2022 Goalball World Championships

2022 Goalball World Championships
Location	Matosinhos, Portugal
Dates	5–16 December 2022
Teams	32

The 2022 Goalball World Championships was held in Matosinhos, Portugal from 5 to 16 December 2022.

The 2022 Goalball World Championships were scheduled to be held in Hangzhou, China, to commence Monday, 5 June 2022, although originally set for Sunday 3 to Friday 15 July 2022. Some precursor regional championships were moved due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic: IBSA America moved from 6 to 13 November 2021 to 18 to 22 February 2022, and IBSA Asia moved from November 2021 to commence 21 March 2022.

By June 2022, the IBSA Asia Regional Championships were moved from South Korea to the ISA Sport City at Bahrain for July 2022, and the Centro de Desportos e Congressos de Matosinhos, Portugal, to be the location for the World Championships in December 2022.

The world title won Brazil and Turkey. For Brazil was their third world title in a row.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Brazil	China	Ukraine
Women	Turkey	South Korea	Israel

Team rosters

Men's rosters

Algeria		Argentina		Belgium		Brazil
Coach: Saad Boutiba		Coach: Damián Pelozo		Coach: Johan De Rick		Coach: Jônatas Castro
1	Samir Belhouchat	1	Matías Brítez	1	Arne Vanhove	4	Leomon Moreno
2	Firas Bentria	2	Oscar Silva	2	Wassime Amnir	5	Jose Márcio Sousa
3	Imad Eddine Godmane	3	Leonardo Jazmín	3	Oljan Mapreni	6	Romário Marques
4	Abdelhalim Larbi	4	Mario Velarde	4	Cemil Dzemail	7	Emerson Silva
5	Djalal Boutadjine	5	Matías Miranda	5	Klison Mapreni	8	Paulo Saturnino
6	Omar Mebarki	6	Eloy Nieva	6	Tom Vanhove	9	André Dantas
Canada		China		Colombia		Egypt
Coach: Nathalie Séguin		Coach: Yin Shiqiang		Coach: Juan Negrete		Coach: Mohamed Farahat
1	Ahmad Zeividavi	3	Yang Mingyuan	1	Víctor Montaño	2	Mohamed Elsayed
2	Aron Ghebreyohannes	5	Hu Mingyao	2	Jesús Hernández	3	Ahmed Abdelrazek
6	Blair Nesbitt	6	Yu Qinquan	3	Enrique Acero	5	Sayed Awwad
7	Doug Ripley	7	Yu Deyi	4	Javier Arroyo	6	Ali Ali
8	Mason Smith	8	Sun Zhen	7	Andrés Berrío	7	Omar Mohamed
9	Peter Parsons	9	Wang Jinhao	9	Eider Cuéllar	9	Ahmed Elsayed
Germany		Iran		Japan		Lithuania
Coach: Stefan Weil		Coach: Bahman Dousti		Coach: Rikiya Kudo		Coach: Klaidas Janeika
1	Michael Dennis	1	Khalil Shahrionarsab	1	Yuto Sano	1	Nerijus Montvydas
3	Thomas Steiger	2	Mohammad Mansouri	3	Masatoshi Ito	2	Artūras Jonikaitis
4	Philipp Tauscher	3	Hasan Jafari	5	Ryoga Yamaguchi	3	Justas Pažarauskas
6	Oliver Hörauf	6	Mohammadmahdi Nafisinab	7	Kazuya Kaneko	5	Mantas Brazauskis
8	Nils Emig	7	Mohammad Soranji	8	Koji Miyajiki	6	Normantas Prušinskas
9	Fabian Diehm	9	Mohsen Abdolmaleki	9	Yuta Kawashima	7	Genrik Pavliukianec
Portugal		Turkey		Ukraine		United States
Coach: Márcia Ferreira		Coach: Hüseyin Pelgz		Coach: Fedor Dubrovin		Coach: Keith Young
2	Alexandre Almeida	1	Hüseyin Alkan	1	Vasyl Oliinyk	1	Daryl Walker
3	Fábio Oliveira	2	Oğuzhan Yılmaz	2	Anton Strelchyk	2	Tyler Merren
5	João Mota	3	Ebubekir Sıddık Kara	3	Vitalii Haponenko	3	Andrew Jenks
6	João Macedo	4	Bilal Tekin	4	Yevheniy Tsyhanenko	7	Matthew Simpson
9	João Sousa	6	Yunus Emre Akyüz	5	Rodion Zhyhalin	8	Christian King
		7	Tuncay Karakaya	7	Oleksandr Toporkov	9	Lewis Walker

Women's rosters

Algeria		Argentina		Australia		Brazil
Coach: Miloud Djelaili		Coach: Irina Versele		Coach: Meica Horsburgh		Coach: Gabriel Siqueira
1	Saliha Slimi	1	Mailen Benítez	1	Zara Perry	1	Larissa Saturnino
2	Chafika Kehifoun	2	Romina Cardozo	2	Nikita Grosser	2	Geovanna Moura
3	Khalida Ibziz	3	Milagros Porretta	3	Clare Whelan	5	Moniza Lima
4	Sarah Abdellaoui	5	Mariela Almada	4	Jessica Clark	6	Kátia Silva
5	Bakhta Benallou	6	Graciela Almada	6	Amelia Hart	7	Danielle Longhini
6	Saida Bourouba	7	Lorena Magaña	7	Raissa Martin	8	Jéssica Vitorino
Canada		Denmark		Egypt		France
Coach: Trent Farebrother		Coach: Ricky Nielsen		Coach: Abobakr Shaaban		Coach: Anthony Puaud
3	Whitney Bogart	2	Beritan Dener	2	Amany Abouhussein	1	Audrey Belkhir
4	Meghan Mahon	3	Hazel Gezen	3	Gehad Ezzeldin	2	Sandrine Mourey
5	Emma Reinke	4	Anja Christensen	4	Dina Eladgham	6	Jahmali Berquier
6	Brieann Baldock	7	Juliane Lund	7	Hasnaa Elgabry	7	Gwendoline Matos
7	Amy Burk			9	Shaimaa Hanafy	8	Loïse Rondepierre
8	Maryam Salehizadeh
Great Britain		Israel		Japan		Mexico
Coach: Aaron Ford		Coach: Raz Shoham		Coach: Kyoichi Ichikawa		Coach: Rafael Godínez
1	Sarah Leiter	1	Elham Mahamid Ruzin	1	Yuki Temma	2	Valeria Aguilar
2	Antonia Bunyan	2	Noa Malka	3	Eiko Kakehata	3	Arlyn Moreno
4	Georgie Bullen	3	Gal Hamrani	4	Saki Amuro	4	María Ornelas
5	Meme Robertson	4	Or Mizrahi	6	Norika Hagiwara	7	Adriana Vizcarra
7	Megan Smithson-Booth	5	Roni Ohayon	7	Rieko Takahashi	NP	Abril Moreno
8	Lois Turner	6	Lihi Ben David	9	Masae Komiya
Portugal		South Korea		Turkey		United States
Coach: Márcia Ferreira		Coach: Jung Ji-young		Coach: Gültekin Karasu		Coach: Jacob Czechowski
1	Eduarda Azevedo	1	Kim Hee-jin	1	Fatma Gül Güler	1	Elizabeth Daugherty
3	Marlene Brandão	2	Park Min-kyoung	2	Reyhan Yılmaz	4	Asya Miller
4	Bruna Lourinho	3	Kim Eun-ji	3	Sevda Altunoluk	5	Amanda Dennis
5	Leonor Silva	6	Sim Seon-hwa	4	Şeydanur Kaplan	7	Eliana Mason
8	Jéssica Castro	7	Seo Min-ji	7	Sevtap Altunoluk	8	Shavon Lockhardt
		8	Choi Eum-jee	8	Berfin Altan	9	Mindy Cook

Men's event

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Brazil	7	7	0	0	82	36	+46	21	Qualification for quarterfinals
2	Turkey	7	4	2	1	50	32	+18	14
3	Japan	7	4	1	2	59	30	+29	13
4	Germany	7	4	0	3	64	52	+12	12
5	Belgium	7	2	2	3	40	55	−15	8
6	Portugal	7	2	0	5	40	67	−27	6
7	Canada	7	1	1	5	37	74	−37	4
8	Algeria	7	1	0	6	36	62	−26	3

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Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	China	7	7	0	0	62	23	+39	21	Qualification for quarterfinals
2	Lithuania	7	5	1	1	78	40	+38	16
3	Ukraine	7	4	1	2	46	29	+17	13
4	Iran	7	4	0	3	59	51	+8	12
5	United States	7	4	0	3	59	55	+4	12
6	Argentina	7	2	0	5	39	59	−20	6
7	Egypt	7	1	0	6	44	73	−29	3
8	Colombia	7	0	0	7	20	77	−57	0

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Knockouts

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	15 December 2022
	Brazil	15
					15 December 2022
	Iran	5
					Brazil	9
	15 December 2022
					Lithuania	4
	Lithuania	6
									16 December 2022
	Japan	4
									Brazil	6
	15 December 2022
									China	5
	China	12
					15 December 2022
	Germany	2
					China	9
	15 December 2022
					Ukraine	4			Third place
	Turkey	5
									16 December 2022
	Ukraine	6
									Lithuania	2
									Ukraine	6

Women's event

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Canada	7	7	0	0	75	22	+53	21	Qualification for quarterfinals
2	Turkey	7	6	0	1	75	25	+50	18
3	South Korea	7	5	0	2	51	38	+13	15
4	Denmark	7	4	0	3	60	55	+5	12
5	Algeria	7	3	0	4	42	43	−1	9
6	France	7	1	1	5	34	64	−30	4
7	Argentina	7	1	1	5	33	65	−32	4
8	Mexico	7	0	0	7	25	83	−58	0

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Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Israel	7	7	0	0	64	25	+39	21	Qualification for quarterfinals
2	Japan	7	5	1	1	42	17	+25	16
3	United States	7	5	0	2	50	29	+21	15
4	Great Britain	7	4	1	2	43	23	+20	13
5	Brazil	7	3	0	4	50	36	+14	9
6	Australia	7	2	0	5	34	55	−21	6
7	Egypt	7	1	0	6	20	58	−38	3
8	Portugal	7	0	0	7	13	73	−60	0

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Knockouts

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	15 December 2022
	Canada	7
					15 December 2022
	Great Britain	4
					Canada	2
	15 December 2022
					South Korea	5
	Japan	2
									16 December 2022
	South Korea	3
									South Korea	4
	15 December 2022
									Turkey	10
	Israel	12
					15 December 2022
	Denmark	2
					Israel	2
	15 December 2022
					Turkey	4			Third place
	Turkey	5
									16 December 2022
	United States	4
									Canada	2
									Israel	4

External links

• Goalball 2022