The Beach Handball Global Tour arrives in Maricá. The Brazilian city welcomes the 3rd edition of the Global Tour in South America. A total of 40 matches will be played.
Participation
The tournament will feature the participation of six teams representing four continents. The tournament, men and women, will have 20 matches per branch.
The host Brazil together with Argentina, the United States of America and Uruguay, will present teams in both branches, with the addition of Germany and Qatar in the men’s event and Portugal, plus Puerto Rico in the women’s event.
Competition system:
There will be six teams in each competition, which will be round robin over three days, on Wednesday 8th, Thursday 9th and Saturday 11th May. The 10th will be a rest day.
On Saturday evening, the 5/6th qualifying matches and semi-finals will be played. On Sunday 12th, the third places and the final.
About the IHF Beach Handball World Tour
The Global Tour was launched at the 2022 IHF Men’s and Women’s Beach Handball World Championships in Greece and debuted in Gdansk, Poland.
The champion in men’s competition was Croatia and in women’s competition Spain. Four teams (Croatia, Germany, Poland and Spain) participated in both the men’s and women’s competitions.
A bit of history
The 2023 IHF Beach Handball World Tour visited Brazil, Tunisia, Poland and closed in Doha, Qatar. The men’s champion was Qatar and Brazil in the women’s.
Overall, a total of 28 teams from 19 countries competed in the 2023 Global Tour: Algeria, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Croatia, Denmark, Poland, Tunisia and the United States (men’s and women’s teams), Morocco, Portugal, Qatar, Togo and Uruguay (men’s only) and Germany, Kenya, Mali, Mexico and the People’s Republic of China (women’s).
Photo: CoSCABal / Camilo Rotela
By Loly Coria
