Norway’s Mol & Sorum and Brazil’s Thamela & Victoria celebrated the boys’s and ladies’s trophies in Joao Pessoa
- Cherif & Ahmed of Qatar received the Joao Pessoa Elite16 silver within the males’s competitors with help from FIVB Volleyball Empowerment
- Norway’s Mol & Sorum and Sweden’s Ahman & Hellvig collected gold and bronze, respectively
- Brazil’s Thamela & Victoria and Taiana Lima & Talita, and USA’s Hildreth & Van Gunst, in that order, lined up on the ladies’s podium
With help from FIVB Volleyball Empowerment, Tokyo 2020 Olympic bronze medallists Cherif Younousse & Ahmed Tijan (pictured in the principle photograph) of Qatar reached the boys’s closing of final week’s Seaside Professional Tour Elite16 occasion in Joao Pessoa and earned the silver medal. Tokyo 2020 Olympic champions and Paris 2024 Olympic bronze medallists Anders Mol & Christian Sorum of Norway confirmed their class and received gold, whereas Paris 2024 Olympic champions David Ahman & Jonatan Hellvig picked up the bronze. Brazil’s Thamela Coradello & Victoria Lopes celebrated the ladies’s gold. Their compatriots Taiana Lima & Talita Antunes additionally happy the house crowd in Brazil with a silver medal end within the ladies’s competitors, whereas the USA’s Kimberly Hildreth & Teegan Van Gunst accomplished the rostrum.
The 2024 Joao Pessoa Elite16 medallists
The Qatar Volleyball Affiliation has thus far been granted a complete of CHF 502,000 in FIVB Volleyball Empowerment help. CHF 72,000 of that funding was tagged for coach help for his or her males’s nationwide seaside volleyball pairs, skilled by Argentinean knowledgeable Pablo Bernardi. One other CHF 9,500 was allotted for seaside volleyball gear.
On the best way to the Joao Pessoa closing, 29-year-old Cherif & Ahmed, seeded fifth within the males’s primary draw, misplaced simply one among their pool matches, to Nicolas Capogrosso & Tomas Capogrosso of Argentina in three units, however then bought again at their subsequent assembly within the semifinals. The duo from Qatar produced a 2-0 (21-10, 21-13) sweep and superior to the gold medal showdown, securing their sixth Seaside Professional Tour podium with a silver.
Two-time Olympic medallists, former world champions and former primary crew within the FIVB World Rating, Mol & Sorum, made an ideal run of six consecutive wins to assert the Joao Pessoa crown, their tenth trophy and nineteenth medal general on the Seaside Professional Tour. One of many three units the third-seeded duo misplaced all through the event was within the epic closing towards Cherif & Ahmed, which the Norwegian crew received by a nail-biting 2-1 (25-27, 21-17, 19-17). In addition they misplaced a set within the semifinal towards second-seeded Ahman & Hellvig, however celebrated a 2-1 (22-20, 18-21, 15-10) victory.
Paris 2024 Olympic champions, Ahman & Hellvig, made the rostrum with bronze after a 2-1 (19-21, 21-18, 15-11) comeback towards the Capogrossos duo within the third-place match, accumulating their fifteenth Seaside Professional Tour medal.
Cherif units the ball through the Joao Pessoa semifinals
Thamela Coradello & Victoria Lopes of Brazil began competing on the Tour collectively in July of this 12 months, however have already collected their first gold and second medal, after their Hamburg Elite16 bronze in August, out of three occasions performed.
In Joao Pessoa, the third-seeded Brazilian pair began off with a stunning three-set loss to qualifiers Deahna Kraft & Lexy Denaburg of the USA, however went on a successful streak, solely dropping a set all through the remainder of the event. Within the semifinals, they met Kraft & Denaburg once more and this time defeated them in straight units, 2-0 (21-13, 21-14). In addition they mastered a convincing 2-0 (21-14, 21-14) sweep of the ultimate towards Twelfth-seeded compatriots Taiana Lima & Talita Antunes.
Taiana Lima and three-time Olympian Talita, additionally began the event with a loss, however then received their subsequent 4 matches to achieve the ultimate and declare their second Seaside Professional Tour medal as a crew, a silver medal. Within the semifinals, additionally they met a qualifying pair from the USA, Kimberly Hildreth & Teegan Van Gunst, and beat them in straight units, 2-0 (21-17, 22-20).
Hildreth & Van Gunst bounced again with a 2-0 (21-18, 21-14) victory over fellow duo from the USA Kraft & Denaburg within the third-place match to have fun their duo’s first ever Elite16 medal. Beforehand, that they had two silver medals, each from Futures occasions.
Tense feelings for Thamela & Victoria through the Joao Pessoa closing
28 males’s and 27 ladies’s groups representing a complete of 21 completely different nations took half within the Joao Pessoa Elite16. The following Elite16 occasion will even be held Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro, from 6 to 10 November.
Joao Pessoa Elite16: outcomes and standings
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