Today began the second edition of the IHF World Championship of Beach Handball Youth Men and Women to be held in Heraklion, Greece and which has the participation of three teams from the region: Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay.
For the Argentine national team, this is their second participation in the tournament and seeks to repeat the feat they performed in 2017 when they were third in the competition. Meanwhile, for Brazil and Uruguay, this will be their first world youth and the goal is to make history.
The event that brings together 16 nations of the world, and that will develop between 14 and 19 June, already has its first results:
Male Branch
11:10 EEST Argentina vs Uruguay (2-0) / Iran vs United States (2-0) / Sweden vs Qatar (2-0)
12:00 EEST Ukraine vs Germany (0-2)
12:50 EEST Croatia vs France (0-2) / Greece vs Czech Republic (2-1)
15:00 EEST Spain vs Jordan (0-2)
16:40 EEST United States vs Sweden (0-2) / Qatar vs Iran (0-2)
17:30 EEST Germany vs Argentina (2-0) / Uruguay vs Ukraine (1-2)
18:20 EEST Togo vs Croatia (0-2) / France vs Brazil (2-1)
20:10 EEST Jordan vs Greece (2-1)
21:00 EEST Czech Republic vs Spain (0-2)
Female branch
09:30 EEST Hungary vs Poland (2-0) / Thailand vs Uruguay (2-1) / Germany vs Romania (2-0)
10:20 EEST Argentina vs France (2-1)
12:00 EEST Greece vs Puerto Rico (2-0) / Netherlands vs Hong Kong (2-0)
15:00 EEST Uruguay vs Hungary (0-2) / Poland vs Thailand (2-0)
15:50 EEST France vs Germany (0-2) / Ukraine vs Spain (0-2) / Romania vs Argentina (1-2)
17:30 EEST Puerto Rico vs Netherlands (0-2)
18:20 EEST Hong Kong vs Greece (0-2)
For now, only the men’s team of Argentina managed to consecrate its first triumph in the tournament. Anyway, there are still many group stage matches to continue adding points and to advance to the next round.
Meanwhile, the Brazilian women’s team will make its debut in the intercontinental round tomorrow when it faces Ukraine at 18:20 (EEST- local time).
Photo: IHF
