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Live blog: The final day at the first IHF Four-a-Side Wheelchair Handball Championship is over. We have our podium for the 1st IHF Four-a-Side Wheelchair Handball World Championship and three continents are represented – South America (Brazil, gold), Africa (Egypt, silver) and Europe (Slovenia, bronze).
Today's matches:
Two decades ago, Joyce van Haaster was considered one of the brightest talents in Dutch handball. But a serious health scare derailed the plan to become a top goalkeeper and, probably, a stalwart in the Netherlands’ women's national team.
“But when I saw that wheelchair handball was starting to become a thing in my country, this was the moment I knew I had to start playing and rekindle my love with the sport because I was always the proactive person,” says van Haaster.
The second day of the 1st IHF Four-a-Side Wheelchair Handball World Championship will bring another full six-game card, with plenty of answers ready to be delivered. The two unbeaten teams from the first day of the competition, Egypt and Brazil, will be facing off in the day's last match.