Zoe Turnes

Zoe Turnes

At the main round match against Hungary at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games
Player information
Full name	Zoe Turnes
birthday	July 26, 2000
place of birth	Buenos Aires
citizenship	Argentina
height	1.79 m
Playing position	Left winger
	Circular rotor
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	SEDALO
National team
	Games (goals)
Argentina beach handball
As of November 21, 2019

Zoe Turnes (born July 26, 2000 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine handball player who is particularly successful in the beach handball variant .

Career

Zoe Turnes lives in La Boca . She plays for Sociedad Escolar y Deportiva Alemana Lanús Oeste (SEDALO), a club in which Caterina Benedetti was trained at the same time . She plays in the left wing position, alternatively in beach handball as a circle runner .

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. Against Uruguay, Turnes was the team's most successful goalscorer with five goals together with Caterina Benedetti.

Turnes (in blue) in defense against Anja Vida Lukšić in the final of the Youth Olympic Games; in the gate Rosario Soto

Turnes (center) with Rosario Soto (left) and Gisella Bonomi (right) on the sidelines of the final game of the Youth Olympic Games

Turnes initially belonged to 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. During the year Turnes took part in four game trips to Brazil in preparation. 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. Turnes won the first Olympic gold medal in beach handball with Argentina. As a goalscorer, she rarely appeared, she was primarily used in defense. In total, she contributed 18 points in ten games.

Turnes defends against a Brazilian attack in the 2019 South American Beach Games finals

Then moved Turnes together with her long-time fellow activists in the Junior Women's National Team Carolina Ponce , Caterina Benedetti , 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. It was her first international women's title. As the year progressed, Turnes was also part of the Argentine squad for the Central and South American Beach Handball Championships in Maricá in Brazil in 2019 . 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. Here Turnes played a very good main round with Argentina, in which not only the USA and Tunisia but also the world-class teams from Denmark and Hungary were beaten. 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, Turnes 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 , Caterina Benedetti 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 . At the end of 2019, Turnes took part in the finals of the Brazilian beach handball tour as a guest player for the APCEF club from Paraíba and finished in fifth place. Together with her national team colleagues Agustina Mamet , María Florencia Allende , Soto, Balsas, Benedetti 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

World Beach Games

• 2019 : Sixth

Argentine beach handball summer tour

• 2019: winner

IFES Fly Summer Cup

• 2019: winner

Web links

Commons : Zoe Turnes  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Turnes on the Argentine Olympic Committee website (Spanish)
• Turnes 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. ↑ 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. ↑ 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). 
14. ↑ ACHA campeón del Summer Tour de Beach Handball | Marca Deportiva. Retrieved February 22, 2020 (Spanish). 
15. ↑ Guillermo Tagliaferri: Tres argentinas refuerzan clubes de Brasil en las finales de Beach Handball. In: IAM Noticias. December 15, 2019, accessed February 22, 2020 (es-AR). 
16. ↑ ?? KAMIKAZES ??: Finalizó la actuación de nuestras Kamikazes en el Circuito Brasileño de beach handball. In: @KamikazesBH. December 15, 2019, accessed February 22, 2020 (Spanish). 
17. ↑ ?? KAMIKAZES ??: More photos of the festival of the IFES Fly Summer in Uruguay. In: @KamikazesBH. January 19, 2020, accessed February 22, 2020 (Spanish).