Salvador 2005
– For the first-time outside of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil will host a double gender
SWATCH-FIVB World Tour event in Salvador, the capital of the state of
Bahia and former capital of Brazil until 1763. Salvador hosted a men’s event
for the first-time in 2004 while women’s SWATCH-FIVB World Tour events were held
four years (1996-1999). Teams from Brazil won all five gold medals.
Salvador
is literally surrounded by beaches and is famous for its history, its hospitable
people and the legacy left by people from other continents. For a start its
shore is one of the longest in Brazil, including 34 kilometers of beach,
spreading across Cidade Alta and Cidade Baixa. The beaches located between
Cidade Baixa and Porto da Barra are bathed by the calm waters of Todos os Santos
Bay and the others by the Atlantic Ocean. Salvador looks onto a bay, the Baía
de Todos os Santos, and is ringed with beaches and dotted with tropical islands.
To the northeast of the city a string of fishing villages lies along a beautiful
coastline – in short, no lack of places of inspiration.
Men - The SWATCH-FIVB World Tour
returns to Salvador for the second-straight season as the host country hopes to
reverse its fortunes from the 2003 season finale in Rio de Janeiro where no
Brazilian men’s team earned a podium place. It marked the first-time in 26 FIVB
events in Brazil where the host country did not secure a medal. With Markus
Dieckmann and Jonas Reckermann of Germany winning the 2004 season finale in Rio
de Janeiro, it also snapped a streak of 11-straight gold medal finishes by the
men from Brazil on their home sand. The Germans defeated Patrick Heuscher and
Stefan Kobel of Switzerland in the Rio gold medal match, who lost to Emanuel
Rego and Ricardo Santos of Brazil in the 2004 Salvador final. Emanuel and
Ricardo defeated the Swiss pair in the Athens semi-finals enroute to the
Brazilians’ gold medal finish in the 2004 Summer Olympics.
2004
Salvador Men's Podium
1. Emanuel Rego/Ricardo
Santos, Brazil
2. Patrick Heuscher/Stefan
Kobel, Switzerland
3. Mariano Baracetti/Martin
Conde, Argentina
Gold Medal match - Emanuel/Ricardo def.
Heuscher/Kobel, 21-19, 21-18 (43 minutes)
Bronze Medal match - Baracetti/Conde won by
forfeit over Markus Dieckmann/Jonas Reckermann, Germany
Pic: (from left to right) - Heuscher,
Kobel, Ricardo, Emanuel, Conde and Baracetti.
Year - Salvador Gold Medal
/ Salvador Silver Medal / Salvador Bronze Medal
2004
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Emanuel/Ricardo,
Brazil / Patrick Heuscher/Stefan Kobel, Switzerland / Mariano Baracetti/Martin
Conde, Argentina
Women - Brazil placed six teams among
the top seven finishers in the 2004 season finale in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian
women have won all four of the previous Salvador events, including three by
Adriana Behar and Shelda Bede. Ana Paula Connolly and Sandra Pires, the 2003
SWATCH-FIVB World Tour season point’s champions, won their only 2004 event in
Rio. The 2004 title was Pires’ third in Rio de Janeiro as the women’s from the
host country have now five of the seven previous events. Pires joins Adriana
and Shelda as earning medals at each Salvador stop.
Pic: FIVB President
Ruben Acosta with the Athens 2004 silver medalists
Shelda Bede and Adriana Behar.
Year - Salvador Gold Medal
/ Salvador Silver Medal / Salvador Bronze Medal
Salvador de Bahia
2005
Men's Open
Teams
