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Klagenfurt
2007
Women's Grand Slam
02.08.2007 -
04.08.2007
PRESENTATION
Presentation
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The
highlight of the year in Klagenfurt
KLAGENFURT 2007
- The SWATCH-FIVB World Tour returns to Klagenfurt, the
Carinthian capital city,
for the 11th-straight season as the event will feature both men’s and
women’s competition for the seventh consecutive year. Since 1996, the event has
grown into one of Austria's most successful sporting occasions. It was
the site
of the 2001 SWATCH-FIVB World Championships when a leading Austrian magazine
voted the Lake Woerthersee Beach Volleyball stop their "best event" ahead of the
world-renowned downhill ski race in Kitzbuehel and the Formula One Grand
Prix. Klagenfurt 2006 will also be the fourth of four Grand Slam events
on the SWATCH-FIVB World Tour following "major" stops in Berlin, Stavanger and
Paris. Dancing, chanting, cheers and screams are all synonymous with the
Lake Woerthersee tournament. Played before capacity crowds on the
8,000-seat centre court, the A1 Beach Volleyball Grand Slam presented by
Nokia features six days of thrilling, world-class action, watched by
sun-baked galleries in a unique festive atmosphere that never stops. And
it's just the perfect ingredients to draw the crème de la crème of Austrian
highlife to this unique lakeside event. Ask those in the know: If it's
August, it must be Beach Volleyball at Klagenfurt.
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 Men
- The “premiere” stop on the SWATCH-FIVB World Tour, the Lake Wörthersee SWATCH
stop is the fourth and final grand slam event of the 2007 season. For the
second consecutive year, Brazilian Olympic champions
Emanuel Rego and Ricardo Santos were upset in the final as Americans Dalhausser
and Rogers became only the second team outside South America to take the
Klagenfurt gold medal. A
2001 FIVB World Championship victory for Argentina’s Mariano Baracetti and
Martin Conde was the only gold medal finish for a country other than Brazil in
Austria.
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The 2006
Klagenfurt men's podium: Todd Rogers/Phil Dalhausser (USA) gold
medal (centre), Emanuel/Ricardo (BRA) silver medal (left) and
Fabio/Marcio (BRA) bronze medal (right) |
Year – Klagenfurt Gold
Medal / Klagenfurt Silver Medal / Klagenfurt Bronze Medal
1997 - Emanuel Rego/Ze
Marco de Melo, Brazil / Jorg Ahmann/Axel Hager, Germany / Paulao Moreira/Paulo
Emilio Silva, Brazil
1998 - Jose Loiola/Emanuel, Brazil / Dain Blanton/Eric Fonoimoana,
USA / Jan Kvalheim/Bjorn Maaseide, Norway
1999 - Loiola/Emanuel, Brazil / Ze Marco/Ricardo Santos, Brazil /
Guilherme Marques/Para Ferreira, Brazil
2000 - Loiola/Emanuel, Brazil / Ze Marco/Ricardo, Brazil / Paulao/Jefferson
Bellaguarda, Brazil
2001* - Mariano Baracetti/Martin Conde, Argentina / Loiola/Ricardo,
Brazil / Vegard Hoidalen/Jorre Kjemperud, Norway
2002 - Loiola/Ricardo, Brazil / Markus Egger/Sascha Heyer,
Switzerland / Hoidalen/Kjemperud, Norway
2003 - Marcio Araujo/Benjamin Insfran, Brazil / Stein Metzger/Kevin
Wong, USA / Stefan Kobel/Patrick Heuscher, Switzerland
2004 - Emanuel/Ricardo, Brazil / Franco Neto/Tande Ramos, Brazil /
Christoph Dieckmann/Andreas Scheuerpflug, Germany
2005 - C. Dieckmann/Scheuerpflug, Germany / Emanuel/Ricardo, Brazil
/ Marcio Araujo/Fabio Magalhaes, Brazil
2006 - Todd
Rogers/Phil Dalhausser, USA / Emanuel/Ricardo, Brazil / Fabio-Luiz/Marcio
Araujo, Brazil
*FIVB
World Championships
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 Women
- Since Adriana Behar and Shelda Bede captured their second FIVB World
Championship in 2001 in Klagenfurt, the United States have captured four Austrian gold medals
until the up and coming Chinese duo of Wang Fei and Tian Jia broke the winning
streak last year. The Austrian pairing of Sabine Swoboda and Sara Montagnolli
achieved the country's best finish last year with a fifth place.
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The 2006 Klagenfurt women's podium: (left)
Juliana/Larissa (BRA) silver medal, Jie Wang/Jia Tian (CHN) gold medal and Okka
Rau/Stephanie Pohl (GER) bronze medal |
Year – Klagenfurt Gold
Medal / Klagenfurt Silver Medal / Klagenfurt Bronze Medal
2001*
- Shelda Bede/Adriana Behar, Brazil / Sandra Pires/Tatiana Minello, Brazil /
Eva Celbova/Sona Novakova, Czech Republic
2002
- Misty May-Treanor/Kerri Walsh, United States / Shelda/Adriana, Brazil /
Elaine Youngs/Holly McPeak, USA
2003
– May-Treanor/Walsh, United States / Pires/Ana Paula Connelly, Brazil /
Shelda/Adriana, Brazil
2004
- Walsh/Rachel Wacholder, United States / Shelda/Adriana, Brazil / Annett
Davis/ Jenny Johnson Jordan, USA
2005
- May-Treanor/Walsh, United States / Wacholder/Youngs, United States / Tian
Jia/Wang Fei, China
2006 - Wang Jie/Tian Jia,
China / Juliana/Larissa, Brazil / Okka Rau/Stephanie Pohl, Germany
*FIVB World
Championships
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Teams
