United States men's national beach handball team explained

United States
Badge:Flag of the United States.svg
Association:USA Team Handball
Coach:Michael Hinson
World Cup Apps:4
World Cup First:2016
World Cup Best:11th (2016)

The United States national beach handball team (USA Beach Handball) is the national team of the United States. It is governed by USA Team Handball[1] and takes part in international beach handball competitions.[2]

Restart of the program in 2015

By winning the Pan American Championships, the USA men team qualified into the 12 team field of the World Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Being their first World Championships the international expectations were not high for any success. In the first game of the tournament, the USA Team shocked the international handball world by defeating the #5 team in the world, Ukraine in straight sets. Needing one more win in the next 4 games to qualify into the top 6, USA fell just short against defending World Champion Brazil, lost a close game against defending bronze medalist Qatar, then lost 2 extremely tight shootouts against Egypt and Bahrain. Finishing out of the medal rounds, USA then lost a close shootout to Oman and finished the tournament with an emotional win against Australia in the rain.[3]

Results

World Championships

YearPosition
2004Did not qualify
2006
2008
2010
2012
2014
201611th
201812th
202212th
202413th
Total4/10

Pan American Championships

YearPosition
19984th
19993rd
2004Did not qualify
2008
2012
2014
20161st
20183rd
20191st
20221st
20241st
Total5/9

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Beach Handball. https://web.archive.org/web/20160714153810/http://www.teamusa.org/usa-team-handball/beach-handball. dead. July 14, 2016. Team USA. April 3, 2018. en.
  2. https://archive.ihf.info/files/CompetitionData/e3d4d272-1e04-4311-94b7-cb5909d3a4be/pdf/USA.pdf 2018 World Championship roster
  3. Web site: About USA Beach Handball. USA Beach Handball. en-US. April 4, 2018.