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| Information | |||
| Association | Federacion Dominicana de Balonmano | ||
| Coach | Tony Bustos | ||
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| Results | |||
| Pan-American Championship | |||
| Appearances | 2 (First in 2000 ) | ||
| Best result | 6th (2000) | ||
| Last updated on Unknown. | |||
The Dominican Republic national handball team is the national handball team of Dominican Republic and is governed by the Federacion Dominicana de Balonmano.
Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the goal of the other team. A standard match consists of two periods of 30 minutes, and the team that scores more goals wins.
The Dominican Republic is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of only two Caribbean islands, along with Saint Martin, that are shared by two sovereign states. The Dominican Republic is the second-largest Caribbean nation by area at 48,671 square kilometers (18,792 sq mi), and third by population with approximately 10,299,000 people, of whom approximately three million live in the metropolitan area of Santo Domingo, the capital city.
Contents
- Participation
- Pan-American Championship
- Pan American Games
- Central American and Caribbean Games
- Caribbean Handball Cup
- Nor.Ca Championship
- Current squad
- References
- External links
The team won the 2009 Pan-American Men’s First Division Championship, held in home soil Santo Domingo. [1]
Santo Domingo, officially Santo Domingo de Guzmán, is the capital and largest city in the Dominican Republic and the largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population. In 2010, its population was counted as 965,040, rising to 2,908,607 when its surrounding metropolitan area was included. The city is coterminous with the boundaries of the Distrito Nacional, itself bordered on three sides by Santo Domingo Province.
