Lucila Balsas

Luly Balsas

During the semi-finals of the 2018 Youth Olympic Games
Player information
Full name	Lucila Candela Balsas
birthday	June 3, 2000
place of birth	Vicente López
citizenship	Argentina
height	1.64 m
Playing position	Back center
	Right winger
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	VILO handball
National team
	Games (goals)
Argentina beach handball
Status: February 24, 2020

Lucila Candela "Luly" Balsas (born June 3, 2000 in Vicente López ) is an Argentine handball player who is particularly successful in the beach handball variant .

Career

Lucila Balsas plays for VILO handball (Vicente López, handball). She plays in the back position , alternatively as a right winger.

Balsas (# 2) in the preliminary round of the Youth Olympic Games against Hong Kong

Balsas celebrates victory at the Youth Olympic Games

Balsas was initially a member of the Argentine national youth team in beach handball. With this she took part in the Beach Handball Junior World Championships 2017 in Flic-en-Flac , 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. Between January and September she took part in all four preparatory tours to Brazil. In addition, she was part of the squad of the junior team at a preparatory tournament with the senior national teams of Argentina and Uruguay. 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. Balsas won the first Olympic gold medal in beach handball with Argentina. Balsas continuously contributed to the success and scored in all games apart from the two games against Croatia. She made most of her points in the main round against Hungary.

Then, unlike their long-time colleagues in the junior national team Carolina Ponce , Zoe Turnes , Fiorella Corimberto , Caterina Benedetti and Gisella Bonomi , Balsas did not immediately move up into the Argentine national beach handball team for the South American Beach Games 2019 in Rosario . The first international championships were the South American Beach Games 2019 in Rosario . In the further course of the year, Balsas was appointed to the team of Argentina for the Central and South American Championships in Beach Handball 2019 in Maricá in Brazil, and thus to the team for their first international tournament with women. With Gisella Bonomi, Fiorella Corimberto, Caterina Benedetti 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. Here Balsas played a very good main round with Argentina, in which the world-class teams from Denmark and Hungary were beaten in addition to the USA and Tunisia . Only Brazil had to admit defeat again. In the quarter-finals Argentina had to admit defeat to the surprisingly strong team from Vietnam . In the placement games, Argentina then clearly defeated the reigning world champions Greece , then lost to Poland in the game for fifth place and came in sixth.

In February 2019, Balsas 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, Caterina Benedetti, 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

Beach handball junior world championships

• 2017 : bronze

Youth Olympic Games

• 2018 : gold

Beach handball Central and South American Championships

• 2019 : silver

World Beach Games

• 2019 : Sixth

Argentine beach handball summer tour

• 2019: winner

Web links

Commons : Lucila Balsas  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eduardo Gallazzi »Handball. Retrieved February 24, 2020 (European Spanish). 
2. ^ South American Beach Games opens today. Retrieved February 19, 2020 (American English). 
3. ↑ 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). 
4. ↑ ACHA campeón del Summer Tour de Beach Handball | Marca Deportiva. Retrieved February 22, 2020 (Spanish). 
5. ↑ ?? KAMIKAZES ??: More photos of the festival of the IFES Fly Summer in Uruguay. In: @KamikazesBH. January 19, 2020, accessed February 22, 2020 (Spanish).