Fédération Internationale de Volleyball [email protected] Telephone +41.21.345.3535 FACT SHEET – 2011 FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch World Championships powered by Smart Parco del Foro Italico, June 13-19, 2011 Updated on May 30, 2011, this fact sheet provides information on the FIVB and the 2011 FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch World Tour. The 2011 FIVB Swatch World Tour is scheduled over a eight-month period starting in April in Brazil and ending in November in Thailand. The US$1 million FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch World Championships powered by Smart is the fourth of 12 double gender events on the 2011 FIVB Swatch World Tour calendar. The FIVB Swatch World Tour returns to Italy for the 17th time for men and 10th for women. For more information regarding the FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch World Tour, please visit www.fivb.org or for the FIVB Swatch World Championships please visit www.beachvolleyroma.com. · June 13-19, FIVB Swatch World Championships, Men & Women, US$1 million prize money - Rome returns to the 2011 FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch World Tour calendar for the third-straight season. This year’s world championships will be held at Parco del Foro Italico, site of the 1960 Rome Olympics. This will be the 17th men’s and 10th women’s FIVB event held in Italy. Last year’s Grand Slam in Rome was held at the same venue as this year. · The FIVB Swatch World Championships will start June 13 and conclude June 19. The winning teams in each gender will share the $60,000 first-place prizes. Here is the tentative schedule. · Sunday, June 12 .............................................................. Men’s & Women’s Preliminary Inquiry and Technical Meetings · Monday, June 13 ...................................................................... Men’s and Women’s Pool Play (24 matches per gender) · Tuesday, June 14 ..................................................................... Men’s and Women’s Pool Play (24 matches per gender) · Wednesday, June 15 ................................................................ Men’s and Women’s Pool Play (24 matches per gender) · Wednesday June 15 ............................................. Men’s and Women’s Technical Meetings for single elimination phase · Thursday, June 16 ........................................................ Men’s and Women’s single elimination (16 matches per gender) · Friday, June 17 ....................................................... Men’s and Women’s Round of 16, Rd of 8 (12 matches per gender) · Saturday, June 18 ............................................................................................................. Men’s and Women’s Semifinals · Sunday, June 19 ....................................................................................................... Men’s and Women’s Medal Matches · A total of 96 teams from 34 countries have been selected as the top 48 for each gender to compete in the 2011 FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch World Championships (as of May 30, 2011), including Angola, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Mauritius, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, and the United States. Including the reserve teams, a total of 96 men’s and 77 women’s teams from 39 countries originally entered the event. · The 2011 FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch World Championships will be the 223rd women’s and 262nd men’s event on the FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch World Tour (open, grand slam, Olympic and Goodwill). The first men’s FIVB Swatch World Tour event was played February 17-22, 1987 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The first women’s FIVB Swatch World Tour event was played August 14-16, 1992 at Almeria, Spain. This will be the eighth FIVB Swatch World Championships presented under the current format. The previous championships were: Los Angeles (1997), Marseille, France (1999), Klagenfurt, Austria (2001), Rio de Janeiro (2003), Berlin (2005), Gstaad, Switzerland (2007) and Stavanger, Norway (2009). TABLE OF CONTENTS ....................................................................................................................................................................... Page · Past FIVB Swatch World Tour Results in Italy; 2011 FIVB Officials-Rome .................................................................................. 2 · Olympic & World Championship Gold Medal Teams ..................................................................................................................... 3 · FIVB Swatch Beach Volleyball World Championships Updated Entries ................................................................................... 4-5 · FIVB Swatch Beach Volleyball World Championships Expanded Rosters ............................................................................... 6-9 · 2011 FIVB Swatch World Tour Highlights ..................................................................................................................................... 10 · 2011 FIVB Swatch World Tour Schedule/Results, Final Fours, Point & Money Leaders ..................................................... 11-14 · 2011 FIVB Swatch World Tour Top Match Records, sets, match, duration bests, top serves ............................................ 15-17 · FIVB Swatch World Tour - Country Medals & Final Fours ...................................................................................................... 18-19 · 2010 FIVB Swatch World Tour Highlights and Results ................................................................................................................ 20 · 2010 FIVB Swatch World Tour Leaders ......................................................................................................................................... 21 · FIVB Swatch World Championships Final Fours, historical data, country results, yearly match results .......................... 22-60 2011 FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch World Championships - Rome June 13-19 Rome, Italy World Championships, Women & Men ................ $1,000,000 Past Italian Men’s Medals – Brazil 23, USA 10, Argentina 4, Switzerland 3, Germany 2, Norway 2, Canada 1, Italy 1, Russia 1, Spain 1 Site Year Gold Medal Silver Medal Bronze Medal 1. Jesi 1989 Sinjin Smith/Randy Stoklos, USA Giovanni Errichiello/Dio Lequaglie, ITA Karch Kiraly/Steve Timmons, USA 2. Lignano 1990 Tim Hovland/Kent Steffes, USA Eddo/Sean Fallowfield, USA Eduardo Garrido/Roberto Moreira, BRA 3. Cattolica 1991 Smith/Stoklos, USA John Eddo/Leif Hanson, USA Guilherme Marques/Andre Lima, BRA 4. Lignano 1992 Paulao Moreira/Paulo Emilio Silva, BRA Eduardo/Roberto, BRA Scott Friederichsen/Tim Walmer, USA 5. Lignano 1995 Paulao/Paulo Emilio, BRA Martin Conde/Eduardo Martinez, ARG Franco Neto/Roberto Lopes, BRA 6. Lignano 1996 Emanuel Rego/Ze Marco de Melo, BRA Carl Henkel/Smith, USA Jan Kvalheim/Bjorn Maaseide, NOR 7. Lignano 1997 Conde/Martinez, ARG Emanuel/Ze Marco, BRA Kvalheim/Maaseide, NOR 8. Lignano 1998 Guilherme/Para Ferreira, BRA Martin Laciga/Paul Laciga, SUI Jose Loiola/Emanuel, BRA 9. Lignano 1999 Emanuel/Loiola, BRA Guilherme/Para, BRA Conde/Martinez, ARG 10. Lignano 2000 Ze Marco/Ricardo, BRA M. Laciga/P. Laciga, SUI John Child/Mark Heese, CAN 11. Lignano 2001 Mariano Baracetti/Conde, ARG Loiola/Ricardo, BRA Emanuel/Tande Ramos, BRA 12. Roseto 2006 Patrick Heuscher/Stefan Kobel, SUI Emanuel/Ricardo, BRA Benjamin Insfran/Harley Marques, BRA 13. Roseto 2007 Marcio Araujo/Fabio Magalhaes, BRA Emanuel/Ricardo, BRA Dmitri Barsouk/Igor Kolodinsky, RUS 14. Roseto 2008 Harley Marques/Pedro Salgado, BRA Julius Brink/Christoph Dieckmann, GER Phil Dalhausser/Todd Rogers, USA 15. Rome 2009 Brink/Jonas Reckermann, GER Pedro Cunha/Salgado, BRA Alison Cerutti/Harley, BRA 16. Rome 2010 Dalhausser/Rogers, USA Alison/Emanuel, BRA Benjamin/Bruno Oscar Schmidt, BRA Past Italian Women’s Medals – Brazil 14, USA 6, China 2, Germany 2, Australia 1, Czech Republic 1, Greece 1 Site Year Gold Medal Silver Medal Bronze Medal 1. Pescara 1997 Lisa Arce/Holly McPeak, USA Shelda Bede/Adriana Behar, BRA Sandra Pires/Jackie Silva, BRA 2. Vasto 1998 Shelda/Adriana, BRA Monica Rodrigues/Silva, BRA Pires/Adirana Samuel, BRA 3. Cagliari 2000 Ana Paula Connelly/Monica, BRA Annett Davis/Jenny J. Jordan, USA Shelda/Adriana, BRA 4. Cagliari 2001 Barbra Fontana/Elaine Youngs, USA Natalie Cook/Kerri Pottharst, AUS Shelda/Adriana, BRA 5. Milan 2003 Tian Jia/Wang Fei, CHN Shelda/Adriana, BRA Nancy Mason/Dianne DeNecochea, USA 6. Milan 2004 Shelda/Adiriana, BRA Shaylyn Bede/Renta Ribeiro, BRA Eva Celbova/Sona Novakova, CZE 7. Milan 2005 Juliana Felisberta Silva/Larissa França, BRA Vasso Karadassiou/Vassiliki. Arvaniti, GRE Stephanie Pohl/Okka Rau, GER 8. Modena 2006 Juliana/Larissa, BRA Misty May-Treanor/Kerri Walsh, USA Jia Tian/Jie Wang, CHN 9. Rome 2010 Kessy/Ross, USA Sara Goller/Laura Ludwig, GER Maria Antonelli/Talita Antunes, BRA 2011 FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch World Championships - Rome After the FIVB Swatch World Championships, the 2011 FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch World Tour calendar takes one week off before it continues with three consecutive Grand Slam double-gender events: June 27 to July 3 in Stavanger, Norway (ConocoPhillips Grand Slam Stavanger 2011), July 4-9 in Gstaad, Switzerland (1 to 1 Energy Grand Slam) and July 11-16 in Moscow (Moscow Grand Slam). The total prize money for each event is US$600,000. Also on the international calendar during