SWATCH FIVB World Tour 2009

1 to 1 energy Grand Slam - Gstaad | Women
6/07/2009 - 11/07/2009

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Gstaad Hosts First 2009 SWATCH Grand Slam Event

The SWATCH FIVB World Tour returns to Switzerland for the 10-straight season as the village of Gstaad hosts men and women in the first post-world championship event on the 2009 international Beach Volleyball calendar. Gstaad was the site of the 2007 SWATCH FIVB World Championships along with hosting the first event following the conclusion of the qualifying process for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Brazilian pairs captured the 2008 gold medals as the teams of Harley Marques/Pedro Salgado and Shelda Bede/Ana Paula Connelly won their first-ever SWATCH Grand Slam events. The Gstaad stop on the SWATCH FIVB World tour started with women’s competition in 2000 followed by the first double gender event the next year. The 2007 stop featured the $1-million SWATCH-FIVB World Championships where the American teams of Misty May-Treanor/Kerri Walsh and Phil Dalhausser/Todd Rogers captured the women’s and men’s gold medals, respectively. The men’s 2007 podium marked the first-time that a Brazilian team did not win a medal as reigning Olympic champions Emanuel Rego and Ricardo Santos dropped “final four” matches to Dalhausser/Rogers and Andrew Schacht/Joshua Slack, who became the first men’s team from Australia to medal in the SWATCH-FIVB World Championships. Swiss men’s teams have medaled twice, including a title in 2004 by Patrick Heuscher and Stefan Kobel. Simone Kuhn and Lea Schwer placed fifth at the 2008 stop for the highest finish by a Swiss women’s team in Gstaad. Previously, Kuhn posted the best placements with four ninth-place finishes, including two each with Nicole Schnyder-Benoit (2002 and 2003) and Lea Schwer (2005 and 2006). Pictured below are Brazilian gold medal winners at the 2008 SWATCH stop in Gstaad (left to right), Salgado, Harley, Ana Paula and Shelda.

PAST SWISS MEN’S PODIUM PLACEMENTS

Medals - Brazil 11, Germany 3, Switzerland 3, USA 3, Argentina 1, Australia 1, Netherlands 1, Russia 1

Site	Year	Gold Medal	Silver Medal	Bronze Medal
Gstaad	2001	Stein Metzger/Kevin Wong, USA	Martin Laciga/Paul Laciga, SUI	Emanuel Rego/Tande Ramos, BRA
Gstaad	2002	Martin Conde/Mariano Baracetti, ARG	Marcio Araujo/Benjamin Insfran, BRA	Stein Metzger/Kevin Wong, USA
Gstaad	2003	Marcio Araujo/Benjamin, BRA	Markus Dieckmann/Jonas Reckermann, GER	Stefan Kobel/Patrick Heuscher, SUI
Gstaad	2004	Heuscher/Kobel, SUI	M. Dieckmann/Reckermann, GER	Emanuel/Ricardo, BRA
Gstaad	2005	Emanuel/Ricardo, BRA	Benjamin/Harley Marques, BRA	Marcio Araujo/Fabio Magelhaes, BRA
Gstaad	2006	Emanuel/Ricardo, BRA	Marcio Araujo/Fabio, BRA	Julius Brink/Christoph Dieckmann, GER
Gstaad	2007*	Phil Dalhausser/Todd Rogers, USA	Dmitri Barsouk/Igor Kolodinsky, RUS	Andrew Schacht/Joshua Slack, AUS
Gstaad	2008	Harley/Pedro Salgado, BRA	Reindeer nummerdor/Richard Schuil, NED	Alison Cerutti/Emanuel, BRA

*SWATCH-FIVB World Championships

PAST SWISS WOMEN’S PODIUM PLACEMENTS

Medals - Brazil 12, USA 9, China 5, Australia 1

Site	Year	Gold Medal	Silver Medal	Bronze Medal
Gstaad	2000	Shelda Bede/Adriana Behar, BRA	Holly McPeak/Misty May-Treanor, USA	Ana Paula Connelly/Monica Rodrigues, BRA
Gstaad	2001	Shelda/Adriana, BRA	Barbra Fontana/Elaine Youngs, USA	May-Treanor/Kerri Walsh, USA
Gstaad	2002	May-Treanor/Walsh, USA	Shelda/Adriana, BRA	Natalie Cook/Kerri Pottharst, AUS
Gstaad	2003	May-Treanor/Walsh, USA	Ana Paula/Sandra Pires, BRA	Shelda/Adriana, BRA
Gstaad	2004	May-Treanor/Walsh, USA	Shelda/Adriana, BRA	McPeak/Youngs, USA
Gstaad	2005	Juliana Felisberta Silva/Larissa Franca, BRA	Jia Tian/Fei Wang, CHN	Shelda/Adriana, BRA
Gstaad	2006	May-Treanor/Walsh, USA	Juliana/Larissa, BRA	Tian/Jie Wang, CHN
Gstaad	2007*	May-Treanor/Walsh, USA	Tian/Jie Wang, CHN	Juliana/Larissa, BRA
Gstaad	2008	Shelda/Ana Paula, BRA	Tian/Jie Wang, CHN	Chen Xue/Xi Zhang, CHN

*SWATCH-FIVB World Championships