Fejes & Johnson, Ciezkowska & Lunio and Coakley & Sweat line up on the Krakow podium
Stefanie Fejes & Georgia Johnson in motion through the Krakow last (supply: cev.eu)
Australia’s Stefanie Fejes & Georgia Johnson topped the rostrum on the Volleyball World Seashore Professional Tour girls’s Futures occasion that completed in Krakow, Poland on Sunday. Each members of the not too long ago shaped partnership have received Futures golds earlier than with earlier teammates, however at all times in Australia, and this was the primary time for both of them to triumph away from dwelling. For 19-year-old Fejes it was already the fourth Futures trophy in her assortment. Poland’s Malgorzata Ciezkowska & Urszula Lunio settled for silver, whereas top-seeded People Kennedy Coakley & Brooke Sweat took bronze.
Eighth-seeded Fejes & Johnson allowed just one defeat within the six matches performed through the event. Within the Pool A winners’ match, Sixteenth-seeded Ciezkowska & Lunio beat them by a hard-fought 2-1 (14-21, 21-17, 15-12). After that, the Australians went on a four-game successful streak. On Sunday, they produced a 2-0 (21-19, 21-16) semifinal victory over Tenth-seeded Madison Shields & Delaney Peranich of the USA to face the identical Polish opponents within the last once more. The 2 groups delivered one other thrilling three-set battle, however this time Fejes & Johnson got here again from a set down to finish up on the successful finish with a 2-1 (17-21, 21-11, 15-9) victory.
It was the fourth Futures gold for 19-year-old Stefanie Fejes. She took all earlier three in a partnership with Jana Milutinovic at tournaments performed in Australia – Coolangatta 2023, Mollymook 2024 and Coolangatta 2024. In addition they had one silver captured in “neighbouring” New Zealand, on the 2024 Mount Maunganui Futures. 25-year-old Georgia Johnson’s solely earlier gold on the Seashore Professional Tour was additionally earned in Australia, on the 2023 Geelong Futures with Jasmine Fleming. That pair additionally picked up two silver and two bronze medals.
The fourth Seashore Professional Tour look for the brand new pair of Fejes & Johnson introduced them the workforce’s first podium.
A spectacular dig by USA’s Madison Shields in Krakow (supply: cev.eu)
It was the primary podium for 19-year-old Malgorzata Ciezkowska and 20-year-old Urszula Lunio too. The pair has, nevertheless, been on three main age-category podiums, with a 2023 FIVB U21 Seashore Volleyball World Championship bronze, a 2023 CEV U20 European Championship gold and a 2024 CEV U22 European Championship silver. They reached the Krakow last undefeated in 4 consecutive matches, together with two upsets of top-seeded Coakley & Sweat. Ciezkowska & Lunio beat the People in straight units of their first Pool A match, after which once more, after a three-set battle, within the semifinals, by 2-1 (21-17, 8-21, 15-10).
In an all-American third-place match, 38-year-old Olympian Brooke Sweat and her 18-year-old teammate Kennedy Coakley defeated Shields & Peranich in straight units, 2-0 (21-17, 21-14), to assert their second Seashore Professional Tour bronze in a row, after ending third on the Sveti Vlas Futures every week earlier.
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he girls’s Krakow Futures 2024 podium (supply: cev.eu)
28 groups from 16 completely different nations took half within the girls’s Krakow Futures. Every week earlier, the gorgeous Polish metropolis additionally hosted a males’s Futures event. The subsequent three Futures occasions are set to happen this week: from June 19 to 22 in Ios, Greece, and from June 20 to 23 in Messina, Italy and a males’s event in Geneva, Switzerland.
Girls’s Krakow Futures: outcomes and standings
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