Fédération Internationale de Volleyball [email protected] Telephone +41.21.345.3535 FACT SHEET – $300,000 FIVB Moscow Four Star Moscow, Russia, August 8-12, 2018 Updated on August 5, 2018, this fact sheet provides information on the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball and the 2018 FIVB Beach Volleyball calendar. The 2018 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour continues with the starred classification of its events, with three five-star events, all of which are the Major Series, nine four-star events, six three- star events, seven two-star events, and 22 one-star events, along with the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Finals. One FIVB Age Group World Championships for players under the age of 19 will also be held. The 2018 World Tour began in September of 2017 in France and concludes in August in Germany. 2018 marks the 32nd anniversary of the first FIVB Beach Volleyball event held February 17-22, 1987 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Four events played in 2017: France (Montpellier), China (Qinzhou), Netherlands (Aalsmeer), and Australia (Sydney), are part of the 2018 FIVB World Tour. Nine events being played in August-October, 2018 in Hungary (Siofok), France (Montpellier), China (Zhongwei, Qinzhou, and Yangzhou), Iran (Bandar Torkaman, Babolsar, and Bandar Anzali), and Mexico (Chetumal) will be part of the 2019 FIVB World Tour. · The double-gender $300,000 FIVB Moscow Four Star is the 41st men’s and the 42nd women’s event on the 2018 FIVB World Tour. The FIVB returns to Russia for the 14th-straight year with Moscow hosting the first men’s event in 1998 and St. Petersburg hosting the first double-gender event in 2005. St. Petersburg also hosted the Goodwill Games in 1994. For more information regarding the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour, please visit fivb.com. · August 8-12, Moscow, Russia, Men and Women, $300,000 – Moscow is hosting an FIVB Beach Volleyball event for the 13th time, including two men’s only events in 1998 and 1999, double-gender Grand Slams every season from 2008-16, and a three-star event in 2017. Russia has hosted 40 previous FIVB World Tour events including 21 men’s and 19 women’s tournaments. Moscow has hosted the most events with 22 followed by St. Petersburg with eight, Anapa with six, including a one-star in July, and Sochi with four. Host country Russia has won 15 previous medals on its country’s soil, including eight men’s medals (2 gold, 4 silver, 2 bronze) and seven women’s medals (2 gold, 2 silver, 3 bronze). · The FIVB Moscow Four Star starts August 8 and concludes August 12. The winning teams for each gender will share the $20,000 first-place prize. Here is the tentative schedule: · Tuesday, August 7 ............................................................... Men’s and Women’s Country Quota Matches (if necessary) · Wednesday, August 8..................................................................................... Men’s and Women’s Qualification Matches · Thursday, August 9........................................................................................... Men’s and Women’s Main Draw Matches · Friday, August 10 .............................................................................................. Men’s and Women’s Main Draw Matches · Saturday, August 11 .............................................................. Men’s and Women’s Quarterfinal and Semi-Final Matches · Sunday, August 12 ................................................................................................... Men’s and Women’s Medal Matches · A total of 100 teams from 29 countries (50 men’s teams from 24 countries and 50 women’s teams from 21 countries) are entered into the FIVB Moscow Four Star (as of August 5, 2018), including Argentina (1 men’s team and 1 women’s team), Australia (1,1), Austria (2,0), Belarus (1,0), Belgium (1,0), Brazil (6,5), Canada (1,1), Chile (1,0), Czech Republic (1,3), Estonia (1,0), Finland (0,2), France (2,1), Germany (3,4), Italy (3,1), Japan (0,2), Latvia (2,2), Lithuania (1,1), Netherlands (2,3), Norway (0,1), Poland (4,2), Qatar (1,0), Russia (8,9), Slovakia (0,1), Slovenia (1,0), Spain (1,1), Switzerland (2,3), Turkey (2,0), Ukraine (0,1), and the United States (2,5). · The FIVB Moscow Four Star is the 407th men’s and the 373rd 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 Russia (1994 to present for men and 1994 to present for women) ....................................... 2 · Olympic & World Championship Gold Medal Teams and Schedule ............................................................................................. 3 · FIVB Moscow Four Star Men’s Entries (through July 29) .............................................................................................................. 4 · FIVB Moscow Four Star Women’s Entries (through July 29) ........................................................................................................ 5 · 2018 FIVB World Tour Highlights ..................................................................................................................................................... 6 · 2018 FIVB World Tour Schedule and Results ................................................................................................................................. 7 · 2017 FIVB World Tour Results ......................................................................................................................................................... 9 · 2017 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Ranking ................................................................................................................................. 10 · 2018 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Points Leaders ............................................................................................................. 11 · 2018 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Money Leaders ............................................................................................................. 12 · 2017 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Points Leaders ............................................................................................................. 13 · 2017 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Money Leaders ............................................................................................................. 14 · Men’s FIVB World Tour - Country Medals & Final Fours ............................................................................................................. 15 · Women’s FIVB World Tour - Country Medals & Final Fours ....................................................................................................... 17 Past Russian Men’s Medals – Brazil 17, USA 9, Russia 8, Germany 7, China 5, Latvia 3, Netherlands 3, Switzerland 3, Italy 2, Poland 2, Argentina 1, Norway 1, Portugal 1, Spain 1 Site Year Gold Medal Silver Medal Bronze Medal 1. St. Petersburg 1994* Jan Kvalheim/Bjorn Maaseide, NOR Carlos Briceno/Jeff Williams, USA Bruk Vandeweghe/Sinjin Smith, USA 2. Moscow 1998 Para Ferreira/Guilherme Marques, BRA Martin Conde/Eduardo Martinez, ARG Jorg Ahmann/Axel Hager, GER 3. Moscow 1999 Joao Brenha/Miguel Maia, POR Ze Marco de Melo/Ricardo Santos, BRA Jose Loiola/Emanuel Rego, BRA 4. St. Petersburg 2005 Emanuel Rego/Ricardo Santos, BRA Marcio Araujo/Fabio Magelhaes, BRA Franco Neto/Tande Ramos, BRA 5. St. Petersburg 2006 Marcio Araujo/Fabio, BRA Julius Brink/Christoph Dieckmann, GER Jochem De Gruijter/Gijs Ronnes, NED 6. St. Petersburg 2007 Harley Marques/Pedro Solberg, BRA Dmitri Barsouk/Igor Kolodinsky, RUS Marcio Araujo/Fabio, BRA 7. Moscow 2008 Phil Dalhausser/Todd Rogers, USA Penggen Wu/Linyin Xu, CHN David Klemperer/Eric Koreng, GER 8. Moscow 2009 Brink/Jonas Reckermann, GER Emanuel/Ricardo, BRA Jefferson Bellaguarda/Martin Laciga, SUI 9. Moscow 2010 Wu/Xu, CHN Dalhausser/Rogers, USA Brink/Reckermann, GER 10. Moscow 2011 AlisonCerutti/Emanuel, BRA Bellaguarda/Patrick Heuscher, SUI Dalhausser/Rogers, USA 11. Moscow 2012 Alison/Emanuel, BRA Reinder Nummerdor/Richard Schuil, NED Pedro Cunha/Ricardo, BRA 12. Anapa 2013 Yaroslav Koshkarev/Konstantin Semenov, RUS Lars Fluggen/Alexander Walkenhorst, GER Viacheslav Krasilnikov/Alexey Pastukhov, RUS 13. Moscow 2013 Aleksandrs Samoilovs/Janis Smedins, LAT Evandro Goncalves/Emanuel, BRA Alvaro Filho/Ricardo, BRA 14. Anapa 2014 Martins Plavins/Aleksandrs Solovejs, LAT Krasilnikov/Semenov, RUS Philip Gabathuler/Mirco Gerson, SUI 15. Moscow 2014 Krasilnikov/Semenov, RUS Grzegorz Fijalek/Mariusz Prudel, POL Dalhausser/Sean Rosenthal, USA 16. Moscow 2015 Adrian Gavira/Pablo Herrera, ESP Evandro/Pedro Solberg, BRA Jonathan Erdmann/Kay Matysik, GER 17. Sochi 2015 Samoilovs/J. Smedins, LAT Dalhausser/Nick Lucena, USA Daniel Lupo/Paolo Nicolai, ITA 18. Sochi 2016 Lupo/Nicolai, ITA Krasilnikov/Semenov, RUS Tri Bourne/John Hyden, USA 19. Moscow 2016 Nummerdor/Christiaan Varenhorst, NED Alison/Bruno Oscar Schmidt, BRA Piotr Kantor/Bartosz Losiak, POL 20. Moscow 2017 Dalhausser/Lucena, USA Krasilnikov/Nikita Liamin, RUS Oleg Stoyanovskiy/Artem Yarzutkin, RUS 21. Anapa 2018 Likejiang Ha/Jiaxin Wu, CHN Zhuoxin Li/Chaowei Zhou, CHN Peng Gao/Yang Li, CHN *Goodwill