3=JPN|name_JPN={{hb|JPN}}
|team4=TPE|name_TPE={{hb|TPE}}
|team5=IRI|name_IRI={{hb|IRI}}
|win_KOR=4|draw_KOR=0|loss_KOR=0|gf_KOR=129|ga_KOR=62
|win_CHN=3|draw_CHN=0|loss_CHN=1|gf_CHN=105|ga_CHN=99
|win_JPN=2|draw_JPN=0|loss_JPN=2|gf_JPN=97|ga_JPN=75|status_JPN=H
|win_TPE=1|draw_TPE=0|loss_TPE=3|gf_TPE=86|ga_TPE=110
|win_IRI=0|draw_IRI=0|loss_IRI=4|gf_IRI=61|ga_IRI=132
|update=complete|source=
}}

==Results==
''All times are local ([[Japan Standard Time|UTC+9]]).''

{{handballbox 
|date= 25 January 2000
|time= 17:00
|team1= {{hb-rt|KOR}}
|score= 37–12
|team2= {{hb|TPE}}
|report= [http://handball.or.jp/archive/national/asia_kumamoto/dn-m-01.pdf#page=2 Report]
|HT= 18–4
|goals1= [[Lim Seong-sik|Lim S.S.]] 8
|goals2= [[Tan Tsung-sheng|Tan T.S.]] 5
|twomin1= 1
|yellow1= 2
|red1= 
|twomin2= 3
|yellow2= 3
|red2=
|stadium= [[Kumamoto City Gymnasium]], [[Kumamoto]]
|referee= Al-Janahi, Al-Rashid
|refnat= KSA
}}
{{handballbox 
|date= 25 January 2000
|time= 19:00
|team1= {{hb-rt|IRI}}
|score= 18–34
|team2= {{hb|CHN}}
|report= [http://handball.or.jp/archive/national/asia_kumamoto/dn-m-01.pdf#page=3 Report]
|HT= 8–18
|goals1= [[Farhad Nikounejad|Nikounejad]], [[Mohammad Reza Jafarnia|Jafarnia]] 5
|goals2= [[Zhang Ji (handballer)|Zhang J.]], [[Zhu Wenxin|Zhu W.X.]] 8
|twomin1= 3
|yellow1= 2
|red1= 
|twomin2= 4
|yellow2= 2
|red2=
|stadium= [[Kumamoto City Gymnasium]], [[Kumamoto]]
|referee= Chung, Lim
|refnat= KOR
}}
----
{{handballbox 
|date= 26 January 2000
|time= 17:00
|team1= {{hb-rt|KOR}}
|score= 38–14
|team2= {{hb|IRI}}
|report= [http://handball.or.jp/archive/national/asia_kumamoto/dn-m-02.pdf#page=2 Report]
|HT= 17–8
|goals1= [[Yoon Kyung-shin|Yoon K.S.]] 6
|goals2= [[Farhad Nikounejad|Nikounejad]] 3
|twomin1= 
|yellow1= 2
|red1= 
|twomin2= 2
|yellow2= 2
|red2=
|stadium= [[Kumamoto City Gymnasium]], [[Kumamoto]]
|referee= Goto, Shimizu
|refnat= JPN
}}
{{handballbox 
|date= 26 January 2000
|time= 19:00
|team1= {{hb-rt|JPN}}
|score= 24–18
|team2= {{hb|TPE}}
|report= [http://handball.or.jp/archive/national/asia_kumamoto/dn-m-02.pdf#page=3 Report]
|HT= 10–9
|goals1= [[Masanori Iwamoto|Iwamoto]] 6
|goals2= [[Tan Tsung-sheng|Tan T.S.]] 8
|twomin1= 4
|yellow1= 2
|red1= 1
|twomin2= 3
|yellow2= 3
|red2=
|stadium= [[Kumamoto City Gymnasium]], [[Kumamoto]]
|referee= Zhang, Zhang
|refnat= CHN
}}
----
{{handballbox 
|date= 27 January 2000
|time= 18:00
|team1= {{hb-rt|JPN}}
|score= 20–24
|team2= {{hb|CHN}}
|report= [http://handball.or.jp/archive/national/asia_kumamoto/dn-m-03.pdf#page=2 Report]
|HT= 11–9
|goals1= [[Kiyoshi Kayaba|Kayaba]] 5
|goals2= [[Zhu Wenxin|Zhu W.X.]], [[Wang Xindong|Wang X.D.]] 6
|twomin1= 7
|yellow1= 3
|red1= 
|twomin2= 4
|yellow2= 3
|red2=
|stadium= [[Matsubase Town Sports Centre]], [[Kumamoto]]
|referee= Kalin, Korić
|refnat= SLO
}}
----
{{handballbox 
|date= 28 January 2000
|time= 17:00
|team1= {{hb-rt|IRI}}
|score= 18–27
|team2= {{hb|TPE}}
|report= [http://handball.or.jp/archive/national/asia_kumamoto/dn-m-04.pdf#page=2 Report]
|HT= 5–12
|goals1= [[Hojjat Safari|Safari]] 6
|goals2= [[Tan Tsung-sheng|Tan T.S.]] 7
|twomin1= 5
|yellow1= 3
|red1= 1
|twomin2= 5
|yellow2= 3
|red2= 1
|stadium= [[Kumamoto City Gymnasium]], [[Kumamoto]]
|referee= Goto, Shimizu
|refnat= JPN
}}
{{handballbox 
|date= 28 January 2000
|time= 19:00
|team1= {{hb-rt|KOR}}
|score= 32–16
|team2= {{hb|CHN}}
|report= [http://handball.or.jp/archive/national/asia_kumamoto/dn-m-04.pdf#page=3 Report]
|HT= 16–3
|goals1= [[Yoon Kyung-shin|Yoon K.S.]] 7
|goals2= [[Zhu Wenxin|Zhu W.X.]] 7
|twomin1= 2
|yellow1= 3
|red1= 
|twomin2= 
|yellow2= 2
|red2= 
|stadium= [[Kumamoto City Gymnasium]], [[Kumamoto]]
|referee= Abdullah, Abbas
|refnat= KUW
}}
----
{{handballbox 
|date= 29 January 2000
|time= 14:00
|team1= {{hb-rt|JPN}}
|score= 33–11
|team2= {{hb|IRI}}
|report= [http://handball.or.jp/archive/national/asia_kumamoto/dn-m-05.pdf#page=2 Report]
|HT= 15–3
|goals1= [[Keisuke Kato (handballer)|Kato]], [[Shoichi Tsuji|Tsuji]] 6
|goals2= [[Majid Khalaj|Khalaj]] 3
|twomin1= 1
|yellow1= 2
|red1= 
|twomin2= 4
|yellow2= 1
|red2=
|stadium= [[Kumamoto City Gymnasium]], [[Kumamoto]]
|referee= Zhang, Zhang
|refnat= CHN
}}
----
{{handballbox 
|date= 30 January 2000
|time= 14:00
|team1= {{hb-rt|KOR}}
|score= 22–20
|team2= {{hb|JPN}}
|report= [http://handball.or.jp/archive/national/asia_kumamoto/dn-m-06.pdf#page=2 Report]
|HT= 13–7
|goals1= [[Yoon Kyung-shin|Yoon K.S.]] 11
|goals2= [[Norihiro Sasaki|Sasaki]], [[Eiji Tomimoto|Tomimoto]] 5
|twomin1= 3
|yellow1= 2
|red1= 
|twomin2= 3
|yellow2= 4
|red2=
|stadium= [[Kumamoto City Gymnasium]], [[Kumamoto]]
|referee= Kalin, Korić
|refnat= SLO
}}
{{handballbox 
|date= 30 January 2000
|time= 16:00
|team1= {{hb-rt|TPE}}
|score= 29–31
|team2= {{hb|CHN}}
|report= [http://handball.or.jp/archive/national/asia_kumamoto/dn-m-06.pdf#page=3 Report]
|HT= 15–18
|goals1= [[Tan Tsung-sheng|Tan T.S.]] 11
|goals2= [[Zhu Wenxin|Zhu W.X.]] 7
|twomin1= 5
|yellow1= 2
|red1= 
|twomin2= 6
|yellow2= 3
|red2=
|stadium= [[Kumamoto City Gymnasium]], [[Kumamoto]]
|referee= Al-Janahi, Al-Rashid
|refnat= KSA
}}

==Final standing==
{|class=wikitable style="text-align:center;"
|-
!Rank !!width=180|Team
|-bgcolor=#CCFFCC
|{{Gold1}}
|align=left|{{hb|KOR}}
|-
|{{Silver2}}
|align=left|{{hb|CHN}}
|-
|{{Bronze3}}
|align=left|{{hb|JPN}}
|-
|4
|align=left|{{hb|TPE}}
|-
|5
|align=left|{{hb|IRI}}
|}

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left;"
|-
|width=10px bgcolor=#ccffcc| ||Team qualified for the [[Handball at the 2000 Summer Olympics|2000 Summer Olympics]]
|}

==References==
*[http://todor66.com/handball/Asia/Men_2000.html Results]

==External links==
*[http://handball.or.jp/archive/national/asia_kumamoto/eng/index.htm www.handball.jp]

{{Asian Handball Championship}}

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