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Serbia clinch ticket to 2012 London Olympic Games
Serbia Qualified for the Olympic Games in London 2012
Tokyo, Japan, June 9, 2012 – European champions Serbia qualified for the Olympic Games in London with a straight-sets victory over Iran on the penultimate day of action at the FIVB Men’s World Olympic Qualification Tournament in Tokyo on Saturday. Serbia improved to a 6-0 win-loss record and raised their points total to 18. Australia’s 3-1 win over Korea put them in the driving seat for the Asian Olympic berth, but they are only a point ahead of Iran, Japan and China. Australia will face China and Japan will clash with Iran on the final day.
Iran – Serbia
Serbia defeated Iran 3-0 (30-28, 30-28, 25-22) in a scintillating match between the two top teams on the penultimate day of action in the FIVB Men’s Olympic Qualification Tournament at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium on Saturday. The result means Serbia have qualified for the London Olympics and they celebrated enthusiastically on court. Iran’s Amir Ghafour led all scorers with 17 points, including eight in the first set. Serbia had four players with double digits, Milos Nikic topping Serbia’s scorers with 14 points.
Serbia coach Igor Kolakovic: ”I’m happy because we managed our great goal, which is the Olympic Games. We played against a very good Iran team, and it was tough, especially in the first two sets. But we had patience and will and did everything for the win and I am very satisfied with the victory.”
Venezuela – China
China overcame Venezuela 3-1 (25-18, 28-26, 18-25, 25-21). Both teams struggled to get into any kind of rhythm early on, but Venezuela were struggling more and their attackers needed better service. China’s top scorer was Zhang Chen with 16 points, while Kervin Pinerua led Venezuela with 20 points. China outblocked Venezuela 8-6 and outserved them 10-5. China improved their record to 3-3, while Venezuela dropped to 1-5.
China coach Zhou Jianan: ”Venezuela gave us problems because of their attacking power and I have great respect for them. We made many mistakes, especially on reception and the flow of our spikes was not so smooth. It wasn’t an easy game, but we managed to get the result, so that was good.”
Australia – Korea
Australia beat Korea 3-1 (25-22, 25-18, 23-25, 25-20) and is now the favourite for the Asian qualification spot from this tournament. Korea ran into trouble at the start of the match and Australia had the upper hand, with Thomas Edgar causing them plenty of problems on offence and defence.Australia were led by Aidan Zingel with 19 points, while Korea’s top scorer was Choi Hong-Suk with 21. Australia outblocked Korea 16-12 and outserved them 8-3. Australia improved their record to 4-2, while Korea dropped to 2-4.
Australia captain Igor Yudin: ”It was another do-or-die game for us, as it has been the whole tournament. Obviously, I’m very happy to get this win and it was a really tough one, probably the toughest of the tournament, but our Olympic dream is still alive.”
Japan- Puerto Rico
Japan survived a tough encounter with Puerto Rico to win 3-1 (22-25, 25-21, 25-19, 25-16) in the last match on Saturday. Japan is now 4-2, while Puerto Rico dropped their sixth straight game. Tatsuya Fukuzawa and Kunihiro Shimizu were the joint top scorers for Japan with 15 points each, while Juan Figueroa led Puerto Rico with 18 points. Japan outblocked Puerto Rico 9-4, but Puerto Rico had the edge on serves, 5-2. Puerto Rico committed 36 errors to Japan’s 19.
Japan coach Tatsuya Ueta: ”In the first set, we weren’t relaxed enough to play well. From the second set, our serves and blocks became effective and our defence also got better.”
Last day of action:
Serbia vs Venezuela
China vs Australia
Korea vs Puerto Rico
Japan vs Iran
LIVE SCOREBOX
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BEST SCORERS
| Rank | Shirt | Name | Team | Spike | Block | Serve | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14 | Fukuzawa Tatsuya | JPN | 77 | 8 | 10 | 95 |
| 2 | 4 | Zhang Chen | CHN | 79 | 10 | 4 | 93 |
| 3 | 19 | Edgar Thomas | AUS | 66 | 17 | 8 | 91 |
| 4 | 10 | Pinerua Kervin | VEN | 73 | 10 | 3 | 86 |
| 5 | 10 | Chen Ping | CHN | 65 | 10 | 6 | 81 |
| 6 | 10 | Ghafour Amir | IRI | 71 | 2 | 6 | 79 |
| 7 | 9 | White Adam | AUS | 67 | 2 | 4 | 73 |
| 8 | 13 | Choi Hong-Suk | KOR | 59 | 6 | 6 | 71 |
| 9 | 7 | Zarini Hamzeh | IRI | 60 | 8 | 2 | 70 |
| 10 | 10 | Nikic Milos | SRB | 57 | 9 | 3 | 69 |
| 11 | 6 | Mousavi Eraghi Seyed Mohammad | IRI | 42 | 23 | 3 | 68 |
| 12 | 5 | Ghaemi Farhad | IRI | 47 | 6 | 13 | 66 |
| 13 | 6 | Yudin Igor | AUS | 57 | 6 | 1 | 64 |
| 8 | Kim Hak-Min | KOR | 57 | 6 | 1 | 64 | |
| 15 | 1 | Kovacevic Nikola | SRB | 50 | 7 | 5 | 62 |
| 16 | 11 | Park Chul-Woo | KOR | 54 | 6 | 60 | |
| 17 | 13 | Shimizu Kunihiro | JPN | 54 | 5 | 59 | |
| 18 | 3 | Figueroa Juan | PUR | 52 | 3 | 3 | 58 |
| 19 | 15 | Starovic Sasa | SRB | 46 | 6 | 4 | 56 |
| 20 | 1 | Zingel Aidan | AUS | 32 | 18 | 4 | 54 |
| 21 | 3 | Gonzalez Fernando | VEN | 43 | 8 | 2 | 53 |
| 22 | 18 | Shin Yung-Suk | KOR | 40 | 10 | 2 | 52 |
| 23 | 1 | Bian Hongmin | CHN | 40 | 10 | 1 | 51 |
| 24 | 1 | Rivera Jose | PUR | 46 | 1 | 3 | 50 |
| 15 | Arias Luis | VEN | 43 | 2 | 5 | 50 | |
| 26 | 9 | Nadi Alireza | IRI | 37 | 9 | 3 | 49 |
| 15 | Cruz Lozada Ezequiel | PUR | 45 | 4 | 49 | ||
| 18 | Podrascanin Marko | SRB | 33 | 12 | 4 | 49 | |
| 29 | 11 | Matsumoto Yoshihiko | JPN | 35 | 9 | 1 | 45 |
| 30 | 6 | Liang Chunlong | CHN | 24 | 18 | 2 | 44 |
| 31 | 7 | Zhong Weijun | CHN | 29 | 7 | 7 | 43 |
| 18 | Yoneyama Yuta | JPN | 41 | 2 | 43 | ||
| 33 | 7 | Escalante Enrique | PUR | 31 | 6 | 5 | 42 |
| 34 | 5 | Muñiz Roberto | PUR | 31 | 5 | 4 | 40 |
| 35 | 12 | Yamamura Kota | JPN | 22 | 13 | 4 | 39 |
| 36 | 14 | Kim Yo-Han | KOR | 29 | 3 | 2 | 34 |
| 37 | 5 | Rodriguez Emerson | VEN | 23 | 6 | 1 | 30 |
| 14 | Atanasijevic Aleksandar | SRB | 26 | 2 | 2 | 30 | |
| 39 | 10 | Maldonado Ulises | PUR | 28 | 28 | ||
| 40 | 5 | Passier Travis | AUS | 10 | 14 | 3 | 27 |
| 7 | Lee Sun-Kyu | KOR | 19 | 7 | 1 | 27 | |
| 17 | Escobar Daniel | VEN | 21 | 6 | 27 | ||
| 43 | 12 | Rasic Milan | SRB | 19 | 6 | 1 | 26 |
| 44 | 7 | Yamamoto Takahiro | JPN | 23 | 1 | 1 | 25 |
| 16 | Ishijima Yusuke | JPN | 24 | 1 | 25 | ||
| 46 | 3 | Yuan Zhi | CHN | 23 | 23 | ||
| 47 | 7 | Stankovic Dragan | SRB | 18 | 2 | 1 | 21 |
| 48 | 1 | Jeon Kwang-In | KOR | 13 | 4 | 2 | 19 |
| 12 | Shen Qiong | CHN | 14 | 4 | 1 | 19 | |
| 50 | 12 | Fayazid. Pourya | IRI | 16 | 2 | 18 | |
| 17 | Ghara Reza | IRI | 16 | 1 | 1 | 18 | |
| 52 | 10 | Yun Bong-Woo | KOR | 12 | 4 | 1 | 17 |
| 53 | 14 | Morales Fernando | PUR | 8 | 6 | 2 | 16 |
| 54 | 3 | Roberts Nathan | AUS | 12 | 1 | 13 | |
| 55 | 6 | Paez Carlos | VEN | 5 | 4 | 3 | 12 |
| 56 | 9 | Tomimatsu Takaaki | JPN | 7 | 4 | 11 | |
| 57 | 2 | Han Sun-Soo | KOR | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 |
| 4 | Janic Bojan | SRB | 9 | 1 | 10 | ||
| 59 | 4 | Marouflakrani Mir Saeid | IRI | 7 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| 11 | Contreras Jhoser | VEN | 7 | 1 | 1 | 9 | |
| 61 | 5 | Petkovic Vlado | SRB | 3 | 5 | 8 | |
| 15 | Li Runming | CHN | 7 | 1 | 8 | ||
| 63 | 11 | Yu Dawei | CHN | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 64 | 2 | Kovacevic Uros | SRB | 5 | 1 | 6 | |
| 7 | Peacock Harrison | AUS | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | |
| 19 | Aquino Edwin Leonardo | PUR | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | |
| 67 | 2 | Yustiz Deivis | VEN | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 68 | 3 | Kwon Young-Min | KOR | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 5 | Usami Daisuke | JPN | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 13 | Mahdavi Mehdi | IRI | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||
| 71 | 8 | Salerno Hector | VEN | 2 | 2 | ||
| 8 | Grant Andrew | AUS | 2 | 2 | |||
| 11 | Mitic Mihajlo | SRB | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 14 | Sukochev Grigory | AUS | 2 | 2 | |||
| 18 | Williams Lincoln Alexander | AUS | 2 | 2 | |||
| 76 | 4 | Kondoh Shigeru | JPN | 1 | 1 | ||
| 9 | Jiao Shuai | CHN | 1 | 1 | |||
| 14 | Mobasheri Demneh Alireza | IRI | 1 | 1 | |||
| 19 | Koshiya Akira | JPN | 1 | 1 | |||
| Total Tournament | 2'125 | 398 | 168 | 2'691 | |||
Highest Scorers day- by- day
Points Name Team date
27 Park Chul-Woo of Korea vs China 07-jun-12
22 Edgar Thomas of Australia vs Venezuela 1-jun-12
27 Zarini Hamzeh of Iran vs China 2-jun-12
24 Edgar Thomas of Australia vs Iran 5-jun-12
21 Choi Hong-Suk of Australia vs Korea 09-jun-12
18 Chen Ping of China vs Japan 6-jun-12
Top-Scoring Performances
27 Zarini Hamzeh of Iran vs China 2-jun-12
24 Edgar Thomas of Australia vs Iran 5-jun-12
24 Park Chul-Woo of Korea vs China 7-jun-12
22 Edgar Thomas of Australia vs Ven. 1-jun-12
21 Choi Hong-Suk of Australia vs Korea 09-jun-12
21 Fukuzawa Tatsuya of Japan vs Korea 5-jun-12
Top-Blocking Performances
8 Yamamura Kota of Japan vs Australia 07-jun-12
8 Mousavi Eraghi Seyed of Iran vs Korea 1-jun-12
6 Mousavi Eraghi Seyed of Iran vs Australia 5-jun-12
6 Liang Chunlong of Korea vs China 7-jun-12
5 Zingel Aidan of Australia vs Ven 1-jun-12
5 Edgar Thomas of Australia vs Puerto R 2-jun-12
5 Shin Yung-Suk of Korea vs Japan 5-jun-12
5 Zingel Aidan of Australia vs Korea 09-jun-12
Top-Serving Performances
6 Mahdavi Mehdi of Iran vs Korea 1-jun-12
5 Zhong Weijun of Venezuella vs China 9-jun-12
4 Fukuzawa Tatsuya of Japan vs Venezuella 2-jun-12
3 Edgar Thomas of Australia vs Puerto Rico 2-jun-12
3 Mousavi Eraghi Seyed of Iran vs China 2-jun-12
3 Ghaemi Farhad of Iran vs China 2-jun-12
3 Ghafour Amir of Iran vs China 2-jun-12
3 Paez Carlos of Venezuella vs Puerto R. 5-jun-12
3 Escalante Enrique of Puerto Rico vs Iran 6-jun-12
3 Ghaemi Farhad of Iran vs Venezuela 07-jun-12
3 Zingel Aidan of Australia vs Korea 9-jun-12
3 Arias Luis of Venezuella vs China 9-jun-12
3 Zhang Chen of Venezuella vs China 09-jun-12
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