After a week of competition, the 2011 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships from Rome, Italy will be coming to an end today with finals action from both the men's and women's side of the tournament. On the men's side we have an all Brazil final with Marcio Araujo-Ricardo facing Emanuel-Alison. The women's side of the tournament bring another rematch between rivals as Larissa-Juliana of Brazil face May-Treanor-Walsh of the United States. As always, we have the matches, brackets and live streams listed below for those interested.
Women's Matches
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Xue-Zhang Xi | vs. |  |
Klapalova-Hajeckova | Bronze Medal Match | 10:35 a.m. EST |
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May-Treanor-Walsh | vs. |  |
Larissa-Juliana | Gold Medal Match | 1:15 p.m. EST |
Men's Matches
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Plavins-Smedins, J. | vs. |  |
Brink-Reckermann | Bronze Medal Match | 11:35 a.m. EST |
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Marcio Araujo-Ricardo | vs. | |
Emanuel-Alison | Gold Medal Match | 2:45 p.m. EST |
Brackets and live stream links after the jump.
The elimination round has begun over in rome for the 2011 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships. Only one Canadian team made it out of pool play on the women's side of the tournament and into the round of 32. That was Heather Bansley and Liz Maloney. The tournament would end here for them as they played Jen Kessy and April Ross of the USA and lost 2-0. On the men's side of the tournament, pool play is still finishing up with the lone Canadian men's team of Ben Saxton and Christian Redmann playing the number three seed of Marcio Araujo-Ricardo from Brazil. Redmann-Saxton are currently 1-1 in pool play and would need a win here for a chance to go on.
Edit: Christian and Ben did lose their last pool play game but did make it to the round of 32 in the elimination round. Volleyball Canada cites their points f/a ratio:
They advance by being among the eighth best third place finishers thanks to their solid total points for and against ratio of 1.00. The top-two in each of the 12 pools all advance as well to the round of 32.
Live stream links below, and we will put the brackets up once we get down to quarter finals.
Canadians in Pool Play Today
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Marcio Araujo-Ricardo | def. |  |
Redmann-Saxton | 2-1 (23-21, 17-21, 15-11) |
Canadians in the Round of 32
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Kessy-Ross | def. | |
Bansley-Maloney | 2-0 (21-14, 21-14) |
Live Streams after the jump.
The 2011 Beach Volleyball Swatch World Championships take place this week in Rome, Italy. There are three Canadian teams in the tournament, two women's and one men's. We have a total of six live streams going on from the tournament, so chances are if there is a match playing live, we've got it. The three Canadian teams in the tournament are:
Canadian Teams
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Lessard-Martin |
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Bansley-Maloney |
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Redmann-Saxton |
Full schedule and live streams after the jump.