Caterina Benedetti

Cati Benedetti

During the final of the 2018 Youth Olympic Games
Player information
Full name	Caterina Benedetti Gorga
birthday	May 15, 2000
place of birth	Buenos Aires
citizenship	Argentina
height	1.59 m
Playing position	Right winger
	Specialist
Throwing hand	Left
Club information
society	SEDALO
National team
	Games (goals)
Argentina beach handball
Status: February 24, 2020

Caterina "Cati" Benedetti Gorga (born May 15, 2000 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine handball player who is particularly successful in the beach handball variant .

Career

Caterina Benedetti lives in her native Buenos Aires. She attended the German school in Lanús . She plays for Sociedad Escolar y Deportiva Alemana Lanús Oeste (SEDALO), a club that also trained Zoe Turnes at the same time . She plays in the right winger position, alternatively in beach handball as a specialist.

Benedetti 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. Benedetti was the most successful goalscorer of her team against Uruguay (with Zoe Turnes, 5 each), Brazil and Chile (6 each)

Benedetti (in blue / white and black) during an attack in the final of the Youth Olympic Games against Rea Banić and goalkeeper Petra Lovrenčević of Croatia

Benedetti was initially a member of the Argentine national youth 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. 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. Benedetti won the first Olympic gold medal in beach handball with Argentina.

Benedetti throwing a goal in the semi-final match against Venezuela of the South American Beach Games 2019

Benedetti in the finals of the South American Beach Games 2019

Then moved Benedetti, together with its long-standing fellow activists in the Junior Women's National Team Carolina Ponce , Zoe Turnes, Fiorella Corimberto and Gisella Bonomi in the Beach Handball senior team of Argentina on. 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. Argentina prevailed there, Benedetti hit the game and the tournament decisive penalty. It was her first international women's title. In the further course of the year Benedetti was also part of the Argentine squad for the Central and South American Championships in Beach Handball 2019 in Maricá in Brazil. With Gisella Bonomi, Fiorella Corimberto, Lucila Balsas and Zoe Turnes, half of the team was recruited from players who had won gold at the Youth Olympic Games. In the qualifying round, the representatives from Paraguay and Chile were beaten, against the Uruguayan teams and the hosts lost the Argentine team. As the third of the qualifying round they reached the semi-finals, in which Uruguay was beaten this time in the shootout. In the final, Brazil was clearly defeated, but qualified for the World Beach Games 2019 in Qatar , as Brazil was already qualified due to its placement at the last World Cup. Benedetti did not take part in the World Beach Games, in which Argentina took sixth place.

In February 2019, Benedetti 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 , Carolina Ponce, 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 colleagues Agustina Mamet , María Florencia Allende , Soto, Balsas, Turnes and the sisters Fiorella and Micaela Corimberto , she won the IFES Fly Summer Cup in Montevideo in January 2020 .

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

Beach handball Central and South American Championships

• 2019 : silver

Argentine beach handball summer tour

• 2019: winner

IFES Fly Summer Cup

• 2019: winner

Web links

Commons : Caterina Benedetti  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Handball Novedades - SEDALO Accessed February 19, 2020 (European Spanish). 
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. ^ South American Beach Games opens today. Retrieved February 19, 2020 (American English). 
10. ↑ Centro-Sur Adulto de Beach Handball - Maricá, Brasil 2019 | Torneo. In: Confederación Argentina de Handball. July 11, 2019, accessed February 19, 2020 (Spanish). 
11. ↑ The Kamikazes took the gold in beach handball in an exciting definition - 03/19/2019. In: fleej. Retrieved February 19, 2020 (American English). 
12. ↑ La lista de la Selección Femenina de beach handball para el Centro-Sur Adulto de Brasil. In: Confederación Argentina de Handball. July 1, 2019, accessed February 19, 2020 (Spanish). 
13. ↑ ACHA campeón del Summer Tour de Beach Handball | Marca Deportiva. Retrieved February 22, 2020 (Spanish). 
14. ↑ ?? KAMIKAZES ??: More photos of the festival of the IFES Fly Summer in Uruguay. In: @KamikazesBH. January 19, 2020, accessed February 22, 2020 (Spanish).