Africa-Press – Angola. The Kilamba pavilion, hotels and hospitals will be the main properties to be inspected, starting this Monday, in Luanda, by Aissa Sy, general secretary of the African Handball Confederation (CAHB).
The responsible for the modality on the continent, in the country since Friday, will work until Monday in order to confirm what condition Angola has to host the pre-Olympic women’s tournament, from September 10 to 12, qualifying for the 2024 Olympic Games , in the city of Paris.
Upon arrival, the CAHB representative visited the headquarters of the Angolan Handball Federation (FAAND), in the Cidadela complex, where she was received by vice-presidents Domingos Nascimento, Nair Almeida, as well as by the general secretary, Onédio Silva.
Six years after hosting the 22nd edition of the African Senior Women’s Handball Championship, Angola is close to hosting another major event organized by the governing body of the sport in Africa.
The competition is reserved for the first four teams of the last African championship, played in Senegal, in 2022, namely Angola, Cameroon, Senegal and Congo.
The pre-Olympic tournaments began to be played in 2015, when the African championships ceased to qualify for games under the aegis of the IOC.
Angola hosted the first edition, between 19 and 21 March. The selections of Tunisia, Angola, DRC and Senegal participated.
In 2019, from the 26th to the 29th of September, the Senegalese city of Dakar hosted the qualifying round for the 2020 games in Tokyo. Again Angola won and qualified.
At the Olympic tournament in Tokyo, Angola ranked 10th.MC
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