Fresh off the Canadian National Beach Championships, we are back on the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour. We have four Canadian teams participating in this women's only event this week in Finland. Last year, the Paf Open was a dual gender event and Canada sent two women's and two men's teams. This year, the event is women's only and returning to Aland is Bansley-Maloney who finished 17th in the 2011 event. Full team lists, results and live streams below.
Canadian Teams in Finland
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Altomare-Vlcek |
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Bansley-Maloney |
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Broder-Valjas |
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Whitaker-MacTavish |
Results and Live Streams after the break.
We are back in Halifax for the FIVB Junior World Championships. We have five women's and four men's teams representing Canada including half of last year's women's silver medallist team with Melissa Humana-Paredes back in Halifax. From the FIVB press release:
The world championship event will be held through Sunday (Sept. 2) at the purpose-built beach volleyball complex on the Salter Lot of the Halifax Waterfront. This is the not only the second time in the event’s 12-year history that it is being held in North America, but also the second straight year in Halifax.
Gathered in Halifax for this year’s event are 81 teams (41 men and 40 women) from 34 countries. With 32 teams in each gender qualified into their respective main draws, the additional teams for each gender are reserve teams if needed to complete the respective 32-team fields. This is the first time in event history that a 32-team main draw field is being used for the competition.
The 32 teams will be divided into eight four-team pools for round-robin play of three matches per team. The women will begin with two rounds on Wednesday and one on Thursday, while the men will have two rounds on Thursday and one on Friday.
The top three teams in each pool (24 total) will advance to the single-elimination bracket phase of the tournament. The women will begin their single elimination phase with two rounds on Friday followed by the women’s quarterfinals and semifinals on Saturday. Men will play their first elimination round on Friday, followed by the second round and quarterfinals on Saturday and the semifinals on Sunday morning.
The event is run as Sand Jam Halifax with tickets being sold on the Sand Jam Halifax website. Also on the website, you can download the Sand Jam mobile app to follow along with match results, news and more. Team list below.
Canadian Women in Halifax
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Longman-Bukovec |
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Monette-MacDougall |
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Humana-Paredes-Pischke |
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Sider-Hamer |
Canadian Men in Halifax
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Chow-Del Bianco |
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Keith-May |
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Kocur-Coleman |
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Nusbaum-O'Gorman |
Live Streams and results after the jump.
Photo: FIVB
Pool play has ended in London at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Neither Canadian team has made it into the first round of playoffs with Marie-Andrée Lessard and Annie Martin not making it out of pool play and Martin Reader and Josh Binstock losing in the lucky loser stage of the tournament. The first round of playoffs begins August 3rd 2012 and as always, matches will be streamed live on CTV and NBC. Live streams below.
Live Streams
Live video streams can be found at the Kill on Two Olympic page.
Women's Beach Volleyball Round 1
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Larissa-Juliana | vs. |  |
Meppelink-van Gestel |
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Goller-Ludwig | vs. | |
Holtwick-Semmler |
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Talita-Antonelli | vs. |  |
Slukova-Kolocova |
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Kuhn-Zumkehr | vs. |  |
Kessy-Ross |
Photo: FIVB
The Olympic Games have finally started! We will be creating daily posts with the results of each match and will post links to the live streams. Josh Binstock and Martin Reader kick off their men's beach volleyball pool play against the host nation July 28th at 1:30 p.m. EST. Fellow Canadians Annie Martin and Marie-Andrée Lessard begin their Olympic pool play on Sunday July 29th at 12:30 p.m. EST also against Great Britain.
Women's Pool Play Results
Pool A
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Holtwick-Semmler | def. |  |
Klapalova-Hajeckova | 2-0 (21-16, 21-18) |
Pool B
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Vasina-Vozakova | def. |  |
Zhang Xi-Xue | 2-1 (18-21, 21-14, 16-14) |
Men's Pool Play Results
Pool C
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Brink-Reckermann | def. | |
Semenov-Prokopiev | 2-0 (21-19, 21-17) |
Pool D
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Samoilovs-Sorokins | def. |  |
Fijalek-Prudel | 2-1 (12-21, 21-15, 15-12) |
Live Streams
Live video streams can be found at the Kill on Two Olympic page.
More Results
View all the results for beach volleyball pool play after the jump
Photo: FIVB
Fresh off the Olympic Trials at Ashbridges Bay in Toronto, three teams have flown out directly to Berlin for this week's stop on the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour. Christian Redmann and Ben Saxton are the only Canadian team on the men's side of the tournament while Liz Maloney and Heather Bansley as well as Kacie MacTavish and Julie Rodrigue are representing Canada for the women.
Redmann-Saxton and Bansley-Maloney are both coming off of tough losses in Toronto to the new members of the Canadian Olympic Team: Josh Binstock, Martin Reader, Marie-Andrée Lessard and Annie Martin. Liz and Heather are the only Canadians with direct entry into the main draw this tournament, the others will be entered into the qualification round.
Canadian Men's Teams in Berlin
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Saxton-Redmann |
Canadian Women's Teams in Berlin
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MacTavish-Rodrigue |
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Bansley-Maloney |
Qualifier Results
Men's Qualifier Round One
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Saxton-Redmann | def. |  |
Yutvalin-Likholetov | 2-1 (21-23, 21-14, 15-12) |
Men's Qualifier Round Two
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Saxton-Redmann | def. |  |
Huber-Seidl | 2-1 (21-17, 20-22, 15-13) |
Women's Qualifier Round One
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MacTavish-Rodrigue | def. |  |
Bratuhhina N.-Bratuhhina P. | 2-0 (21-17, 21-19) |
Women's Qualifier Round Two
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Vieira-Lili | def. | |
MacTavish-Rodrigue | 2-1 (22-24, 21-13, 15-12) |
Main Draw results and live video streams after the jump.