| Sport: | Handball |
| Founded: | 1986 |
| Folded: | 2018 |
| Replaced: | Nor.Ca. Handball Championship South and Central American Women's Handball Championship |
| Inaugural: | 1986 |
| Teams: | 12 |
| Continent: | PATHF (Americas) |
| Most Champs: | (10 titles) |
The Pan American Women's Handball Championship was the biennial official competition for senior national handball teams of North, Center, Caribbean and South America. It was organized by the Pan-American Team Handball Federation. In addition to crowning the Pan-American champions, the tournament served as a qualifying tournament for the IHF World Women's Handball Championship. In 2018, the PATHF was folded and the tournament was replaced with the North American & Caribbean and South and Central American Women's Handball Championships.
| Year | Host | width=1% rowspan=16 bgcolor=ffffff | Final | width=1% rowspan=16 bgcolor=ffffff | Third place match | width=1% rowspan=16 bgcolor=#ffffff | Teams | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=14% | Champions | width=9% | Score | width=14% | Runners-up | width=14% | Third place | width=9% | Score | width=14% | Fourth place | |||
| 1986 Details |  Novo Hamburgo | Round-robin | Round-robin | 6 | ||||||||||
| 1989 Details |  Colorado Springs | Round-robin | Round-robin | 4 | ||||||||||
| 1991 Details | Maringá | Round-robin | Round-robin | 7 | ||||||||||
| 1997 Details | Poços de Caldas | 21–17 | 19–14 | 6 | ||||||||||
| 1999 Details |  Buenos Aires | Round-robin | Round-robin | 6 | ||||||||||
| 2000 Details | Aracaju | Round-robin | Round-robin | 6 | ||||||||||
| 2003 Details | | 39–12 | 21–14 | 7 | ||||||||||
| 2005 Details | | Round-robin | Round-robin | 6 | ||||||||||
| 2007 Details |  Santo Domingo | 29–12 | 25–24 | 8 | ||||||||||
| 2009 Details | Santiago | 26–25 (ET) | 34–30 (2ET) | 7 | ||||||||||
| 2011 Details | | 35–16 | 37–27 | 8 | ||||||||||
| 2013 Details | Santo Domingo | 38–15 | 28–19 | 10 | ||||||||||
| 2015 Details |  Havana | 26–22 | 33–16 | 12 | ||||||||||
| 2017 Details | Villa Ballester | 38–20 | 24–22 | 10 | ||||||||||
| Nation | Years | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4th | – | 4th | 4th | 3rd | 4th | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 3rd | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 13 | |||||
| 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 14 | |
| bgcolor=silver | 2nd | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | – | – | 5th | 4th | 6th | – | – | 9th | – | – | 8 | ||||||||
| – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3rd | 5th | – | 9th | 7th | 4 | ||||||||||||
| – | – | – | – | 6th | 6th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 9th | 3 | ||||||||||||
| – | – | – | 5th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 10th | – | – | 2 | ||||||||||||
| – | – | – | – | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | – | – | – | – | – | 3rd | – | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | – | 3 | ||||||||||
| – | – | – | – | – | – | 6th | 5th | 3rd | 4th | 6th | 3rd | – | 8th | 7 | ||||||||||||
| – | – | – | – | 5th | 3rd | – | – | – | – | – | – | 6th | – | 3 | ||||||||||||
| – | – | – | – | – | – | 7th | – | – | – | – | – | 12th | 10th | 3 | ||||||||||||
| – | 4th | – | 6th | – | 5th | – | – | 8th | 5th | 7th | 6th | 8th | – | 8 | ||||||||||||
| 5th | – | 5th | – | – | – | – | – | 4th | 7th | – | 4th | 7th | 3rd | 7 | ||||||||||||
| – | – | 7th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4th | 6th | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 6th | – | 6th | 3rd | 4th | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 3rd | 3rd | 5th | 6th | 4th | 5th | 5th | 4th | 13 | |||||||||||
| bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | bgcolor=gold | 1st | – | – | – | 4th | 6th | 7th | – | – | 8th | 10th | 5th | 9 | |||||||||
| – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 8th | 7th | 11th | – | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 6 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 10 |