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2005 Youth Boys'
Under 19 World Championship
Algiers & Oran,
24 August – 1 September 2005
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Russia win gold to
complete the double
 Algiers,
Algeria, September 1, 2005 – Russia defeated Brazil in the
final on Thursday to claim the ninth Boys' U-19 World
Championship, their second FIVB trophy this season after
their victory in the Junior Men's tournament last month in
India also beating their arch rivals in the final. Russia
won the Boys' U-19 cup after a fantastic five set match
(17-25, 25-22, 17-25, 25-23, 15-11) against the Samba
Dancers here at Harcha hall in the Algerian capital. The
Russians deprived Brazil of gaining their fifth world title
this season after they had already claimed the Men's World
League, Women's Grand Prix, Junior Women's U 20 World
Championship and Girls' U 18 World Championship titles.
It was an unbelievable performance from the future heroes of
Russia and Brazil who played 117 minutes using every
Volleyball skill you need and although Brazil were in
inspirational form, the Russian players applied the rule
that nothing in Volleyball is impossible. They rebounded
twice from one set behind until they took the match into the
tiebreak. The competition’s most valuable player Anton
Fomenko played the best match of his life and led Russia
with his teammate Dimetry Krasikov and Dmitry Llinykh to the
historic victory.
"I studied the Brazilian team well through the video before
the match and I put in tactics to stop their spikers by
using our solid block," Russian coach Vladimir Kondra said
happily. “When my team was twice down by one set I told the
players to concentrate and forget the usual Brazilian
motivational sounds and they did well as a team in all the
skills. I send my sincere gratitude to my libero Roman
Martynyuk for his performance which was the most important
factor in the victory."
Meanwhile, Italy used their prominent hitters to claim a 3-1
(25-21, 23-25, 25-23, 25-17) victory over Argentina to claim
the bronze medal for the first time in their history and
resign Argentina to fourth spot. This is the first time
Italy reached the podium since their one and only victory in
1997.
A more motivated Iran, who finished second in 2001 and third
in 2003, came from one set down to seal a significant 3-1
(20-25, 25-13, 25-19, 25-19) victory over France to claim
the fifth position leaving France in sixth.
The more experienced Polish team finished seventh after they
claimed a 3-1 victory over Slovakia (31-29, 25-20, 28-26).
Poland used the strong spikers Zbigniew Bartman and Jakub
Jarosz to win the match in 70 minutes.
Individual Prizes:
Best Scorer: 10 Nicolas Marechal (France)
Best Spiker: 4 Araghi Seyed Mousavi (Iran)
Best Blocker: 14 Deivid Costa (Brazil)
Best Server: 9 Konstantin Lesik (Russia)
Most Valuable player: 4 Anton Fomenko (Russia) |
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