FACT SHEET – FIVB Klagenfurt A1 Grand Slam
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Fédération Internationale de Volleyball [email protected] Telephone +41.21.345.3535 FACT SHEET – FIVB Klagenfurt A1 Grand Slam Klagenfurt, Austria, July 29-August 3, 2014 · Updated on July 27, 2014, this fact sheet provides information on the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball and the 2014 FIVB Beach Volleyball season. The 2014 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour calendar will feature FIVB-record ten Grand Slam events along with the 2014 FIVB Beach Volleyball Grand Slam Finale. In addition The FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Calendar also includes nine Open events spread throughout the world to help open the door for development of the sport along with four age-group FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships and the inaugural Youth Olympic Games. The schedule starts in April in China and concludes in December in South Africa. 2014 marks the 28th anniversary of the first FIVB Beach Volleyball event held February 17-22, 1987 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. · The US$$800,000 FIVB Klagenfurt A1 Grand Slam is the eighth of ten Grand Slam events on the 2014 FIVB Beach Volleyball season calendar. The FIVB returns to Austria after taking a year off, following 16 consecutive seasons. For more information regarding the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour, please visit fivb.org. · July 29-August 3, FIVB Klagenfurt A1 Grand Slam, Men and Women, $800,000 – Austria has hosted 28 previous FIVB World Tour events, including four men’s-only Open events from 1997-2000, the World Championships in 2001, and double-gender Grand Slams every year from 2002 through 2012. Every event has been held in Klagenfurt. Host country Austria has never won a medal on its home soil. · The FIVB Klagenfurt A1 Grand Slam starts July 29 and concludes August 3. The winning teams in each gender will share the $57,000 first-place prizes. Here is the tentative schedule: · Tuesday, July 29 ............................................................................................................. Women’s Qualification Matches · Wednesday, July 30 .................................... Men’s Qualification Matches and Women’s Main Draw Pool Play Matches · Thursday, July 31 ............................................................................. Men’s and Women’s Main Draw Pool Play Matches · Friday, August 1 ............................................... Men’s Main Draw Pool Play Matches and Women’s Elimination Matches · Saturday, August 2 ...................................... Men’s Elimination Matches and Women’s Semi-Finals and Medal Matches · Sunday, August 3 ........................................................................................................ Men’s Semi-Finals Medal Matches · A total of 169 teams from 39 countries (91 men’s teams from 34 countries and 78 women’s teams from 25 countries) have entered the FIVB Klagenfurt A1 Grand Slam (as of July 27, 2014), including Argentina (2 men’s teams, 1 women’s team), Australia (1,1), Austria (8,7), Belarus (1,0), Brazil (6,6), Canada (4,6), Chile (1,0), China (1,3), Croatia (1,0), Czech Republic (3,6), Denmark (1,0), England (1,0), Estonia (1,0), Finland (0,2), France (2,1), Germany (6,6), Ghana (1,0), Greece (1,1), Israel (1,0), Italy (6,6), Kazakhstan (3,2), Latvia (5,0), Netherlands (5,3), Norway (4,2), Poland (4,2), Qatar (1,0), Russia (2,4) Serbia (1,0), Slovak Republic (0,3), Slovenia (1,0), South Africa (1,0), Spain (3,2), Sweden (0,1), Switzerland (5,3), Thailand (0,1), Turkey (1,0), Ukraine (1,2), United States (6,6), and Venezuela (0,1). · The FIVB Klagenfurt A1 Grand Slam will be the 308th men’s event and the 272nd women’s event on the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour (open, grand slam, Olympic and Goodwill). The first men’s FIVB World Tour event was played February 17-22, 1987 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and the first women’s event was played August 14-16, 1992 at Almeria, Spain. TABLE OF CONTENTS ....................................................................................................................................................................... Page · Past FIVB World Tour Results in Austria (1997 to 2012 for men and 2001 to 2012 women) ...................................................... 2 · FIVB Officials ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 2 · Olympic & World Championship Gold Medal Teams and Schedule ............................................................................................. 3 · FIVB Klagenfurt A1 Grand Slam Men’s Updated Entries through July 27, 2014 ......................................................................... 4 · FIVB Klagenfurt A1 Grand Slam Women’s Updated Entries through July 27, 2014 .................................................................... 5 · 2014 FIVB World Tour and Open Highlights ................................................................................................................................... 6 · 2014 FIVB World Tour Schedule ...................................................................................................................................................... 7 · 2014 FIVB World Tour Season Rankings ........................................................................................................................................ 8 · 2014 FIVB Men’s World Tour Leaders ............................................................................................................................................. 9 · 2014 FIVB Women’s World Tour Leaders ..................................................................................................................................... 10 · 2013 FIVB World Tour Highlights and Results ............................................................................................................................. 11 · 2013 FIVB World Tour Leaders ...................................................................................................................................................... 12 · Men’s FIVB World Tour - Country Medals & Final Fours ............................................................................................................. 13 · Women’s FIVB World Tour - Country Medals & Final Fours ....................................................................................................... 14 2014 FIVB Beach Volleyball Season Past Austrian Men’s Medals - Brazil 24, USA 9, Germany 5, Netherlands 3, Norway 3, Switzerland 2, Argentina 1, Russia 1 Site Year Gold Medal Silver Medal Bronze Medal 1. Klagenfurt 1997 Emanuel Rego/Ze Marco de Melo, BRA Jorg Ahmann/Axel Hager, GER Paulao Moreira/Paulo Emilio Silva, BRA 2. Klagenfurt 1998 Jose Loiola/Emanuel, BRA Dain Blanton/Eric Fonoimoana, USA Jan Kvalheim/Bjorn Maaseide, NOR 3. Klagenfurt 1999 Loiola/Emanuel Rego, BRA Ze Marco/Ricardo Santos, BRA Guilherme Marques/Para Ferreira, BRA 4. Klagenfurt 2000 Loiola/Emanuel, BRA Ze Marco/Ricardo, BRA Paulao/Jefferson Bellaguarda, BRA 5. Klagenfurt 2001* Mariano Baracetti/Martin Conde, ARG Loiola/Ricardo, BRA Vegard Hoidalen/Jorre Kjemperud, NOR 6. Klagenfurt 2002 Loiola/Ricardo, BRA Markus Egger/Sascha Heyer, SUI Hoidalen/Kjemperud, NOR 7. Klagenfurt 2003 Marcio Araujo/Benjamin Insfran, BRA Stein Metzger/Kevin Wong, USA Stefan Kobel/Patrick Heuscher, SUI 8. Klagenfurt 2004 Emanuel/Ricardo, BRA Franco Neto/Tande Ramos, BRA C. Dieckmann/Andreas Scheuerpflug, GER 9. Klagenfurt 2005 Christoph. Dieckmann/Scheuerpflug, GER Emanuel/Ricardo, BRA Marcio Araujo/Fabio Magalhaes, BRA 10. Klagenfurt 2006 Phil Dalhausser/Todd Rogers, USA Emanuel/Ricardo, BRA Marcio Araujo/Fabio, BRA 11. Klagenfurt 2007 Emanuel/Ricardo, BRA David Klemperer/Eric Koreng, GER Reinder Nummerdor/Richard Schuil, NED 12. Klagenfurt 2008 Dmitri Barsouk/Igor Kolodinsky, RUS Metzger/Mark Williams, USA Emanuel/Ricardo, BRA 13. Klagenfurt 2009 Dalhausser/Rogers, USA Alison Cerutti/Harley Marques, BRA Nummerdor/Schuil, NED 14. Klagenfurt 2010 Dalhausser/Rogers, USA Matt Fuerbringer/Nick Lucena, USA Marcio Araujo/Ricardo, BRA 15. Klagenfurt 2011 Pedro Cunha/Ricardo, BRA Julius Brink/Jonas Reckermann, GER Dalhausser/Rogers, USA 16. Klagenfurt 2012 Nummerdor/Schuil, NED Marcio Araujo/Pedro Salgado, BRA Jake Gibb/Sean Rosenthal, USA *FIVB World Championships Past Austrian Women’s Medals - Brazil 12, USA 11, Germany 4, China 4, Netherlands 2, Czech Republic 1, Russia 1, Ukraine 1 Site Year Gold Medal Silver Medal Bronze Medal 1. Klagenfurt 2001* Shelda Bede/Adriana Behar, BRA Sandra Pires/Tatiana Minello, BRA Eva Celbova/Sona Novakova, CZE 2. Klagenfurt 2002 Misty May-Treanor/Kerri Walsh, USA Shelda/Adriana, BRA Elaine Youngs/Holly McPeak, USA 3. Klagenfurt 2003 May-Treanor/Walsh, USA Pires/Ana Paula Connelly, BRA Shelda/Adriana, BRA 4. Klagenfurt 2004 Walsh/Rachel Wacholder, USA Shelda/Adriana, BRA Annett Davis/ Jenny Johnson Jordan, USA 5. Klagenfurt 2005 May-Treanor/Walsh, USA Wacholder/Youngs, USA Tian Jia/Wang Fei, CHN 6. Klagenfurt 2006 Wang Jie/Tian Jia, CHN Juliana Felisberta Silva/Larissa Franca, BRA Stephanie Pohl/Okka Rau, GER 7. Klagenfurt 2007 May-Treanor/Walsh, USA Juliana/Larissa, BRA Sara Goller/Laura Ludwig, GER 8. Klagenfurt 2008 Shelda/Ana Paula, BRA Svitlana Baburina/Galyna Osheyko, UKR Katrin Holtwick/Ilka Semmler, GER 9. Klagenfurt 2009 Juliana/Larissa, BRA Nicole Branagh/Youngs, USA Jen Kessy/April Ross, USA 10. Klagenfurt 2010 Juliana/Larissa, BRA Chen Xue/Xi Zhang, CHN Goller/Ludwig, GER 11. Klagenfurt 2011 May-Treanor/Walsh,