The Indoor Pan American Cup 2024 got here to an finish on 22 March with Argentina males and USA girls successful the gold medals and securing their spot on the FIH Hockey Indoor World Cups 2025. With a second obtainable slot within the males’s competitors, Trinidad & Tobago, winners of the silver medal on the competitors additionally joined Los Leones in qualifying for the World Cup.
Within the males’s competitors, Argentina, USA, Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana and Canada competed within the league stage. Argentina topped the group, successful all 4 matches, adopted by USA in second with three wins and a loss. Trinidad & Tobago and Guyana additionally certified for the semi-final ending third and fourth respectively.
Argentina dominated Guyana within the first semi-final, successful 10-0, with Gaston Rodriguez and Elen Eleicegui scoring hat-tricks, sealing a spot within the remaining in addition to gaining them entry into the FIH Indoor Hockey World Cup 2025. USA and Trinidad & Tobago performed in an exhilarating 11-goal thriller within the second semi-final with the Caribbean nation edging the tie and qualifying for his or her third ever FIH Indoor Hockey World Cup.
Argentina gained the ultimate 5-2, with Agustin Ceballos scoring a hat-trick to guide the South American aspect to the gold medal for the second straight version!
Agustin Ceballos top-scored within the event, scoring 12 targets for Argentina.
Within the girls’s competitors, United States, Argentina, Canada and Uruguay competed within the league stage. United States went unbeaten within the league stage, successful all three of their matches, with Argentina ending second, Canada in third and Uruguay in fourth. United States gained the primary semi-final 5-0 towards Uruguay securing a spot within the finals, whereas Argentina beat house staff Canada 6-2 within the second semi-final.
The finals noticed USA tackle Argentina in a repeat of the opening match of the event, the place USA dominated Argentina with a 7-1 win. With a spot within the FIH Indoor Hockey World Cup 2025 up for grabs for the winner of the finals, a a lot nearer encounter unfolded. USA took an early 2-goal lead, however all through the sport the lead modified palms a number of instances and on the finish of regulation time, each side had been tied at 5 targets every, leading to a shoot-out. USA had been excellent within the shoot-out successful 3-2, grabbing the gold medal and securing the one obtainable slot from Pan America, on the FIH Indoor Hockey Ladies’s World Cup 2025!
15-year-old Reese D’Ariano was the star of the present within the girls’s event, top-scoring with 16 targets for gold medalists USA.