2012 Pan American Men's Handball Championship

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15th Handball Pan American Championship 2012
Number of nations 9
America champions Argentina (5th title)
venue ArgentinaArgentina Argentina
Opening game June 18, 2012
Endgame June 24, 2012
Games   23
Top scorer GreenlandGreenland Minik Dahl Høegh (49 goals)
Best player ChileChile Marco Antonio Oneto

The 15th men's handball Pan American Championship took place from June 18 to June 24, 2012 in Argentina . The organizer was the Pan-American Team Handball Federation (PATHF). The Argentine national handball team won the final over Brazil. The top three - Argentina, Brazil and Chile - qualified for the 2013 World Cup .

Attendees

Group A Group B
ArgentinaArgentina Argentina BrazilBrazil Brazil
ChileChile Chile UruguayUruguay Uruguay
GreenlandGreenland Greenland Paraguay 1990Paraguay Paraguay
United StatesUnited States United States MexicoMexico Mexico
VenezuelaVenezuela Venezuela

venue

Preliminary round

In the preliminary round, the nine teams played in a group of five teams and a group of four teams. Within a group, each team competes once against each other team. The two best teams in each group qualified for the semi-finals.

Group A

Pl. team Sp. S. U N Gates Pt.
1 ArgentinaArgentina Argentina 4th 3 1 0 127: 069 7th
2 ChileChile Chile 4th 3 1 0 123: 095 7th
3 GreenlandGreenland Greenland 4th 2 0 2 123: 117 4th
4th United StatesUnited States United States 4th 1 0 3 102: 132 2
5 VenezuelaVenezuela Venezuela 4th 0 0 4th 103: 165 0
June 18, 2012
18:00 ArgentinaArgentina Argentina - United StatesUnited States United States 33:13 (18: 04)
20:00 ChileChile Chile - GreenlandGreenland Greenland 31:28 (14:14)
June 19, 2012
18:00 ChileChile Chile - VenezuelaVenezuela Venezuela 34:25 (20:13)
21:00 GreenlandGreenland Greenland - ArgentinaArgentina Argentina 18:24 ( 08:10)
June 20, 2012
19:00 United StatesUnited States United States - VenezuelaVenezuela Venezuela 43:28 (24:16)
21:00 ArgentinaArgentina Argentina - ChileChile Chile 23:23 (10:13)
June 21, 2012
18:00 ArgentinaArgentina Argentina - VenezuelaVenezuela Venezuela 47:15 (27: 07)
20:00 United StatesUnited States United States - GreenlandGreenland Greenland 27:36 (15:15)
June 22, 2012
16:00 GreenlandGreenland Greenland - VenezuelaVenezuela Venezuela 41:35 (20:14)
18:00 United StatesUnited States United States - ChileChile Chile 19:35 ( 07:22)

Group B

Pl. team Sp. S. U N Gates Pt.
1 BrazilBrazil Brazil 3 3 0 0 118: 039 6th
2 UruguayUruguay Uruguay 3 2 0 1 067: 071 4th
3 Paraguay 1990Paraguay Paraguay 3 1 0 2 049: 080 2
4th MexicoMexico Mexico 3 0 0 3 041: 085 0
June 19, 2012
14:00 Paraguay 1990Paraguay Paraguay - BrazilBrazil Brazil 11:39 ( 04:23)
16:00 UruguayUruguay Uruguay - MexicoMexico Mexico 26:13 (15: 04)
June 20, 2012
15:00 Paraguay 1990Paraguay Paraguay - UruguayUruguay Uruguay 16:25 (10:12)
17:00 MexicoMexico Mexico - BrazilBrazil Brazil 12:37 ( 08:14)
June 21, 2012
14:00 MexicoMexico Mexico - Paraguay 1990Paraguay Paraguay 16:22 ( 09:13)
16:00 BrazilBrazil Brazil - UruguayUruguay Uruguay 42:16 (19: 09)

Placement games and final round

In addition to the best two teams in each group that contested the semi-finals, the other teams played placement games.

Game for 7th place

June 23, 2012
19:00 VenezuelaVenezuela Venezuela - MexicoMexico Mexico 28:23 (12: 08)
June 24, 2012
9:00 United StatesUnited States United States - MexicoMexico Mexico 33:17 (15:10)

Play for 5th place

June 23, 2012
17:00 GreenlandGreenland Greenland - Paraguay 1990Paraguay Paraguay 38:19 (20:11)

Semifinals

June 23, 2012
13:00 ArgentinaArgentina Argentina - UruguayUruguay Uruguay 28:13 (14: 07)
15:00 BrazilBrazil Brazil - ChileChile Chile 35:33 (20:14)

3rd place match

June 24, 2012
13:00 UruguayUruguay Uruguay - ChileChile Chile 27:37 (12:16)

final

June 24, 2012
11:00 ArgentinaArgentina Argentina - BrazilBrazil Brazil 22:21 (12:12)

Final score

Pl. team
1. ArgentinaArgentina Argentina
2. BrazilBrazil Brazil
3. ChileChile Chile
4th UruguayUruguay Uruguay
5. GreenlandGreenland Greenland
6th Paraguay 1990Paraguay Paraguay
7th United StatesUnited States United States
8th. VenezuelaVenezuela Venezuela
9. MexicoMexico Mexico

Awards

All-Star Team

Felipe Borges BrazilBrazil   Marco Antonio Oneto ChileChile   Andrés Kogovsek ArgentinaArgentina
  Minik Dahl Høegh GreenlandGreenland   Rodrigo Salinas ChileChile  
    Sebastián Simonet ArgentinaArgentina    
    Matías Carlos Schulz ArgentinaArgentina    

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