Handball at the 2011 Pan American Games – Men's tournament

Men's handball tournament at the 2011 Pan American Games
Men's handball tournament at the 2011 Pan American Games
Venue	San Rafael Gymnasium
Dates	October 16 – October 24
Competitors	120 from 8 nations
Medalists
	«2007 2015»

The men's tournament of handball at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, began on October 16 and ended on October 24. All games were held at the San Rafael Gymnasium. The defending champions were Brazil, who won the title on home court.^[1] Argentina, the winner of the competition, qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Great Britain.^[2]

Teams

Qualification

A National Olympic Committee may enter one men's team for the handball competition. Mexico, the host nation along with seven other countries qualified through regional competitions.^[1]

Event	Date	Location	Vacancies	Qualified
Host Nation	–	–	1	Mexico
2010 South American Games	March 20–30, 2010	Medellín	3	Brazil Argentina Chile
2010 Central American and Caribbean Games	July 18–25, 2010	Mayagüez	2	Dominican Republic Venezuela
Canada versus United States Series	December 21, 23, 2010 ^[3]	Lake Placid La Prairie	1	Canada
Last Chance Qualifying Tournament	June 3–5, 2011	Guatemala City^[4]	1	United States
TOTAL			8

Canada versus United States Series

December 21 6:00	United States	25–21	Canada	Lake Placid Olympic Training Center, Lake Placid Attendance: 250 Referees: Perez (PUR), Guzman (PUR)
	Key 5		Alexis Bertrand [fr] 6

December 23 7:30	Canada	30–23 (ET)	United States	La Magdeleine School, La Prairie Attendance: 400 Referees: Perez (PUR), Guzman (PUR)
	Etter 8		Hines 9

Canada won 51–48 on aggregate and qualified for the games.

The second game at the end of regulation was a 25–21 advantage for Canada, thus the game went to overtime.

Last chance qualifying tournament

June 3	Guatemala	12–20	Uruguay	Domo Polideportivo, Guatemala City

June 4	United States	23–23	Uruguay	Domo Polideportivo, Guatemala City

June 5	United States	38–24	Guatemala	Domo Polideportivo, Guatemala City

USA advance to the Pan American Games with a better goal differential. Puerto Rico withdrew from participating in the tournament.^[5]

Squads

At the start of tournament, all eight participating countries had 15 players on their rosters. Final squads for the tournament were due on September 14, 2011, a month before the start of 2011 Pan American Games.^[1]

Format

Eight teams are split into 2 preliminary round groups of 4 teams each. The top 2 teams from each group qualify for the knockout stage.
The third and fourth placed teams will play the fifth to eight bracket.
In the semifinals, the matchups are as follows: A1 vs. B2 and B1 vs. A2
The winning teams from the semifinals play for the gold medal. The losing teams compete for the bronze medal.

Ties are broken via the following the criteria, with the first option used first, all the way down to the last option:

Head to head results.
Goal difference in the matches between the teams concerned.
Greater number of plus goals in the matches between the teams concerned.^[1]

Draw

The draw for the tournament was held at the offices of the Organising Committee (COPAG) for the Games in Guadalajara on July 21 at 16:00 local time.^[6]

The competing are drawn to each group by couples. The first team selected randomly in the draw goes to group A and the second to Group B.^[6] The pots are based on the performance of national teams in both previous games and their standings in their respective regional competitions.^[6]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Brazil Argentina	Chile Dominican Republic	Canada Mexico	Venezuela United States

Preliminary round

All times are local (UTC−5).

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Brazil	3	3	0	119	54	+65	6	Semifinals
2	Chile	3	2	1	101	89	+12	4	Semifinals
3	Canada	3	1	2	70	113	−43	2	5th–8th place semifinals
4	Venezuela	3	0	3	68	102	−34	0	5th–8th place semifinals

Source: Guadalajara 2011
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) goals scored; 7) draw.

October 16 13:00	Brazil	46–17	Canada	San Rafael Gymnasium Referees: González, Prieto (URU)
	Ruy, V. Teixeira 7	(19–7)	Godin 4
	3× 1×	Report	2× 3×

October 16 15:00	Chile	37–28	Venezuela	San Rafael Gymnasium Referees: Pérez, Guzmán (PUR)
	Em. Feuchtmann 8	(19–12)	Peñaloza 6
	3× 7×	Report	1× 8× 2×

October 18 13:00	Canada	25–42	Chile	San Rafael Gymnasium Referees: Marina, Minore (ARG)
	Bertrand [fr], Bessette 5	(11–19)	Em. Feuchtmann, R. Salinas 8
	2× 8× 1×	Report	3× 7×

October 18 20:00	Venezuela	15–37	Brazil	San Rafael Gymnasium Referees: Raluy, Sabroso (ESP)
	Godoy, Peñaloza 3	(8–19)	Ruy 7
	3× 3×	Report	3× 5×

October 20 13:00	Brazil	36–22	Chile	San Rafael Gymnasium Referees: González, Prieto (URU)
	Borges 10	(15–9)	Em. Feuchtmann, R. Salinas 5
	3× 8×	Report	3× 5×

October 20 15:00	Canada	28–25	Venezuela	San Rafael Gymnasium Referees: De Souza, Paz (BRA)
	Etter 10	(12–10)	Pérez 6
		Report^{[dead link‍]}

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Argentina	3	3	0	95	55	+40	6	Semifinals
2	Dominican Republic	3	2	1	77	79	−2	4	Semifinals
3	Mexico (H)	3	1	2	78	93	−15	2	5th–8th place semifinals
4	United States	3	0	3	73	96	−23	0	5th–8th place semifinals

Source: Guadalajara 2011
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) goals scored; 7) draw.
(H) Hosts

October 16 18:00	Dominican Republic	27–22	United States	San Rafael Gymnasium Referees: Pellerin, Martin (CAN)
	K. de León, Mirabal 7	(11–11)	Clemons Axelsson 8
	3× 7×	Report	3× 6×

October 16 20:00	Argentina	31–16	Mexico	San Rafael Gymnasium Referees: Raluy, Sabroso (ESP)
	Carou, F. Fernández 6	(16–5)	Acuña 6
	3× 4× 1×	Report	3× 4×

October 18 15:00	United States	19–36	Argentina	San Rafael Gymnasium Referees: Durán, Guzmán (MEX)
	Hines 6	(9–12)	Pizarro 8
	1× 8×	Report	3× 1×

October 18 18:00	Mexico	29–30	Dominican Republic	San Rafael Gymnasium Referees: Pinto, Meneses (BRA)
	Villalobos 7	(15–15)	K. de León 10
	4× 5×	Report	3× 7×

October 20 18:00	Argentina	28–20	Dominican Republic	San Rafael Gymnasium Referees: Raluy, Sabroso (ESP)
	F. Fernández, Pizarro 6	(13–11)	Mirabal 6
		Report^{[dead link‍]}

October 20 20:00	Mexico	33–32	United States	San Rafael Gymnasium Referees: Marina, Minore (ARG)
	Bermúdez 9	(21–18)	Hines 9
		Report^{[dead link‍]}

Elimination stage

Semi-finals		Final

October 22

Brazil	41
		October 24
Dominican Republic	17
		Brazil	23
October 22
		Argentina	26
Argentina	26

Chile	25
		Third place

		October 24

		Dominican Republic	24

		Chile	27

Semifinals

October 22 10:00	Brazil	41–17	Dominican Republic	San Rafael Gymnasium Referees: Marina, Minore (ARG)
	Chiuffa 6	(18–8)	four players 3
	3× 1×	Report	3× 5×

October 22 17:30	Argentina	26–25	Chile	San Rafael Gymnasium Referees: Pinto, Meneses (BRA)
	F. Fernández 8	(15–10)	R. Salinas 7
	4× 4×	Report	4× 7×

5th–8th place semifinals

October 22 12:30	Canada	26–25	United States	San Rafael Gymnasium Referees: Pérez, Guzmán (PUR)
	Walder 5	(13–14)	El-Zoghby 5
	3× 2×	Report	2×

October 22 20:00	Mexico	30–25	Venezuela	San Rafael Gymnasium Referees: De Souza, Paz (BRA)
	Bermúdez 8	(15–10)	Godoy, Peñaloza 5
	3× 6×	Report	3× 6×

Seventh place match

October 24 10:00	United States	39–35	Venezuela	San Rafael Gymnasium Referees: Paz, De Souza (BRA)
	El-Zoghby 7	(18–16)	Silva 9
	2× 7× 1×	Report	4× 3×

Fifth place match

October 24 12:30	Canada	26–23	Mexico	San Rafael Gymnasium Referees: González, Prieto (URU)
	Bessette 9	(11–12)	Bermúdez 5
	3× 1×	Report	2× 3×

Bronze medal match

October 24 17:30	Dominican Republic	24–27	Chile	San Rafael Gymnasium Referees: Marina, Minore (ARG)
	Mirabal 8	(10–12)	Araya, Martínez 5
	2× 8×	Report	3× 6× 1×

Gold medal match

October 24 20:00	Brazil	23–26	Argentina	San Rafael Gymnasium Referees: Raluy, Sabroso (ESP)
	Borges 6	(14–15)	F. Fernández 6
	4× 7×	Report	4× 5×

2011 Pan American Games winners
Argentina 1st title

Final standings

Rank	Team	Record
	Argentina	5 – 0 – 0
	Brazil	4 – 0 – 1
	Chile	3 – 0 – 2
4	Dominican Republic	2 – 0 – 3
5	Canada	3 – 0 – 2
6	Mexico	2 – 0 – 3
7	United States	1 – 0 – 4
8	Venezuela	0 – 0 – 5

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's	Argentina Gonzalo Carou Federico Fernandez Fernando Garcia Juan Fernandez Andrés Kogovsek Damián Migueles Federico Pizarro Cristian Plati Pablo Portela Leonardo Querin Matías Schulz Diego Simonet Sebastián Simonet Juan Vidal Federico Vieyra	Brazil Leonardo Bortolini Gustavo Cardoso Fabio Chiuffa Bruno De Santana Marcos Dos Santos Thiagus dos Santos Jaqson Kojoroski Fernando Filho Gil Pires Felipe Ribeiro Renato Rui Maik Santos Ales Silva Henrique Teixeira Vinicius Teixeira	Chile Guillermo Araya Felipe Barrientos Rodolfo Cornejo Rodrigo Diaz Emil Feuchtmann Erwin Feuchtmann Harald Feuchtmann Nicolas Jofre Patricio Martinez Felipe Maurin Rene Oliva Marco Oneto Esteban Salinas Rodrigo Salinas Alfredo Valenzuela

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Handball technical manual" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-11-25. Retrieved 2011-07-21.
^ 2012 Olympic Qualifying Handball
^ "Pan American Games Qualifier vs. Canada (Men and Women)". Archived from the original on 2011-07-28. Retrieved 2011-07-21.
^ "USA Team Handball fighting USOC for more funding". Archived from the original on 2012-08-29. Retrieved 2011-07-21.
^ "USA Men qualify for Pan American Games for first time since 2003". Archived from the original on 2011-08-09. Retrieved 2011-07-21.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Sorteo grupos para Guadalajara 2011". Americas Federation of Handball. July 21, 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-07-27. Retrieved July 21, 2011.

External links

Schedule Archived 2011-10-08 at the Wayback Machine

[manual-1] "Handball technical manual" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-11-25. Retrieved 2011-07-21.

[2] 2012 Olympic Qualifying Handball

[usa_vs_Canada-3] "Pan American Games Qualifier vs. Canada (Men and Women)". Archived from the original on 2011-07-28. Retrieved 2011-07-21.

[4] "USA Team Handball fighting USOC for more funding". Archived from the original on 2012-08-29. Retrieved 2011-07-21.

[5] "USA Men qualify for Pan American Games for first time since 2003". Archived from the original on 2011-08-09. Retrieved 2011-07-21.

[draw-6] "Sorteo grupos para Guadalajara 2011". Americas Federation of Handball. July 21, 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-07-27. Retrieved July 21, 2011.

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