The final day of the main and consolation round in Kazan 2018 saw Spain win their sixth game in a row, while Greece and Paraguay both booked their quarter-final spots with shootout wins. Denmark confirmed their place in the last eight with a win over Thailand.

2018 IHF Women’s Beach Handball World Championship

Matchday 4: Main Round and Consolation Round – Day 2

- Greece beat Uruguay in a shootout to confirm their quarter-final place
- Spain win group 1, beating Poland to maintain their winning record
- Debutants Paraguay in last eight after taking down Chinese Taipei in the shootout
- Danes claim last quarter-final place from group 2, beating Thailand
- France win their third game in a row, beating Australia in consolation round
- Mexico celebrate their first-ever win in a world championship

Main Round: Group 1
Spain continued their dominance in Kazan as they won their sixth game in a row, against Poland (2:0) as 20 points from Maria Asuncion Batista Portero elevated her to 85 in Kazan in total and a joint top-scorer spot.

As Spain and Poland were already confirmed of their quarter-final spot before the days' matches the real story was who would qualify out of Paraguay and Chinese Taipei.

The Asian side easily won the first set, while the South American side easily won the second so it was left to a shootout to decide who would qualify through to the quarter-finals and it was not until the third of shots that there was a miss as Tzu-Hsuan Tsai hit the post and the ball went out and Paraguay went on to convert their three penalties as Wei-Juang Huang missed Taipei's final shot.

In the other match, already-eliminated Uruguay face Greece and put up quite a fight in the first period, but fell apart in the second, scoring just six points, before eventually going down in the shootout as the Greeks confirmed their quarter-final spot.

Results
ESP vs POL 2:0 (19:16) (20:16)
GRE vs URU 2:1 (10:14) (21:6) [9:6 SO]
PAR vs TPE 2:1 (13:25) (21:13) [9:6 SO]

Main Round: Group 2
Brazil made it six wins out of six at Kazan 2018 and have only dropped one set - against Vietnam - in their run through to the quarter-finals with a tight two-set victory over Norway in a group 2 title decider.

Renata Santiago top-scored for Brazil with 15 points as she scored the winning point in the first set while the second period was clearer as the South Americans led by four (25:21) in the last minute.

Hosts Russia were ruthless against Vietnam, winning 2:0 with a points total of 46:24 as Elena Ustich grabbed 14 points with five our of five spins shots and two out of two in-flights.

As the Danish men celebrated in the spectator seats wildly, having their quarter-finals place confirmed, the Danish women went on to beat Thailand to confirm their final eight spot after Line Kristensen grabbed a one-point winner at the end of the first set and her side won by five in the second.

Main Round: Group 2

Results
BRA vs NOR 2:0 (17:16) (25:23)
RUS vs VIE 2:0 (22:8) (24:16)
THA vs DEN 0:2 (12:13) (13:18)

Consolation Round
France made it three wins out of three in the consolation round as they easily won their first set against Australia after they went on a six-goal unanswered scoring run from the fifth minute up to the last few seconds until Vanja Smiljanic scored a two-pointer late on.

Australia had been in contention at 6:6 but just two minutes later they are 12:6 down.

The second set was more equal, but, led by Clarisse Wild and Sabrina Zazai, with 23 points between them in the match, France pushed ahead with two minutes left and the scores equal (11:11) to win 14:11 and take another victory as Anna Meded saw red for the Australians.

A piece of Mexican sporting history was made just after midday today in Kazan as Mexico won their first-ever beach handball world championship match, beating USA 2-0 thanks to two strong sets in which Edna Viridiana Uresti Valencia continued her supreme goalscoring, slotting home another 14 points to sit joint top of the Kazan 2018 scoring charts on 85 points.

The only time the central American side were behind in the game was after Melissa Sponagle opened the match scoring in the second minute, but from then the Mexicans powered through.

Consolation Round

Results
AUS vs FRA 0:2 (8:17) (11:14)
USA vs MEX 0:2 (13:20) (10:16)