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However, we hope that this mailing-list will help connect people from all around Oceania together and will improve the flow of information.

 

There are Handball Olympic Qualification Tournaments in Croatia, France and Poland this weekend and if you wanna see the games, you can watch them for free on the International Handball Federation website (www.ihf.info).  

To see some of the photos of the Oceania Nations Cup, have a look at the website from the Ligue Hand Ball Nouvelle Caledonie: www.lhbnc.nc.



 

In addition to the Oceania Nations Cup and World Championship Qualifications, an IHF Referees and Officials course which was held by Handball New Zealand in Lower Hutt, Wellington, Saturday the 5th of April.  

Upsets, upstarts and non stop action was the order of the day for the Oceania Handball Federation's premier competition held in the TSB Arena, Wellington, New Zealand from the 7th to the 10th of April.

The Oceania continental federation welcomed Manfred Prause as the IHF Official and Argentine referees Teodoro Adjemian and Marcelo Gotz to oversee the qualifications and assist in the Challenge trophy competition.

In the first match New Caledonia beat favourites Australia 20:15 (10:7) to go through the tournament unbeaten in the first of two major upsets. Takumasiva was the outstanding player in a very strong New Caledonian side that ran the Aussies ragged. There was no hiding the fact that New Caledonia had come to these games with the specific purpose of avenging the defeat inflicted by Australia two years ago and did not hide that fact in their determined, skilful play.

The second sensational upset was the 23:27 (9:11) defeat of New Zealand by the unfancied young upstarts from the Cook Islands in a close match. The better organised and youthful enthusiasm of the Cook Island players was evident throughout the tournament and their play improved with every game.
Australia beat both the Cook Islands 32:11 (15:6) and New Zealand 38:17 (23:8) easily, to win the right to represent Oceania at the Men's World Championships in Croatia - Good Luck to Australia!

The Cook Islands and New Zealand fielded young inexperienced teams that got better with every game, but were clearly outclassed by New Caledonia and Australia.

New Caledonia was awarded the Winitana Shield for the top Nation in Oceania, Cook Islands took out the Jesse Tita'a Trophy for the best and fairest team.

Source: the International Handball Federation website.
 

OCEANIA NATIONS CUP RANKINGS AND RESULTS Rankings 1 - New Caledonia 2 - Australia 3 - Cook Islands 4 - New Zealand Monday the 7th of April New Caledonia 20 - 15 Australia (Oceania Nations Cup Game) Cook Islands 27 - 23 New Zealand (Qualification and Nations Cup Game) Tuesday the 8th of April Australia 32 - 11 Cook Islands (Qualification and Nations Cup Game) New Zealand 8 - 40 New Caledonia (Oceania Nations Cup Game) Thursday the 10th of April New Caledonia 43 - 12 Cook Islands (Oceania Nations Cup Game) New Zealand 17 - 38 Australia (Qualification and Nations Cup Game)

 

Tiare Anani and Tohivea respectively won the 2008 Women and Men edition of the Porinetia Cup in Tahiti Nui. They therefore qualifies for the 2008 Women and Men Oceania Champions Cup to be held in Tahiti Nui and New Caledonia later this year. Congratulation to both teams!


 

OCEANIA NATIONS CUP UPDATED DRAW Monday the 7th of April 6pm: New Caledonia vs Australia (Oceania Nations Cup Game) 8pm: Cook Islands vs New Zealand (Qualification and Nations Cup Game) Tuesday the 8th of April 6pm: Australia vs Cook Islands (Qualification and Nations Cup Game) 8pm: New Zealand vs New Caledonia (Oceania Nations Cup Game) Thursday the 10th of April 6pm: New Caledonia vs Cook Islands (Oceania Nations Cup Game) 8pm: New Zealand vs Australia (Qualification and Nations Cup Game)

 

Next week in Moorea, French Polynesia, will start the Porinetia Cup (also known as the Polynesia Cup). This competition regroup the best teams of the polynesian archipelago (Ausrales, Tuamotus, Marquises, Iles du vent and Iles sous le vent).

The winner will be directly qualified for the Men and Women Oceania Champions Cup to be held this year again in New Caledonia and in French Polynesia.

 

The draw for the Oceania Men’s Qualification and Oceania Nations Cup has been finalysed by the organising committee of this competition.

Due to the number of participants and the time factor to give every team equal games in four days, the following teams Australia, New Zealand and the Cook Islands will have to play two games for the Qualification and four games for the Nation Cup.

Therefore the above-mentioned teams will play two games one in the morning and one in the evening has detailed in the following draw:
 

The 2008 Oceania Men’s World Championship Qualification and Oceania Nations Cup will be held in Wellington, New Zealand, from the 7th to the 10th of April.

Australia, the Cook Islands, New Caledonia, New Zealand and Taiti Nui have already confirmed their participation so this competition should be very interesting.
 

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The Oceania Handball Federation would like to wish you all a fantastic year 2008. We hope that this new year will be a great year for handball in the Oceania region.

This new year is also an opportunity to thank again the girls and the staff of the first Oceania Youth Team that participated in the Mondialito in Paris in December last year.

We hope that the huge experience that these girls took will benefit the further development of Handball in the Oceania region this new year as well as in the long term.

The Oceania Youth Team at the Mondialito in Paris

For more information about this competition, check out the website:
http://www.idf-mondial2007handballfeminin.com