Carolina Ponce

Caro Ponce

Before the final of the 2018 Youth Olympic Games
Player information
Full name	Carolina Ponce
birthday	May 15, 2000
place of birth	Ensenada
citizenship	Argentina
height	1.62 m
Playing position	Back center
	Specialist
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	Estudiantes LP
National team
	Games (goals)
Argentina beach handball
Status: February 24, 2020

Carolina "Caro" Ponce (born May 15, 2000 in Ensenada ) is an Argentine handball player who is particularly successful in the beach handball variant .

Career

Carolina Ponce lives in her native Ensenada. She is studying at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Education at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata . Ponce plays for the university club Estudiantes de La Plata . Your player positions are in the middle of the backcourt and in beach handball that of the specialist.

Ponce is a junior national player for the Argentine national handball team. At the Pan American Junior Championships 2018 in Buenos Aires, she won the bronze medal after victories against Uruguay, Peru and Paraguay as well as defeats against Brazil and Chile.

Ponce in a successful shot against goalkeeper Petra Lovrenčević of Croatia in the final of the Youth Olympic Games; Rea Banić (# 5) and Mia Bošnjak (# 10) can only watch

Ponce celebrates her goal with the next to her most successful scooter of this finals, Gisella Bonomi

Ponce was also a member of the Argentine junior national team in beach handball. With this she took part in the first Pan American Beach Handball Junior Championships 2017 (U 17) and won the title with her team. It was also the qualification for the Beach Handball Junior World Championships 2017 in Flic-en-Flac on Mauritius . With her team she beat Paraguay and Croatia in the preliminary round, but lost to Hungary. Argentina beat Taiwan in the main round, then lost to the Netherlands. As third in the main round, she moved into the quarter-finals with Argentina, where China was initially defeated. In the semifinals they again lost to the Netherlands, in the game for third place they managed to win over Portugal and thus win the bronze medal. A year later, the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games in her home city of Buenos Aires were the highlight of the season. Beach handball replaced indoor handball for the first time and was Olympic for the first time. In the preliminary round they beat the teams from Turkey, Paraguay, Venezuela and Hong Kong. Only the last group game, again against the Netherlands, was lost. While the games in the preliminary round were always clear issues, they became tighter in the main round, with all three games going into the shootout. After beating Croatia, they lost to the team from Hungary and then won very close against Taiwan. Against Croatia, she and Caterina Benedetti are the most successful scorer with ten points . As the third-placed team in the main round, they faced one of the two feared opponents Hungary. Although the Hungarians even scored one point more, the Argentines happily won a hard-fought game in the shootout. In the final, the Argentines met Croatia again and defeated them with 2-0 sets. Ponce won the first Olympic gold medal in beach handball with Argentina. In the final, Gisella Bonomi again scored the most points with ten points . Overall, she made 44 points in ten games over the course of the tournament.

Ponce in the semifinals against Venezuela of the 2019 South American Beach Games

Then Ponce moved up to the national beach handball team of Argentina together with her long-time colleagues in the junior national team Caterina Benedetti, Zoe Turnes , Fiorella Corimberto and Gisella Bonomi . The first international championships were the South American Beach Games 2019 in Rosario . In the preliminary round, Paraguay , Chile and Peru were beaten and the Argentines went to the semi-finals as first in the table. There Venezuela was defeated 2-0. In the final, Brazil played one of the strongest teams in the world. The final was fiercely competitive and continued right up to the shootout. It was her first international women's title. In the further course of the year Ponce was part of the 20-player squad for the Central and South American Championships in Beach Handball 2019 in Maricá in Brazil and the World Beach Games 2019 in Doha , but was not appointed to the squad.

In February 2019, Ponce and her team ACHA de Mar del Plata , which also included all the other gold medalists of the Youth Olympic Games, Gisella Bonomi, Rosario Soto , Caterine Benedetti, Fiorella Corimberto, Lucila Balsas, Belén Aizen , Zoe Turnes and Jimena Riadigos , won the Title in the first ever Argentine beach handball summer tour. They were trained by their coach in the Argentine U-national team Leticia Brunati .

Together with her national team colleague Rosario Soto, Ponce was named handball woman of the year in 2018 by her club with the lioness awarded for the first time.

successes

Junior Pan American Beach Handball Championships

• 2017 : gold

Beach handball junior world championships

• 2017 : bronze

Pan American Junior Handball Championships

• 2018: bronze

Youth Olympic Games

• 2018 : gold

South American Beach Games

• 2019 : gold

Argentine beach handball summer tour

• 2019: winner

Web links

Commons : Carolina Ponce  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

• Ponce on the Argentine Olympic Committee website (Spanish)
• Ponce at argentinadorada.com.ar

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Caro Ponce. Retrieved February 27, 2020 . 
2. ↑ La lista de Argentina para el Panamericano Juvenil Femenino. In: Handball Argentina. March 21, 2018, accessed February 24, 2020 (Spanish). 
3. ^ Triunfo de la Selección Juvenil ante Uruguay en el arranque del Panamericano. In: Handball Argentina. April 10, 2018, accessed February 24, 2020 (Spanish). 
4. ↑ Argentina sumó su segundo triunfo en el Panamericano Juvenil de Buenos Aires. In: Handball Argentina. April 11, 2018, accessed February 24, 2020 (Spanish). 
5. ↑ Panamericano Juvenil: Argentina derrotó de forma agónica a Paraguay y aseguró su lugar en el Mundial. In: Handball Argentina. April 12, 2018, accessed February 24, 2020 (Spanish). 
6. ↑ Panamericano Juvenil: Argentina perdió con Brasil y mañana definirá la medalla de plata con Chile. In: Handball Argentina. April 13, 2018, accessed February 24, 2020 (Spanish). 
7. ↑ Argentina no pudo con Chile y finalizó tercera en el Panamericano Juvenil de Buenos Aires. In: Handball Argentina. April 14, 2018, accessed February 24, 2020 (Spanish). 
8. ↑ Panamericano Juvenil de Beach Handball. In: Federación Cordobesa de Handball. February 24, 2017, accessed February 19, 2020 (Spanish). 
9. ↑ Women's Youth (U17) Beach Handball World Championships 2017. Accessed February 27, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Official Results Book - Beach Handball
11. ^ South American Beach Games opens today. Retrieved February 19, 2020 (American English). 
12. ↑ Centro-Sur Adulto de Beach Handball - Maricá, Brasil 2019 | Torneo. In: Confederación Argentina de Handball. July 11, 2019, accessed February 19, 2020 (Spanish). 
13. ↑ ACHA campeón del Summer Tour de Beach Handball | Marca Deportiva. Retrieved February 22, 2020 (Spanish). 
14. ↑ Diario El Dia de La Plata www.eldia.com: Diario El Dia de La Plata www.eldia.com. Retrieved February 24, 2020 (Spanish).