2002 African Women's Handball Championship

2002 African Women's Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Morocco
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Dates	19–28 April
Teams	9 (from 1 confederation)
Final positions
Champions	Angola (6th title)
Runner-up	Ivory Coast
Third place	Tunisia
Fourth place	Algeria

The 2002 African Women's Handball Championship was the 15th edition of the African Women's Handball Championship, held in Morocco from 19 to 28 April 2002. It acted as the African qualifying tournament for the 2003 World Women's Handball Championship.

Preliminary round

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Tunisia	2	2	0	0	65	32	+33	4
Cameroon	2	1	0	1	45	38	+7	2
Morocco (H)	2	0	0	2	22	62	−40	0

Source:
(H) Hosts

19 April 2002	Tunisia	38–11	Morocco
		(15–4)

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20 April 2002	Cameroon	24–11	Morocco
		(6–2)

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21 April 2002	Tunisia	27–21	Cameroon
		(15–12)

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Angola	2	2	0	0	62	32	+30	4
Ivory Coast	2	1	0	1	48	38	+10	2
Gabon	2	0	0	2	28	68	−40	0

Source:

19 April 2002	Angola	36–16	Gabon
		(17–7)

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20 April 2002	Ivory Coast	32–12	Gabon
		(14–4)

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21 April 2002	Angola	26–16	Ivory Coast
		(13–7)

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Algeria	2	2	0	0	62	43	+19	4
Congo	2	1	0	1	64	48	+16	2
DR Congo	2	0	0	2	35	70	−35	0

Source:

19 April 2002	Congo	41–15	DR Congo
		(19–8)

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20 April 2002	Algeria	29–20	DR Congo
		(12–11)

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21 April 2002	Algeria	33–23	Congo
		(15–11)

Second round

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Angola	2	2	0	0	58	41	+17	4
Tunisia	1	0	0	1	21	27	−6	0
Congo	1	0	0	1	20	31	−11	0

Source:

23 April 2002	Angola	27–21	Tunisia
		(14–7)

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24 April 2002	Angola	31–20	Congo
		(18–5)

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25 April 2002	Tunisia	v	Congo

Group E

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Ivory Coast	2	2	0	0	46	41	+5	4
Algeria	1	0	0	1	19	20	−1	0
Cameroon	1	0	0	1	22	26	−4	0

Source:

23 April 2002	Ivory Coast	26–22	Cameroon
		(12–9)

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24 April 2002	Ivory Coast	20–19	Algeria
		(12–12)

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25 April 2002	Algeria	v	Cameroon

7–9 placement group

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Gabon	2	2	0	0	40	29	+11	4
DR Congo	1	0	0	1	16	18	−2	0
Morocco (H)	1	0	0	1	13	22	−9	0

Source:
(H) Hosts

23 April 2002	Gabon	22–13	Morocco
		(10–5)

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24 April 2002	Gabon	18–16	DR Congo
		(5–6)

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25 April 2002	DR Congo	v	Morocco

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Semifinals				Final
	Angola	33
	Algeria	21
					Angola	30
					Ivory Coast	21
	Tunisia	20
	Ivory Coast	24
					Third place
					Algeria	20
					Tunisia	31

Semifinals

26 April 2002	Angola	33–21	Algeria
		(17–9)

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26 April 2002	Ivory Coast	24–20	Tunisia
		(13–12)

Fifth place game

26 April 2002	Cameroon	29–23	Congo
		(9–8)

Third place game

27 April 2002	Tunisia	31–20	Algeria
		(19–13)

Final

28 April 2002	Angola	30–21	Ivory Coast
		(13–7)

Final ranking

	Qualified for the 2003 World Championship and the 2004 Summer Olympics qualifying tournament
	Qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics qualifying tournament

Rank	Team
	Angola
	Ivory Coast
	Tunisia
4	Algeria
5	Cameroon
6	Congo
7	Gabon
8	DR Congo
9	Morocco

External links

• Results on todor66.com