Results of handball competitions in the Club World Cup and Asian Games news

Spanish team Barcelona, ​​the defending champion of the Club World Cup in Handball, continued its series of victories in this year’s edition of the tournament by defeating Egyptian Zamalek on Sunday.

The Catalan team finished the match in their favor with a score of 39-29.

Barcelona imposed complete control over the match from the beginning, as it ended the first half with an 8-goal advantage, 20-12.

With this result, Barcelona achieved its second victory in a row, raising its score to 4 points at the top of Group A, followed by Zamalek with two points in second place.

Earlier on Sunday, the Brazilian Pineros defeated the Moroccan Derb Sultan Forum with a score of 37-22, achieving its first victory and raising its score to two points, while the Moroccan team remained without a score.

Zamalek began its tournament by defeating Los Angeles, USA, 40-17, in the preliminary round, to advance to the main group stage.

In the first round of the group stage, Zamalek defeated the Moroccan Darb Sultan Forum team with a score of 42-17.

Later on Sunday evening, Hungary's Veszprem will play against Germany's Fuchs Berlin, and Egyptian Al-Ahly will play against Kuwait's Burgan in the second group competitions.

The injury prevented Qatari champion Moataz Barshim from competing in the final of the high jump competition, scheduled for Sunday, within the “Asian Games” in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan.

Attention was drawn to Barshim’s participation, in light of the expectations placed on him to continue his achievements in the “Asiad” and add a new medal to his distinguished record.

Barshim has 3 gold medals in the Asian Games, which he won in Guangzhou, China in 2010, and Incheon, South Korea in 2014, before he missed the Jakarta edition in 2018 due to injury, then returned to win gold in Hangzhou, China in 2022.

Barshim recorded the second-best number in the history of the competition (2.35 metres) during the previous Asian Games, and in the current edition he was looking forward to continuing his presence on the podium and enhancing his historical record in the Asian Games.

Bahraini Ingrid Grosio won the bronze medal in the 69-kilogram weightlifting competition on Sunday at the Asian Games held in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan.

Grozio raised Bahrain's tally in the tournament to 12 medals, with 7 gold, 2 silver, and 3 bronze, ranking it 8th in the overall standings.

Grosio, of Colombian origin and 20 years old, is considered one of the most prominent Asian and international talents, after she won 3 medals at the “World Weightlifting Championships” last year in Norway: silver in the clean, bronze in the snatch, and bronze in the total.

The gold medal went to North Korea's Hyang Song, after she broke the world record by recording a total of 273 kilograms in the snatch and clean, while Taiwanese Chen Wen-huai won silver.

This is the sixth gold medal for North Korea in the current Asian Games, all of which were achieved in weightlifting competitions.