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VM i sandvolleyball spilles i Wien i 2017

VM i sandvolleyball spilles i Wien i 2017

VM i sandvolleyball for senior spilles Østerrike for 11. gang i perioden 28. juli til 6. august 2017. Startlisten ble nylig sluppet av FIVB 35 dager før mesterskapet som har en million dollar i pengepremier. Det er dessverre ingen lag fra Norge som spiller VM i Wien i år men rangeringen viser hvor tøffe motstandere Beachvolley Vikings i form av Mathias Berntsen and Anders Mol har møtt og fortsatt møter i Poreč Major i Kroatia i disse dager. Seed 7, 10 og 30 i pulja og seed 15 i første eliminasjonsrunde i kveld (Fijalek/Bryl). Kan vikingene fortsette å sende VM-aktuelle lag i dusjen?

The pre-draw placement for each of the 96 teams (48 men and 48 women) competing in the 2017 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships was based on each pair’s points 35 days prior to the Vienna event as a tandem’s best six of last eight finishes on the FIVB World Tour over a 365-day period are used to determine their technical entry points. The top 12 teams on the technical entry points’ list are seeded No. 1 through No. 12.

Startfeltet i VM i sandvolleyball 2017

Menn Seed VM 2017 Kvinner Seed VM 2017
1, Saymon Barbosa/Alvaro Filho, Brazil, 3,500 1, Talita Antunes/Larissa Franca, Brazil, 3,760
2, Aleksandrs Samoilovs/Janis Smedins, Latvia, 3,260 2, Chantal Laboureur/Julia Sude, Germany, 3,320
3, Phil Dalhausser/Nick Lucena, United States, 3,240 3, Agatha Bednarczuk/Eduarda «Duda» Lisboa, Brazil, 2,990
4, Evandro Goncalves/Andre Loyola, Brazil, 2,840 4, Laura Ludwig/Kira Walkenhorst, Germany, 2,710
5, Alison Cerutti/Bruno Oscar Schmidt, Brazil, 2,700 5, Summer Ross/Brooke Sweat, United States, 2,585
6, Viacheslav Krasilnikov/Nikita Liamin, Russia, 2,690 6, Barbora Hermannova/Marketa Slukova, Czech Republic, 2,360
7, Piotr Kantor/Bartosz Losiak, Poland, 2,645 7, Melissa Humana-Paredes/Sarah Pavan, Canada, 2,180
8, Gustavo «Guto» Carvalhaes/Pedro Solberg, Brazil, 2,540 8, Fernanda Alves/Barbara Seixas, Brazil, 2,160
9, Adrian Gavira/Pablo Herrera, Spain, 2,480 9, Maria Antonelli/Carolina Salgado, Brazil, 2,083
10, Alexander Brouwer/Robert Meeuwsen, Netherlands, 2,360 10, Nina Betschart/Tanja Huberli, Switzerland, 2,064
11, Daniele Lupo/Paolo Nicolai, Italy, 2,280 11, Louise Bawden/Taliqua Clancy, Australia, 2,056
12, Clemens Doppler/Alexander Horst, Austria (best host country), 1,860 12, Katharina Schutzenhofer/Stefanie Schwaiger, Austria (host country), 1,267
13, Oleg Stoyanovskiy/Artem Yarzutkin, Russia, 2,200 13, Joana Heidrich/Anouk Verge-Depre, Switzerland, 2,020
14, Sam Pedlow/Sam Schachter, Canada, 2,150 14, Lauren Fendrick/April Ross, United States, 2,000
15, Michal Bryl/Grzegorz Fijalek, Poland, 2,100 15, Fan Wang/Yuan Yue, China, 2,000
16, Ben Saxton/Chaim Schalk, Canada, 2,000 16, Heather Bansley/Brandie Wilkerson, Canada, 1,916
17, Theo Brunner/Casey Patterson, United States, 1,975 17, Kristyna Kolocova/Michala Kvapilova, Czech Republic, 1,872
18, Taylor Crabb/Jake Gibb, United States, 1,970 18, Kelly Claes/Sara Hughes, United States, 1,780
19, Ryan Doherty/John Hyden, United States, 1,932 19, Taru Lahti/Riikka Lehtonen, Finland, 1,766
20, Esteban Grimalt/Marco Grimalt, Chile, 1,900 20, Madelein Meppelink/Sophie van Gestel, Netherlands, 1,751
21, Nivaldo Diaz/Sergio Gonzalez, Cuba, 1,830 21, Valentyna Davidova/Ievgeniia Shchypkova, Ukraine, 1,722
22, Lombardo Ontiveros/Juan Virgen, Mexico, 1,780 22, Victoria Bieneck/Isabel Schneider, Germany, 1,652
23, Dries Koekelkoren/Tom van Walle, Belgium, 1,658 23, Karla Borger/Margareta Kozuch, Germany, 1,562
24, Jefferson Santos Pereira/Cherif Younousse, Qatar, 1,635 24, Elsa Baquerizo/Angela Lobato, Spain, 1,524
25, Kacper Kujawiak/Mariusz Prudel, Poland, 1,632 25, Taiana Lima/Elize Maia, Brazil, 1,508
26, Martins Plavins/Haralds Regza, Latvia, 1,566 26, Nadja Glenzke/Julia Grossner, Germany, 1,418
27, Christoph Dressler/Thomas Kunert, Austria, 1,548 27, Julie Gordon/Camille Saxton, Canada, 1,366
28, Christopher McHugh/Damien Schumann, Australia, 1,538 28, Marta Menegatti/Rebecca Perry, Italy, 1,332
29, Karell Pina/Daisel Quesada, Cuba, 1,468 29, Jamie Broder/Taylor Pischke, Canada, 1,310
30, Adrian Carambula/Alex Ranghieri, Italy, 1,450 30, Ana Gallay/Virginia Zonta, Argentina, 1,300
31, Markus Bockermann/Lars Fluggen, Germany, 1,380 31, Nicole Laird/Jessyka Ngauamo, Australia, 1,250
32, Rahman Raoufi/Bahman Salemiinjehboroun, Iran, 1,236 32, Ekaterina Birlova/Nadezda Makroguzova, Russia, 1,247
33, Robin Seidl/Tobias Winter, Austria, 1,222 33, Nicole Branagh/Kerri Walsh Jennings, United States, 1,217
34, Julian Azaad/Nicolas Capogrosso, Argentina, 1,190 34, Lidiannis Echeverria/Leila Martinez, Cuba, 1,213
35, Mohammad Ashfiya/Ade Rachmawan, Indonesia, 1,078 35, Tatyana Mashkova/Bakhtygul Samalikova, Kazakhstan, 1,184
36, Rihards Finsters/Edgars Tocs, Latvia, 988 36, Erika Bobadilla/Gabriela Filippo, Paraguay, 1,175
37, Maarten Van Garderen/Christiaan Varenhorst, Netherlands, 816 37, Norisbeth Agudo/Gabi Brito, Venezuela, 1,129
38, Marlon Phillip/Daneil Williams, Trinidad and Tobago, 792 38, Varapatsorn Radarong/Tanarattha Udomchavee, Thailand, 1,120
39, Marco Cairus/Mauricio Vieyto, Uruguay, 780 39, Lena Plesiutschnig/Cornelia Rimser, Austria, 1,076
40, Luis Garcia/Andy Leonardo, Guatemala, 598 40, Xinxin Wang/Chen Xue, China, 998
41, Jhonatan Golindano/Carlos Rangel, Venezuela, 540 41, Manon Nummerdor-Flier/Marleen van Iersel, 993
42, Aaron Nusbaum/Ryan Vandenburg, Canada, 538 42, Andrea Galindo/Claudia «Gorda» Galindo, Colombia, 980
43, Roger Battilana/Gregorio Godoy, Paraguay, 460 43, Natalia Alfaro/Karen Charles, Costa Rica, 752
44, Austria (to be determined following trial) 44, Katharina Holzer/Teresa Strauss, Austria, 668
45, Jamaine Naidoo/Leo Williams, South Africa, 60 45, Denyse Mutatsimpundu/Charlotte Nzayisenga, Rwanda, 0
46, Mohamed Abicha/Zouheir Elgraoui, Morocco, 0 46, Mahassine Siad/Imane Zeroual, Morocco, 0
47, Aldevino Nguvo/Justino Tovela, Mozambique, 0 47, Gaudencia Makokha/Naomie Too, Kenya, 0
48, Abubakarr Kamara/Lombie Patrick, Sierra Leone, 0 48, Liocadia Manhica/Vanessa Muianga, Mozambique, 0

En Mol-øvelse

Etter avbrutt proffkarriere innendørs på grunn av lungekollaps tilbrakte Anders Mol tid på ToppVolley på forsommeren for å bli klar til årets sandvolleyballsesong. Jetmund Berntsen var trener og øvelsen vi ser i klippet var at ballen minimum skulle en gang i nett på egen side før den slås over.

  • CEV lagde nylig en artikkel på den vellykkede returen til sandvolleyballarenaen for Mol som du kan lese her.
  • Aftenposten har skrevet litt om lungekollapsen her.
  • Du kan lese om den avbrutte proffkarrieren innendørs her.