Sports Bulletin Report
Lausanne (Switzerland): The Pan American hockey teams, in both men’s and women’s category, will compete from April 10 to 18 in the 2023 Junior Pan American Championships at Bridgetown, Barbados with three spots, in each gender, up for grabs in the upcoming FIH Junior World Cups 2023.
Argentina, Canada, Chile, Guyana and USA will join hosts Barbados in both men’s and women’s tournaments, with Brazil (men) and Uruguay (women) rounding out the competing teams, with 7 sides playing in both tournaments. The men’s competition will get underway on the morning of 10 April with Argentina taking on Brazil, while the women’s competition will get underway on the same afternoon with Argentina taking on Uruguay in the opening encounter.
The teams will be split into two pools, with Pool A comprising 3 teams and Pool B comprising 4 teams. In the men’s competition the Argentina, Brazil and Chile will play in Pool A, while Barbados, Canada, Guyana and USA are placed in Pool B. In the women’s competition Argentina, Uruguay and USA are placed in Pool A, while Barbados, Canada, Chile and Guyana will compete in Pool B.
Each team in the pool stage will play the other teams in the pool once. The top two teams in both pools will qualify for the semi-finals, while the team in third position in Pool A will play the team in fourth position of Pool B, with the losing team ending their tournament in the seventh place, while the winner will play the third placed team in pool B in a fifth/sixth place playoff.
The losing semi-finalists will play in the bronze medal match. The two finalists and the bronze medalists in each gender will qualify for the corresponding FIH Junior Hockey World Cup 2023. The finals in the men’s tournament will be played on 17 April in the afternoon, while the women’s final will be played at the same time on the afternoon of 18 April.
The FIH Junior Hockey Men’s World Cup 2023 will be played in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 5-16 December 2023. Malaysia have qualified as the hosts of the competition. Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands and Spain have qualified from Europe as the teams that were classified in the top-5 at the EuroHockey Junior Championship 2022. Australia and New Zealand have also qualified through the Oceania Junior World Cup Qualifiers 2022. South Africa and Egypt are the qualifiers from Africa finishing as the top two teams at the Junior Africa Cup 2023. Apart from the three qualifiers from Pan America, three more teams from Asia will qualify for the World Cup through the Junior Asia Cup 2023 which will be played later in the year.
The FIH Junior Hockey Women’s World Cup 2023 will be played in Santiago, Chile. The new dates for the World Cup have been released and the event will now run from 29 November to 10th December 2023. Chile have qualified as the hosts of the competition. Belgium, England, Germany, Netherlands and Spain have qualified from Europe as the teams that were classified in the top-5 at the EuroHockey Junior Championship 2022. Australia and New Zealand have also qualified through the Oceania Junior World Cup Qualifiers 2022. South Africa and Zimbabwe are the qualifiers from Africa finishing as the top two teams at the Junior Africa Cup 2023. Apart from the three qualifiers from Pan America, three more teams from Asia will qualify for the World Cup through the Junior Asia Cup 2023 which will be played later in the year.
