Handball at the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games

Handball competition at the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games are scheduled to be held from 24 June to 7 July 2023. The venue for the competition is the Multigimnasio Don Bosco located in Soyapango.

A total of eight men's and eight women's teams (each consisting up to 14 athletes) will compete in each tournament. This means a total of 224 athletes are scheduled to compete.

The winner and runner-up of each competition will qualify for the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile. The third place teams will play against the third-placed teams of the 2022 South American Games playoffs.

Qualification Eight men's teams and eight women's teams will qualify to compete at the games in each tournament. The host nation (El Salvador) received automatic qualification in both tournaments, along with seven other teams. For both genders five places for Caribbean were planned bot only four teams per gender participated at the Caribbean Handball Cup. Therefor one spot is still not awarded. Central America has two spots per gender.

Men Event Dates Location Vacancies Qualified Host nation 1 2023 Caribbean Handball Cup 3 – 9 October 2022 Santo Domingo4 Managua2 Wild card 1 Total 8

Women Event Dates Location Vacancies Qualified Host nation 1 2023 Caribbean Handball Cup 2 – 8 October 2022 4 Managua2 Wild card 1 Total 8

Participating nations The following countries qualified handball teams. The numbers of participants qualified are in parentheses.

(host)

Medal summary

Medal table

Medalists Mario PerezJorge PrenDaril GonzalezRonaldo AlmeidaLidier VergaraEdmanuel DiazChristopher MartinezMario SainzFrank CordiesMagnol SuarezAdonis GarciaOmar ToledanoDariel GarciaHanser RodriguezAdonis GonzalezAlionky MotaDioris MateoErick MonteroFrancis De La CruzFranklin FernandezHeriberto MerinoJorge SotoJulio AlcantaraLuiggy LopezLuis AlfredoLuis AngelMaykol BerasWillibert De La RosaLuis AvalosRicardo ZarcoSayyed MoralesLuis OrtizHector PerezSergio SanchezJesus RamirezJesus RiveraFernando RodriguezBenito HernandezFrancisco MunizJesus SandovalJesus LoyaDaniel MarquezNiurkis MoraDianny GonzálezMaria VeranesGleinys ReyesDiancy GonzálezNahomis MustelierOdalys EscalonaDanielys HerranzAngela AmorosYamileidis AlcantaraYennifer ToledoYarumy CéspedesRosa LealMelissa chalaKitsa EscobarAdriana CabreraNathalys CeballosSheila HiraldoJackeline GonzalezJoane VergaraAlanis BenitezRoxanaly CarrasquilloErika GracianiCiris GarcíaZuleika FuentesLizabeth RodriguezRobeliz OrtizAshanti CalderonYojaver BritoCrisleidy HernándezMabelin WattleyAnnerys CabreraJohanna PimentelNancy PeñaMariela AndinoCarina LorenzoFlorquidia PuelloSuleidy SuárezCarolina LópezDébora TorreiraDiandra PieYacaira Tejeda

Women's tournament Preliminary round Group A

All times are local (UTC−06:00).

Group B

Knockout stage

Bracket

Semifinals

5th to 8th semifinals

Gold medal

Bronze medal

5th place

7th place

Final standings

Rank Team45678 Qualified for the 2023 Pan American Games Qualified for the Last chance qualification tournament for the 2023 Pan American Games

Men's tournament Preliminary round Group A