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Pan-American Korfball Championship Pan-American Korfball Championship is the korfball Korfball ( nl, korfbal) is a ball sport, with similarities to netball and basketball. It is played by two teams of eight players with four female players and four male players in each team. ...
was held in
Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
from January 31 to February 2, with 3 national teams in competition. Originally 4 national teams were to compete until the withdrawal of
Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
(for financial reasons), so spare match fixtures were played against a second Brazil team, who played their matches out of the competition. The tournament also served as an American qualifier for the
2015 Korfball World Championship The 10th IKF World Korfball Championship were held in the Belgian cities of Ghent, Tielen and Antwerp in 2015. Ghent and Tielen hosted the first and second round matches, whilst the placing matches and finals were all held in the Lotto Arena in An ...
, with the top nation qualifying for the world championship.


Group stage

The Group stage was held on January 31 and February 1. Key: G denotes win by
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.


Final

The Final was played on the 2nd of February. 1st place match 20 - 10


Final standing


References

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