Alkass Digital
The Qatari junior handball team lost to its Kuwaiti counterpart 28-32 Monday in their second match in the main round of the 10th Asian Junior Handball Championship, currently being held in Jordan and continuing until September 14, and qualifying for the World Championship 2025 in Slovenia.
This is the second consecutive loss for the Qatari team in this round, as they also lost their first match to Japan 39-20.
Qatar qualified for the main round after coming in second in Group 3 in the preliminary round, where they defeated the UAE in their first match 31-21, while losing the second match to Saudi Arabia 43-26.
The top five teams in the Asian Championship advance to the World Championship 2025 in Slovenia.
The Qatari junior handball team won the Asian Championship title twice in 2010 in Abu Dhabi and 2012 in Manama, and it also came in second place three times in 2006 in Tehran, 2008 in Amman, and 2014 also in Amman.