Porto, Portugal, August 2, 2014 – Eight teams from seven
different countries reached the final fours of the double gender FIVB Beach
Volleyball World Championships in Porto on Saturday. Brazil is the only country
that has one team in both the boy’s and girl’s semifinals.
Key points
· Boy’s
semifinals: Kovalov/Plotnytskiy (UKR) – Bouter/Van Steenis (NED), Tigrito/Peter
(VEN) – Arthur/George Wanderley (BRA).
· Girl’s
semifinals: McNamara/McNamara (CAN) – Schneider/Arnholdt (GER), Adamcikova/Valkova
(CZE) – Eduarda/Andressa (BRA).
· The boy’s
semifinals feature one lucky losers team: Bouter/Van Steenis (NED).
· Eduarda
(BRA) is the only one left of last year’s medallists. She won the gold medal
with Taina in 2013.
South-American semifinal at the U19 World
Championships
In an all-South-American semifinal Brazil’s Arthur Diego
Mariano and George Wanderley Souto Maior will play Venezuela’s José Gregorio
Gomez and Rolando Hernandez on Sunday at the FIVB U19 World Championships. Read
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Dutch lucky losers reach men’s final four in Porto
Jasper Bouter and Tom van Steenis reached the final four of
the FIVB U19 World Championships on Saturday with two wins over Poland’s
Lysikowski/Jetke (21-15, 21-19) and Austria’s Kratz/Pristauz-Telsnigg (22-20,
18-21, 15-13). Read
more
Brazil’s Eduarda on track for another medal in Porto
Brazil’s Eduarda Santos Lisboa is right on track for another
medal at the FIVB U19 World Championships in Porto. With Andressa Cavalcanti
Ramalho at her side she defeated Russia’s Mastikova/Novikova 2-1 (18-21, 21-11,
17-15) in the second round on Friday and later on overpowered Swiss team
Rohrer/Gerson 2-0 (21-11, 21-9) to claim a spot in the semifinals. Read
more
Germany’s Schneider/Arnholdt knock out last year’s
silver medallist to reach the final four
Sarah Schneider and Lisa Arnholdt put down their mark at the
FIVB U19 World Championships on Saturday. The German girls knocked out last
year’s silver medallist Nadezda Makroguzova and her new partner Daria Rudykh to
advance into the semifinals. Read
more
Former world champion ‘Mono’ Baracetti invests
in next generation
The name Mariano Joaquín Baracetti should ring a bell with
most beach volleyball fans. The now 40-year old Argentinean, better known as ‘Mono’,
won the FIVB World Championships in 2001 in Klagenfurt. Baracetti retired in
2009, but now he is back at another FIVB World Championship, the U19 in Porto. Read
more
The girl’s semifinals are scheduled for 10.00, followed by
the boy’s at 11.00. The bronze medal matches are played at 12.30 and 13.30 and
the finals at 15.00 and 16.00.
Porto is hosting the FIVB U19 World Championships for the
third time, following the 2010 and 2013 editions.
This year the outside beach courts were situated in the
neighbouring town of Matosinhos, a five minutes walk to the north. The centre
court and second court are set up on the boulevard in Porto, next to the famous
‘glass building’.