The Beach Handball World Championship is back, after 4 years without competition. From June 21-26, the beaches of Heraklion, Greece will host the World Championship.
The tournament, which had its last version in Kazan 2018 due to the cancellation of Pescara 2020 due to the arrival of COVID-19, will feature the participation of 32 teams, 16 women’s and 16 men’s.
Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Ecuador -are part of the 32 teams that will be present in the tenth edition of the tournament and thus reach Heraklion 2022:
In the case of the women’s division, Brazil and Uruguay are in 3rd and 10th place in the world rankings, while Argentina seeks to rejoin it, since its last world championship participation was in Budapest 2016.
2022 IHF WOMEN’S BEACH HANDBALL CHAMPIONSHIP
The groups were formed as follows: Group A: Greece, Portugal, Mexico, Thailand; for Group B: Denmark, Spain, Vietnam, United States.
Meanwhile, in Group C: ArgentinaThe Netherlands, Uruguay, Australia and Group D: Germany, Norway, BrazilHungary
In the men’s championship, Brazil arrives as the defending champion of the tournament, accumulating 5 world titles.
Argentina and Uruguay (11th and 15th, respectively) will seek to improve on their past participation; and Ecuador will participate for the first time in its history in its first IHF World Cup.
2022 IHF MEN’S BEACH HANDBALL CHAMPIONSHIP
The men’s groups were as follows: Group A: ArgentinaGreece, Greece, United States, Puerto Rico; Group B: Croatia, Spain, Uruguay, Ecuador.
In addition, Group C: Denmark, Norway, Iran, Egypt and Group D: BrazilPortugal, Qatar, New Zealand
Tomorrow, seven South American teams will make their debut in the preliminary phase of the tournament, where they must finish at the top of their group to advance to the Main Round, the stage prior to the knockout rounds.
Check the South American fixture (Time GMT-3)
In the men’s division, starting at 03:00 Croatia vs. Uruguay, 03:00 Spain vs Ecuador, 03:50 Brazil vs Qatar, 05:30 Argentina vs United States, 09:00 Uruguay vs Spain.
Also at 09:50 New Zealand vs. Brazil, 09:50 Ecuador vs Croatia and 11:30 Puerto Rico vs Argentina.
Meanwhile, in the women’s competition, starting at 4:40 a.m. Germany vs. Brazil, 04:40 Argentina vs Uruguay, 11:30 Brazil vs Norway, 11:30 Australia vs Argentina and 12:20 Uruguay vs Netherlands.
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