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Date: 7/13/2017
 

Russia, Thailand, Italy and Spain lead the Main Round of the IHF Men’s U17 Beach Handball World Championship.


Main Round – Group I


Russia are on top of Group I after the two-set victories they claimed today in front of Mauritius (22:11 and 19:8) and Pakistan (17:12 and 19:17). Thailand follow them in the rank as they won their two matches 2:0 against Chinese Taipei (23:14 and 20:19) and the hosts Mauritius (24:9 and 20:9).


Venezuela lost to Pakistan 2:1 (19:20, 19:15, SO 2:4) but then took the victory versus Chinese Taipei (23:22 and 24:14) and the three teams are now on 4 points.


Tomorrow the Russians will play Chinese Taipei, Pakistan will meet Thailand and Venezuela will take on Mauritius. Then the four quarter-finalists will be defined.

 

Rank (as of July 13)


1- Russia (6 pts)

2- Thailand (6 pts)

3- Venezuela (4 pts)

4- Pakistan (4 pts)

5- Chinese Taipei (4 pts)

6- Mauritius (0 pts)

 

 

Main Round – Group II


Italy and Spain are still unbeaten. The Italians beat Paraguay in two sets (25:12 and 18:15) and then did the same with Argentina (27:10 and 20:16). Spain also ended the day with two wins — versus Australia 2:0 (28:6 and 24:16) and against Portugal by the same result (27:10 and 20:16).


The Portuguese didn’t start the main round well, as they lost to Argentina  2:1 in the morning (14:16, 23:19, 8:9).


Paraguay clinched their first two points of the phase as they won their contest versus Australia 2:0 (18:17 and 19:12).


Tomorrow all eyes will be on the duel between the leaders Italy and Spain, as Argentina will play Australia and Paraguay will play Portugal looking for a quarter-final spot.

 

Rank (as of July 13)


1- Italy (8 pts)

2- Spain (8 pts)

3- Argentina (4 pts)

4- Portugal (2 pts)

5- Paraguay (2 pts)

6- Australia (0 pts)

 

Consolation Round


South Africa lost in two sets their games against Togo (4:20 and 14:22) and New Zealand (10:18 and 11:22). Tomorrow Togo will face the Oceania side as both seek for the highest rank possible in views of a Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games quota place.

 

Rank (as of July 13)


1- Togo (2 pts)

2- New Zealand (2 pts)

3- South Africa (0 pts)

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