The Oceania Team today in France for the Mondialito 2007

 

The Mondialito 2007 will be staring tomorrow. Twelve Women’s Youth Teams have been invited for his event and amongst them a team with players from Australia, the Cook Islands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Tahiti and Wallis and Futuna will be representing Oceania.

Group A: France, Tunisia, Greece, Slovenia, Spain, Oceania
Group B: Croatia, Cyprus, Italy, Turquy, Brazil, Montenegro

The Oceania Handball Federation wish them good luck.

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

 

 

After a thrilling last game against Paraguay (16-14 loss against the South-Americans), Australia finishes 24th of the 18th Women World Championship.

The 2007 Australian Women National Team, 24th in the World Championship in France

 

 

The Oceania Handball Federation would like to wish good luck to the Australian Women National Team for their participation in the 18th Women World Championship in France from the 2nd to the 16th of December (www.handball2007.fr).

To follow the competition and send your message of support for our Oceania representative, visit the Australian Handball Federation website (www.handballaustralia.org.au).

 

 

 

Congratulation to JS Mont Dore (New Caledonia) for winning the second edition of the Men Oceania Champions Cup. For the second year in a row they finished the tournament unbeaten and were a convincing winner.

This tournament, held in Tahiti from the 28/10/07 to the 02/11/07 has been a huge success and set up a very high standard for the future edition. Congratulation to the president of the organizing committee Vetea FARAHEI and all his volunteers.

Greta work !!

(All the results and photos to be coming soon)

 

28/10/07 at 3.30pm - Opening Ceremony

28/10/07 at 5.30pm - JS Mont Dore vs Auckland Region Handball
28/10/07 at 6.30pm - AS Dragon vs Canberra
28/10/07 at 7.30pm - Faa'a HB vs AS Dumbea

29/10/07 at 6.30pm - AS Dumbea vs AS Dragon
29/10/07 at 7.30pm - Faa'a HB vs Auckland Region Handball
29/10/07 at 8.30pm - Canberra vs JS Mont Dore

30/10/07 at 6.30pm - AS Dumbea vs Auckland Region Handball
30/10/07 at 7.30pm - AS Dragon vs JS Mont Dore
30/10/07 at 8.30pm - Faa'a HB vs Canberra

31/10/07 at 6.30pm - Canberra vs Auckland Region Handball
31/10/07 at 7.30pm - AS Dragon vs Faa'a HB
31/10/07 at 8.30pm - AS Dumbea vs JS Mont Dore

01/11/07 at 6.30pm - Faa'a HB vs JS Mont Dorel
01/11/07 at 7.30pm - AS Dumbea vs Canberra
01/11/07 at 8.30pm - AS Dragon vs Auckland Region Handball

02/11/07 at 3.30pm - 5th/6th Position Game
02/11/07 at 5.30pm - 3rd/4th Position Game
02/11/07 at 7.30pm - Final

 

6 teams from 4 countries will be competiting in Tahiti to win the second edition of the Men Oceania Champions Cup from the 22th of October to the 2nd of November:

  - JS Mont Dore (New Caledonia, Defending Champion)
  - AS Dumbea (Tahiti Nui)
  - Faa'a HB (Tahiti Nui)
  - AS Dragon (Tahiti Nui)
  - Auckland Region Handball (New Zealand)
  - Canberra (Australia)

Last year the first edition of this tournament in Noumea was a big success and the OHF look forward to see this second edition. We wish good luck to all the team!

 

Fnal Ranking of the 2007 Women Oceania Champions Cup

1 - ACB Poya
2 - CS Sinoj
3 - AS Dragon
4 - Tiare Anani
5 - JS Mont Dore, Monash University, Auckland Uni Handball, HB Kafika and New Caledonia U17
 
Best Scorer: Tiheni ENA 43 goals (AS Dragon)
Best Goalkeeper: Madeline HEAFALA (JS Mont Dore)

Fair Play: New Caledonia U17


Results of the Play-Off
 
CS Sinoj 33 - 30 Tiare Anani
AS Dragon 26 - 29 ACB Poya
ACB Poya 36 - 31 CS Sinoj
AS Dragon 21 - 19 Tiare Anani


Results of the Group A
 
New Caledonia U17 26 - 19 HB Kafika
AS Dragon 25 - 24 CS Sinoj
CS Sinoj 25 - 17 HB Kafika
AS Dragon 23 - 20 New Caledonia U17
AS Dragon 33 - 14 HB Kafika
CS Sinoj 23 - 17 New Caledonia U17
 

Results of the Group B
 
ACB Poya 35 - 18 Monash University
JS Mont Dore 25 - 9 Auckland Uni Handball
Tiare Anani 25 - 14 Monash University
ACB Poya 29 - 15 Auckland Uni Handball
JS Mont Dore 29 - 14 Monash University
ACB Poya 25 - 17 Tiare Anani
ACB Poya 16 - 16 JS Mont Dore
Tiare Anani 17 - 14 JS Mont Dore
Monash University 20 - 19 Auckland Uni Handball
Tiare Anani 26 - 14 Auckland Uni Handball
 
 

Congratulation to ACB Poya for winning the first edition of the Women Oceania Champions Cup. They played a great handball in Noumea and finished the tournament with an impressive five wins out of five games in four days.

The girls from ACB Poya, winner of the first Women Oceania Champions Cup

 

8 teams from 5 countries will be competiting in Noumea to win the first edition of the Women Oceania Champions Cup from the 12th to the 15th of September:

  - ACB Poya, CS Sinoj and JS Mont Dore (New Caledonia)
  - AS Dragon and HB Tiare Anani (Tahiti Nui)
  - Kafika HB (Wallis and Futuna)
  - Auckland Uni Handball (New Zealand)
  - Monash University (Australia)

The OHF wish them good luck and hope that this tournament will be as good as the men edition last year. Watch this place for the results of this great tournament.

 

The Oceania Handball Federation has been invited to send a Women’s Youth Team of girls born in 1990/1991 who will play in the Mondialito, a weeklong competition in France during the Senior Women World Championship in December. Twelve National Women’s Youth Teams have been invited and Oceania is the only composite team. The OHF view this as a wonderful honour and opportunity for young women of our region to shine in their own right. Group A: France, Tunisia, Greece, Slovenia, Spain, Oceania Group B: Croatia, Cyprus, Italy, Turquy, Brazil, Montenegro

 

After several trips around Oceania to prepare their journey, the Under 18 boys and Under 16 girls from the Cook Islands Handball Association are leaving tomorrow for the Partille Cup in Sweden. We wich them all the best for this great tournament and hope to see their results and photos on this website very soon. 

Due to the withdrawal of New Zealand from the Men's World Youth Championships in Bahrain, the Australian Handball Federation requested, and was granted, entry for Australia to participate in the tournament in place of New Zealand. Australia will compete in Group D against Egypt, Sweden and Korea. The tournament will start the Thursday 26th of July 2007 in Bahrain and will last until Friday the 3rd of August. Group A: POL, QAT, MAR, ESP Group B: CRO, IRI, ALG, ARG Group C: DEN, BRN, TUN, BRA Group D: SWE, KOR, EGY, AUS

 

The draw of the preliminary round groups for the 2007 Women's World Championship in France, taking place from the 2nd to the 16th of December 2007, was held today in Paris. Australia has been placed in Group B with Russia the defending champions, Macedonia and Brazil. The preliminary round games against these nations will take place in Saint Brieuc, which is located on the North West coast of France, approximately three hours from Paris by high speed train. Group A: FRA, CRO, ARG, KAZ in Pau Group B: RUS, BRA, MKD, AUS in St-Brieuc Group C: NOR, AUT, ANG, DOM in Lyon Group D: ROU, POL, CHN, TUN in Toulon Group E: HUN, ESP, JPN, CGO in Nîmes Group F: GER, KOR, UKR, PAR in Nantes

 

Congratulation to the Australian Women National team for its qualification for the XVIIIth Women World Championship to be held in France from the 2nd to the 16th of December 2007. We wish them all the best for this tournament and look forward to see them playing against teams from all around the World.
 

Congratulation to New Caledonia for winning the first Oceania Nations Cup in Auckland last Saturday. With three wins over the New Zealand, Tahiti and Vanuatu, the girls of Lionel Puyhardi take home the first edition of this competition.

The New Caledonia Women Team, winner of the first Oceania Nations Cup

The OHF would like to thank all the players, staffs and supporters for this great weekend of Handball. We hope that you enjoyed this competition as much as we did and look forward to see you all around Oceania very soon.

Please see below the final rankings of the competition. The results of all the games as well as many photos taken during the different days of competition will soon be posted on this website.

1. New Caledonia (3 wins)
2. New Zealand (2 wins, 1 loss)
3. Tahiti (1 win, 2 loss)
4. Vanuatu (3 loss)

 

 

It is with pleasure to inform you that the Handball Sports Association of Solomon Islands have officially applied for membership to Oceania Handball Federation.

I look forward to welcome the Solomon Islands as the 6th member of the OHF. Would you please accept the Solomon Islands as a full member of the OHF. So I can submit to the IHF the Solomon Islands application to the IHF. 

The OHF is glad to announce the results of the 2007 Porinesia Cup (the French Polynesia National Cup) held in Moorea from the Monday 26th of March to the Saturday 31st of March.

Women 1 - Tiare Anani 2 - Under 16 Tahiti 3 - Faa'a Handball 4 - Rangiroa Men 1 - Faa'a Handball 2 - Tohivea 3 - Venus 4 - Under 20 Tahiti 5 - Rangiroa

Faa'a Handball men team

Tiare Anani in the women and Faa'a Handball in the men will therefore represent Tahiti at the 2007 Oceania Champions Cup to be held in Noumea in September for the women and in Tahiti in October for the men. 

The Oceania Handball Federation has the pleasure to extend the invitation to the 1st Oceania Nations Cup to be held in Auckland, New Zealand from the 22nd to 25th of May 2007.

Further information will follow and full program once we have confirmation of National Teams participation. All members are welcomed.  

 

 

The OHF is glad to publish that the Wallis and Futuna Opening Cup held last weekend was a great success. The number of teams participating (5 men teams and 3 womenteams ) is very encouraging and we would like to wish all our best to those teams for their preparation to participate in the Oceania Champions Cup.

Winner of the Men Opening Cup

Winner of the Women Opening Cup

 

 

Following the recent appointment of Sébastien Louis as the new OHF IT Officer, the OHF website has undergone a big redesign which we hope will help provide a clearer and better information to all the Handball players around Oceania and the World.

Do not hesitate to contact us with your feedback on the website as well as any information or photos that you would like to see on this website. This website really aims at providing at up-to-date information on all the Handball activities around Oceania and to do so we will need the help of all the players.
 

 

 

Clinics will be run over summer in Melbourne for this exiting new sport. See the clinics page for more details, or contact the WHA via the Contacts.

The Oceania Handball Federation, in conjunction with the Handball Federation of Victoria is starting Australia’s first introductory clinics for Wheelchair Team Handball. Wheelchair Team Handball - fun, easy and safe.

Running the introductory clinics is Kon Kiryakudya. "I have played many Wheelchair sports, and found Team Handball fun, easy to play and safe," Kon says. "It is faster then basketball - all ages and levels can play this sport" "Playing handball will enhance your wheelchair skills, coordination and fitness, but what really makes Team Handball fun is the friends you make and the atmosphere. It’s really challenging and competitive, but social. Wheelies will love this game." Wheelchair Handball sessions will be run over the summer at the Carlton Baths Community Centre. Wheelchairs are available for the use of players at the clinics, with plans of running a competition in early 2006.