Gratulasjoner til Team ByLa (Byberg/Larsen) som kvalifiserte seg inn i hovedturneringen på damesiden, og til Berg/Dahl som gjorde det samme på herresiden. ----------- Kiraly/Johnson Lead Eight Men's FIVB Beach Qualifier ACAPULCO, MEXICO (April 8, 1999) - After dropping an earlier match to a team from Cuba, sixth-seeded Karch Kiraly and Adam Johnson of the United States rebounded with a 15-8 win over 16th-seeded Ko Ozaki and Taichi Morikawa of Japan here Thursday to advance to the 32-team men's Main Draw in the Mexican Open.
With crowds exceeding 10,000 spectators for the second-straight day on the beach at Playa Tamarindos, eight men's teams advanced through the Qualification Tournament to Friday's opening rounds of the Main Draw starting at 9 a.m. (CDT). Kiraly, whonwon the Gold Medal with Kent Steffes at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, and Johnson dropped a 15-4 decision to 30th-seeded Francisco Alvarez and Juan Rosell of Cuba Thursday morning.
Also qualifying for the men's Main Draw were second-seeded Tande Ramos and Gouveia Gavio of Brazil, fifth-seeded Andrea Raffaelli and Maurizio Pimponi of Italy, 10th-seeded Amaury Velasco and Willie De Jesus of Puerto Rico, 12th-seeded Victor Anfilloff and Andrew Schacht of Australia, 20th-seeded Bjorn Berg and Simon Dahl of Sweden, 24th-seeded Lazaro Milian Carvajal and Ihosvany Chambers of Cuba (24), and Alvarez and Rosell.
Alvarez and Rosell, who won Cuba's only Gold Medal on the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour by capturing the 1995 Puerto Rico event, scored three upset wins during the Qualification Tournament over the third-, sixth and 14th-seeded teams in the competition. Alvarez and Rosell eliminated third-seeded Premysl Kubala and Petr Chromy of the Czech Republic 15-8 Wednesday.
In Thursday's final match, the top two seeded teams in the Qualification
Tournament battled for Brazil's berth in the Main Draw as Tande and Giovane upset the top-seeded qualifying men's team of Paulo Emilio Azevedo and Carlao Gouveia 15-3 and 15-7.
Brazil, who has had teams win 51 of the previous men's FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour events, has four teams in the Main Draw while the United States placed six. Argentina, Australia, Canada, Cuba, Germany, host Mexico and Norway have two teams each in the Main Draw. France, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland have one team each in the Main Draw.
The five-day two-person beach volleyball event started Wednesday with 53 men's teams attempting to qualify for the Main Draw in the $340,000 Mexican Open, the first of three combined tournaments with women on the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour this season. The Mexican Open concludes Sunday with the semi-finals and championship matches starting at 10 a.m. Both Gold Medal matches will net the winning teams the $30,000 first-place price for the men's and women's winners.
PRESS OPERATIONS - Tim Simmons (e-mail simm...@mail.fivb.ch), the Press Operations Officer for the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour, can be reached at 52-74-85-49-37 at the Mexican Open. The local Press Operations Managers for the Mexican Open are Lourdes Gomez, Claudia Esteva and Karla Romero at OCESA DePortes (e-mail krom...@cie-mexico.com.mx) and can be reached at 52-74-85-50-67 or 52-74-85-48-12 at the event.
The complete entry lists, qualification and main draw, as well as full details on the $340,000 Mexican Open can be found on the FIVB site at www.fivb.ch/beach. Men's Mexican Open Qualification Tournament Results - Thursday
Acapulco (April 8, 1999) - Here are the results from the second of two days of men's qualifying here Thursday (April 8) on Tamarindos Beach in the Mexican Open. The Qualification Tournament was held to determine the final eight berths in the 32-team Main Draw that starts Friday and concludes Sunday. The Mexican Open is the second of 12 events for the Men's 1999 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour. All the stops of the 1999 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour are Olympic Qualification Tournaments for Sydney 2000. A total of 77 men's tandems from 27 countries are competing in the men's event, including 53 teams in the Qualification Tournament.
Men's Qualifying, third-round results - Paulo Emilio Azevedo/Carlao Gouveia, Brazil (No. 1-seeded team) def. Ko Ozaki/Taichi Morikawa; Japan (16), 15-11 (32-minute match); Ihosvany Chambers/Lazaro Milian Carvajal, Cuba (24) def. Albert Hannemann/Nick Hannemann; American Somoa (25), 15-10 (50); Victor
Anfilloff/Andrew Schacht, Australia (12) def. Rffaelli/Pimponi, Italy (5), 15-10 (50);; Bjorn Berg/Simon Dahl, Sweden (20) def. Ricardo Lione/Dionisio Lequaglie, Italy (4), 15-7 (31); Juan Rosell/Francisco Alvarez, Cuba (30) def. Brian Gatzke/Daniel Lewis, Canada (14), 15-9 (54); Karch Kiraly/Adam Johnson, United States (6) def. Mikhail Kouchnerev/Oleg Kiselev, Russia (11), 15-6 (45); Willie De Jesus/Amaury Velasco, Puerto Rico, (10) def. Guilherm Deulofeu/Eric Guissart, France (7), 17-15 (60); Giovane Gavio/Tande Ramos, Brazil (2) def. Oliver Oetke/Andreas Scheuerpflug, Germany (15), 15-6 (25)
Acapulco (April 8, 1999) - Here's the Qualification Tournament final rankings following the conclusion of play here Thursday (April 8) in the Mexican Open on Playa Tamarindos. The Qualification Tournament started Wednesday with 53 teams competing for the final eight berths in the 32-team Main Draw that starts Friday and ends Sunday. The Mexican Open is the second of 12 events for the Men's 1999 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour. All the stops of the 1999 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour are Olympic Qualification Tournaments for Sydney 2000. Overall, a total of 77 men's tandems from 27 countries are competing in the men's event.
Men's Qualification Tournament Rankings
Rank Team, Country (seed) W-L Point
Qualified Tande Ramos/Giovane Gavio, Brazil (2) 5-1 Main Draw Qualified Andrea Raffaelli/Maurizio Pimponi, Italy (5) 4-2 Main Draw Qualified Karch Kiraly/Adam Johnson, United States (6) 3-1 Main Draw Qualified Amaury Velasco/Willie De Jesus, Puerto Rico (10) 3-0 Main Draw Qualified Victor Anfilloff/Andrew Schacht, Australia (12) 4-0 Main Draw Qualified Bjorn Berg/Simon Dahl, Sweden (20) 4-1 Main Draw Qualified Lazaro Milian Carvajal/Ihosvany Chambers, Cuba (24) 4-1 Main Draw Qualified Francisco Alvarez/Juan Rosell, Cuba (30) 4-0 Main Draw 33rd Paulo Emilio/Carlao Gouveia, Brazil (1) 3-2 28 Brian Gatzke/Dan Lewis, Canada (14) 4-3 28 Oliver Oetke/Andreas Scheuerpflug, Germany (15) 3-3 28 Ko Ozaki/Taichi Morikawa, Japan (16) 3-3 28 37th Eric Guissart/Guilherm Deulofeu, France (7) 1-2 20 Mikhail Kouchnerev/Oleg Kiselev, Russia (11) 1-2 20 Ricardo Lione/Dionisio Lequaglie, Italy (4) 1-2 20 Albert Hannemann/Nick Hannemann, American Samoa (25) 2-2 20 41st Matthew Grinlaubs)/Joshua Slack, Australia (52) 1-1 14 Alan Hinchley/Rowan Searle, Australia (22) 1-1 14 Simon McCloy/Shaun Blackman, Australia (28) 1-1 14 Christian Noisternig/Dietmar Maderboeck, Austria (31) 1-1 14 Oliver Stamm/Helmut Hirner, Austria (17) 1-1 14 Ahren Cadieux/Everett Matthews, Canada (32) 1-1 14 Premysl Kubala/Petr Chromy, Czech Republic (3) 0-1 14 Yoyi Rodriguez/Javier Luna, Spain (21) 1-1 14 Stephane Canet/Mathieu Hamel, France (9) 0-1 14 Georgios Giatsis/Ilias Arabatzis, Greece (29) 1-1 14 Giulio Mosci/Eugenio Amore, Italy (47) 1-1 14 Tomohisa Yamamoto/Chikashi Kawai, Japan (23) 1-1 14 Kjell Goranson/Iver Horrem, Norway (27) 1-1 14 Bernhard Vesti/Markus Egger, Switzerland (8) 0-1 14 David Andersson/Pelle Magnusson, Sweden (26) 1-1 14 Canyon Ceman/Adam Jewell, United States (19) 1-1 14
I torsdagens kamp mot Sommer/Jørgensen fra Danmark vant Byberg/Larsen 15-12 på 39 min, og ble med det resultatet kvalifisert for hovedturneringen som starter fredag 09.04.99. Her møter de Sandra Pires/Adriana Samules som er rangert som nr. 2 i verden. Høyst sannsynlig møter de enten Cook/Clarke, Australia eller Dosoudilova/Celbova, Tsjekkia i påfølgende kamp.
Med hilsen Team BYLA Arvid Wigestrand
Are Akselsen <are.aksel...@hsh.no> wrote in article <370D9E4C.B84A3...@hsh.no>...
> Gratulasjoner til Team ByLa (Byberg/Larsen) som kvalifiserte seg inn i > hovedturneringen på damesiden, og til Berg/Dahl som gjorde det samme på > herresiden. > ----------- > Kiraly/Johnson Lead Eight Men's FIVB Beach Qualifier > ACAPULCO, MEXICO (April 8, 1999) - After dropping an earlier match to a > team > from Cuba, sixth-seeded Karch Kiraly and Adam Johnson of the United > States > rebounded with a 15-8 win over 16th-seeded Ko Ozaki and Taichi Morikawa > of > Japan here Thursday to advance to the 32-team men's Main Draw in the > Mexican > Open.
> With crowds exceeding 10,000 spectators for the second-straight day on > the > beach at Playa Tamarindos, eight men's teams advanced through the > Qualification > Tournament to Friday's opening rounds of the Main Draw starting at 9 > a.m. > (CDT). Kiraly, whonwon the Gold Medal with Kent Steffes at the 1996 > Atlanta > Olympic Games, and Johnson dropped a 15-4 decision to 30th-seeded > Francisco > Alvarez and Juan Rosell of Cuba Thursday morning.
> Also qualifying for the men's Main Draw were second-seeded Tande Ramos > and > Gouveia Gavio of Brazil, fifth-seeded Andrea Raffaelli and Maurizio > Pimponi of > Italy, 10th-seeded Amaury Velasco and Willie De Jesus of Puerto Rico, > 12th-seeded Victor Anfilloff and Andrew Schacht of Australia, > 20th-seeded Bjorn > Berg and Simon Dahl of Sweden, 24th-seeded Lazaro Milian Carvajal and > Ihosvany > Chambers of Cuba (24), and Alvarez and Rosell.
> Alvarez and Rosell, who won Cuba's only Gold Medal on the FIVB Beach > Volleyball > World Tour by capturing the 1995 Puerto Rico event, scored three upset > wins > during the Qualification Tournament over the third-, sixth and > 14th-seeded > teams in the competition. Alvarez and Rosell eliminated third-seeded > Premysl > Kubala and Petr Chromy of the Czech Republic 15-8 Wednesday.
> In Thursday's final match, the top two seeded teams in the Qualification
> Tournament battled for Brazil's berth in the Main Draw as Tande and > Giovane > upset the top-seeded qualifying men's team of Paulo Emilio Azevedo and > Carlao > Gouveia 15-3 and 15-7.
> Brazil, who has had teams win 51 of the previous men's FIVB Beach > Volleyball > World Tour events, has four teams in the Main Draw while the United > States > placed six. Argentina, Australia, Canada, Cuba, Germany, host Mexico > and > Norway have two teams each in the Main Draw. France, Italy, New > Zealand, > Portugal, Puerto Rico, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland have one team each > in the > Main Draw.
> The five-day two-person beach volleyball event started Wednesday with 53 > men's > teams attempting to qualify for the Main Draw in the $340,000 Mexican > Open, the > first of three combined tournaments with women on the FIVB Beach > Volleyball > World Tour this season. The Mexican Open concludes Sunday with the > semi-finals > and championship matches starting at 10 a.m. Both Gold Medal matches > will net > the winning teams the $30,000 first-place price for the men's and > women's > winners.
> PRESS OPERATIONS - Tim Simmons (e-mail simm...@mail.fivb.ch), the Press > Operations Officer for the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour, can be > reached at > 52-74-85-49-37 at the Mexican Open. The local Press Operations Managers > for > the Mexican Open are Lourdes Gomez, Claudia Esteva and Karla Romero at > OCESA > DePortes (e-mail krom...@cie-mexico.com.mx) and can be reached at > 52-74-85-50-67 or 52-74-85-48-12 at the event.
> The complete entry lists, qualification and main draw, as well as full > details > on the $340,000 Mexican Open can be found on the FIVB site at > www.fivb.ch/beach. > Men's Mexican Open Qualification Tournament Results - Thursday
> Acapulco (April 8, 1999) - Here are the results from the second of two > days of > men's qualifying here Thursday (April 8) on Tamarindos Beach in the > Mexican > Open. The Qualification Tournament was held to determine the final > eight > berths in the 32-team Main Draw that starts Friday and concludes > Sunday. The > Mexican Open is the second of 12 events for the Men's 1999 FIVB Beach > Volleyball World Tour. All the stops of the 1999 FIVB Beach Volleyball > World > Tour are Olympic Qualification Tournaments for Sydney 2000. A total of > 77 > men's tandems from 27 countries are competing in the men's event, > including 53 > teams in the Qualification Tournament.
> Men's Qualifying, third-round results - Paulo Emilio Azevedo/Carlao > Gouveia, > Brazil (No. 1-seeded team) def. Ko Ozaki/Taichi Morikawa; Japan (16), > 15-11 > (32-minute match); Ihosvany Chambers/Lazaro Milian Carvajal, Cuba (24) > def. > Albert Hannemann/Nick Hannemann; American Somoa (25), 15-10 (50); Victor
> Anfilloff/Andrew Schacht, Australia (12) def. Rffaelli/Pimponi, Italy > (5), > 15-10 (50);; Bjorn Berg/Simon Dahl, Sweden (20) def. Ricardo > Lione/Dionisio > Lequaglie, Italy (4), 15-7 (31); Juan Rosell/Francisco Alvarez, Cuba > (30) def. > Brian Gatzke/Daniel Lewis, Canada (14), 15-9 (54); Karch Kiraly/Adam > Johnson, > United States (6) def. Mikhail Kouchnerev/Oleg Kiselev, Russia (11), > 15-6 (45); > Willie De Jesus/Amaury Velasco, Puerto Rico, (10) def. Guilherm > Deulofeu/Eric > Guissart, France (7), 17-15 (60); Giovane Gavio/Tande Ramos, Brazil (2) > def. > Oliver Oetke/Andreas Scheuerpflug, Germany (15), 15-6 (25)
> Acapulco (April 8, 1999) - Here's the Qualification Tournament final > rankings > following the conclusion of play here Thursday (April 8) in the Mexican > Open on > Playa Tamarindos. The Qualification Tournament started Wednesday with > 53 teams > competing for the final eight berths in the 32-team Main Draw that > starts > Friday and ends Sunday. The Mexican Open is the second of 12 events for > the > Men's 1999 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour. All the stops of the 1999 > FIVB > Beach Volleyball World Tour are Olympic Qualification Tournaments for > Sydney > 2000. Overall, a total of 77 men's tandems from 27 countries are > competing in > the men's event.
> Men's Qualification Tournament Rankings
> Rank Team, Country (seed) W-L Point
> Qualified Tande Ramos/Giovane Gavio, Brazil (2) 5-1 Main Draw > Qualified Andrea Raffaelli/Maurizio Pimponi, Italy (5) 4-2 Main > Draw > Qualified Karch Kiraly/Adam Johnson, United States (6) 3-1 Main > Draw > Qualified Amaury Velasco/Willie De Jesus, Puerto Rico (10) 3-0 > Main > Draw > Qualified Victor Anfilloff/Andrew Schacht, Australia (12) 4-0 > Main > Draw > Qualified Bjorn Berg/Simon Dahl, Sweden (20) 4-1 Main Draw > Qualified Lazaro Milian Carvajal/Ihosvany Chambers, Cuba (24) 4-1 > Main > Draw > Qualified Francisco Alvarez/Juan Rosell, Cuba (30) 4-0 Main > Draw > 33rd Paulo Emilio/Carlao Gouveia, Brazil (1) 3-2 28 > Brian Gatzke/Dan Lewis, Canada (14) 4-3 28 > Oliver Oetke/Andreas Scheuerpflug, Germany (15) 3-3 28 > Ko Ozaki/Taichi Morikawa, Japan (16) 3-3 28 > 37th Eric Guissart/Guilherm Deulofeu, France (7) 1-2 20 > Mikhail Kouchnerev/Oleg Kiselev, Russia (11) 1-2 20 > Ricardo Lione/Dionisio Lequaglie, Italy (4) 1-2 20 > Albert Hannemann/Nick Hannemann, American Samoa (25) 2-2 > 20 > 41st Matthew Grinlaubs)/Joshua Slack, Australia (52) 1-1 14 > Alan Hinchley/Rowan Searle, Australia (22) 1-1 14 > Simon McCloy/Shaun Blackman, Australia (28) 1-1 14 > Christian Noisternig/Dietmar Maderboeck, Austria (31) 1-1 > 14 > Oliver Stamm/Helmut Hirner, Austria (17) 1-1 14 > Ahren Cadieux/Everett Matthews, Canada (32) 1-1 14 > Premysl Kubala/Petr Chromy, Czech Republic (3) 0-1 14 > Yoyi Rodriguez/Javier Luna, Spain (21) 1-1 14 > Stephane Canet/Mathieu Hamel, France (9) 0-1 14 > Georgios Giatsis/Ilias Arabatzis, Greece (29) 1-1 14 > Giulio Mosci/Eugenio Amore, Italy (47) 1-1 14 > Tomohisa Yamamoto/Chikashi Kawai, Japan (23) 1-1 14 > Kjell Goranson/Iver Horrem, Norway (27) 1-1 14 > Bernhard Vesti/Markus Egger, Switzerland (8) 0-1 14 > David Andersson/Pelle Magnusson, Sweden (26) 1-1 14 > Canyon Ceman/Adam Jewell, United States (19) 1-1 14
Fedt at nogen gider holder os blegfede danskere orienterede om hvordan det går vores beachvolley-piger i udlandet. Bliv ved med det - men kan det gøres kortere, så gør det kortere :-)
