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- Updated: May 31, 2016
Hamburg, Germany, May 31, 2016 – With the first SWATCH Major Series less than a week away, all “eyes” will be on the European Continental Championships in Switzerland as the event is the next to last tournament that can help Beach Volleyball pairs gather points for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
After eight-straight weeks of FIVB World Tour play in Qatar, China, Brazil, Russia, Turkey and the United States, the international circuit is idle this week before resuming play here June 7 for the first of five SWATCH Major Series events. The US$800,000 Hamburg Major will be played at the Tennis Stadium Hamburg Rothenbaum with the women’s semi-final and medal matches June 11 with the men’s competition ending June 12.
With 15 Olympic berths, excluding teams from Brazil, available via the FIVB World Tour, teams on the international circuit can use their best 12 finishes from either tour stops and/or continental finals. For Asian and European confederation participants on the world tour, teams can use their best of two finishes to count among their top 12 placements since the start of the Rio qualifying process in April 2015.
Two teams from German (Marcus Bockermann/Lars Fluggen and Jonathan Erdmann/Kay Matysik) are on the “bubble” in the men’s competition with pairs from Mexico (Lombardo Ontiveros/Juan Virgen and Canada (Josh Binstock/Sam Schachter) in hot pursuit for a top 15 finish with a maximum of two duos per country. Both German teams have compiled 4,610 points from their best 12 finishes, but Bockermann/Fluggen have compiled more overall points to rank No. 14. Ontiveros/Virgen and Binstock/Schachter have 4,430 and 4,250 points, respectively,
Tandems from China (Fan Wang/Yuan Yue) and Argentina (Ana Gallay/Georgina Klug) are within 50 points of each other for the No. 14 and No. 15 spots in the women’s side with 4,150 and 4,100 points, respectively. Teams from Russia (Ekaterina Birlova/Evgeniya Ukolova, 3,950 points), Vanuatu (Linline Matauatu/Pata Miller, 3,840), Finland (Taru Lahti/Riikka Lehtonen, 3,740) and the Slovak Republic (Natalia …
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