Beach Major Stavanger/ Champions Solberg Salgado & Goncalves, 4° gli Ingrosso; ORO Felisberta & Antonelli, 25° Menegatti-Orsi Toth
Se a Porec il podio aveva festeggiato due coppie azzurre, stavolta a Stavanger il podio è stato soltanto sfiorato dai gemelli Ingrosso, mentre la coppia Menegatti & Orsi Toth è stata subito eliminata nelle qualificazioni.
Buon momento quindi per i portacolori azzurri, visto che i gemelli Ingrosso quest’anno avevano vinto a maggio nell’ EuroBeach - Al Jurmala Masters e visto che la coppia
Carambula e Ranghieri a Porec in Crozia avevano conquistato la medaglia di bronzo come peraltro la coppia femminile Marta Menegatti e Viktoria Orsi Toth.
Da elogiare quindi in questa occasione la coppia Paolo e Matteo Ingrosso che giustamente elogia così il sito della Fedevolley italiana:<< Sono state due formazioni polacche a fermare Paolo e Matteo Ingrosso ai piedi del podio. I due ragazzi italiani hanno ceduto in semifinale a Losiak-Kantor 2-0 (21-13 21-16) e a Fijalek-Prudel 2-0 (21-13 21-15) nella finale per il terzo posto. Alla coppia tricolore rimane comunque la soddisfazione del miglior risultato in carriera in un torneo tanto importante.>>
Ma come sempre , noi che seguiamo innanzitutto Marta Menegatti & Viktoria Orsi Toth, vi proponiamo in sequenza news tutte le loro prestazioni sulla sabbia di Stavanger, così come vengono raccontate sul sito www.federvolley.it, mentre per quanto riguarda la parte finale dell’Evento “Breach Stavanger Major” vi proponiamo by www.fivb.org tutto quanto è successo nelle ‘Final Four’ sia maschili che femminili , tutto questo in linea con la nostra filosofia internazionale che come sempre va in onda qui su www.polesinesport.it , giusto per onorare sempre e comunque i vincitori
ANTEPRIMA NEWS ( by www.federvolley.it , 08-06-2015 )/ Beach Stavanger Major: gli Azzurri in gara
Continua senza soste il World Tour di beach volley che dopo l’appuntamento di Porec, farà tappa a Stavanger per il secondo Major consecutivo.
La delegazione azzurra sarà composta da Ranghieri – Carambula, iscritti alle qualificazioni e reduci dall’ottimo terzo posto conquistato ieri in Croazia, Lupo - Nicolai e Menegatti - Orsi Toth che invece giocheranno nei rispettivi main draw: donne in campo il mercoledì; uomini il giovedì.
PRIMA MAIN NEWS ( by www.federvolley.it, 10-06-2015 )/ Beach Major Stavanger: Menegatti-Orsi Toth superate all'esordio
Nel Major di Stavanger esordio amaro per le azzurre Menegatti-Orsi Toth, superate dalle australiane Artacho Del Solar-Laird 0-2 (13-21, 16-21).
SECONDA MAIN NEWS ( by www.federvolley.it )/ Beach volley, World Tour 2015. Stavanger. Menegatti/Orsi Toth a un passo dall’eliminazione. Il programma di oggi
Sono ad un passo dalla eliminazione Marta Menegatti e Viktoria Orsi Toth nel Major Series di Stavanger. La coppia azzurra ha subito anche la seconda sconfitta nella giornata di apertura del torneo norvegese e oggi dovrà sperare di battere le brasiliane Maria Clara/Carol e nella contemporanea sconfitta delle australiane Artacho Del Solar/Laird per approdare ai sedicesimi di finale.
A differenza della gara di esordio, dove le azzurre avevano patito la temperatura molto bassa e le non perfette condizioni fisiche di Orsi Toth, la coppia italiana contro le canadesi Humana Paredes/Pischke ha giocato una partita gagliarda ma è uscita sconfitta 2-1 (26-24, 20-22, 15-13). Azzurre in campo alle 15 contro la coppia carioca: serve una vittoria 2-0 e una sconfitta con lo stesso punteggio delle australiane.
TERZA MAIN NEWS ( by www.federvolley.it , 11-06-2015 )/ Beach Major Stavanger - Menegatti-Orsi Toth eliminate
Marta Menegatti e Viktoria Orsi Toth sono state eliminate dal Major di Stavanger, dopo la fase a pool. Alle due sconfitte della prima giornata, la coppia italiana ha aggiunto quella per 2-0 (21-19 21-18) con le brasililiane Carol-Maria Clara, chiudendo al 25mo posto.
QUARTA MAIN NEWS ( by www.fivb.org, 13.06.2015)/ STAVANGER : CHAMPIONS JULIANA FILISBERTA AND MARIA ANTONELLI
Stavanger, Norway, June 13, 2015 - After a disappointing start to their season with a 17th- and ninth-place in the first two events, 2014 FIVB World Tour champions Juliana Felisberta and Maria Antonelli rebounded from a pool play defeat Thursday to win five-straight matches to capture the women’s gold medal here Saturday at the Stavanger Major.
Playing in the shadows of compatriots Talita Antunes and Larissa Franca the past 11 months, the fourth-seeded Juliana and Antonelli emerged from behind the curtain to win their first “big” title on the FIVB World Tour at the US$800,000 SWATCH Major Series event by defeating Brazilian rivals Agatha Bednarczuk and Barbara Seixas 2-0 (21-16, 21-15) in 40 minutes.
In defeating the top-seeded Agatha and Seixas for the second-time in three international meetings, Juliana and Antonelli claimed their second FIVB gold medal in 17 world tour starts. In addition, Juliana and Antonelli are now 2-4 in FIVB gold medal matches as they avenged a title setback to Agatha and Seixas in May 2014 at the Puerto Vallarta Open in Mexico.
With Brazil guaranteed its fourth-straight gold medal on the 2015 women’s FIVB World Tour after winning the mid-day semi-finals over teams from The Netherlands and Germany, Juliana and Antonelli shared the $57,000 first-place prize along with earning 800 points toward qualifying for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
Despite the gold medal setback to square their title match record at 2-2, Agatha and Seixas split $43,000 in winnings and garnering 720 points. The Brazilians, the No. 3-ranked team on the FIVB World Tour behind pairs from Canada, were seeking their second 2015 medal after winning an “open” event three weeks ago in Prague, Czech Republic.
To advance to their sixth FIVB gold medal match, Juliana and Antonelli out-lasted second-seeded Madelein Meppelink/Marleen Van Iersel of the Netherlands 2-1 (19-21, 23-21, 16-14) in the longest women’s match in the Stavanger Major (63 minutes). Agatha and Seixas advanced to the SWATCH Major Series finale with a 2-0 (24-2, 21-16) win in 43 minutes over 12th-seeded Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst.
Meppelink and Van Iersel, who missed an opportunity to play in their third FIVB World Tour finale this season after placing second in events in Switzerland (Lucerne Open) and Russia (Moscow Grand Slam), rebounded in the bronze medal match to score a 2-1 (21-17, 16-21, 15-13) win in 51 minutes over Ludwig and Walkenhorst. The Dutch split $32,000 for third-place and the Germans shared $24,000 for fourth-place.
With the Stavanger Major being the 283rd event on the FIVB World Tour since the start of the women’s competition in 1992, Brazil has now advanced two teams to an international gold medal match 52 times as the South American country takes home its 141st title.
Agatha and Seixas started the Brazilian run of gold medal successes this season by claiming the top spot on the Czech Republic podium four weeks ago in Prague. The past two weeks in Russia and Croatia, Talita Antunes and Larissa Franca captured the gold medals in Moscow and Porec. Due to a leg injury for Talita, the top Brazilian team withdrew from the Stavanger Major Tuesday.
Saturday’s win netted Juliana her 47th FIVB World Tour gold medal as she topped the Stavanger podium for the third time after winning the event twice with Larissa (2006 and 2010). Antonelli won for the first-time in Stavanger as she has 11 international gold medals to her credit. Antonelli and Talita lost the 2010 Stavanger finale to Juliana and Larissa after placing third the previous season when the Norwegian “oil” capital hosted the 2009 FIVB World Championships.
The sixth stop on the 2015 FIVB World Tour calendar for women, the Stavanger Major continues through Sunday with men’s semi-final and medal matches. The gold medal teams will share the $57,000 first-place prize along with garnering 800 points towards their qualifying for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
Following this week’s SWATCH Major Series event, the FIVB World Tour crosses the Atlantic Ocean for an event in the United States in St. Petersburg, Fla. The June schedule ends with the start of the world championships in The Netherlands. Being played at four sites, world championships start (June 26) and end (with the medal matches July 4 for women and July 5 for men) in The Hague.
QUINTA MAIN NEWS ( by www.fivb.org, 14.06.2015) / STAVANGER : WINNERS PEDRO SOLBERG SALGADO AND EVANDRO GONCALVES.
Stavanger, Norway, June 14, 2015 - After competing in only three international events this season, Pedro Solberg Salgado and Evandro Goncalves are within striking distance of becoming the top-ranked team on the FIVB World Tour as the Brazilians posted a two-set win over a Polish pair here Sunday in the gold medal match of the US$800,000 Stavanger Major.
The second of three SWATCH Major Series events this season, Pedro and Evandro claimed their second medal this season with their first podium-topping performance by posting a 2-0 (21-13, 21-14) win in 33 minutes over 25th-seeded Piotr Kantor and Bartosz Losiak, one of two pairs from Poland in the Stavanger Major “final four”.
With the Norwegian “oil” capital hosting its 15th FIVB World Tour event, Pedro and Evandro shared the $57,000 first-place prize along with earning 800 points that will count towards the qualification for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. With Poland guaranteed a medal, Kantor and Losiak split $43,000 and 720 world tour points.
Two weeks ago when the Kantor and Losiak failed to qualify for the Moscow Grand Slam Main Draw, Pedro and Evandro claimed the silver medal in the Russian capital after defeating compatriots Alison Cerutti and Bruno Oscar Schmidt in the semi-finals and losing to Spain’s Adrian Gavira and Pablo Herrera in the gold medal match.
The only Brazilian men’s team to medal on the FIVB World Tour this season, Pedro and Evandro are ranked second on the international circuit behind reigning world champions Alexander Brouwer and Robert Meeuwsen of The Netherlands (2,540 points). With the Dutch not playing at the next world tour stop in the United States starting Monday in St. Petersburg, Pedro and Evandro (2,000 points) can take over the leadership of the FIVB circuit by placing fourth or better at the Florida event.
With the Stavanger Major being the 319th FIVB World Tour event since the start of men’s play in 1987, Brazil has won 174 gold medals. Sunday’s finale was the second FIVB gold medal match between Brazil and Poland with the South American country capturing a 2011 title match as Marcio Araujo and Ricardo Santos defeated Grzegorz Fijalek and Mariusz Prudel in Stavanger.
Seeded seventh in the competition, Pedro and Evandro opened play Sunday with a 2-0 (21-18, 21-16) win in 39 minutes over the second-seeded Fijalek and Prudel. Kantor and Losiak, who are both 23, advanced to their first FIVB World Tour gold medal match by posting a 2-0 (21-13, 21-16) in 36 minutes over the 29th-seeded Ingrosso (Matteo and Paolo) twins of Italy.
Both teams enter the Stavanger Major gold medal match with one defeat in the competition during pool play. Pedro and Evandro dropped their first match Thursday to a team from Germany, but rebounded to capture the group. Kantor and Losiak had to win two qualifying matches Wednesday and posted a 2-1 pool mark with their only setback to an American pair after the Poles had already secured the group title.
Pedro, who has a Norwegian father and a legendary Brazilian Volleyball player as a mother, had never finished higher than fifth in Stavanger in seven previous appearances. Pedro’s fifth occurred with Emanuel Rego last season. With Emanuel reuniting with Ricardo Santos at the end of last season, Pedro started playing with Evandro as the team partnership is not typical as both competitors are natural blockers.
A regular on the international circuit since 2006 with the Stavanger Major being his 115th FIVB World Tour event, the 29-year old Pedro netted his 15th gold medal. The 24-year old Evandro started playing full-time on the FIVB in 2012 with Stavanger being his 36th tour stop. Evandro teamed with Vitor Felipe to win the 2013 German Grand Slam in Berlin.
Kantor and Losiak, winners of three international junior world championships (2010 under-19, 2012 under-21 and 2013 under-23) were playing in their 34th FIVB World Tour with their best previous finish being a third last September at the Brazilian Grand Slam in Sáo Paulo. The Poles first played on the FIVB World Tour in 2009 and have compiled a 56-55 match mark.
In the bronze medal match, Fijalek and Prudel rebounded from their semi-final disappointment to defeat the Ingrossos 2-0 (21-13, 21-15) in 39 minutes. The victory cemented Poland’s first-ever double medal finish in a FIVB World Tour event. Fijalek and Prudel shared $32,000 for the third-place finish with 640 points while the Italians left Norway with $24,000 in winnings and 560 points.
In the women’s gold medal match Saturday, fourth-seeded Juliana Felisberta and Maria Antonelli won their first “big” title on the FIVB World Tour by defeating Brazilian rivals Agatha Bednarczuk and Barbara Seixas 2-0 (21-16, 21-15) in 40 minutes. Second-seeded Madelein Meppelink and Marleen Van Iersel of The Netherlands claimed the bronze medal with a 2-0 (24-2, 21-16) win in 43 minutes over 12th-seeded Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst.
With the two first-place finishes, Brazil has now won both the men’s and women’s gold medals at the same FIVB World Tour event 58 times. Only the United States (14 times), China (1) and Russia (1) have accomplished the feat. With the Brazilian men winning 11 of the 15 gold medals in Stavanger, the women from the South American country duplicated the men’s feat in Vagen Harbor three times (2003, 2006 and 2015).
Following the completion Sunday of the second of three SWATCH Major Series events this season, the FIVB World Tour crosses the Atlantic Ocean for an event in the United States in St. Petersburg, Fla. The June schedule ends with the start of the world championships in The Netherlands. Being played at four sites, world championships start (June 26) and end (with the medal matches July 4 for women and July 5 for men) in The Hague.
EXTRATIME by SS/ La cover é per la coppia brasiliana winner nel torneo femminile: cioè le brasiliane Maria Antonelli e Juliana Filisberta… spumeggianti a Stavanger sul podio.
Poi per quanto riguarda la fotogallery , al di là delle immagini ch enon hanno bisogno di spiegazioni viste le specifiche didascalie incorporate, vi proponiamo altresì la coppia Orsi Toth & Marta Menegatti e i gemelli Matteo & paolo Ingrosso in tuffo-bagger sulla sabbia di Stavanger.
Mentre come dulcis in fundo onoriamo in alta risoluzione entrambe le coppie vincenti del Beach Major Stavanger, partendo dai brasiliani Solberg Salgado & Goncalves e chiudendo con le girls Felisberta & Antonelli sempre brasiliane e winners.
Sergio Sottovia
www.polesinesport.it
