The Qatari beach handball team on Wednesday qualified for the main round of the World Championship after defeating Uruguay (2/0), within Group 4 in the tournament currently held in China's Pingtan Island, and will continue until June 23. With this victory, Qatar occupy third place in the group behind Germany and US, thus secured a spot in the main round of the tournament. The Qatari team lost their first match on Tuesday to US 1/2, and also lost today to Germany 0/2. 16 teams are participating in the tournament, distributed into four groups, as the first group features the teams of Australia, Oman, Denmark and Hungary, the second group includes Tunisia, Spain, China and Brazil, the third group includes Puerto Rico, Portugal, Argentina and Croatia, and the fourth group includes the teams of Qatar, Germany, Uruguay and the United States. The first three teams from each group in the preliminary round qualify for the main round of the tournament. The Qatari team's participation in the current World Cup is it s seventh in a row, the first was 2010 Turkey. The team won the gold medal at the Asian Beach Games in 2012, 2014 and 2016, in addition to winning the gold medal at the 2nd Gulf Beach Games in Doha in 2015. Source: Qatar News Agency
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