{"id":5007,"date":"2022-09-07T10:24:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T10:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ferwahand.rw\/?p=5007"},"modified":"2022-09-07T11:01:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T11:01:42","slug":"africa-u-18-handball-championship-egypt-crowned-champions-rwanda-take-silver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ferwahand.rw\/?p=5007","title":{"rendered":"Africa U-18 Handball Championship: Egypt crowned champions, Rwanda take silver"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Egyptian national handball team was, on Tuesday, September 6, crowned champions of the U-18 Africa Youth Handball Championship after defeating hosts Rwanda, 51-29, in the finals at BK Arena.<\/p>\n

The North Africans\u2019 won the trophy undefeated in all matches.<\/p>\n

In the match against Rwanda, the Egyptians were dominant again, winning the first half 22:16. They returned to finish the business in the second half when ran away with a 51:29 victory.<\/p>\n

Rwanda won silver, followed by Morocco who took bronze after defeating Burundi 43-34 in a third place game.<\/p>\n

President Paul Kagame attended the final game, a development that the Rwanda Handball Federation describe as \u201ca great gesture for the support of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

The tournament brought together eight teams from different countries on the continent, clustered in two groups.<\/p>\n

Group A comprised Morocco, Libya, Uganda and Burundi, while Group B had Rwanda, Egypt, Algeria and Madagascar.<\/p>\n

All the four teams that made it to the semi-finals (Rwanda, Egypt, Burundi and Morocco) earned an automatic ticket to participate in the Youth World Handball Championships to be held next year in Croatia.<\/p>\n

Final rankings:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Egypt
\n2. Rwanda
\n3. Morocco
\n4. Burundi
\n5. Algeria
\n6. Uganda
\n7. Libya
\n8. Madagascar<\/p>\n

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The Egyptian national handball team was, on Tuesday, September 6, crowned champions of the U-18 Africa Youth Handball Championship after defeating hosts Rwanda, 51-29, in the finals at BK Arena. The North Africans\u2019 won the trophy undefeated in all matches. In the match against Rwanda, the Egyptians were dominant again, winning the first half 22:16….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[104],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ferwahand.rw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ferwahand.rw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ferwahand.rw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ferwahand.rw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ferwahand.rw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5007"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ferwahand.rw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5042,"href":"http:\/\/ferwahand.rw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007\/revisions\/5042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ferwahand.rw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ferwahand.rw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ferwahand.rw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ferwahand.rw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}