FIVB Announces Pre-Draw Positions For Beach World Championships

2017 FIVB BEACH VOLLEYBALL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS – VIENNA

• July 28 to August 6
• Vienna Centre Court, Vienna, Austria
• Co-ed
• Championships
• Event Site

Based on the current points standings, the FIVB has announced the pre-draw placement for the men’s and women’s teams competing at the Beach World Championships in Vienna next month.

The drawing of lots will take place on July 1 in Porec, the location of the current FIVB World Tour stop, to determine the seedings and pool allocations. There are 96 teams competing in total at the World Championships, 48 men’s and 48 women’s teams. The pre-determined selections come based on the pair’s points for the tandems best six finishes of eight finishes on the FIVB World Tour over a period of 365 days.

The format of the tournament will split the 48 teams competing into 12 pools of four, with the top-12 being placed in the top slot of each pool. In the pool, each duo will play three pool play matches. The top two from each pool will advance directly to the round of 32, which will begin the elimination portion of the tournament. The remainder of the field going to the round of 32 will go to the four best third place pairs based on match points, set-point ratios and rally-point ratios. In a “Lucky Loser” round of the tournament, the teams ranked fifth through 12th will be played with the four winners advancing to the elimination bracket.

There is a total of 40 countries competing in the event, with seven sending a team or teams for the first time since the induction of the event in 1997. The first-time countries are – Colombia (one women’s team), Iran (men), Kenya (women), Mozambique (men and women), Rwanda (women), Sierra Leone (men) and Trinidad & Tobago (men).

Men’s Top Seeds

1. Saymon Barbosa/Alvaro Filho, Brazil, 3,500 points
2. Aleksandrs Samoilovs/Janis Smedins, Latvia, 3,260 points
3. Phil Dalhausser/Nick Lucena, USA, 3,240 points
4. Evandro Goncalves/Andre Loyola, Brazil, 2, 840 points
5. Alison Cerutti/Bruno Schmidt, Brazil, 2,700 points
6. Viacheslav Krasilnikov/Nikita Liamin, Russia, 2,690 points
7. Piotr Kantor/Bartosz Losiak, Poland, 2,645 points
8. Gustavo ‘Guto’ Carvalhaes/Pedro Solberg, Brazil, 2,540 points
9. Adrian Gavira/Pablo Herrera, Spain, 2,480 points
10. Alexander Brouwer/Robert Meeuwsen, the Netherlands, 2,360 points
11. Daniele Lupo/Paolo Nicolai, Italy, 2,280 points
12. Clemens Doppler/Alexander Horst, Austria (best host country), 1,860 points

Men’s Draw 1 (will play seeds 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 or 12)
Draw position, Team, Country, Seeding points

13. Oleg Stoyanovskiy/Artem Yarzutkin, Russia, 2,200 points
14. Sam Pedlow/Sam Schachter, Canada, 2,150 points
15. Michal Bryl/Grzegorz Fijalek, Poland, 2,100 points
16. Ben Saxton/Chaim Schalk, Canada, 2,000 points
17. Theo Brunner/Casey Patterson, USA, 1,975 points
18. Taylor Crabb/Jake Gibb, USA, 1,970 points

Men’s Draw 2 (will play seeds 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6)
Draw position, Team, Country, Seeding points

19. Ryan Doherty/John Hyden, USA, 1,932 points
20. Esteban Grimalt/Marco Grimalt, Chile, 1,900 points
21. Nivaldo Diaz/Sergio Gonzalez, Cuba, 1,830 points
22. Lombardo Ontiveros/Juan Virgen, Mexico, 1,780 points
23. Dries Koekelkoren/Tom van Walle, Belgium, 1,658 points
24. Jefferson Santos Pereira/Cherif Younousse, Qatar, 1,635 points

Men’s Draw 3
Draw position, Team, Country, Seeding points
25. Kacper Kujawiak/Mariusz Prudel, Poland, 1,632 points
26. Martins Plavins/Haralds Regza, Latvia, 1,566 points
27. Christoph Dressler/Thomas Kunert, Austria, 1,548 points
28. Christopher McHugh/Damien Schumann, Australia, 1,538 points
29. Karell Pina/Daisel Quesada, Cuba, 1,468 points
30. Adrian Carambula/Alex Ranghieri, Italy, 1,450 points
31. Markus Bockermann/Lars Fluggen, Germany, 1,380 points
32. Rahman Raoufi/Bahman Salemiinjehboroun, Iran, 1,236 points
33. Robin Seidl/Tobias Winter, Austria, 1,222 points
34. Julian Azaad/Nicolas Capogrosso, Argentina, 1,190 points
35. Mohammad Ashfiya/Ade Rachmawan, Indonesia, 1,078 points
36. Rihards Finsters/Edgars Tocs, Latvia, 988 points

Men’s Draw 4
Draw position, Team, Country, Seeding points
37. Maarten Van Garderen/Christiaan Varenhorst, Netherlands, 816 points
38. Marlon Phillip/Daneil Williams, Trinidad and Tobago, 792 points
39. Marco Cairus/Mauricio Vieyto, Uruguay, 780 points
40. Luis Garcia/Andy Leonardo, Guatemala, 598 points
41. Jhonatan Golindano/Carlos Rangel, Venezuela, 540 points
42. Aaron Nusbaum/Ryan Vandenburg, Canada, 538 points
43. Roger Battilana/Gregorio Godoy, Paraguay, 460 points
44. Austria (to be determined following trial)
45. Jamaine Naidoo/Leo Williams, South Africa, 60 points
46. Mohamed Abicha/Zouheir Elgraoui, Morocco, 0 points
47. Aldevino Nguvo/Justino Tovela, Mozambique, 0 points
48. Abubakarr Kamara/Lombie Patrick, Sierra Leone, 0 points

Women’s Top Seeds

1. Talita Antunes/Larissa Franca, Brazil, 3,760 points
2. Chantal Laboureur/Julia Sude, Germany, 3,320 points
3. Agatha Bednarczuk/Eduarda “Duda” Santos Lisboa, Brazil, 2,990 points
4. Laura Ludwig/Kira Walkenhorst, Germany, 2,710 points
5. Summer Ross/Brooke Sweat, United States, 2,585 points
6. Barbora Hermannova/Marketa Slukova, Czech Republic, 2,360 points
7. Melissa Humana-Paredes/Sarah Pavan, Canada, 2,180 points
8. Fernanda Alves/Barbara Seixas, Brazil, 2,160 points
9. Maria Antonelli/Carolina Salgado, Brazil, 2,083 points
10. Nina Betschart/Tanja Huberli, Switzerland, 2,064 points
11. Louise Bawden/Taliqua Clancy, Australia, 2,056 points
12. Katharina Schutzenhofer/Stefanie Schwaiger, Austria (host country), 1,267 points

Women’s Draw 1 (will play seeds 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 or 12)
Draw position, Team, Country, Seeding points
13. Joana Heidrich/Anouk Verge-Depre, Switzerland, 2,020 points
14. Lauren Fendrick/April Ross, USA, 2,000 points
15. Fan Wang/Yuan Yue, China, 2,000 points
16. Heather Bansley/Brandie Wilkerson, Canada, 1,916 points
17. Kristyna Kolocova/Michala Kvapilova, Czech Republic, 1,872 points
18. Kelly Claes/Sara Hughes, USA, 1,780 points

Women’s Draw 2 (will play seeds 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6)
Draw position, Team, Country, Seeding points
19. Taru Lahti/Riikka Lehtonen, Finland, 1,766 points
20. Madelein Meppelink/Sophie van Gestel, Netherlands, 1,751 points
21. Valentyna Davidova/Ievgeniia Shchypkova, Ukraine, 1,722 points
22. Victoria Bieneck/Isabel Schneider, Germany, 1,652 points
23. Karla Borger/Margareta Kozuch, Germany, 1,562 points
24. Elsa Baquerizo/Angela Lobato, Spain, 1,524 points

Women’s Draw 3
Draw position, Team, Country, Seeding points
25. Taiana Lima/Elize Maia, Brazil, 1,508 points
26. Nadja Glenzke/Julia Grossner, Germany, 1,418 points
27. Julie Gordon/Camille Saxton, Canada, 1,366 points
28. Marta Menegatti/Rebecca Perry, Italy, 1,332 points
29. Jamie Broder/Taylor Pischke, Canada, 1,310 points
30. Ana Gallay/Virginia Zonta, Argentina, 1,300 points points
31. Nicole Laird/Jessyka Ngauamo, Australia, 1,250 points
32. Ekaterina Birlova/Nadezda Makroguzova, Russia, 1,247 points
33. Nicole Branagh/Kerri Walsh Jennings, USA, 1,217 points
34. Lidiannis Echeverria/Leila Martinez, Cuba, 1,213 points
35. Tatyana Mashkova/Bakhtygul Samalikova, Kazakhstan, 1,184 points
36. Erika Bobadilla/Gabriela Filippo, Paraguay, 1,175 points

Women’s Draw 4
Draw position, Team, Country, Seeding points
37. Norisbeth Agudo/Gabi Brito, Venezuela, 1,129 points
38. Varapatsorn Radarong/Tanarattha Udomchavee, Thailand, 1,120 points
39. Lena Plesiutschnig/Cornelia Rimser, Austria, 1,076 points
40. Xinxin Wang/Chen Xue, China, 998 points
41. Manon Nummerdor-Flier/Marleen van Iersel, 993 points
42. Andrea Galindo/Claudia “Gorda” Galindo, Colombia, 980 points
43. Natalia Alfaro/Karen Charles, Costa Rica, 752 points
44. Katharina Holzer/Teresa Strauss, Austria, 668 points
45. Denyse Mutatsimpundu/Charlotte Nzayisenga, Rwanda, 0 points
46. Mahassine Siad/Imane Zeroual, Morocco, 0 points
47. Gaudencia Makokha/Naomie Too, Kenya, 0 points
48. Liocadia Manhica/Vanessa Muianga, Mozambique, 0 points