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Volleyball At The 2020 Summer Olympics
The volleyball tournaments at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo were played between 24 July and 8 August 2021. 24 volleyball teams and 48 beach volleyball teams participated in the tournament. The indoor volleyball competition took place at Ariake Arena in Ariake, and the beach volleyball tournament at Shiokaze Park, in the temporary Shiokaze Park Stadium. It was originally scheduled to take place in 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the IOC and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee announced on 24 March 2020 that the 2020 Summer Olympics would be delayed to 2021. Schedule Medal summary Medal table Medalists Beach volleyball Indoor volleyball Qualification summary This qualification pathways were confirmed by the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball on 23 September 2018. Men's volleyball Women's volleyball Men's beach volleyball Women's beach volleyball Men's indoor tournament Pool A Pool B Knockout stage Final standings Women's indo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beach Volleyball At The 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's Tournament
The women's beach volleyball tournament at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, took place at the Shiokaze Park. The competition was held from 24 July to 6 August 2021. It was originally scheduled to take place from 25 July to 8 August 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the IOC and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee announced on 24 March 2020 that the 2020 Summer Olympics would be delayed to 2021. Because of this pandemic, the games were played behind closed doors. Twenty-four teams with 48 athletes from around the world competed for the gold medal. April Ross and Alix Klineman won the gold medal, defeating Taliqua Clancy and Mariafe Artacho del Solar in the final, while Joana Heidrich and Anouk Vergé-Dépré won the bronze medal. The medals for the competition were presented by Mustapha Berraf, Algeria; IOC Honorary Member, and the medalists' bouquets were presented by Ary Graça, Brazil; FIVB President. Qualification Teams Twenty four teams were drawn in six p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barthélémy Chinenyeze
Barthélémy Ikechi Ross Chinenyeze (born 28 February 1998) is a French professional volleyball player who plays as a middle blocker for Fenerbahçe and the France national team. Chinenyeze won a gold medal in the men's tournament at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. Personal life Chinenyeze was born in France to an Igbo Nigerian father and French mother. Career He joined the national team in 2017, and participated in the 2017 European Championship and the 2017 World Grand Champions Cup. He was a gold medalist at the 2017 World League. On 2 March 2018, he joined Asseco Resovia. Honours Club * Domestic ** 2018–19 French Cup, with Tours VB ** 2018–19 French Championship, with Tours VB ** 2022–23 Italian Championship, with Cucine Lube Civitanova Individual awards * 2018: French Championship – Best middle blocker * 2019: French Championship – Most valuable player * 2019: French Championship – Best middle blocker * 2021: Olympic Games – Best middle blocker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anouk Vergé-Dépré
Anouk Vergé-Dépré (born 11 February 1992) is a Swiss beach volleyball player. Representing her country with teammate Joana Heidrich, she won the bronze medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics and the gold medal at the 2020 European Beach Volleyball Championships. With former teammate Isabelle Forrer, she won third place at the 2016 FIVB World Tour Finals and competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Career Vergé-Dépré and partner Isabelle Forrer won the Xiamen Open of the 2016 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour in April. Later in August, at the 2016 Summer Olympics, Vergé-Dépré and Forrer were eliminated in the round of 16 by German pair Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst. Vergé-Dépré and Forrer then competed at the 2016 World Tour Finals in Toronto and won the bronze medal. They defeated Larissa Franca and Talita Antunes of Brazil in straight sets of 21–19 and 21–18. At the close of the 2016 season, Forrer announced her retirement. Vergé-Dépré then partnered with J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joana Heidrich
Joana Mäder (, born 2 October 1991) is a Swiss beach volleyball player. She competed with Nadine Zumkehr in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Following Zumkehr's retirement at the close of the 2016 season, she partnered with Anouk Vergé-Dépré, whose own former partner, Isabelle Forrer, likewise retired. In July 2021, Heidrich and Vergé-Dépré represented Switzerland at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and won the bronze medal. Professional career The pair participated in the 2016 Summer Olympics with a 14th seed, as of 12 June 2016, placement. They lost against Brazil's #1 seed team of Talita Antunes and Larissa França in a match of 3 sets (21–23, 27–25, 15–13), which was also the longest match at Rio, in the quarter-final played 14 August 2016 and settled at 5th place. FIVB World Tour 2016 She competed with Zumkehr at the 2016 FIVB World Tour Finals in Toronto. The duo played against fellow country mates of Isabelle Forrer and Anouk Verge-Depre in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariafe Artacho Del Solar
Mariafe Artacho del Solar (born 24 October 1993) is an Australian beach volleyball player. She represented Australia at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 2021. Artacho del Solar plays as a right-side defender. As of 21 January 2020, she and partner Taliqua Clancy were ranked 5th according to the Women's FIVB World Rankings. Early life Del Solar moved with her mother from Lima, Peru to Sydney when she was 11 years old. They joined her older brother and extended family who already lived there. She spoke limited English and found that sport was the best way to communicate. She attended Gordon West Public School before attending Killara High School, where she met her future Rio Olympics beach volleyball partner Nicole Laird. Del Solar was then offered an AIS Scholarship with the beach volleyball program in 2012, which led her to move to Adelaide, South Australia, where the Australian Beach Volleyball Program is located. Profess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taliqua Clancy
Taliqua Clancy (born 25 June 1992) is an Australian volleyball and beach volleyball player who represented Australia at the 2016 Summer Olympics in beach volleyball, partnered with Louise Bawden. She is the first Indigenous Australian volleyball player to represent Australia at the Olympics. Clancy plays as a left-side blocker. Early life Clancy was born in Kingaroy, Queensland, into a family of Indigenous Australian descent ( Wulli Wulli and Goreng Goreng). She spent the first 15 years of her life in Kingaroy. She turned down a netball scholarship offer from the Australian Institute of Sport and instead accepted a scholarship to the Queensland Academy of Sport for beach volleyball. When Clancy was 17, she accepted an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship and relocated to Adelaide to participate in the national beach volleyball program. In 2019, she returned to her home state of Queensland and is now based in Brisbane. Professional career Rio de Janeiro – 2016 Olympic ... [...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] |
Ahmed Tijan
Ahmed Tijan Janko (born on April 28, 1995) is a Qatari beach volleyball player originally from The Gambia. In 2018, he alongside Cherif Younousse clinched the gold medal at the 2018 Asian Games in Palembang, Indonesia. The pair qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo ..., where they won the bronze medal, the first ever medal for Qatar in beach volleyball. References External links * * * * * 1995 births Living people Sportspeople from Banjul Gambian emigrants to Qatar Naturalized citizens of Qatar Qatari beach volleyball players Asian Games gold medalists for Qatar Asian Games medalists in beach volleyball Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games Medalists at the 2022 Asian Games Beach volleyball players at the 2018 As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cherif Younousse
Cherif Younousse Samba (, born 22 May 1995) is a Senegalese-born Olympic beach volleyball player competing for Qatar. In 2018, he alongside Ahmed Tijan clinched the gold medal at the 2018 Asian Games in Palembang, Indonesia. He competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics with teammate Jefferson Pereira. They were eliminated in the round of 16 of the men's tournament. After ending the partnership with Ahmed Tijan in 2014, they were reunited in 2017. The pair qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo ..., where they won the bronze medal, the first ever medal for Qatar in beach volleyball. References External links * * * * * Qatari beach volleyball players 1995 births Living people Sportspeople from Dakar Senegalese emigrants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleg Stoyanovskiy
Oleg Vladislavovich Stoyanovskiy ( rus, Олег Владиславович Стояновский, , ɐˈlʲek stə(j)ɪˈnofskʲɪj; born 26 September 1996) is a Russian beach volleyball player. He and Viacheslav Krasilnikov won 2019 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Hamburg, defeating Julius Thole and Clemens Wickler Clemens Wickler (born 28 April 1995) is a German beach volleyball player. Wickler won the silver medal at the 2019 Beach Volleyball World Championships with Julius Thole and, together with Nils Ehlers, the silver medal at the 2024 Summer Olympi ... of Germany. Stoyanovskiy also became the youngest world champion, at 22 years, 9 months, and 11 days. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Stoyanovskiy, Oleg 1996 births Living people Russian beach volleyball players Volleyball players from Moscow Beach volleyball players at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Youth Olympic gold medalists for Russia Beach volleyball players at the 2020 Summer O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
