Rink Hockey American Cup Explained

See also: Copa America (disambiguation).

Founded:2006
Region:Americas (CSP)
Number Of Teams:8 (finals)
Current Champions: (2nd title)
Most Successful Team: (2 titles)
Website:http://www.cspatin.org/
Current:Vic 2010

The Rink Hockey American Championship or CSP Copa America is a Rink Hockey competition with the national teams of American countries that happens every four years. It is organized by CSP, South American Federation of Rink Hockey.

The last "Copa America" was held in Vic, Catalonia, and for the first time both men's and women's tournaments were played at the same time and in the same city.https://web.archive.org/web/20100614193547/http://www.copaamerica.fecapa.cat/

The national teams to participate were:

Men TeamsWomen Teams
Catalonia Catalonia
Argentina Argentina
Brazil Brazil
Chile Chile
USA United States
Uruguay Uruguay
EcuadorDNP
Costa RicaDNP
Germany Germany
South Africa South Africa

Men's Results

Tournaments

YearHost city Gold Silver Bronze4th Place5th place6th place
2012
2010 Vic Catalonia Argentina Brazil Chile Germany Uruguay
2008 Buenos Aires Argentina Catalonia Chile Brazil Colombia United States
2007 Recife Argentina Catalonia Brazil Chile Colombia South Africa

Medal table

Women Results

Tournaments

YearHost city Gold Silver Bronze4th Place5th place6th place
2013 Punta del Este
2011 Sertãozinho Catalonia Chile Brazil Uruguay South Africa
2010 Vic Argentina Catalonia Chile Germany Brazil United States
2007 Santiago Chile Catalonia Brazil United States Colombia
2006 Santiago Argentina Chile Catalonia Colombia

Medal table

Next tournaments

The celebration of the 2012 Men's Cup was originally designed to be played in Santiago de Chile, but in the end it was changed to be played in November in the Brazilian city of Recife. One month before the competition, the Catalan Federation announced that the team couldn't play in the Cup because the Catalan government decided not to support the team economically, and at the same time, the Argentinian Federation also announced that they won't be playing either as they were having internal problems. Seeing that the two bigger countries were not coming to the event, the 2012 Men's Cup was disbanded.

The Uruguayan city of Montevideo was selected as host for the 2013 Woman's Cup, but the celebration of that event was not possible for the same problems.

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