In the fourth day of the IHF World Championship of Beach Handball Junior Male and Female Heraklion 2022 were played the last matches of the Main Round, stage before the eliminations and that left 8 teams qualified to the quarterfinals.
In the case of the female branch, Argentina and Brazil achieved the classification after being in the top 4 of their groups.
Today, the Argentine team had its first defeat so far in the tournament after falling to the Netherlands by 2 sets to 0. The “kamikazes” gave their best to stay with the match, but they could not with the Europeans who hired and added very quickly in the scoreboard.
Anyway, the Argentines remained with the 3° place of Group II and qualified for the next stage, where they will have to face Spain for the passage to semifinals.
Those who will also have to play the move to a semifinal will be the Brazilians. Today, Brazil secured a new victory against the Thai team and managed to stay with the 3° place of Group I. Thus, the Cariocas will meet the Netherlands in the quarterfinals.
For their part, Uruguay -which failed to pass the preliminary phase- played their last game of the Consolation Round and secured their second triumph so far in the tournament after beating India by 2 sets to 0.
Tomorrow, the celestes have to be measured against Ukraine in a match by the definition of 9° to 16° place of the table.
Check the results of the fourth day:
Uruguay vs India 2-0 (20:9/20:9)
Romania vs Hong Kong 2-0
Hungary vs Spain 2-1
Poland vs Ukraine 2-1
Thailand vs Brazil 0-2 (10:25/13:16)
Argentina vs Netherlands 0-2 (18:25/24:29)
Germany vs Puerto Rico 2-0
France vs Greece 2-0
As in the women’s championship, Argentines and Brazilians managed to qualify for the quarterfinals and the dream of getting a medal remains intact.
Despite the fact that the Brazilian team did not manage to win their last Main Round match against Iran, if they managed to stay among the top 4 of Group I and get into the next stage where they will face Spain for the pass to semifinals.
Argentina, meanwhile, managed to beat home Greece in a match in which they were vastly superior. With this new triumph, the albicelestes get into the quarterfinals and tomorrow they meet Iran who must win if they want to reach the podium.
Finally, Uruguay today could not beat the leader of their group, Czech Republic, but remained in the 2° place of Group III, so tomorrow will play Qatar in the definition by the last places of the table.
Check the results of the fourth day:
United States vs Togo 2-0
Czech Republic vs Uruguay 2-0 (26:21/19:14)
Sweden vs France 1-2
Qatar vs Croatia 1-2
Iran vs Brazil 2-0 (18:14/18:14)
Spain vs Ukraine 2-1
Jordan vs Germany 1-2
Greece vs Argentina 0-2 (6:16/12:19)
Independent of having a favorable or unfavorable result, the six teams of the region must play two matches in the penultimate round of Heraklion 2022.
Photo: IHF
