Handball at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games

The handball competition at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games will be held in Veracruz, Mexico from 15 to 26 November 2014 at the Centro Deportivo Carlos Serdán Arechavaleta.

Qualification[]

Qualification	Date	Host	Places	Men	Women
Host	–	–	1	Mexico	Mexico
^[1]	4–8 March 2013	Costa Rica, San José	3	Guatemala Costa Rica	Costa Rica Guatemala
2013 Caribbean Cup^[2]	5–9 November 2013	Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo	4	Dominican Republic Cuba Puerto Rico Colombia	Cuba Dominican Republic Puerto Rico Colombia

Medal summary[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men’s tournament^[3]	Puerto Rico (PUR) Pascual Pacheco Julio Baez	Dominican Republic (DOM)	Cuba (CUB)
Women’s tournament^[4]	Cuba (CUB) Maricet Fernandez Ayling Martinez Livia Veranes Raiza Beltran Lizandra Lusson Gleinys Reyes Yunisleidy Camejo Naddezza Valera Eneleidis Guevara Lisandra Espinosa Yenma Ramirez	Puerto Rico (PUR) Adriana Cabrera Nathalys Ceballos Sheila Hiraldo Joane Vergara Natalie Cabello Kitsa Escobar Fabiola Martínez Nicolette Pope Jailene Maldonado Zugeily Soto Ciris García Zuleyka Fuentes	Mexico (MEX)

Women's tournament[]

Group A[]

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Cuba	3	3	0	144	35	+109	6
Dominican Republic	3	2	1	95	71	+24	4
Costa Rica	3	1	2	46	107	−61	2
	3	0	3	45	117	−72	0

Source:^{[citation needed]}

15 November 2014 13:00	Dominican Republic	45 – 15		Carlos Cerdan Complex Referees: Díaz, Zapata (COL)
	Peña 10	(28–7)	5
	3× 4×		2× 2×

15 November 2014 15:00	Costa Rica	7 – 55	Cuba	Carlos Cerdan Complex Referees: Camacho, Ortíz (MEX)
	, 2	(4–27)	Reyes 11
	3× 9× 1×		3× 2×

16 November 2014 13:00		21 – 22	Costa Rica	Carlos Cerdan Complex Referees: Duran, Rodríguez (MEX)
	, 5	(9–8)	5
	3× 4×		3× 7×

16 November 2014 15:00	Cuba	39 – 19	Dominican Republic	Carlos Cerdan Complex Referees: Pinto, Menezes (BRA)
	Martínez 9	(19–7)	Hernández 6
	2× 3×		3× 5×

17 November 2014 13:00	Dominican Republic	31 – 17	Costa Rica	Carlos Cerdan Complex Referees: Hernández, Montiel (NCA)
	Brito 8	(14–6)	6
	2× 5×		3× 6×

17 November 2014 15:00		9 – 50	Cuba	Carlos Cerdan Complex Referees: Díaz, Zapata (COL)
	5	(4–25)	Reyes 9
	3×		3× 3×

Group B[]

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Puerto Rico	3	3	0	86	54	+32	6
Mexico	3	2	1	93	56	+37	4
Guatemala	3	1	2	53	79	−26	2
Colombia	3	0	3	47	90	−43	0

Source:^{[citation needed]}

15 November 2014 18:00	Puerto Rico	27 – 17	Guatemala	Carlos Cerdan Complex Referees: Zúñiga, Aldea (CUB)
	Ceballos 7	(12–6)	5
	4× 3×		2× 1×

15 November 2014 20:00	Mexico	35 – 16	Colombia	Carlos Cerdan Complex Referees: Hernández, Montiel (NCA)
	, , 5	(23–5)	5
	1× 8×		3× 6× 1×

16 November 2014 18:00	Colombia	14 – 32	Puerto Rico	Carlos Cerdan Complex Referees: Camacho, Ortiz (MEX)
	4	(3–16)	Ceballos, Vergara, Martínez 4
	3× 4× 1×		3× 3×

16 November 2014 20:00	Guatemala	13 – 35	Mexico	Carlos Cerdan Complex Referees: Perez, Guzman (PUR)
	3	(8–15)	, 7
	3× 11× 1×		2× 2×

17 November 2014 18:00	Guatemala	23 – 17	Colombia	Carlos Cerdan Complex Referees: Reyes, Zúñiga (CUB)
	8	(9–8)	, , 3
	3× 4×		3× 7×

17 November 2014 20:00	Puerto Rico	27 – 23	Mexico	Carlos Cerdan Complex Referees: Pinto, Menezes (BRA)
	Cabrera, Vergara, García 5	(12–13)	8
	3× 6×		3× 4×

Knockout stage[]

Semi-finals		Final

November 19

Cuba	28
		November 20
Mexico	27
		Cuba	32
November 19
		Puerto Rico	18
Dominican Republic	21

Puerto Rico	22
		Third place

		November 20

		Mexico	24

		Dominican Republic	20

5th–8th place playoffs[]

Semifinals		Fifth place

November 19

Costa Rica	16
		November 20
Colombia	26
		Colombia	33
November 19
			23
	24

Guatemala	23
		Seventh place

		November 20

		Costa Rica	21

		Guatemala	20

5th 8th place playoffs[]

19 November 2014 10:00	Costa Rica	16 – 26	Colombia	Carlos Cerdan Complex Referees: Duran, Rodriguez (MEX)
	, 4	(8–11)	, 6
	3× 8×		3× 6×

19 November 2014 17:00		24 – 23	Guatemala	Carlos Cerdan Complex Referees: Diaz, Zapata (COL)
	8	(10–11)	7
	2× 2×		3× 3×

Semifinals[]

19 November 2014 12:30	Cuba	28 – 27	Mexico	Carlos Cerdan Complex Referees: Perez, Guzman (PUR)
	, Espinosa 6	(12–13)	, 6
	4× 6×		3× 5×

19 November 2014 20:00	Dominican Republic	21 – 22	Puerto Rico	Carlos Cerdan Complex Referees: Reyes, Zuniga (CUB)
	Hernández 5	(8–8)	Ceballos 6
	2× 2×		3× 4×

7th-place match[]

20 November 2014 10:00	Costa Rica	21 – 20	Guatemala	Carlos Cerdan Complex Referees: Hernandez, Montiel (NCA)
	6	(6–10)	6
	3× 3×		3× 4×

5th-place match[]

20 November 2014 12:30	Colombia	33 – 23		Carlos Cerdan Complex Referees: Camacho, Ortiz (MEX)
	6	(13–9)	8
	3× 5×		2× 5×

Bronze medal match[]

20 November 2014 17:30	Mexico	24 – 15	Dominican Republic	Carlos Cerdan Complex Referees: Pinto, Menezes (BRA)
	, 4	(12–7)	Brito, Pimentel 3
	3× 5×		3× 5×

Gold medal match[]

20 November 2014 20:00	Cuba	32 – 18	Puerto Rico	Carlos Cerdan Complex Referees: Diaz, Zapata (COL)
	Reyes 8	(18–7)	Ceballos 8
	3× 3×		3× 4×

Final standing[]

Rank	Team
	Cuba
	Puerto Rico
	Mexico
4	Dominican Republic
5	Colombia
6
7	Costa Rica
8	Guatemala

	Team Qualified to the 2015 Pan American Games

Men's tournament[]

Group A[]

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Dominican Republic	3	3	0	78	55	+23	6
Puerto Rico	3	2	1	90	65	+25	4
Colombia	3	1	2	63	72	−9	2
Costa Rica	3	0	3	46	85	−39	0

Source:^{[citation needed]}

Group B[]

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Cuba	3	3	0	110	66	+44	6
Mexico	3	2	1	104	66	+38	4
Guatemala	3	1	2	86	84	+2	2
	3	0	3	60	154	−94	0

Source:^{[citation needed]}

Knockout stage[]

Semi-finals		Final

November 19

Dominican Republic	28
		November 20
Mexico	23
		Dominican Republic	27
November 19
		Puerto Rico	37
Cuba	30

Puerto Rico	31
		Third place

		November 20

		Mexico	22

		Cuba	32

5th–8th place playoffs[]

Semifinals		Fifth place

November 19

Colombia	37
		November 20
	28
		Colombia	26
November 19
		Guatemala	25
Guatemala	26

Costa Rica	24
		Seventh place

		November 20

			24

		Costa Rica	23

Final standing[]

Rank	Team
	Puerto Rico
	Dominican Republic
	Cuba
4	Mexico
5	Colombia
6	Guatemala
7
8	Costa Rica

	Team Qualified to the 2015 Pan American Games

Medal table[]

* Host nation (Mexico)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Puerto Rico (PUR)	1	1	0	2
2	Cuba (CUB)	1	0	1	2
3	Dominican Republic (DOM)	0	1	0	1
4	Mexico (MEX)*	0	0	1	1
Totals (4 nations)		2	2	2	6

References[]

^ Costa Rica and Nicaragua win Central-American Games
^ Copa Caribe Masc/Fem -Santo Domingo (DOM) 2013- Men’s/Women’s Caribbean Cup
^ "Men's tournament results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-12-04. Retrieved 2014-11-28.
^ "Women's tournament results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-11-29. Retrieved 2014-11-22.

External links[]

Official Website

[1] Costa Rica and Nicaragua win Central-American Games

[2] Copa Caribe Masc/Fem -Santo Domingo (DOM) 2013- Men’s/Women’s Caribbean Cup

[3] "Men's tournament results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-12-04. Retrieved 2014-11-28.

[4] "Women's tournament results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-11-29. Retrieved 2014-11-22.

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