Fédération Internationale de Volleyball [email protected] Telephone +41.21.345.3535 FACT SHEET – $150,000 FIVB Cincinnati Open Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, May 17-21, 2016 · Updated on May 15, 2016, this fact sheet provides information on the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball and the 2016 FIVB Beach Volleyball calendar. The 2016 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour schedule features four FIVB Grand Slams, four Swatch FIVB Major Series, the Swatch FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Finals, the Continental Cup Finals, the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, 14 FIVB Open events, and two FIVB Age Group World Championships. The 2015 portion of the schedule was played in October and November and the 2016 portion of the schedule began in February in Iran and concludes in October with the World Tour Finals as a site to be determined. 2016 marks the 30th anniversary of the first FIVB Beach Volleyball event held February 17-22, 1987 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. · The double-gender $150,000 FIVB Cincinnati Open is the twelfth event on the 2016 portion of the 2016 FIVB Beach Volleyball calendar. The FIVB returns to the United States for the fourth straight year and eleventh season overall. The Cincinnati Open is the first of two events being held in the United States in 2016. The Long Beach Grand Slam will be held in California in August. For more information regarding the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour, please visit fivb.org. · May 17-21, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, Men and Women, $150,000 – Cincinnati is hosting an FIVB Beach Volleyball event for the first time. The venue is the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason. The United States has hosted 28 previous FIVB World Tour events including the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, the 1997 World Championships in Los Angeles, the 1998 Goodwill Games in New York, and the inaugural SWATCH FIVB World Tour Finals in Ft. Lauderdale last year. Eleven different cities has hosted events with Long Beach hosting the most events with six followed by Hermosa Beach with four. The United States has won 28 previous medals on its home soil, 15 men’s and 14 women’s including five men’s golds and four women’s golds. · The FIVB Cincinnati Open starts May 17 and concludes on May 21. The winning teams in each gender will share the $11,000 first-place prize. Here is the tentative schedule: · Monday, May 16 ................................................................. Men’s and Women’s Country Quota Matches (if necessary) · Tuesday, May 17 ........................................................................................... Men’s and Women’s Qualification Matches · Wednesday, May 18 ......................................................................... Men’s and Women’s Main Draw Pool Play Matches · Thursday, May 19 ............................................................................. Men’s and Women’s Main Draw Pool Play Matches · Friday, May 20 ....................................................................... Men’s and Women’s Elimination and Quarterfinal Matches · Saturday, May 21 ........................................................................... Men’s and Women’s Semi-Finals and Medal Matches · A total of 89 teams from 28 countries (47 men’s teams from 21 countries and 42 women’s teams from 18 countries) are entered into the FIVB Cincinnati Open (as of May 15, 2016), including Argentina (1 men’s team, 1 women’s team), Australia (2,0), Austria (3,2), Brazil (3,3), Canada (5,5), Chile (1,0), China (0,2), Costa Rica (0,1), Czech Republic (0,2), France (0,2), Germany (5,5), Ghana (1,0), Japan (2,1), Latvia (1,1), Mexico (1,0), Netherlands (0,2), New Zealand (2,0), Norway (1,0), Poland (3,0), Puerto Rico (2,0), Slovenia (1,0), Spain (1,2), Switzerland (2,1), Turkey (1,0), Ukraine (0,1), United States (8,8), Vanuatu (0,1), and Venezuela (1,2). · The FIVB Cincinnati Open is the 343rd men’s event and the 304th 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 United States (1994 to present for men and women) ............................................................. 2 · Olympic & World Championship Gold Medal Teams and Schedule ............................................................................................. 3 · FIVB Cincinnati Open Men’s Entries (through May 15) .................................................................................................................. 4 · FIVB Cincinnati Open Women’s Entries (through May 15) ............................................................................................................ 5 · 2016 FIVB World Tour Highlights ..................................................................................................................................................... 6 · 2016 FIVB World Tour Schedule and Results ................................................................................................................................. 7 · 2015 FIVB World Tour Results ......................................................................................................................................................... 8 · 2016 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Men’s Points and Money Leaders ................................................................................ 9 · 2016 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Women’s Points and Money Leaders......................................................................... 10 · 2015 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Men’s Points and Money Leaders .............................................................................. 11 · 2015 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Women’s Points and Money Leaders......................................................................... 12 · Men’s FIVB World Tour - Country Medals & Final Fours ............................................................................................................. 13 · Women’s FIVB World Tour - Country Medals & Final Fours ....................................................................................................... 14 Past United States Men’s Medals – USA 15, Brazil 14, Argentina 2, Norway 2, Spain 2, Switzerland 2, Canada 1, Italy 1, Netherlands 1, Poland 1 Site Year Gold Medal Silver Medal Bronze Medal 1. Miami 1994 Jan Kvalheim/Bjorn Maaseide, NOR Roberto Lopes/Franco Neto, BRA Carlos Briceno/Jeff Williams, USA 2. Clearwater 1995 Lopes/Neto, BRA Ze Marco de Melo/Emanuel Rego, BRA Bruk Vandeweghe/Williams, USA 3. Hermosa 1995 Vacated Vacated Ze Marco/Emanuel, BRA 4. Hermosa 1996 Kvalheim/Maaseide, NOR Lopes/Neto, BRA Martin Conde/Eduardo Martinez, ARG 5. Atlanta 1996** Karch Kiraly/Kent Steffes, USA Mike Dodd/Mike Whitmarsh, USA John Child/Mark Heese, CAN 6. Los Angeles 1997* Rogerio Ferreira/Guilherme Marques, BRA Canyon Ceman/Whitmarsh, USA Paulao Moreira/Paulo Silva, BRA Dain Blanton/Kent Steffes, USA 7. New York 1998*** Ferreira/Marques, BRA Adam Johnson, Kiraly, USA Conde/Martinez, ARG 8. Chicago 2000 Jose Loiola/Emanuel, BRA Ze Marco/Ricardo Santos, BRA Martin Laciga/Paul Laciga, SUI 9. Carson 2003 Emanuel/Ricardo, BRA Markus Egger/Sascha Heyer, SUI Ceman/Whitmarsh, USA 10. Long Beach 2013 Phil Dalhausser/Sean Rosenthal, USA Adrian Gavira/Pablo Herrera, ESP Daniel Lupo/Paulo Nicolai, ITA 11. Long Beach 2014 Dalhausser/Rosenthal, USA Grzegorz Fijalek/Mariusz Prudel, POL Theo Brunner/Todd Rogers, USA 12. St. Petersburg 2015 Jake Gibb/Casey Patterson, USA Reinder Nummerdor/Christiaan Varenhorst, NED Brunner/Nick Lucena, USA 13. Long Beach 2015 Alison Cerutti/Bruno Oscar Schmidt, BRA Dalhausser/Lucena, USA Adrian Gavira/Pablo Herrera, ESP 14. Ft. Lauderdale 2015 Alison/Bruno, BRA Dalhausser/Lucena, USA Evandro Goncalves/Pedro Solberg, BRA *FIVB World Championships (two teams awarded the bronze medal) ** Olympic Games *** Goodwill Games Past United States Women’s Medals – Brazil 22, USA 14, Australia 3, Germany 3, Slovak Republic 1 Site Year Gold Medal Silver Medal Bronze Medal 1. Miami 1994 Isabel Barroso Salgado/Roseli Timm, BRA Barbra Fontana/Lori Forsythe, USA Karolyn Kirby/Liz Masakayan, USA 2. Clearwater 1995 Sandra Pires/Jackie Silva, BRA Kirby/Masakayan, USA Holly McPeak/Nancy Reno, USA 3. Hermosa 1995 McPeak/Reno, USA Pires/Silva, BRA Kirby/Masakayan, USA 4. Hermosa 1996 Pires/Silva, BRA Monica Rodrigues/Adriana Samuel, BRA McPeak/Reno, USA 5. Atlanta 1996** Pires/Silva, BRA Rodrigues/Samuel, BRA Natalie Cook/Kerri Pottharst, AUS 6. Los Angeles 1997* Pires/Silva, BRA Lisa Arce/McPeak, USA Kirby/Reno, USA Shelda Bede/Adriana Behar, BRA 7. New York 1998*** Shelda/Adriana, BRA Pauline Manser/Pottharst, AUS Arce/McPeak, USA 8. Chicago 2000 Misty May-Treanor/McPeak, USA Bede/Behar, BRA Pires/Samuel, BRA 9. Carson 2003 May-Treanor/Kerri Walsh Jennings, USA Ana Paula Henkel/Pires, BRA Cook/Nicole Sanderson, AUS 10. Long Beach 2013 Talita Antunes/Taiana Lima, BRA Carolina Salgado/Maria Clara Salgado, BRA Katrin Holtwick/Ilka Semmler, GER 11. Long Beach 2014 April Ross/Walsh Jennings, USA Agatha Bednarczuk/Barbara Seixas, BRA Natalia Dubovcova/Dominika Nestarcova, SVK 12. St. Petersburg 2015 Agatha/Barbara, BRA Maria Antonelli/Juliana Felisberta,