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2018 In Volleyball
The following were the events of volleyball for the year 2018 throughout the world. Beach volleyball World and continental beach volleyball events * July 9–13: 2018 World University Beach Volleyball Championship in Munich ** Winners: (Dan John & Eric Stadie) (m) / (Nicole McNamara & Megan McNamara) (f) * July 10–15: 2018 FIVB Beach Volleyball U19 World Championships in Nanjing ** Winners: (Denis Shekunov & Dmitrii Veretiuk) (m) / (Mariia Bocharova & Maria Voronina) (f) * July 15–22: 2018 European Beach Volleyball Championships in The Hague, Rotterdam, Utrecht, & Apeldoorn ** Winners: (Anders Mol & Christian Sørum) (m) / (Sanne Keizer & Madelein Meppelink) (f) * August 14–19: 2018 Swatch FIVB World Tour Finals in Hamburg ** Winners: (Anders Mol & Christian Sørum) (m) / (Ágatha Bednarczuk & Eduarda Santos Lisboa) (f) FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour * January 3 – TBD: 2018 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour 2018 Swatch Major Series (Five Star BV events) * Febr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summer Olympic Games since Tokyo 1964. Beach volleyball was introduced to the program at the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics. The adapted version of volleyball at the Summer Paralympic Games is sitting volleyball. Basic play The complete set of rules is extensive, but play essentially proceeds as follows: a player on one of the teams begins a 'rally' by serving the ball (tossing or releasing it and then hitting it with a hand or arm), from behind the back boundary line of the court, over the net, and into the receiving team's court. The receiving team must not let the ball be grounded within their court. The team may touch the ball up to three times to return the ball to the other side of the court, but individual players may not touch th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Fort Lauderdale ( ) is a coastal city located in the U.S. state of Florida, north of Miami along the Atlantic Ocean. It is the county seat of and most populous city in Broward County, Florida, Broward County with a population of 182,760 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the tenth-most populous city in Florida. After Miami and Hialeah, Florida, Hialeah, Fort Lauderdale is the third-most populous city in the Miami metropolitan area, Miami Metro Area, which had a population of 6,166,488 in 2019. Built in 1838 and first incorporated in 1911, Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War. The forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale (1782–1838), younger brother of Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale. Development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. Three forts named "Fort Lauderdale" were constructed including the first at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alix Klineman
Alexandra Rose "Alix" Klineman (born December 30, 1989) is an American beach volleyball player, 2020 Summer Olympics gold medalist, and former indoor volleyball player. In high school she was the 2006 Gatorade National Player of the Year. She was a four-time All-American in volleyball at Stanford University, and the 2010 ''Volleyball Magazine'' national player of the year. She won a bronze medal with Team USA at the 2011 Pan American Games. Switching to beach volleyball, she was named part of the 2018 Association of Volleyball Professionals Team of the Year (along with April Ross), and individually honored with the 2018 and 2019 Best Blocker awards. Early life Klineman was born in Torrance, California, to Mike and Kathie Klineman, raised in Manhattan Beach, California, and is Jewish. She has an older brother, Max, and a sister, Maddy. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April Ross
April Elizabeth Ross (born June 20, 1982) is a former American beach volleyball player and three-time Olympic medalist. She won a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics with Jennifer Kessy, a bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics with Kerri Walsh Jennings, and a gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics with Alix Klineman. Ross and Kessy were also the 2009 Beach Volleyball World Champions. Early life Ross grew up in Newport Beach, California, where she attended Newport Harbor High School. There she played volleyball and basketball with fellow 2012 Olympian Esther Lofgren. At NHHS, in addition to lettering in track, she was a star indoor volleyball player, eventually becoming the nation's top recruit for her graduating class. She won the Gatorade National Player of the Year award as a senior and was the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Player of the Year in 1998 and 1999. In her senior season, she notched 624 kills and 526 digs. She played club volleyball for Or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mārtiņš Pļaviņš
Mārtiņš Pļaviņš (born 8 May 1985 in Riga) is a Latvian beach volleyball player. He teamed up with Aleksandrs Samoilovs in 2004. Pļaviņš and team mate Samoilovs represented Latvia at the Beach volleyball at the 2008 Summer Olympics, 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China after which they stopped playing together. At the 2008 Olympics, the #21-ranked Latvian team achieved a major upset in the preliminary round, beating the #1-ranked team of Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser (United States). Latvian team won its preliminary round group and in round of 16 lost to Austrian team Florian Gosch and Alexander Horst. After the 2008 Olympics, he began playing together with Jānis Šmēdiņš. At the 2010 European Beach Volleyball Championships, Pļaviņš and Šmēdiņš won the bronze medal. They followed this up by winning the bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics. They lost to Emanuel Rego, Rego and Alison Cerutti, Cerutti of Brazil in the semi-final but beat Reinder Nummer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markéta Sluková
Markéta Sluková (; born 28 June 1988) is a Czech beach volleyball player. She took part in the Summer Olympics twice, finishing fifth in London in 2012, as well as reaching the last 16 of the Rio de Janeiro games in 2016. Outside of Olympic competition Sluková won silver at the 2016 , as well as three golds on the FIVB World Tour. Early career Sluková competed on the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour and was named the FIVB Rookie of the Year in 2010 with her partner Kristýna Kolocová. With Kolocová she achieved fifth place at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. During the 2014 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Sluková and Kolocová won gold medals at the Prague Open and Berlin Grand Slam, as well as a bronze medal at the Gstaad Grand Slam. Partnership with Barbora Hermannová From August 2015 until 2021, Sluková played with Barbora Hermannová, and they were coached by Simon Nausch. Their first success was winning gold at the October 2015 World Tour tournament in Antaly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbora Hermannová
Barbora Hermannová (born 7 November 1990) is a Czech beach volleyball player. As of 2022, she plays with Marie-Sára Štochlová, with whom she competed for the Czech Republic at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. Career Hermannová made her first international appearance in 2008, finishing ninth in the World Youth Championships in The Hague with Michala Kvapilová. In 2009 she played a couple of Open tournaments with Šárka Nakládalová and then teamed up with Martina Bonnerová, who was her partner until 2015. In 2009 they finished seventh at the European U20 Championships in Greece and fourth at the World Junior Championships in Blackpool. A year later, they finished fifth in the same competition in Alanya. At the U23 European Championships in Kos, they finished seventh again. After these successes in the junior competition, they played their first Open tournament together in Mysłowice in 2011. Shortly afterwards, they won their first tournament at the satellite in Cy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vienna
Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. Its larger metropolitan area has a population of nearly 2.9 million, representing nearly one-third of the country's population. Vienna is the Culture of Austria, cultural, Economy of Austria, economic, and Politics of Austria, political center of the country, the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, fifth-largest city by population in the European Union, and the most-populous of the List of cities and towns on the river Danube, cities on the river Danube. The city lies on the eastern edge of the Vienna Woods (''Wienerwald''), the northeasternmost foothills of the Alps, that separate Vienna from the more western parts of Austria, at the transition to the Pannonian Basin. It sits on the Danube, and is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Humana-Paredes
Melissa Humaña-Paredes (born October 10, 1992) is a Canadian beach volleyball player currently partnered with Brandie Wilkerson. The pair represented Canada at the 2024 Summer Olympics, winning a silver medal. Humaña-Paredes previously competed with Sarah Pavan, notably winning a gold medal at the 2019 Beach Volleyball World Championships and two Commonwealth Games titles and competing at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Early life Born in Toronto, Ontario, Humana-Paredes is the younger daughter of two Chilean political refugees, ballet dancer Myriam Paredes and volleyball player Hernán Humaña, who was part of the national team and later coached Canadians John Child and Mark Heese to the bronze medal at the 1996 Olympics. Humana-Paredes started playing beach volleyball at the age of 12, and four years later, was already representing Canada internationally. She also played competitive indoor volleyball for Storm Volleyball. She then attended York University, majoring in communicat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Pavan
Sarah Lindsey Pavan (born August 16, 1986) is a Canadian former beach volleyball and indoor volleyball player. She was part of the Canada women's national volleyball team at the 2010 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship in Japan. With Melissa Humana-Paredes, she won the women's gold medal at the 2019 Beach Volleyball World Championships. College indoor volleyball career Pavan played college volleyball at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she led her team to win the 2006 NCAA Division I women's volleyball tournament, in which she was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. Her collegiate accolades are numerous, and include winning the Honda Sports Award for volleyball (2007), the Honda-Broderick Cup (2006–07), the AVCA National Player of the Year (2006), and three times the Big 12 Conference Player of the Year (2005–07). She also won several academic awards, including twice winning ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American of the Year (2007–08) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gstaad
Gstaad ( , ) is a town in the German language, German-speaking section of the Canton of Bern in southwestern Switzerland. It is part of the municipality of Saanen and is known as a major ski resort and a popular destination amongst high society and the international jet set. The winter campus of the Institut Le Rosey is located in Gstaad. Gstaad has a population of about 9,200 and is located Above mean sea level, above sea level. History During the Middle Ages, it was part of the district of Saanen (Gessenay) belonging to the Savoyard state, Savoyard county of Gruyère. The town core developed at the fork in the trails into the Valais and Vaud. It had an inn, a warehouse for storing trade goods and oxen to help pull wagons over the alpine passes by the 13th-14th centuries. The St. Nicholas chapel was built in the town in 1402, while the murals are from the second half of the 15th century. The town was dominated by cattle farming and agriculture until the great fire of 1898. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernanda Alves
Fernanda Alves (born 29 June 1985) is a Brazilian volleyball player. She was a member of the Brazil women's national volleyball team. Career She participated in the 2005 FIVB Women's World Grand Champions Cup, and the 2017 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships. Clubs * Fluminense FC (1999–2001) * ACF/Campos (2001–2004) * São Caetano (2004–2005) * Brasil Telecom (2005–2006) * Pinheiros (2006–2007) * Daejeon KGC Daejeon CheongKwanJang Red Sparks (), also spelled as JungKwanJang Red Sparks, is a South Korean professional women's volleyball team. The team was founded in 1988 and became fully professional in 2005. They are based in Daejeon and are members ... (2007–2008) * Pallavolo Cesena (2008–2010) * Sport Recife (2009–2010) * Praia Clube (2010–2011) * Vôlei Futuro (2011–2012) References External links * * 1985 births Living people Brazilian women's volleyball players LGBTQ volleyball players People from São Joaquim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
