Women's Handball Pan American Championship

The Women's Handball Pan American Championship is a Pan American indoor handball competition that has been held since 1986. In the tournament, the Pan American champions will be determined from among the women's national handball teams from across the American continent . In addition, the top three will qualify for the next women's handball world championship .

The first Pan American Championship took place in 1986 in Novo Hamburgo , Brazil . The tournament has been held fourteen times so far, most recently in Argentina in 2017 . Since 2003, the competition has been held in all odd years and therefore in the same years as the World Cup. The record winner with ten successes is the Brazilian women's national handball team , which is also the reigning Pan American champions.

Tournaments at a glance

year	venue	gold	silver	bronze
1986	Novo Hamburgo , Brazil	United States	Canada	Brazil
1989	Colorado Springs , USA	Canada	United States	Brazil
1991	Maringá , Brazil	United States	Canada	Brazil
1997	Poços de Caldas , Brazil	Brazil	Canada	Uruguay
1999	Buenos Aires , Argentina	Brazil	Cuba	Argentina
2000	Aracaju , Brazil	Brazil	Uruguay	Greenland
2003	Sao Bernardo do Campo , Brazil	Brazil	Argentina	Uruguay
2005	Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil	Brazil	Argentina	Uruguay
2007	Santo Domingo , Dominican Republic	Brazil	Argentina	Dominican Republic
2009	Santiago de Chile , Chile	Argentina	Brazil	Chile
2011	Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil	Brazil	Argentina	Cuba
2013	Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	Brazil	Argentina	Dominican Republic
2015	Havana , Cuba	Brazil	Cuba	Argentina
2017	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Brazil	Argentina	Paraguay

See also

• Men's Handball Pan American Championship
• Pan-American Team Handball Federation

Web links

• Federación Panamericana de Handball / Panamerican Team Handball Federation (Spanish, English)
• Winner lists on sports123.com (English)

Individual evidence