2016 African Women's Handball Championship


The 2016 African Women's Handball Championship was held in Luanda, Angola from 28 November to 7 December 2016. It acted as the African qualifying tournament for the 2017 World Women's Handball Championship.
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 African Handball Confederation had decided to separate the two competitions after several votes at a meeting on 23 January 2015 at the Abbasside Palace hotel in Algiers.

Venue


Qualification

Draw

Squads

Preliminary round

Times are local.

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

Fifth place game

Third place game

Final

Final ranking

RankTeam
4
5
6
7
8
DSQ

Awards

Best Player
Natália Bernardo

All-Tournament Team