Canada won 51–48 on aggregate and qualified for the games.

• The second game at the end of regulation was a 25–21 advantage for Canada, thus the game went to overtime.

Last chance qualifying tournament

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• USA advance to the Pan American Games with a better goal differential. Puerto Rico withdrew from participating in the tournament.

Squads

At the start of tournament, all eight participating countries had 15 players on their rosters. Final squads for the tournament were due on September 14 2011, a month before the start of 2011 Pan American Games

2011 Pan American Games

The 2011 Pan American Games, officially the XVI Pan American Games, was an international multi-sport event that was held from October 14–30, 2011 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Some events were held in the nearby cities of Ciudad Guzmán, Puerto Vallarta, Lagos de Moreno and Tapalpa...

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Format

• Eight teams are split into 2 preliminary round groups of 4 teams each. The top 2 teams from each group qualify for the knockout stage.
• The third and fourth placed teams will play the fifth to eight bracket.
• In the semifinals, the matchups are as follows: A1 vs. B2 and B1 vs. A2
• The winning teams from the semifinals play for the gold medal. The losing teams compete for the bronze medal.

Ties are broken via the following the criteria, with the first option used first, all the way down to the last option:

1. Head to head results.
2. Goal difference in the matches between the teams concerned.
3. Greater number of plus goals in the matches between the teams concerned.

Draw

The draw for the tournament was held at the offices of the Organising Committee (COPAG) for the Games in Guadalajara on July 21 at 16:00 local time.

The competing are drawn to each group by couples. The first team selected randomly in the draw goes to group A and the second to Group B. The pots are based on the performance of national teams in both previous games and their standings in their respective regional competitions.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4

Preliminary round

All times are local Central Daylight Time (UTC-5

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Qualified for the quarterfinals

Group A

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Group B

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Elimination stage

Semifinals

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Fifth-Eighth place matches

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Seventh place match

Fifth place match

Bronze medal match

Gold medal match

Final standings

Rank	Team	Record
		5 – 0 – 0
		4 – 0 – 1
		3 – 0 – 2
4		2 – 0 – 3
5		3 – 0 – 2
6		2 – 0 – 3
7		1 – 0 – 4
8		0 – 0 – 5

Medalists

Men's

Gonzalo Carou Federico Fernandez Fernando Garcia Juan Fernandez Andres Kogovsek Damian Migueles Federico Pizarro Cristian Plati Pablo Portela Leonardo Querin Matias Schulz Diego Simonet Sebastian Simonet Juan Vidal Federico Vieyra

Leonardo Bortolini Leonardo Bortolini Leonardo Bortolini is a Brazilian handball player who plays for the club Umopar Larrafkl Londrina and the Brazilian national team. He participated at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where the Brazilian team placed 11th.-References:... Gustavo Cardoso Fabio Chiuffa Bruno De Santana Marcos Dos Santos Thiagus Dos Santos Jaqson Kojoroski Ferando Filho Gil Pires Felipe Ribeiro Renato Rui Maik Santos Ales Silva Henrique Teixeira Vinicius Teixeira

Guillermo Araya Felipe Barrientos Rodolfo Cornejo Rodrigo Diaz Emil Feuchtmann Erwin Feuchtmann Harald Feuchtmann Nicolas Jofre Patricio Martinez Felipe Maurin Rene Oliva Marco Oneto Marco Oneto Marco Antonio Oneto Zúñiga is a professional handball player, and a captain of Chilean handball team... Esteban Salinas Rodrigo Salinas Alfredo Valenzuela

External links

• Schedule