The 2018

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is a multi venue

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tournament featuring countries based on the Pacific Ocean from April to December 2018. This will be the first tournament since

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and the first to feature countries from the American continent. The first leg was carried out in Mexico during April. The other legs will be completed by October with the finals to be held on Hawaii in December. The championships were abandoned, as the Oceania teams concentrated on the

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and both the Australian Women's and New Zealand women's team's playing in the

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. The

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was also recovering from the October 2015 earthquake.

Fixtures

Pool A - America's

''All times are local ( UTC−05:00).''

Pool B - Oceania

Pool C - French Pacific

Playoffs

Finals

4th - 6th playoff

7th - 9th playoff

References

External links

International Handball Federation webpage

Pan-American Handball Federation (Spanish)
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