1991 African Men's Handball Championship Explained

Tourney Name:African Men's Championship
Year:1991
Country:Egypt
Dates:1–15 September 1990
Num Teams:7
Confederations:1
Venues:1
Cities:1
Champion:EGY
Count:1
Second:ALG
Third:TUN
Third-Flagvar:1959
Fourth:MAR
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The 1991 African Men's Handball Championship was the ninth edition of the African Men's Handball Championship, held in Cairo, Egypt, from 1 to 15 September 1990. It acted as the African qualifying tournament for the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.[1]

Egypt finished first in the round robin tournament and wins its first African title. Algeria finished second and Tunisia third.

Qualified teams

Format

8 teams qualified to the final tournament and was divided into two groups as below :

GroupsTeams
Group A,,,
Group B,,,

However, because of the withdrawal of Namibia, it was decided to make a round robin tournament format of one final group regrouping the seven participated teams.

Results

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Tournament classification

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Men Handball IX Africa Championship 1991 – Egypt . todor66.com . Todor Krastev . 26 November 2016 .