Women'sround6,Men'sround7 GE Money Bank Mazury Open Hotel Anders, Stare Jablonki, Poland June 2-8, 2008
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Women’s Round 6, Men’s Round 7 Fédération Internationale de Volleyball [email protected] Telephone +41-21 345 35 35 GE Money Bank Mazury open Hotel Anders, Stare Jablonki, Poland June 2-8, 2008 Updated on June 1, 2008, this fact sheet provides information on the FIVB and the 2008 SWATCH FIVB World Tour. The 2008 SWATCH FIVB World Tour is scheduled over a nine- month period starting in March in Australia and ending in November in China. The US$350,000 GE Money Bank Mazury Open is the fourth of 16 double gender events on the 2008 SWATCH FIVB World Tour calendar. The women’sGE Money Bank Mazury Open competition starts Monday and concludes Saturday (June 7) while the men’s schedule began Tuesday and ends June 8. After opening the season in South Australia for the inaugural Adelaide Australia Open (March 25-30), the SWATCH FIVB World Tour returns to Stare Jablonki for the fifth-straight year. The fifth annual GE Money Bank Mazury Open will also feature women’s competition for the first- time. In addition to Adelaide, other new sites on the 2008 SWATCH FIVB World Tour are set for Guaruja (Brazil), Prague (Czech Republic), Osaka (Japan), Myslowice (Poland), Moscow (Russia), Barcelona and Mallorca (Spain), Dubai (United Arab Emirates) and Sanya (China). For more information regarding the SWATCH FIVB World Tour, please visit www.fivb.org. TABLE OF CONTENTS ...........................................................................................................Page · Hyundai Open Barcelona Facts ............................................................................................. 2 · FIVB Officials........................................................................................................................... 2 · 2008 SWATCH FIVB World Tour Schedule Notes................................................................. 3 · Beijing 2008 Olympic Games ................................................................................................. 3 · GE Money Bank Mazury Open Men’sUpdated Entries through June 1, 2008 .................... 4 · GE Money Bank Mazury Open Women’s Updated Entries through June 1, 2008 .............. 5 · 2008 SWATCH FIVB World Tour Schedule & Notes ............................................................. 6 · 2008 SWATCH FIVB World Tour Leaders through June 1, 2008.......................................... 7 · 2008 SWATCH FIVB World Tour Men’s “Final Four” Results & Serving Leaders .............. 8 · 2008 SWATCH FIVB World Tour Women’s “Final Four” Results & Serving Leaders ........ 9 · Beijing 2008 Olympic Games - Men’s Qualification Listthrough June 1, 2008 ................ 10 · Beijing 2008 Olympic Games - Women’s Qualification List through May 31, 2008.......... 11 Following GE Money Bank Mazury Open, the SWATCH FIVB World Tour continues in Europe for four-straight weeks of Grand Slam starting in Berlin followed by stops in Paris and Norway before the first SWATCH FIVB World Tour event in Moscow since 1999. After a week off following the Moscow event, the SWATCH tour continues in France, Switzerland and Austria before breaking for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. · The GE Money Bank Mazury Open will also be part of the qualifying process for the Beijing 2008 Olympics. With the qualifying concluding July 20, 2008 to determine the 24 teams per gender for the Summer Games, a team’s best eight finishes on the SWATCH FIVB World Tour or sanctioned continental championships will count during the process. Château Les Tourelles, Edouard-Sandoz 2-4, 1006 Lausanne, Switzerland Page 1 of 11 FIVB Communication FAX Telephone: +41 21 345 35.45 For more Beach Volleyball news visit www.fivb.org Women’s Round 6, Men’s Round 7 Fédération Internationale de Volleyball [email protected] Telephone +41-21 345 35 35 The US$350,000 GE Money Bank Mazury Open, the sixth women’s and seventh men’s event on the 2008 SWATCH FIVB World Tour calendar, will be staged at the Hotel Anders in Stare Jablonki, Poland. · The Hotel Anders in located in the picturesque village of Stare Jablonki in the western part of Masuria within the area of the Pine Taborska Reserve. The hotel is situated by Szeląg Mały Lake and is 200 metres from an old railway station building where all slow and fast trains going towards and from Olsztyn have their stops. The Hotel Anders is located 220 km from Warsaw and 130 km from Gdańsk. One of the most modern facilities in Poland, the Hotel Anders can accommodate even 400 people. · Combined with the junior SWATCH-FIVB World Championships, Poland continues to host the international Beach Volleyball community as Stare Jablonki will expand its presence by hosting a double gender event in 2008. The Hotel Anders in the Mazury region hosts a SWATCH-FIVB World Tour stop for the fifth-straight season as the first four events featured men’s competition where reigning Olympic champions Emanuel Rego and Ricardo Santos of Brazil placed on each Stare Jablonki podiums with three gold medals. The Polish Volleyball Federation hosted women’s events the past two seasons in Warsaw where teams from Brazil and China split the six podium spots and two gold medals. Polish junior world champions Michal Krzysztof Kadziola/Jakub Szalankiewicz and Katarzyna Urban/Joanna Wiatr have posted their country’s best SWATCH finishes with 17ths in 2007 and 2006- 2007, respectively. In Myslowice, the Polish Volleyball Federation staged the U-21 SWATCH-FIVB World Championships in 2006 before hosting the U-19 finals in 2007 where Krzysztof Kadziola and Szalankiewicz won the men’s title. Urban and Wiatr captured the gold medal at the 2004 U-18 SWATCH-FIVB World Championships in Termoli, Italy. PAST POLISH MEN’S PODIUM PLACEMENTS Total Medals - Brazil 7, Argentina 1, China 1, Germany 1, Norway 1, Switzerland 1 Site Year Gold Medal Silver Medal Bronze Medal 1. Stare Jablonki 2004 Emanuel Rego/Ricardo Santo, BRA Franco Neto/Tande Ramos, BRA Vegard Hoidalen/Jorre Kjemperud, NOR 2. Stare Jablonki 2005 Markus Egger/Martin Laciga, SUI Markus Dieckmann/Jonas Reckermann, GER Emanuel/Ricardo, BRA 3. Stare Jablonki 2006 Emanuel/Ricardo, BRA Pedro Cunha/Franco, BRA Penggen Wu/Linyin Xu, CHN 4. Stare Jablonki 2007 Emanuel/Ricardo, BRA Mariano Baracetti/Martin Conde, ARG Marcio Araujo/Fabio Magalhaes, BRA PAST POLISH WOMEN’S PODIUM PLACEMENTS Medals - China 3, Brazil 3 Site Year Gold Medal Silver Medal Bronze Medal 1. Warsaw 2006 Wang Jie/Tian Jia, CHN Xue Chen/Zhang Xi, CHN Leila Barros/Ana Paula Connelly, BRA 2. Warsaw 2007 Juliana F. Silva/Larissa Franca, BRA Shelda Bede/Adriana Behar, BRA Chen Xue/Xi Zhang, CHN · The gold medal teams at the GE Money Bank Mazury Open will share the $28,000 first-place prizes. Here is the schedule for the GE Money Bank Mazury Open. · Monday, June 2 ....................................................................................................................... Women’s Country Quota Playoffs · Tuesday, June 3 .................................................................. Women’s Qualification Tournament; Men’s Country Quota Playoffs · Wednesday, June 4 .............................................................. Women Main Draw (32 matches), Men’s Qualification Tournament · Thursday, June 5 ............................................................................ Women’s (22 matches) and Men’s (32 matches) Main Draw · Friday, June 6 ............................................................................... Women’s (four matches) and Men’s (22 matches) Main Draw · Saturday, June 7........................................................... Women’s Semi-finals Medal matches, Men’s Main Draw (four matches) · Sunday, June 8........................................................................................................................Men’s Semi-finals Medal matches · The GE Money Bank Mazury Open will be the 172nd women’s and 215th men’s events on the SWATCH FIVB World Tour (open, grand slam, Olympic and Goodwill). The first men’s SWATCH FIVB World Tour event was played February 17-22, 1987 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The first women’s SWATCH FIVB World Tour event was played August 14-16, 1992 at Almeria, Spain. FIVB Officials · Sara Seravalli, Italy.......................... Technical Supervisor · Jose Moreno, Sweden................................... TV Delegate · David Cox, Norway ................................Referee Delegate · Tim Simmons, United States.....................Press Delegate International Referees · Darryl Friesen, Canada · Maria Villas-Boas, Brazil · Miguel Ramirez, Mexico · Hongyu Liu, China · Andrea Haas, Austria · John Bennett, Australia · Takashi Fujii, Japan Château Les Tourelles, Edouard-Sandoz 2-4, 1006 Lausanne, Switzerland Page 2 of 11 FIVB Communication FAX Telephone: +41 21 345 35.45 For more Beach Volleyball news visit www.fivb.org Women’s Round 6, Men’s Round 7 Fédération Internationale de Volleyball [email protected] Telephone +41-21 345 35 35 2008 SWACH-FIVB World Tour Men’s & Women’s Schedule & Notes · The FIVB will also stage two “junior” world championships. With the London the site for 2012 Olympics, Great Britain will host the eighth annual SWATCH-FVB World Championships for players under the age of 21 in the city of Brighton September 3-7. The Netherlands will stage the seventh edition of the SWATCH- FIVB World Championships for players under the age of 19 in The Hague July 30-August 3. · After an in-depth verification of the bidding documentation from Norway and Russia (Moscow), Stavanger has been selected to stage the 2009 SWATCH-FIVB World Championships.