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, Peru, were held from July 24 (two days before the

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) to August 5. The venue for the competition is the Sports Centre Hall 1 located at the Videna cluster. The venue also hosted

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. A total of eight men's and eight women's teams (each consisting of up to 14 athletes) competed in each tournament. This means a total of 224 athletes are competed. The winner of each competition qualified for the

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, Japan.

Competition schedule

The following is the competition schedule for the handball competitions:

Medal table

Medalists

Participating nations

A total of 10 countries have qualified athletes. The number of athletes a nation has entered is in parentheses beside the name of the country. * * * * * * * * * *

Qualification

A total of eight men's teams and eight women's teams qualified to compete at the games in each tournament. The host nation (Peru) qualified in each tournament, along with seven other teams in various qualifying tournaments.

Men

* Chile (3rd-placed finisher at the South American Games) and Colombia (5th at the Central American and Caribbean Games) competed in the last chance tournament.

Women

* Chile (3rd-placed finisher at the South American Games), Mexico and Guatemala (4th and 5th at the Central American and Caribbean Games) and Canada (loser of the North Zone Qualifying) competed in the last chance tournament.

References

External links

Results book
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