Porto, Portugal, July 11,
2013 – Asian U21 champions Rendy Licardo and Mohammad Ashfiya from Indonesia booked
two straight wins at the start of their first FIVB Beach Volleyball U19 World Championships
in Porto on Thursday. Only a few teams in the men’s
competition, including top teams from Austria and Russia, could match this
excellent accomplishment. In the women’s competition
Russia left their mark with two teams booking straight wins. Both teams await
an interesting final pool match on Friday. Anna Gorbunova and Nadezda Makroguzova
take on Czechs Barbora Pilatova and Hana Tresnakova for the pool title. Daria
Myshonkova and Valeriya Shvedova will play Italy’s Gaia Concetti and Agata
Zuccarelli for top position and a bye in the first round. Straight wins for Austria’s
Buchegger and WallerAustria’s Paul Buchegger and
Philipp Waller started their first FIVB U19 World Championships campaign with
two straight wins on Thursday. The high seeded team defeated
Italian qualifiers Giacomo De Fabritis and Javier Facundo Martinez 23-21 21-16
and Gerson David Contreras Lacayo and Ruben Alejandro Mora Romero from
Nicaragua 21-12 21-14. More Polish U21 champions into
knockout round after two comfortable winsPoland’s Katarzyna Kociolek
and Jagoda Gruszczynska booked an early ticket to the elimination rounds on
Thursday after two comfortable wins on the first day of pool play of the FIVB
Beach Volleyball U19 World Championships in Porto.
The reigning U21 world champions defeated Norway’s Benedicte Maaseide and
Cecilie Woie 2-0 (21-12 21-5) in an early morning match. In the afternoon they
had another 2-0 (21-10 21-11) win over Venezuela’s Valeria de los Angeles and
Celeinis Bernal in sunnier conditions. More Lack of communication makes
Jamaican girls mess upLack of communication messed
up the first match of Jamaica’s Tionna Graham and Lisanne Roofe at the FIVB
Beach Volleyball U19 World Championships in Porto.
The two 14-year old girls lost 2-0 (21-6 21-7) to Australia’s Phoebe Bell and
Agnieszka Kudziela and were very disappointed about their first ever
international match. More Indonesia: short guys can
jump
Before and after every match
Rendy Licardo and Mohammad Ashfiya jump up and down like a bunch of Masai
warriors. But unlike the Masai the boys from Indonesia don’t want to impress
their opponents but simply want to improve their jumping abilities.
“We are just small boys from Indonesia. People in Indonesia are not very tall.
We jump every day, so we can play a good game against taller boys”, 16-year old
Licardo said. More Beach volleyball pioneer
Jackie Silva returns to PortugalJacqueline Louise Cruz Silva, better known as
Jackie Silva, was one of the pioneers of Brazilian beach volleyball. A
colourful and hot-blooded player who was a true ambassador for her country and
beach volleyball. Now, at the age of 51, she is helping Jamaica warm up to the
sport.
Silva retired in 2004 having gathered 12 gold
medals on the World Tour, two World Tour titles in 1995 and 1996, the World
Championship title in 1997 and a gold medal at the first Olympic beach
volleyball tournament in 1996. More
The U19 World Championships continue
on Friday with the last rounds of pool play. The top three of each pool earns a
spot in the knockout rounds. The pool winners advance directly to the second
elimination round.
For both genders the
semifinals and medal matches are scheduled for Sunday. The U19 World
Championships are the final of three FIVB age group events this year. In June
Myslowice hosted the U23 World Championships and Umag the U21.
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