Beach Volleyball FIVB World Championships 2023

[vinipereira 3,419]

Apparently  is the first landlocked nation to win gold at the World championships.

[rybak 3,238]

  On 10/15/2023 at 10:03 PM, vinipereira said:

Apparently  is the first landlocked nation to win gold at the World championships.

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And they first pair which directly qualified to Paris Olympics 

[hoversaBR 474]

I think it's the worst Duda match I've ever watched. Well, we can't win everything, right? 

 

 

[Josh 11,026]

Men’s Medalists

Gold- Ondřej Perušič/David Schweiner

Silver-  David Åhman/Jonathan Hellvig

Bronze- Michal Bryl/Bartosz Łosiak

 

Women’s Medalists

Gold-  Kelly Cheng/Sara Hughes

Silver-  Ana Patricia Silva Ramos/Eduarda Santos Lisboa

Bronze-  Taryn Kloth/Kristen Nuss

[phelps 7,797]

  On 10/15/2023 at 7:46 PM, Josh said:

Clancy/Mariafe are the reigning Olympic silver medalists, and are a top ten team, how was a win against them gonna be “easy” ? (Not unless you’re Duda/AP )

 

I feel bad for Menegatti, she carries her team. Wonder what she’d be able to do with a better defender. Same with Latvia,  but to a lesser extent. Samoilova has moments of brilliance, but sometimes struggles to sideout, and can also become error prone during crucial moments (Cheng/Hughes QF: *11-13, Samoilova missed serve, and then she gets aced to end the match). Graudina rarely has bad matches, always a beast on sideout. 

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for what I saw in the last couple of seasons, the Australian duo is highly overrated

 

they won silver in Tokyo and it was one of the biggest surprises of the Games, I don't think they are better than many other teams that didn't get a top result yet (like the Italians, for instance...but not only them)

[phelps 7,797]

  On 10/15/2023 at 10:03 PM, vinipereira said:

Apparently  is the first landlocked nation to win gold at the World championships.

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yes, the best results before this week were 2 silver medals by the  men and 1 silver medal by the  men

 

meanwhile no women from a landlocked Nation have ever reached the GMM

 

and except for the  bronze medal in 2004, no players from a landlocked Country (both men and women) have ever reached the medal matches at the Olympic Games

Edited October 16, 2023 by phelps

[Josh 11,026]

  On 10/16/2023 at 9:17 AM, phelps said:

for what I saw in the last couple of seasons, the Australian duo is highly overrated

 

they won silver in Tokyo and it was one of the biggest surprises of the Games, I don't think they are better than many other teams that didn't get a top result yet (like the Italians, for instance...but not only them)

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Five (four if you take out the event in Torquay where a lot of the top teams weren’t competing) Elite 16 medals in the last two years isn’t good enough for you? 

[phelps 7,797]

  On 10/16/2023 at 9:37 PM, Josh said:

Five (four if you take out the event in Torquay where a lot of the top teams weren’t competing) Elite 16 medals in the last two years isn’t good enough for you? 

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I'm not saying that they are "weak", I just think there are at least 6/7 pairs that in their best moments are better than them (and Menegatti & Gottardi are one of them, even if so far they have shown to be mentally too fragile to get the results they technically could)