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See you @ the beach!
Hello, beach volleyball fans! Get ready for a weekend loaded with a lot of beach volleyball as, for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic started, we’ll have action taking place also outside Europe with the American AVP kicking off its compressed season.
The sport’s calendar continues taking shape after having its entire summer portion modified with the European Championships been confirmed and additional World Tour tournaments been scheduled.
Hop on and enjoy the read!
Americans, Germans and Latvians get to compete this weekend
At least four national tours will see action this weekend, which will feature the first tournament of the American AVP with 18 teams in each gender in Long Beach, California. Germany will also kick off its national tour in Düsseldorf with 16 women’s teams split into two different championships. Latvian teams are headed to Jurmala for the second event of their national season.
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European Championships confirmed to Latvia
Speaking about Jurmala, the Latvian coastal city was selected to host this year’s European Championships. The Majori beach, which staged the tournament in 2017, will reunite the continent’s top 32 teams in each gender between September 16 and 20, when home heroes Tina Graudina and Anastasija Kravcenoka and Norwegian stars Anders Mol and Christian Sørum will try to defend the titles they won last season.
Would Tour event added in Baden
The FIVB has confirmed a few more changes in the 2020 World Tour calendar for the next few months. The main one is the inclusion of a double-gender one-star event in Baden, Austria, from August 20-23. It was also announced that the women-only two-star tournament scheduled to happen in August in Klaipeda, Lithuania, will be replaced by a double-gender one-star in the country’s capital Vilnius from September 10-13. Finally, the two-star women’s event in Larnaka, Cyprus, has been rescheduled for September 25-27 to avoid a clash with the European Championships.
Social Media: Kira needs a partner
Kira Walkenhorst couldn’t practice during the quarantine period and decided to postpone her beach volleyball return, expected to happen in this week’s German Tour event, as she wouldn’t be in her best form. Because of that, her partner Melanie Gernert will pair with a different player for the entire national season, so the Rio 2016 Olympic champion is looking for someone to join forces for the remaining events - and she made a social media post with the “job opening”. Are you interested?
See you next week!