The 2016 African Women's Handball Championship was the 22nd edition of the

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, held in

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from 28 November to 7 December 2016. It acted as the African qualifying tournament for the

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. This was the first time in the history of the African championships that the male and female editions were organized in two different countries at different times. While men and women competitions were traditionally gathered in the same installations every two years in January, The

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(CAHB) had decided to separate the two competitions after several votes at a meeting on 23 January 2015 at the Abbasside Palace hotel in

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Venue

Qualification

¹ Bold indicates champion for that year. ''Italics'' indicates host.

Draw

Squads

Preliminary round

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Group A

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Group B

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Knockout stage

Bracket

;5–8th place bracket

Quarterfinals

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5–8th place semifinals

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Semifinals

After the semifinals, Senegal was disqualified from the tournament for using ineligible player

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, since she has already played for the French national team. Tunisia faced Angola in the final and Cameroon automatically occupied the third place. ----

Seventh place game

Fifth place game

Third place game

Final

Final ranking

Awards

Angolese

Natália Bernardo Natália María Bernardo dos Santos (born 25 December 1986) is an Angolan handball player for Primeiro de Agosto and the Angola women's national handball team. She participated at the 2011 and 2013 World Women's Handball Championships in Brazi ...

is the

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and Tunisian

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is the top scorer with 40 goals.

All-Tournament Team

All-star team is

References

External links

Official website
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