Handball at the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games

Handball
at the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games
Handball ; at the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games
	Handball pictogram
Venue	Multigimnasio Don Bosco
Location	Soyapango
Dates	24 June – 7 July 2023
Competitors	224
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Handball competition at the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games are scheduled to be held from 24 June to 7 July 2023.^[1] The venue for the competition is the Multigimnasio Don Bosco located in Soyapango.

A total of eight men's and eight women's teams (each consisting up to 14 athletes) will compete in each tournament. This means a total of 224 athletes are scheduled to compete.^[2]

The winner and runner-up of each competition will qualify for the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile. The third place teams will play against the third-placed teams of the 2022 South American Games playoffs.

Qualification[edit]

Eight men's teams and eight women's teams will qualify to compete at the games in each tournament. The host nation (El Salvador) received automatic qualification in both tournaments, along with seven other teams. For both genders five places for Caribbean were planned bot only four teams per gender participated at the Caribbean Handball Cup. Therefor one spot is still not awarded.^[3] Central America has two spots per gender.

Men[edit]

Event	Dates	Location	Vacancies	Qualified
Host nation	—	—	1	El Salvador
2023 Caribbean Handball Cup	3 – 9 October 2022	Santo Domingo	4	Cuba Dominican Republic Mexico Puerto Rico
2023 Central American Championship	21 – 25 February 2023	Managua	2	Costa Rica^[4] Nicaragua^[5]
Wild card			1	Venezuela^[6]
Total			8

Women[edit]

Event	Dates	Location	Vacancies	Qualified
Host nation	—	—	1	El Salvador
2023 Caribbean Handball Cup	2 – 8 October 2022	Santo Domingo	4	Cuba Dominican Republic Mexico Puerto Rico
2023 Central American Championship	28 February – 4 March 2023	Managua	2	Costa Rica^[7] Nicaragua
Wild card			1	Colombia
Total			8

Participating nations[edit]

The following countries qualified handball teams. The numbers of participants qualified are in parentheses.

Colombia (14)
Costa Rica (28)
Cuba (28)
Dominican Republic (28)
El Salvador (28) (host)
Mexico (28)
Nicaragua (28)
Puerto Rico (28)
Venezuela (14)

Medal summary[edit]

Medal table[edit]

* Host nation (El Salvador)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba (CUB)	2	0	0	2
2	Dominican Republic (DOM)	0	1	1	2
3	Puerto Rico (PUR)	0	1	0	1
4	Mexico (MEX)	0	0	1	1
Totals (4 entries)		2	2	2	6

Medalists[edit]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's tournament^[8]	Cuba Mario Perez Jorge Pren Daril Gonzalez Ronaldo Almeida Lidier Vergara Edmanuel Diaz Christopher Martinez Mario Sainz Frank Cordies Magnol Suarez Adonis Garcia Omar Toledano Dariel Garcia Hanser Rodriguez	Dominican Republic Adonis Gonzalez Alionky Mota Dioris Mateo Erick Montero Francis De La Cruz Franklin Fernandez Heriberto Merino Jorge Soto Julio Alcantara Luiggy Lopez Luis Alfredo Luis Angel Maykol Beras Willibert De La Rosa	Mexico Luis Avalos Ricardo Zarco Sayyed Morales Luis Ortiz Hector Perez Sergio Sanchez Jesus Ramirez Jesus Rivera Fernando Rodriguez Benito Hernandez Francisco Muniz Jesus Sandoval Jesus Loya Daniel Marquez
Women's tournament	Cuba Niurkis Mora Dianny González Maria Veranes Gleinys Reyes Diancy González Nahomis Mustelier Odalys Escalona Danielys Herranz Angela Amoros Yamileidis Alcantara Yennifer Toledo Yarumy Céspedes Rosa Leal Melissa chala	Puerto Rico Kitsa Escobar Adriana Cabrera Nathalys Ceballos Sheila Hiraldo Jackeline Gonzalez Joane Vergara Alanis Benitez Roxanaly Carrasquillo Erika Graciani Ciris García Zuleika Fuentes Lizabeth Rodriguez Robeliz Ortiz Ashanti Calderon	Dominican Republic Yojaver Brito Crisleidy Hernández Mabelin Wattley Annerys Cabrera Johanna Pimentel Nancy Peña Mariela Andino Carina Lorenzo Florquidia Puello Suleidy Suárez Carolina López Débora Torreira Diandra Pie Yacaira Tejeda

Women's tournament[edit]

Preliminary round[edit]

Group A[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Dominican Republic	3	3	0	92	65	+27	6	Semi final
2	Mexico	3	2	1	102	62	+40	4	Semi final
3	Costa Rica	3	1	2	67	75	−8	2
4	El Salvador (H)	3	0	3	49	108	−59	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.
(H) Hosts

All times are local (UTC−06:00).

24 June 2023 15:00	Mexico	31–19	Costa Rica	Multi Gimnasio Don Bosco, Soyapango Referees: Reyes, Zuñiga (CUB)
	Govea 6	(13–8)	Araya 4
	4×	Report	5×

24 June 2023 19:00	Dominican Republic	31–23	El Salvador	Multi Gimnasio Don Bosco, Soyapango Referees: Estrada, Pineda (COL)
	Peña 7	(15–14)	Muñoz, Reyes 6
	2× 1×	Report	2×

25 June 2023 13:00	Dominican Republic	31–14	Costa Rica	Multi Gimnasio Don Bosco, Soyapango Referees: Estrada, Pineda (COL)
	Peña 8	(15–6)	Calvo 4
	5×	Report	6×

25 June 2023 19:00	Mexico	43–13	El Salvador	Multi Gimnasio Don Bosco, Soyapango Referees: Reyes, Zuñiga (CUB)
	Govea 6	(22–2)	Muñoz, Sandoval 3
	2×	Report	3×

26 June 2023 15:00	Dominican Republic	30–28	Mexico	Multi Gimnasio Don Bosco, Soyapango Referees: Conberse, Correa (ARG)
	Hernandez, Puello 6	(14–14)	Leal, Jaramillo 4
	1× 3×	Report	5×

26 June 2023 19:00	El Salvador	13–34	Costa Rica	Multi Gimnasio Don Bosco, Soyapango Referees: Agramonte, De Jesus (DOM)
	Muñoz 3	(4–17)	Araya 11
	1×	Report	2× 1×

Group B[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Puerto Rico	3	3	0	120	78	+42	6	Semi final
2	Cuba	3	2	1	111	67	+44	4	Semi final
3	Colombia	3	1	2	82	101	−19	2
4	Nicaragua	3	0	3	67	134	−67	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.

24 June 2023 13:00	Puerto Rico	34–25	Colombia	Multi Gimnasio Don Bosco, Soyapango Referees: Conberse, Correa (ARG)
	Three players 5	(18–9)	Arcila 6
	1× 2×	Report	1× 3×

24 June 2023 17:00	Cuba	46–12	Nicaragua	Multi Gimnasio Don Bosco, Soyapango Referees: Belmonte, Coba (MEX)
	Veranes 10	(22–6)	Tercero 3
	3× 1×	Report	2×

25 June 2023 15:00	Cuba	37–20	Colombia	Multi Gimnasio Don Bosco, Soyapango Referees: Belmonte, Coba (CUB)
	González, Mustelier 6	(14–11)	Vargas 4
	2×	Report	1× 2×

25 June 2023 17:00	Puerto Rico	51–25	Nicaragua	Multi Gimnasio Don Bosco, Soyapango Referees: Agramonte, De Jesus (DOM)
	Fuentes 13	(24–10)	Ortega, Gutiérrez 5
	4×	Report	2×

26 June 2023 13:00	Colombia	37–30	Nicaragua	Multi Gimnasio Don Bosco, Soyapango Referees: Ramos, Sosa (ESA)
	Arcila 10	(20–16)	Ortega 7
	3×	Report	1× 3×

26 June 2023 17:00	Puerto Rico	35–28	Cuba	Multi Gimnasio Don Bosco, Soyapango Referees: Estrada, Pineda (COL)
	Fuentes 8	(21–13)	Veranes 7
	2× 6×	Report	3× 1×

Knockout stage[edit]

Bracket[edit]

Semifinals		Gold medal

28 June

Puerto Rico	26
		29 June
Mexico	25
		Puerto Rico	28
28 June
		Cuba	29
Dominican Republic	27

Cuba	33
		Bronze medal

		29 June

		Mexico	27

		Dominican Republic	29

5–8th place semifinals		Fifth place

28 June

Colombia	39
		29 June
El Salvador	19
		Colombia	44
28 June
		Nicaragua	29
Costa Rica	28

Nicaragua	29
		Seventh place

		29 June

		El Salvador	13

		Costa Rica	29

Semifinals[edit]

28 June 2023 17:00	Puerto Rico	26–25	Mexico	Multi Gimnasio Don Bosco, Soyapango Referees: Estrada, Pineda (COL)
	Ceballos 9	(13–12)	Leal 9
	2× 5×	Report	4× 1×

28 June 2023 19:30	Dominican Republic	27–33	Cuba	Multi Gimnasio Don Bosco, Soyapango Referees: Conberse, Correa (ARG)
	Brito 9	(10–19)	Reyes 12
	3×	Report	2× 6×

5th to 8th semifinals[edit]

28 June 2023 12:00	Colombia	39–19	El Salvador	Multi Gimnasio Don Bosco, Soyapango Referees: Agramonte, De Jesus (DOM)
	Castaño 9	(20–11)	Sandoval 7
	3×	Report	5×

28 June 2023 14:30	Costa Rica	28–29	Nicaragua	Multi Gimnasio Don Bosco, Soyapango Referees: Belmonte, Coba (MEX)
	Corrales 8	(15–13)	Terceiro 7
	5× 1×	Report	1× 4×

Gold medal[edit]

29 June 2023 19:30	Puerto Rico	28–29	Cuba	Multi Gimnasio Don Bosco, Soyapango Referees: Conberse, Correa (ARG)
	Hiraldo 7	(14–12)	Reyes 15
	5× 1×	Report	1× 8×

Bronze medal[edit]

29 June 2023 17:00	Mexico	27–29	Dominican Republic	Multi Gimnasio Don Bosco, Soyapango Referees: Reyes, Zuñiga (CUB)
	Leal 6	(15–14)	Peña, Andino 6
	1× 5×	Report	3×

5th place[edit]

29 June 2023 14:30	Colombia	44–29	Nicaragua	Multi Gimnasio Don Bosco, Soyapango Referees: Belmonte, Coba (MEX)
	Arcila 11	(21–15)	Cardenas 9
	4×	Report	1×

7th place[edit]

29 June 2023 12:00	El Salvador	13–29	Costa Rica	Multi Gimnasio Don Bosco, Soyapango Referees: Agramonte, De Jesus (DOM)
	Zavala 4	(3–17)	Loaiza 6
	3×	Report	2× 1×

Final standings[edit]

Rank	Team
	Cuba
	Puerto Rico
	Dominican Republic
4	Mexico
5	Colombia
6	Nicaragua
7	Costa Rica
8	El Salvador

	Qualified for the 2023 Pan American Games
	Qualified for the Last chance qualification tournament for the 2023 Pan American Games

Men's tournament[edit]