The Brazilian men’s beach handball team is one of the candidates for the “2019 World Games Athlete of the Year” award.
Voting began this January 8th and ends at 3:00 p.m. on the 30th, beach handball fans can show their support by voting. To do this, follow the following steps:
Visit the IWGA voting page.
Go to the image of handball beach or beach handball
Click “Vote.”
Then choose a second athlete in another sport and vote for them. Each person has to vote for two sports, and their first choice automatically receives two votes, and their second choice one vote. If you give both votes to one candidate, the votes will not be recorded.
The 10 candidates with the most votes for Monday, January 20 will continue to compete against each other. The remaining 15 candidates will be out of discussion.
Once you’ve voted, share your vote on your social media channels using the hashtag #beachhandball and ask all your friends to vote for handball too.
You can vote once every 24 hours, so be sure to vote again and show the world how much you support the sport.
Brazil’s 2019 Beach team won the debut edition of the ANOC World Beach Games in Doha, Qatar, in October, after going undefeated in winning the South and Central American Beach Handball Championship in 2019.
In Doha, they defeated some of the best teams in the world to claim gold, including Croatia, Spain and Qatar. Throughout 2019, as usual, players and coaches worked around the world, online and in person, to provide support, advice, training and playing time to the entire beach handball family to help develop the sport worldwide.
Every time Brazil arrives at the arena for any competition, the entire delegation plays instruments and sings songs, encouraging anyone to join in and celebrate the carnival of sport.
“We felt like we had to win this competition as it was the first and it was historic”, said specialist Bruno Carlos de Oliveira in Qatar, after scoring the winning point in the final throw to secure gold.
“That moment was spectacular, we want to win and make history, since no one can beat you if you are the first, even if you win the second time. We are always looking for history”, Oliveira added.
The World Games are a multi-sport event organized every four years by the International World Games Association under the sponsorship of the International Olympic Committee. The 11th edition of The World Games will be held in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, from July 15 to 25, 2021. 3,600 athletes from more than 30 sports and 100 countries will participate in the Games.
Photo: ANOC WBG Doha 2019
