PRESENTATION
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Swatch World
Tour back in Austria for 16th time |
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Considered by many as the premier international beach volleyball
event, the capital of the federal state of Carinthia in Austria
hosts the $600,000 A1 Grand Slam presented by Volksbank, the seventh
of a FIVB record eight double-gender grand slam events on the 2012
FIVB Beach Volleyball SWATCH World Tour. This year’s event will be
held July 16-22 as the final event prior to the 2012 London Olympic
Games. On July 19, the drawing by lot for pool assignments at the
Olympics will also be held in Klagenfurt. This year will be an
unprecedented 16th-straight year that the Lake Wörthersee site has
hosted the international circuit as teams from Brazil and United
States captured men’s and women’s gold medals, respectively, in
2011. Brazilians Pedro Cunha/Ricardo Santos sealed the men's title
on the Lake Wörthersee center court by defeating Germany’s Julius
Brink/Jonas Reckermann in the final, as USA’s Phil Dalhausser/Todd
Rogers won the bronze medal. The women's final saw USA’s Misty
May-Treanor/Kerri Walsh defeat China’s Chen Xue/Xi Zhang for the
fifth Klagenfurt gold medal for the Americans while the Chinese
captured their second straight silver medal in Klagenfurt.
Netherlands’ Sanne Keizer/Marleen Van Iersel earned the bronze
medal. While the men’s world tour has been in Klagenfurt every year
since 1997 for this magical summer festival, the women’s world tour
has been in Klagenfurt every year since 2001. |
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PAST AUSTRIAN
MEN’S PODIUM PLACEMENTS
Medals -
Brazil 23, United States 8, Germany 5, Norway 3, Netherlands 2, Switzerland 2, Argentina 1, Russia 1 |
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Site |
Year |
Gold Medal |
Silver Medal |
Bronze Medal |
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Klagenfurt |
1997 |
Emanuel Rego/Ze Marco de Melo,
BRA |
Jorg Ahmann/Axel Hager, GER |
Paulao Moreira/Paulo Emilio
Silva, BRA |
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Klagenfurt |
1998 |
Jose Loiola/Emanuel, BRA |
Dain Blanton/Eric Fonoimoana,
USA |
Jan Kvalheim/Bjorn Maaseide,
NOR |
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Klagenfurt |
1999 |
Loiola/Emanuel Rego, BRA |
Ze Marco/Ricardo Santos, BRA |
Guilherme Marques/Para
Ferreira, BRA |
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Klagenfurt |
2000 |
Loiola/Emanuel, BRA |
Ze Marco/Ricardo, BRA |
Paulao/Jefferson Bellaguarda,
BRA |
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Klagenfurt |
2001* |
Mariano Baracetti/Martin
Conde, ARG |
Loiola/Ricardo, BRA |
Vegard Hoidalen/Jorre
Kjemperud, NOR |
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Klagenfurt |
2002 |
Loiola/Ricardo, BRA |
Markus Egger/Sascha Heyer,
SUI |
Hoidalen/Kjemperud, NOR |
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Klagenfurt |
2003 |
Marcio Araujo/Benjamin
Insfran, BRA |
Stein Metzger/Kevin Wong, USA |
Stefan Kobel/Patrick Heuscher,
SUI |
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Klagenfurt |
2004 |
Emanuel/Ricardo, BRA |
Franco Neto/Tande Ramos, BRA |
C. Dieckmann/Andreas
Scheuerpflug, GER |
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Klagenfurt |
2005 |
Christoph. Dieckmann/Scheuerpflug,
GER |
Emanuel/Ricardo, BRA |
Marcio Araujo/Fabio Magalhaes,
BRA |
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Klagenfurt |
2006 |
Phil Dalhausser/Todd Rogers,
USA |
Emanuel/Ricardo, BRA |
Marcio Araujo/Fabio, BRA |
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Klagenfurt |
2007 |
Emanuel/Ricardo, BRA |
David Klemperer/Eric Koreng,
GER |
Reinder Nummerdor/Richard
Schuil, NED |
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Klagenfurt |
2008 |
Dmitri Barsouk/Igor
Kolodinsky, RUS |
Metzger/Mark Williams, USA |
Emanuel/Ricardo, BRA |
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Klagenfurt |
2009 |
Dalhausser/Rogers, USA |
Alison Cerutti/Harley Marques, BRA |
Nummerdor/Schuil, NED |
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Klagenfurt |
2010 |
Dalhausser/Rogers, USA |
Fuerbringer/Lucena, USA |
Alison/Emanuel, BRA |
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Klagenfurt |
2011 |
Pedro Cunha/Ricardo BRA |
Julius Brink/Jonas Reckermann GER |
Dalhausser/Rogers USA |
*SWATCH-FIVB World Championships
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