A brief recap of the 2013 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championship in Stare Jablonki – a small village in the Mazury region of Poland – with final 4 results, full ranking and pictures from the men’s and women’s division.

Men

Final Ranking

2013 Men’s World Champion: Alexander Brouwer and Robert Meeuwsen (NED)

2nd: Ricardo-Álvaro Filho BRA
3rd: Erdmann-Matysik GER
4th: Alison-Emanuel BRA

Final 4 Results

Gold Meda Match: Brouwer-Meeuwsen NED [13] 2-0 Ricardo-Álvaro Filho BRA [10] (21-18, 21-16)
Bronze Medal Match: Erdmann-Matysik GER [8] 2-0 Alison-Emanuel BRA [2] (21-17, 21-19)

Seminal Match #1: Ricardo-Álvaro Filho BRA [10] 2-0 Alison-Emanuel BRA [2] (21-14, 22-20)
Semifinal Match #2: Brouwer-Meeuwsen NED [13] 2-0 Erdmann-Matysik GER [8] (21-13, 21-17)

Final Ranking

1 Brouwer-Meeuwsen NED
2 Ricardo-Álvaro Filho BRA
3 Erdmann-Matysik GER
4 Alison-Emanuel BRA

5th
Evandro-Vitor Felipe BRA
Pedro-Bruno BRA
Saxton-Schalk CAN
Herrera-Gavira ESP

9th
Kapa-McHugh AUS
Doppler-Horst AUT
Böckermann-Urbatzka GER
Nicolai-Lupo ITA 0
Smedins, J.-Samoilovs LAT
Kadziola-Szalankiewicz POL
Semenov-Koshkarev RUS
Dalhausser-Rosenthal USA

17th
Huber-Seidl AUT
Müllner-Wutzl AUT
Kufa, R.-Hadrava CZE
Dollinger-Windscheif GER
Sidorenko-Dyachenko KAZ
Plavins-Peda LAT
Virgen-Ontiveros MEX
Nummerdor-Schuil NED
Spijkers-Varenhorst NED
Fijalek-Prudel POL
Kantor-Losiak POL
Lech-Wojtasik POL
Popov-Samoday UKR
Gibb-Patterson USA
Rogers-Doherty USA
Hernandez-Fañe VEN

33rd
Grimalt-M. Grimalt CHI
Kubala-Benes P. CZE
Gabathuler-Weingart SUI
Lucena-Hyden USA

37th
Bianchi-Del Coto ARG
Lario-Monfort ESP
Fuchs-Kaczmarek GER
Cecchini-Ingrosso P. ITA
Yakovlev-Kuleshov KAZ
Sorokins-Smedins, T. LAT
van Dorsten-Oude Elferink NED
Horrem-Eithun NOR
Prokopiev-Bogatov RUS
Chevallier-Kovatsch SUI
Gunnarsson-Brinkborg SWE
Jackson-Leon VEN

Women

Final Ranking

2013 Women’s World Champion: Chen Xue and Zhang Xi (CHN)

2nd: Borger-Büthe GER
3rd: Lili-Seixas BRA
4th: Ross-Pavlik USA

Final 4 Results

Gold Meda Match: Xue-Zhang Xi CHN [2] 2-1 Borger-Büthe GER [17] (18-21, 21-17, 21-19)
Bronze Medal Match: Lili-Seixas BRA [13] 2-0 Ross-Pavlik USA [3] (21-18, 21-15)

Seminal Match #1: Ross-Pavlik USA [3] 0-2 Borger-Büthe GER [17] (15-21, 19-21)
Semifinal Match #2: Lili-Seixas BRA [13] 0-2 Xue-Zhang Xi CHN [2](11-21, 17-21)

Final Ranking

1 Xue-Zhang Xi CHN
2 Borger-Büthe GER
3 Lili-Seixas BRA
4 Ross-Pavlik USA

5th
Schwaiger D.-Schwaiger S. AUT
Ludwig-Walkenhorst GER
Cicolari-Menegatti ITA
Fendrick-Hochevar USA

9th
Hansel-Schützenhöfer AUT
Liliana-Baquerizo ESP
Nystrom Em.-Nystrom Er. FIN
Keizer-Van Iersel NED
Kolosinska-Brzostek POL
Ukolova-Khomyakova RUS
Dubovcova-Nestarcova SVK
Elwin-Iatika VAN

17th
Bawden-Clancy AUS
Antonelli-Agatha BRA
Maria Clara-Carol BRA
Talita-Lima BRA
Pavan-Bansley CAN
Kolocova-Slukova CZE
Bieneck-Großner GER
Holtwick-Semmler GER
Gioria-Giombini ITA
Mashkova-Tsimbalova KAZ
Bloem-Kadijk R. NED
Meppelink-van Gestel NED
Forrer-Vergé-Dépré SUI
Zumkehr-Heidrich SUI
Fopma-Sweat USA
Ross-Day USA

33rd
Arvaniti-Karagkouni GRE
Sinnema-Stiekema NED
Van der Vlist-Wesselink NED
Goricanec-Hüberli SUI

37th
Artacho-Ngauamo AUS
Broder-Valjas CAN
Bonnerova-Hermannova CZE
Dampney-Boulton ENG
Minusa-Ikauniece LAT
Dumbauskaite-Povilaityte LTU
Pati-Michelle PAR
Bekier-Oleksy POL
Paszek-Kociolek POL
Prokopeva-Popova RUS
Kayser-Graessli SUI
Radarong-Udomchavee THA

Per FIVB

Get set for a beach of a time in 2013!

From July 1 to 7 this year, Stare Jablonki – a small village in the Mazury region of Poland – will host the ninth edition of the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships.

Stare Jablonki’s stadium centre court seats 9,000 spectators along the picturesque shores of Lake Mazury.

Staged every two years, the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships feature the brightest stars of the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour, with 48 teams in each gender taking part. The 2011 edition of the Championships took place in the Italian capital Rome where Brazil gained back its dominance with a gold medal win in both the women’s and men’s competition. Larissa França and Juliana Felisberta da Silva captured gold in the women’s final while Alison Cerutti and Emanuel Rego took home the men’s title. It was the first time that Larissa and Juliana were gold medallists at a World Championship having won silver twice and bronze once in previous editions. Olympic champions Misty-May Treanor and Kerri Walsh knocked out defending world champions Jennifer Kessy and April Ross in the quarterfinals before defeating Chinese duo Chen Xue and Xi Zhang to reach the final. The Chinese pair eventually won bronze. It was an all-Brazilian affair in the men’s finals with Emanuel and Alison beating compatriots Ricardo and Marcio Araujo to win their first major title as a team. Germans Brink and Reckermann finished with a bronze medal after beating Latvia’s Martins Plavins and Janis Smedins.

Poland has an extensive history of hosting beach volleyball events with the Myslowice Open and the Mazury Orlen Grand Slam in Stare Jablonki having been regular tournaments on the World Tour. It has also hosted the 2011 FIVB Volleyball World League Finals in Gdansk and will host the FIVB Volleyball Men’s World Championship in 2014.

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(images: FIVB/ worldtour.pl)