Handball at the 2019 Pan American Games

Handball at the XVIII Pan American Games
Handball pictogram
Venue Handball stadium
Dates July 24 – August 3, 2019
Competitors 224
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Handball competitions at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru are scheduled to be held from July 24 (two days before the opening ceremony) to August 3. The venue for the competition is the Sports Centre Hall 1 located at the Videna cluster. The venue will also host judo. A total of eight men's and eight women's teams (each consisting up to 14 athletes) competed in each tournament. This means a total of 224 athletes are scheduled to compete.[1]

The winner of each competition qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.[2]


Medalists

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's tournament
Women's tournament


Qualification

A total of eight men's teams and eight women's team will qualify to compete at the games in each tournament. The host nation (Peru) qualified in each tournament, along with seven other teams in various qualifying tournaments.[1]

Men

Event Dates Location Vacancies Qualified
Host Nation N/A N/A 1  Peru
2018 South American Games 2–6 June Bolivia Cochabamba 2  Brazil
 Argentina
2018 Central American and Caribbean Games 27 July – 1 August Colombia Barranquilla 3  Cuba
 Puerto Rico
 Mexico
North Zone Qualifying (Canada vs. United States)[3] 2–5 September United States Auburn
Canada Montreal		 1  United States
Last chance qualification tournament January 2019 TBD 1
Total8
  • Chile (3rd placed finisher at the South American Games), Dominican Republic and Colombia (4th and 5th at the Central American and Caribbean Games) and Canada (loser of the North Zone Qualifying) will compete in the last chance tournament.

Women

Event Dates Location Vacancies Qualified
Host Nation N/A N/A 1  Peru
2018 South American Games 27–31 May Bolivia Cochabamba 2  Brazil
 Argentina
2018 Central American and Caribbean Games 20–25 July Colombia Barranquilla 3  Dominican Republic
 Puerto Rico
 Cuba
North Zone Qualifying (Canada vs. United States)[3] 2–5 September United States Auburn
Canada Montreal		 1  United States
Last chance qualification tournament January 2019 TBD 1
Total8
  • Chile (3rd placed finisher at the South American Games), Mexico and Guatemala (4th and 5th at the Central American and Caribbean Games) and Canada (loser of the North Zone Qualifying) will compete in the last chance tournament.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Qualification System manual" (PDF). www.panamsports.org/. Pan American Sports Organization. 25 April 2018. Retrieved 26 May 2018.
  2. ↑ "Qualification System – Games of the XXXII Olympiad – Tokyo 2020 International Handball Federation (IHF)" (PDF). www.cdn.dosb.de/. International Handball Federation (IHF). 15 March 2018. Retrieved 26 May 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Qualification for 2019 Pan American Games - Play-off matches Canada vs USA". www.ihf.info/. International Handball Federation (IHF). 24 August 2018. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
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