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Saint Petersburg
2007
Men's Open
30.08.2007 -
02.09.2007
PRESENTATION
Presentation
Can Europe prevail in 2007?
ST.
PETERSBURG 2007
– St. Petersburg was the site of the
country’s first major international Beach Volleyball event as the city on the
Gulf of Finland hosted the 1994 Goodwill Games competition for both men and
women. A city of haunting magnificence, St. Petersburg is an imperial capital
that seems to have been built as a monument to its own passing. Less than three
centuries have passed since Peter the Great began building the grand city, but
it is difficult to visit its vast, crystalline squares and palaces without
feeling the enormity of the gulf that separates that time from our own. All of
which, of course, makes St. Petersburg more evocative of Russia's past than any
place except perhaps the Moscow Kremlin. This impression is only deepened by a
more familiar acquaintance. The enigmatic homeliness of Peter's cottage and the
city's placid canals may contrast with the brooding grandeur of the Winter
Palace, but they share with it a graceful stillness that is difficult to forget.
Will Europe manage to break the Brazilian domination this year in the Gulf of Finland as the the SWATCH-FIVB
World Tour returns to St. Petersburg for the third-straight year? After
taking all six medals and all eight “final four”
finishes at the 2005 stop, Brazil could manage "only" two golds and one bronze
in 2006, with Europe's men's teams hot on their heels. Most noteworthy was the
bronze medal for the Dutch pair Jochem De Gruijter and Gijs Ronnes, who netted
their country's first medal in the Tour's 20-year history.
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Men
- The
Russian Volleyball Federation continues to develop Beach Volleyball as the
SWATCH-FIVB World Tour returns to St. Petersburg, the site of the first Goodwill
Games in 1994. Emanuel Rego and Ricardo Santos captured a three-set gold medal
match from reigning SWATCH-FIVB World Champions Marcio Araujo and Fabio
Magelhaes in the 2005 finale as Brazil captured all three podium spots.
Brazilians
Guilherme Marques
and Para Ferreira won the first Moscow gold medal in 1998 by defeating Martin
Conde and Eduardo Martinez of Argentina in the finals. Portugal’s Joao Brenha
and Luis Maia captured the 1999 Moscow stop by beating Zé Marco de Melo and
Ricardo Santos of Brazil in the finals.
2006 St. Petersburg podium (left to right)
featuring Dieckmann, Brink, Marcio Araujo, Fabio, De Gruijter and Ronnes
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Year - St. Petersburg
Gold Medal / St. Petersburg Silver Medal / St. Petersburg Bronze Medal
1994 - Jan Kvalheim/Bjorn
Maaseide, Norway / Carlos Briceno/Jeff Williams, USA / Bruk Vandeweghe/Sinjin
Smith, USA
2005 - Emanuel Rego/Ricardo Santos, Brazil / Marcio Araujo/Fabio
Magelhaes, Brazil / Franco Neto/Tande Ramos, Brazil
2006 - Fabio Luiz/Marcio
Araujo, Brazil / Julius Brink/Christoph Dieckmann, Germany / Jochem De
Gruijter/Gijs Ronnes, Netherlands
PAST RUSSIA MEN’S
PODIUM PLACEMENTS
Total Medals - Brazil
6, USA 2, Argentina 1, Germany 1, Norway 1, Portugal 1
Site |
Year |
Gold Medal |
Silver Medal |
Bronze Medal |
St. Petersburg |
1994 |
Jan Kvalheim/Bjorn Maaseide, NOR |
Carlos Bricento/Jeff Williams, USA |
Bruk Vandeweghe/Sinjin Smith, USA |
Moscow |
1998 |
Guilherme Marques/Para Ferreira, BRA |
Martin Conde/Eduardo Martinez, ARG |
Jorg Ahmann/Axel Hager, GER |
Moscow
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1999 |
Joao Brenha/Luis Maia, POR |
Ze Marco de Melo/Ricardo Santos, BRA |
Emanuel Rego/Jose Loiola, BRA |
St. Petersburg |
2005 |
Emanuel/Ricardo, BRA |
Marcio Araujo/Fabio Magelhaes, BRA |
Franco Neto/Tande Ramos, BRA |
St. Petersburg |
2006 |
Fabio-Luiz/Marcio Araujo, BRA |
Julius Brink/Christoph Dieckmann, GER |
Jochem De Gruijter/Gijs Ronnes, NED |
Totals |
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Brazil 3 Golds, Norway 1, Portugal 1 |
Brazil 2 Silvers, Argentina 1,
Germany 1, USA 1 |
Brazil 2 Bronzes, Germany 1,
Netherlands 1, USA 1 |
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Women
- With a
combined age of 90, the 2005 women’s St. Petersburg gold medal match featured
the “youngest” final in SWATCH-FIVB World Tour history as Juliana Feilsberta
Silva (22) and Larissa Franca (23) defeated Renata Riberio (23) and Talita
Antunes (22) for the title. St. Petersburg also hosted the 1994 Goodwill Games,
which was the first of three Goodwill Games appearances for
beach volleyball with other events in New York (1998) and Brisbane, Australia
(2001). Natalya Belousova and Mariya Kopylova posted a seventh at the 1994
Goodwill Games for Russia, whose best finish in 2006 was ninth for
Uryadova-Shiryaeva.
2006 St.
Petersburg podium (left to right), Zhang Xi, Xue Chen, Larissa,
Juliana, Shelda and Adriana |
Year - St. Petersburg
Gold Medal / St. Petersburg Silver Medal / St. Petersburg Bronze Medal
1994 - Karolyn
Kirby/Liz Masakayan, USA / Adriana Samuel/Monica Rodrigues, Brazil / Barbra
Fontana/Lori Forsythe
2005
- Juliana Felisberta Silva/Larissa Franca, Brazil / Renata Riberio/Talita
Antunes, Brazil / Leila Barros/Ana Paula Connelly, Brazil
2006 - Juliana Felisberta
Silva/Larissa Franca, Brazil / Zhang Xi/Xue, China / Adriana Behar/Shelda
Bede, Brazil
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