Handball at the 2007 Pan American Games

Venue	Riocentro Sports Complex
Dates	July 14–21, 2007
Competitors	240 from 10 nations
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The Handball Competitions at the 2007 Pan American Games took place at the Riocentro Sports Complex in a temporary facility. There are two competitions, one each for men and women, each with eight national teams competing. Brazil is the defending champion for both the men's and women's competitions.

The teams compete in a multi-stage tournament. In each competition, the teams are divided into two four-team groups. In each group, each team plays against all others once, and the two best in each group advance to the semifinals to compete in the knockout tournament. The two teams in each group that do not make the semifinals play in 5th to 8th classification matches. The winning sides of both the men’s and women’s tournament will directly qualify for the 2008 Olympic Handball Tournaments.

Medal winners

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Brazil Maik Santos Fernando Pacheco Filho Carlos Ertel Danilo Silva Renato Rui Bruno Souza Leonardo Bortolini Hélio Justino Jaqson Kojoroski Alexandre Vasconcelos Silvio Laureano Felipe Ribeiro Bruno Santana Jardel Pizzinatto Gui Oliveira	Argentina Matías Schulz Sergio Crevatin Federico Pizarro Matías Martín Lima Mariano Castro Maximiliano Ferro Alejo Carrara Leonardo Querin Bruno Civelli Facundo Torres Fernando García Emiliano la Rosa Gonzalo Carou Germán Pardales Damián Migueles	Cuba Alfredo Quintana Raifer Turino Guillermo Corzo Edgard Marti Randy Díaz Denip Fonseca Denis Fernández Rafael Capote Jorge Pabán [de] Ariel Paz Misael Iglesias Frankis Carol Yinkelly Tomacen Daymaro Amador Eurelbis Valdes
Women	Brazil Chana Masson Fabiana Diniz Alexandra do Nascimento Fabiana Gripa Deonise Cavaleiro Daniela Piedade Aline Rosas Viviane Jacques Lucila Silva Juceli Rosa Idalina Mesquita Aline Santos Eduarda Amorim Milene Figueiredo Darly de Paula	Cuba Maydelis Sardinas Caridad Vizcay Virgen Murillo Ayling Martínez Yasnay Torres Arassay Durán Ariagne Cuesta Suleiky Gómez Aida Despaigne Lisandra Lusson Neivys Mederos Yohania Marti Imara Valdéz Nadezza Valera Eneleidys Guevara	Argentina Silvina Schlesinger Valentina Kogan María del Carmen Alejandre Cinthya Basile Georgina Costantino Bibiana Ferrea Antonela Mena Magdalena Decilio Lucia Haro María Emilia Acosta Sonia Meyer Silvana Totolo Lucia Fernández Mariana Sanguinetti Solange Tagliavini

Men's competition

Preliminary round

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Argentina	3	3	0	108	57	+51	6	Semifinals
2	Uruguay	3	2	1	76	82	−6	4	Semifinals
3	Dominican Republic	3	1	2	87	86	+1	2	5–8th place semifinals
4	Mexico	3	0	3	61	107	−46	0	5–8th place semifinals

Source:^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) goals scored; 7) draw.

14 July 2007 16:00	Dominican Republic	26–29	Uruguay	Riocentro Sports Complex Referees: De Mello, Favreto (BRA)
	K. de León 7	(12−13)	Wenzel 7
	4× 4×		3× 2×

14 July 2007 20:00	Argentina	40–16	Mexico	Riocentro Sports Complex Referees: Paz, De Souza (BRA)
	Torres 10	(20−8)	Acuña 8
	1× 3×		2× 4×

16 July 2007 14:00	Dominican Republic	36–24	Mexico	Riocentro Sports Complex Referees: De Souza, Paz (BRA)
	Paulino 8	(20−15)	three players 5
	4× 8×		3× 5×

16 July 2007 22:00	Argentina	35–16	Uruguay	Riocentro Sports Complex Referees: Valdovinos, Pérez (PUR)
	Lima 6	(16−7)	Marrochi 6
	2× 4×		3× 5×

18 July 2007 20:00	Uruguay	31–21	Mexico	Riocentro Sports Complex Referees: Adjemian, Gotz (ARG)
	Marrochi 9	(14–11)	Acuña 7
	3× 4×		3× 1×

18 July 2007 22:00	Argentina	33–25	Dominican Republic	Riocentro Sports Complex Referees: Menezes, Pinto (BRA)
	Lima 6	(14–14)	Romero 7
	3× 3×		4× 4× 1×

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Brazil (H)	3	3	0	99	58	+41	6	Semifinals
2	Cuba	3	2	1	99	73	+26	4	Semifinals
3	Chile	3	1	2	67	93	−26	2	5–8th place semifinals
4	Canada	3	0	3	52	93	−41	0	5–8th place semifinals

Source:^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) goals scored; 7) draw.
(H) Hosts

14 July 2007 14:00	Brazil	33–20	Chile	Riocentro Sports Complex Referees: Robledo, Sobenko (ARG)
	Borges 8	(14−10)	Feuchtmann 6
	3× 4×		3× 3×

14 July 2007 22:00	Cuba	33–20	Canada	Riocentro Sports Complex Referees: Adjemian, Gotz (ARG)
	Corzo 8	(17−9)	Bertrand, Fyfe 4
	3× 7× 1×		3× 3×

16 July 2007 16:00	Brazil	31–12	Canada	Riocentro Sports Complex Referees: Adjemian, Gotz (ARG)
	Borges, Bortolini 5	(17−7)	Godin 5
	2× 1×		3× 2×

16 July 2007 20:00	Cuba	40–18	Chile	Riocentro Sports Complex Referees: Adjemian, Gotz (ARG)
	Paván 7	(18−9)	Feuchtmann, Salinas 3
	2× 5× 2×		3× 5× 1×

18 July 2007 14:00	Canada	20–29	Chile	Riocentro Sports Complex Referees: Valdovinos, Pérez (PUR)
	Bessette 6	(12–12)	Feuchtmann 11
	3× 5×		2× 2×

18 July 2007 16:00	Brazil	35–26	Cuba	Riocentro Sports Complex Referees: Bord, Buy (FRA)
	Borges, Souza 7	(18–10)	Corzo, Paván 8
	3× 5×		3× 6× 1×

Knockout stage

Bracket

Semifinals		Final

20 July

Brazil	28
		22 July
Uruguay	16
		Brazil	30
20 July
		Argentina	22
Argentina (OT)	30

Cuba	29
		Third place

		22 July

		Uruguay	23

		Cuba	24

5–8th place semifinals		Fifth place

20 July

Chile	28
		22 July
Mexico	27
		Chile	28
20 July
		Dominican Republic	27
Dominican Republic	28

Canada	27
		Seventh place

		22 July

		Mexico	32

		Canada (OT)	34

5–8th place semifinals

20 July 2007 14:00	Chile	28–27	Mexico	Riocentro Sports Complex Referees: De Souza, Paz (BRA)
	Feuchtmann 9	(17−12)	Acuña 7
	3× 5×		3× 5× 1×

20 July 2007 20:00	Dominican Republic	28–27	Canada	Riocentro Sports Complex Referees: De Mello, Favreto (BRA)
	K. de León 6	(16−12)	Bertrand 7
	3× 5× 1×		3× 4×

Semifinals

20 July 2007 16:00	Brazil	28–16	Uruguay	Riocentro Sports Complex Referees: Robledo, Sobenko (ARG)
	Bortolini 6	(15−6)	Wenzel 4
	3× 3×		4× 4×

20 July 2007 22:00	Argentina	30–29 (ET)	Cuba	Riocentro Sports Complex Referees: Menezes, Pinto (BRA)
	Civelli 10	(12−14)	Paván 13
	3× 10×		3× 8× 1×
	FT: 25−25 ET: 5−4

Seventh place game

22 July 2007 17:00	Mexico	32–34 (ET)	Canada	Riocentro Sports Complex Referees: Pinto, Ortiz (CHI)
	Acuña 10	(9−12)	Bertrand 8
	3× 3× 1×		3× 3×
	FT: 23−23 ET: 5−5, 4−6

Fifth place game

22 July 2007 15:00	Chile	28–27	Dominican Republic	Riocentro Sports Complex Referees: Valdovinos, Pérez (PUR)
	Feuchtmann 8	(14−12)	Paulino 7
	1× 2×		4× 1×

Bronze medal game

22 July 2007 09:00	Uruguay	23–24	Cuba	Riocentro Sports Complex Referees: De Souza, Paz (BRA)
	Marrochi 8	(10−11)	Corzo 9
	3× 6×		2× 7× 1×

Gold medal game

22 July 2007 11:00	Brazil	30–22	Argentina	Riocentro Sports Complex Referees: Bord, Buy (FRA)
	Souza 9	(11−6)	Civelli 6
	2× 7× 4×		3× 5× 2×

Ranking and statistics

Rank	Team
	Brazil
	Argentina
	Cuba
4	Uruguay
5	Chile
6	Dominican Republic
7	Canada
8	Mexico

	Qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics
	Qualified for the Olympic Qualification Tournament

2007 Pan American Games winners
Brazil Second title

Top scorers[edit]

Rank	Name	Goals	Shots	%
1	Guillermo Corzo	39	66	59
2	Marcial Acuña	37	73	51
2	Emil Feuchtmann	37	65	57
4	Jorge Paván	36	56	64
5	Facundo Torres	29	45	64
5	Kelvin de León	29	49	59

Top goalkeepers[edit]

(minimum 20% of total shots received by team)

Rank	Name	%	Saves	Shots
1	Maik dos Santos	49	51	105
2	Luis Sanlate	47	22	47
3	Germán Pardales	42	19	45
4	Alexandre Vasconcelos	41	29	71
5	Misael Iglesias	39	73	185

Women's competition