News Beach volleyball 10/07/2013 Main draw of the FIVB U19 World Championships set to go Porto, Portugal, July 10,2013 – After two rounds of qualification on Wednesday eight teams earned a spotin the main draw of the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships in Porto. In the boys' competitionteams from Switzerland, Austria, Norway and Russia advanced. Germany, theNetherlands, France and Brazil all added a team in the girls' competition. Additionally four luckylosers per gender will complete the 32 teams main draw pool play, because dueto travelling problems some of the main draw teams were not able to make it toPorto in time. Russia upset top seeds in U19 qualifications Russia’s Oleg Stoyanovskiyand Artem Yarzutkin upset top seeded Pedro Henrique Resende Santos and MatheusMaia Terra de Faria in the qualification tournament of the FIVB BeachVolleyball U19 World Championships on Wednesday.The Russians defeated theBrazilians 2-0 (22-20 21-15) after another 2-0 (21-14 21-18) win over Latvia’sReinis Pridans and Pauls Alberts van der Beks in their first qualificationmatch. More Brazil hold off Norway to advance to main drawBrazil’s Andressa CavalcantiRamalho and Paula Moniz Hoffmann held off a strong challenge by Norway in thefinal qualification round on Wednesday to advance to the main draw of the FIVBBeach Volleyball U19 World Championships in Porto. In a tight match that lastedover an hour the number one seeds lost the first set to Norway’s BenedicteMaaseide and Cecilie Woie, but came back strong in the second. In the tiebreakthe Brazilian girls survived three Norwegian match points to finish the game attheir second: 20-22 21-10 19-17. More The FIVB U19 WorldChampionships continue on Thursday with the first day of main draw. A total of32 teams per gender divided over eight pools compete in a round robin. The topthree of each pool advances to the elimination phase, which starts onSaturday.The semifinals and medal matches for both boys and girls are scheduledfor Sunday. Porto hosted the U19 WorldChampionships once before in 2010. The event is the final out of three FIVB agegroup tournaments this year.FIVB BeachVolleyball U19 World Championships Tournament PageFIVBBeach Volleyball U19 World Championships Girls Qualification ResultsFIVBBeach Volleyball U19 World Championships Boys Qualification ResultsFIVB Beach Volleyball U19 Twitter Account Print this Page News {{item.LocalShortDate}} {{item.Title}} All the News