The Brazil women's national handball team is the national team of
Brazil
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. It is governed by the
Confederação Brasileira de Handebol and takes part in international
handball
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competitions.
History
In December 2013, the team won the
World Championship
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for the first time
in history after defeating
Serbia
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22–20 in the final. The Brazilian team won all nine games played in the tournament and became the first nation from
Americas
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,
Southern Hemisphere and only the second non-European country (after
South Korea
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) to win the title.
Results
Olympic Games
World Championships
Pan American Games
Pan American Championship
South and Central American Championship
South American Games
Other tournaments
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GF World Cup 2006 – Seventh place
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2014 International Tournament of Spain –
*2015
Angola 40 Years Tournament – Third place
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2015 Carpathian Trophy
The 2015 Carpathian Trophy was the 47th edition of the Carpathian Trophy held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania between 20–21 March as a women's friendly handball tournament organised by the Romanian Handball Federation.
The most recent winners of t ...
– Fourth place
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2016 Firenasjonersturneringer – Fourth place
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2016 Women's Four Nations Tournament –
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2017 Women's Four Nations Tournament –
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2017 Carpathian Trophy
The 2017 Carpathian Trophy was the 49th edition of the Carpathian Trophy held in Craiova, Romania between 24 and 26 November as a women's friendly handball tournament organised by the Romanian Handball Federation.
Results
Round robin
''All tim ...
– Third place
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2018 World University Handball Championship –
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2018 Women's International Tournament of Spain – Second place
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2019 Women's International Tournament of Spain – Third place
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2019 Intersport Cup – Third place
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2019 Japan Cup – Third place
*2021 HEP Croatia Cup - Second place
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2022 Intersport Cup – Fourth place
Current squad
Squad for the
2021 World Women's Handball Championship
The 2021 IHF World Women's Handball Championship, the 25th event by the International Handball Federation, was held in Spain from 1 to 19 December 2021. On 18 October 2018, at a congress in Doha, Qatar, the IHF announced that the World Championsh ...
.
Head coach:
Cristiano Silva
Head coach history
References
External links
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IHF profile
{{National sports teams of Brazil
National team
A national sports team (commonly known as a national team or a national side) is a team that represents a nation, rather than a particular club or region, in an international sport.
The term is most commonly associated with team sports, for exa ...
Handball
Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the ...
Women's national handball teams