Men’s Round 12 Otero Open Kristiansand, Norway Fédération Internationale de Volleyball [email protected] Telephone +41-21 345 35 35 Tresse at the Centre Centre, Kristiansand, Norway, August 9-15, 2010 Updated on August 9, 2010, this fact sheet provides information on the FIVB and the 2010 SWATCH FIVB World Tour. The US$6.83-million SWATCH FIVB World Tour is scheduled over an eight-month period starting in April in Brazil and ending in November in Thailand. The US$380,000 Otera Open is the 11th women’s event on the 2010 SWATCH FIVB World Tour calendar. For more information regarding the SWATCH FIVB World Tour, please visit www.fivb.org. · Norway joins China and Poland in hosting two SWATCH FIVB World Tour events in 2010. After staging the ConocoPhillips Grand Slam June 28-July 4 in Stavanger, the second Norwegian event will be in Kristiansand as the southern resort city hosts the international Beach Volleyball circuit for the fourth-straight season. Past Norwegian Men’s Medals - Brazil 24, Germany 6, Switzerland 3, USA 3, Argentina 1, Australia 1, China 1, Latvia 1, Netherlands 1, New Zealand 1, Norway 1, Russia 1, Spain 1 Site Year Gold Medal Silver Medal Bronze Medal 1. Stavanger 1999 Jose Loiola/Emanuel Rego, BRA Guilherme Marques/Para Ferreira, BRA Ze Marco de Melo/Ricardo Santos, BRA 2. Stavanger 2000 Ze Marco/Ricardo, BRA Marcio Araujo/Benjamin Insfran, BRA Loiola/Emanuel, BRA 3. Stavanger 2001 Emanuel/Tande Ramos, BRA Martin Laciga/Paul Laciga, SUI Para/Ze Marco de, BRA 4. Stavanger 2002 Emanuel/Tande, BRA Loiola/Ricardo, BRA Stefan Kobel/Patrick Heuscher, SUI 5. Stavanger 2003 Emanuel/Ricardo, BRA Martin Conde/Mariano Baracetti, ARG Julien Prosser/Mark Williams, AUS 6. Stavanger 2004 Emanuel/Ricardo, BRA Dave Klemperer/Niklas Rademacher, GER Franco/Tande, BRA 7. Stavanger 2005 Emanuel/Ricardo, BRA Benjamin/Harley Marques, BRA Heuscher /Kobel, SUI 8. Stavanger 2006 Emanuel/Ricardo, BRA Marcio Araujo/Fabio Magalhaes, BRA Benjamin/Harley, BRA 9. Stavanger 2007 Marcio Araujo/Fabio, BRA Reinder Nummerdor/Richard Schuil, NED Penggen Wu/Linyin Xu, CHN 10.Kristiansand 2007 Emanuel/Ricardo, BRA Jonas Reckermann/Mischa Urbatzka, GER Marcio Araujo/Fabio, BRA 11.Stavanger 2008 Phil Dalhausser/Todd Rogers, USA Reckermann/Urbatzka, GER Julius Brink/Christoph Dieckmann, GER 12.Kristiansand 2008 Pablo Herrera/Raul Mesa, ESP Joao Maciel/Bruno Oscar Schmidt, BRA Jason Lochhead/Kirk Pitman, NZ 13.Stavanger 2009* Brink/Reckermann, GER Alison Cerutti/Harley Marques, BRA Dalhausser/Rogers, USA 14.Kristiansand 2009 Dmitri Barsouk/Igor Kolodinsky, RUS Aleksandrs Samoilovs/Ruslans Sorokins, LAT Alison/Harley, BRA 15.Stavanger 2010 Klemperer/Eric Koreng, GER Tarjei Skarlund/Martin Spinnangr, NOR Dalhausser/Rogers, USA *FIVB World Championships · The men’s Otera Open starts August 10 and concludes August 15. The winning team will share the $30,000 first-place prizes. Here is the schedule: · Tuesday, August 10 ..................................................................................................................... Country Quota Playoff Matches · Wednesday, August 11 .......................................................................................................................... Qualification Tournament · Thursday, August 12 .....................................................................................................................................................Main Draw · Friday, August 13 ..........................................................................................................................................................Main Draw · Saturday, August 14......................................................................................................................................................Main Draw · Sunday, August 15...........................................................................................................................Semi-finals & Medal Matches · A total of 68 men’s teams from 27 countries have entered the Otera Open (as of August 10, 2010), including Australia, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Kazakhstan, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, the United States. · The Otera Open will be the 255th men’s event 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. TABLE OF CONTENTS.............................................................................................................................................................. Page · SWATCH FIVB World Tour Notes, FIVB Facts, FIVB Television, 2010 women’s update, Mikasa ball ................................2 · Olympic & World Championship Gold Medal Teams, SWATCH leaders...............................................................................3 · Otera Open Men’s Entries through August8, 2010..................................................................................................................4 · 2010 Men’s SWATCH FIVB World Tour, Results, Schedule, Leaders, Medals by Country, MOPs......................................5 · 2010 Men’s SWATCH FIVB World Tour Final 4s......................................................................................................................6 · 2010 Men’s SWATCH FIVB World Tour Wild Card Results Qualifying Results, SWATCH Serving.....................................7 · 2009 Men’s SWATCH FIVB World Tour Leaders......................................................................................................................8 · Men’s SWATCH-FIVB World Tour - Country Medals & Final Fours .......................................................................................9 Château Les Tourelles, Edouard-Sandoz 2-4, 1006 Lausanne, Switzerland Page 1 of 9 FIVB Communication FAX Telephone: +41 21 345 35.45 For more Beach Volleyball news visit www.fivb.org Men’s Round 12 Otero Open Kristiansand, Norway Fédération Internationale de Volleyball [email protected] Telephone +41-21 345 35 35 · After the Kristiansand stop, the European portion of the SWATCH FIVB World Tour season ends with stops in Finland (Aland, August 16-22) and The Netherlands (The Hague, August 23-29). The Hague is the final event of 14 stops for men in 2010. The women’s 15-stop schedule concludes in China (Sanya, October 26- 31) and Thailand (Phuket, November 2-7). Otera Open FIVB Officials Otera Open International Referees · Jeffrey Brehaut, England..............Technical Supervisor Dan Apol, United States · Andrea Haas, Austria.........................Referee Delegate Mark Berard, France · Renaud Kuntzelmann, France.................. TV Delegate Nikoletta Chirpilidou, Greece · Tim Simmons, United States.................Press Delegate David Crescentini, Italy Evgeny Makshanov, Russia Damien Searle, England Lucio Verane, Brazil About the FIVB - The Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) is the governing body for all forms of Volleyball and Beach Volleyball on a global level. Working closely with the National Federations and private enterprises, the FIVB promotes Volleyball and Beach Volleyball competitions and development activities as entertainment and promotional factors for the enjoyment of spectators and participants while satisfying sponsors' needs. It aims to develop Volleyball and Beach Volleyball as a major world media and entertainment sport through world-class planning and organization of competitions, marketing and promotional activities. The television coverage for the 2010 SWATCH FIVB World Tour will feature 55 broadcast companies across the world. The coverage covers six macro-regions (Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America and the, Middle East) with IMG the FIVB’s partner for TV distribution and production. A total of 134 “live” matches and 21 highlight programs have been and will be produced and distributed throughout the season offering increased access to each SWATCH FIVB World Tour event. The 2009 international Beach Volleyball season saw an increase in international broadcasters from 24 in 2008 to 39 in 2009 when more than 1,600 total hours of primary footage of events were broadcast around the world. · A new Mikasa ball, the VLS 300, will be used after being introduced at 2009 season-ending events in Sanya and Phuket. WORLD TOUR UPDATE - The SWATCH FIVB World Tour leaders captured the season’s last Grand Slam events in Poland with the pairs of Phil Dalhausser/Todd Rogers of the United States and Juliana Felisberta Silva/Larissa Franca each winning their fourth “major” event in 2010. For the Americans it was their seventh title in 2010 to tie a men’s single-season international record for gold medal in a year. Three Brazilian teams have won seven men’s titles in a single-season, including Emanuel Rego and Ricardo Santos twice in 2004 and 2007. Roberto Lopes and Franco Neto established the record in 1995 with Emanuel and Jose Loiola matching it in 1999. On the women’s side, Juliana and Larissa won eight gold medals last season with seven titles for the Brazilians in 2006 that was matched by Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh in 2007. Dalhausser and Rogers set the mark for men’s SWATCH Grand Slam titles in a season after topping the podium this year in Italy, Norway, Switzerland and Sunday in Poland where the Americans defeated Julius Brink and Jonas Reckermann