Back Issue: #215 - September 2003

2003 International Team Handball Tournament, Gallaudet University

USA Deaf Team Handball Made History!

The Championship team of America Cup 2003: Croatia

Denmark team for second place.

Richard Jacobs (tan short with white t-shirt), USA Deaf Team Handball President/assistant coach, and Lynn Ray Boren (red short with white t-shirt), Team Development coordinator/USA team’s head coach (including Kellie McComas, Logistics Coordinator (not in picture)) were the main factor for the success of America Cup. Jacobs asked Gene Duve (tan short with blue polo), former USADTH’s president, to present trophies to winning teams during the award ceremony. Croatians team on left and Danish team on right.

On the weekend of July 4-6, 2003, the USA Deaf Team Handball (USADTH), under the auspices of the USA Deaf Sports Federation, hosted the successful America Cup event at Gallaudet University, Washington, DC. It was amazingly the first International team handball tournament here in our good ole America.  This is notable since larger hearing organizations have yet to host any kind of international team handball competitions here in USA. We now know how the Americans felt when they reached the moon before any other country did.

The results of the American Cup were the Croatian team placing first place, the second place went to Denmark and the two USA teams placed third and fourth. See the results of games and leaders below. 

Result of America Cup Games:
 Game 1: July 4 at 13:00
   Croatia: 39 USA Blue: 22
 
 Game 2: July 4 at 14:30
   Denmark: 18  USA Red: 17 
 
 Game 3: July 5 at 9:30 
  USA Blue: 21 USA Red: 29
 
 Game 4: July 5 at 11:00 
  Croatia: 36  Denmark 22
 
 Game 5: July 5 at 15:00 
  Denmark 31  USA Blue: 23
 
 Game 6: July 5 at 16:30 
  USA Red: 25 Croatia: 32
 
 Game 7: July 6 at  9:00 (3rd/4th Place) 
  USA Red:33 USA Blue: 27
 
 Game 8: July 6 at 11:00 (Championship) 
  Croatia: 34 Denmark 19
 
 
2003 America Cup Scorer leaders: 
 
Team       No. Player             Goals 
Croatia      3  Mario Basic           31
Denmark     14  Frank Hansen          22 
USA Red      8  Rick Kaufman          21
USA Red      5  Kelvin Etkie          21 
Croatia     14  Ivan Pajic            20
Croatia      5  Davor Mazura          19 
Denmark      4  Lars Hedegard         19
Croatia      6  Marijo Lusic          18 
USA Red     16  Jesse Woosley         16
Croatia      9  Damir Loncaric        13 
USA Blue     1  Adam Jarashow         12
USA Blue     9  Sergi Giterman        12 
Denmark      3  Soren Vishoim         11
USA Red      3  Norman Chan           11 
USA Red      2  Sean Moore            10
Denmark      5  Karsten Kristiansen   10 
Croatia     10  Angel Naumovski        9
Croatia     13  Davor Baresic          8 
USA Red     17  Donald Tropp           8
USA Blue    16  Jeff Bibb              8 
Croatia      4  Nedjeljko Feljan       8
Croatia     11  Boris Gramnjak         7 
Denmark     13  Jesper Nielsen         7
USA Red      4  Anthony Albrecht       7 
USA Blue     7  Garri Azrelyant        6
Denmark      2  Carsten Nielsen        6 
USA Blue     6  Ronald Zuchengo        5
Croatia      2  Senad Fazlovic         5 
Denmark     11  Jens Andersen          5
USA Red     11  Steve Biskupiak        4 
USA Red     19  Shannon Simon          4
Denmark      7  Thomas Hagel           4 
Denmark     10  Simon Harlshoj         3
Denmark      5  Mads Jensen            3 
USA Blue    14  John Lawson            2
Croatia      8  Ivan Katusa            2 
Croatia      7  Davor Stanisic         1
 
Leaders of 2-minute penalty
 
Team      No. Player           2 Min Pen 
Denmark      2  Carsten Nielsen        6
Denmark     14  Frank Hansen           5 
Croatia      3  Mario Basic            4
Croatia      9  Damir Loncaric         4 
Denmark     13  Jesper Nielsen         3
USA Blue     6  Ronald Zuchengo        3 
Denmark     11  Jens Andersen          2
USA Blue     7  Garri Azrelyant        2 
USA Blue    16  Jeff Bibb              2
Croatia      2  Senad Fazlovic         2 
Croatia      4  Nedjeljko Feljan       2
Croatia     11  Boris Gramnjak         2 
USA Blue     1  Adam Jarashow          2
Denmark     10  Simon Karlshoj         2 
Denmark      5  Karsten Kristiansen    2
USA Blue    14  John Lawson            2 
Croatia     14  Ivan Pajic             2
USA Red     19  Shannon Simon          2 
USA Red     17  Donald Tropp           2
USA Red      3  Norman Chan            1 
Denmark      7  Thomas Hagel           1
Denmark      4  Lars Hedegard          1 
Denmark      5  Mads Jensen            1
USA Red      8  Rick Kaufman           1 
USA Red      1  Ty Kovacs              1
Croatia      6  Marijo Lusic           1 
Croatia     10  Angel Naumovski        1
Croatia      7  Davor Stanisic         1 
Denmark     16  Brian Terkelsen        1
USA Red     16  Jesse Woosley          1 

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