Noelia Artigas

Noelia Beatriz Artigas Pizzo (born June 4, 1989, in Montevideo, Uruguay) is a Uruguayan handball player who currently plays for Scuola Italiana di Montevideo in Uruguay.

Video summary of the best saves from the 2024/2025 season.

Career

Noelia Artigas is a handball goalkeeper who has represented Uruguay on numerous occasions.

She was part of the Uruguay women's national handball team that competed in the 2011 World Women's Handball Championship, where Uruguay made history by winning its first-ever match at a World Championship and achieving its best overall ranking in the tournament's history.

She also took part in Handball at the 2010 South American Games, where Uruguay won the bronze medal.

In 2018, she traveled to China with the Uruguay women's national handball team as part of a sports cooperation agreement between Uruguay and China. The team spent a month in Nanning for high-performance training and friendly matches, under the guidance of Chinese coaches. The program was part of Uruguay’s preparation for the Juegos Suramericanos, Cochabamba, 2018.

Between 2006 and 2012, she was a member of the Uruguay women's national beach handball team. During this period, she proudly represented the national team, participating in three World Championships: Río 2006, Cádiz 2008, and Omán 2012. Notably, she competed in the 2012 Beach Handball World Championships, where Uruguay finished in sixth place—its best placement to date in the competition.

During her career in Uruguay, Artigas played for the Federación Uruguaya de Handball winning six consecutive national championships with her club Scuola Italiana di Montevideo between 2018 and 2023. Sources are

These titles earned her club a place in the last five editions of the South and Central American Women's Club Handball Championship: 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025.

She was also nominated for the Charrúa Awards during the 2018–2019 season.

In August 2024, Artigas signed her first professional contract, joining Ariosto Pallamano in Italy for the 2024–2025 season.

In 2025, she competed in the Coppa Italia with Ariosto Pallamano and was nominated as the MVP in the quarter-final match against Salerno.

Clubs 2025 Scuola Italiana Di Montevideo, Uruguay 2024-2025 Ariosto Pallamano, Italy 2013-2024 Scuola Italiana Di Montevideo, Uruguay 2010-2012 Hebraica Macabi, Uruguay 2008-2010 Club Náutico; Uruguay 2002-2008 Club Unión Santa Rosa Shangrilá, Uruguay

International competitions

Uruguay women's national handball team 2021: Campeonato Sudamericano y Centroamericano de Balonmano Femenino, Asunción, 2021 2018: Juegos Suramericanos, Cochabamba, 2018 2017: Campeonato Panamericano de Balonmano Femenino, Bs As, 2017 2011: Juegos Panamericanos, Guadalajara, 2011 2011: 2011 World Women's Handball Championship 2011: Campeonato Panamericano de Balonmano Femenino, San Pablo, 2011 2010: Juegos Suramericanos, Medellín, 2010

Uruguay women's national beach handball team 2012: 2012 Beach Handball World Championships 2012: Campeonato Panamericano de Balonmano Playa, Montevideo, 2012 2009: Primeros Juegos Suramericanos de Playa, Uruguay, 2009 2008: 2008 Beach Handball World Championships 2008: Campeonato Panamericano de Balonmano Playa, Montevideo, 2008 2006: 2006 Beach Handball World Championships

Scuola Italiana Di Montevideo

2025: South and Central American Women's Club Handball Championship 2024: 2024 South and Central American Women's Club Handball Championship 2023: 2023 South and Central American Women's Club Handball Championship 2022: 2022 South and Central American Women's Club Handball Championship 2019: 2019 South and Central American Women's Club Handball Championship