African Beach Games 2019 / Beach handball

At the African Beach Games 2019 , the first African continental beach handball competition was held from June 14 to 16, 2019 in Santa Maria Beach Park on the Cape Verdean island of Sal . The tournament served the Confédération Africaine de Handball (CAHB) as a qualification for the World Beach Games 2019 as well as for the Beachhandball World Championship 2020. The Tunisian team won both women and men .

Women

The women's competition was played out with all participating teams in a group of five in the league system .

space	team	S.	N	sentences	Gates	Points
1.	Tunisia	4th	0	8-0	137: 610	8th
2.	Cape Verde	3	1	6: 2	120: 860	6th
3.	Algeria	2	2	4: 4	098:960	4th
4th	Kenya	1	3	2: 6	100: 110	2
5.	Sierra Leone	0	4th	0: 8	059: 161	0

		Sentence 1	Sentence 2	Sentence 3
Cape Verde	Kenya	12 : 90	17 : 60	-
Sierra Leone	Tunisia	03: 18	07: 26	-
Kenya	Sierra Leone	16 : 11	20 : 90	-
Algeria	Tunisia	08 10	05: 16	-
Algeria	Sierra Leone	17 : 12	18 : 20	-
Cape Verde	Tunisia	06: 16	05: 18	-
Algeria	Kenya	12 : 70	16 : 15	-
Cape Verde	Sierra Leone	26 : 10	20 : 50	-
Kenya	Tunisia	15: 16	12: 17	-
Cape Verde	Algeria	17 : 10	17 : 12	-

Men

For the men, nine teams took part in the competitions, which were divided into three groups. The group winners and the best runner-up in the group qualified for the semi-finals.

Preliminary round

Group A
space	team	S.	N	sentences	Gates	Points
1.	Morocco	2	0	4-0	67:26	4th
2.	Cape Verde	1	1	2: 2	58:40	2
3.	Sierra Leone	0	2	0: 4	31:90	0

		Sentence 1	Sentence 2	Sentence 3
Cape Verde	Sierra Leone	12 : 10	33 : 80	-
Sierra Leone	Morocco	07: 24	06: 21	-
Cape Verde	Morocco	06: 90	07: 13	-

Group B
space	team	S.	N	sentences	Gates	Points
1.	Tunisia	2	0	4-0	73:39	4th
2.	Nigeria	1	1	2: 2	77:53	2
3.	Kenya	0	2	0: 4	29:87	0

		Sentence 1	Sentence 2	Sentence 3
Tunisia	Kenya	15 : 60	21 : 70	-
Kenya	Nigeria	10: 23	06: 28	-
Tunisia	Nigeria	17 : 12	20 : 14	-

Group C
space	team	S.	N	sentences	Gates	Points
1.	Togo	2	0	4-0	61:31	4th
2.	Algeria	1	1	2: 2	51:32	2
3.	Seychelles	0	2	0: 4	26:75	0

		Sentence 1	Sentence 2	Sentence 3
Togo	Algeria	10 : 80	11 : 80	-
Algeria	Seychelles	18 : 50	17 : 60	-
Togo	Seychelles	20 : 80	20 : 70	-

Final round

Semifinals

final

C1

Togo

6th

13

6th

B2

Nigeria

14th

7th

5

C1

Togo

7th

11

B1

Tunisia

11

15th

A1

Morocco

6th

12

B1

Tunisia

18th

18th

3rd place match

B2

Nigeria

10

14th

2

A1

Morocco

11

6th

3

Play for 5th place

A2

Cape Verde

9

11

5

C2

Algeria

10

4th

1

Final score

space	team	S.	N	sentences	Gates	Points
1.	Tunisia	4th	0	8-0	135: 750	8th
2.	Togo	3	1	6: 3	104: 830	6th
3.	Morocco	3	1	6: 3	105: 880	6th
4th	Nigeria	1	3	4: 6	129: 980	2
5.	Cape Verde	2	1	4: 3	083:550	4th
6th	Algeria	1	2	3: 4	066:570	2
7th	Seychelles	0	2	0: 4	026:750	0
8th.	Kenya	0	2	0: 4	029:870	0
9.	Sierra Leone	0	2	0: 4	031:900	0

Web links

• The island of Sal in the West African nation of Cape Verde makes history today. In: ihf.info (June 14, 2019, English).
• Beach handball at the 1st African Beach Games. In: sal2019.com , accessed on July 1, 2019.