Host nation Colombia made it two wins from two as the second round of matches took place yesterday at the IHF South and Central American Emerging Nations Men’s Championship in Palmira.
After their 36:13 win against Honduras on the opening day in group B, the Colombians beat El Salvador 42:13, with Juan Andres Ramirez Alvarez scoring 11 times. Also in group B, Ecuador won again too, dispatching Honduras 44:25 after they amazingly restricted their hosts to just four second half strikes after 21 in the first.
Group A, which features just three teams, saw Paraguay open their campaign with a 50:18 win over Panama, who are now out of contention, while in Group C it is all open with everyone beating everyone – Guatemala lost to French Guiana 28:21, while Peru beat Bolivia 31:21.
Today, matchday three, sees five games take place – the final matches of the preliminary round – with all 30 of the games from South America streamed live via the Colombian Handball Federation YouTube site
HERE.
Teams in Colombia include Paraguay (PAR), Costa Rica (CRC), Panama (PAN), Colombia (COL), Ecuador (ECU), El Salvador (ESA), Honduras (HON), Guatemala (GUA), Peru (PER), French Guiana (GUF) and Bolivia (BOL).
For all fixtures, results and match reports visit the IHF mini-site HERE.
Match Schedule and Results
All times local, groups in brackets i.e. Group A – (A)
Monday 22 October
PAN-CRC (A) 12:63 (5:27)
ECU-ESA (B) 41:30 (19:17)
COL-HON (B) 36:13 (21:5)
GUA-BOL (C) 35:10 (16:5)
PER-GUF (C) 16:25 (9:13)
Tuesday 23 October
HON-ECU (B) 25:44 (21:21)
GUF-GUA (C) 28:21 (12:10)
BOL-PER (C) 21:31 (5:17)
ESA-COL (B) 13:42 (10:19)
PAR-PAN (A) 50:18 (24:7)
Wednesday 24 October
10:00 ESA-HON (B)
12:00 PAR-CRC (A)
14:00 GUF-BOL (C)
16:00 COL-ECU (B)
18:00 GUA-PER (C)
Thursday 25 October
Rest Day
Friday 26 October
10:00 Placement Round 9-11
12:00 Quarter-Final 1
14:00 Quarter-Final 2
16:00 Quarter-Final 3
18:00 Quarter-Final 4
Saturday 27 October
10:00 Placement Round 9-11
12:00 Placement Round 5-8
14:00 Placement Round 5-8
16:00 Semi-Final 1
18:00 Semi-Final 2
Sunday 28 October
10:00 Placement Round 9-11
12:00 Placement Round 5-8
14:00 Placement Round 5-8
16:00 Bronze Medal/Placement Match 3-4
18:00 Gold Medal/Placement Match 1-2
The IHF Emerging Nations Championship is for players aged 16-24 years old and builds on the success of the first two IHF Men’s Emerging Nations Championships held in Kosovo (2015) and Bulgaria (2017) which focussed on nations from the European Handball Federation who are part of the IHF’s ‘Four-Year Plan’.
Photo: Media Federación Colombiana Balonmano