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Again, Again, Again & Again, Klagenfurt is the final FIVB World Tour stop before Olympics
- Updated: July 23, 2016
Klagenfurt, Austria, July 23, 2016 – For the fourth-straight quadrennial, the Klagenfurt stop on the FIVB World Tour will host the final international Beach Volleyball event prior to the Olympic Games.
When the US$800,000 AI Major Klagenfurt “officially” opens here Tuesday with the women’s qualification tournament, a total of 24 men’s and women’s pairs bound for Copacabana and the Rio 2016 Olympic Games will be in the field for the fourth of five SWATCH Major Series events on the 2015-2016 FIVB World Tour calendar.
Klagenfurt also hosted the final men’s and women’s FIVB World Tour event prior to the Athens 2004, the Beijing 2008 and the London 2012 Summer Games. In only one of those events, the men’s 2004 Austrian stop, did the eventual Olympic champions win the Klagenfurt event prior to the quadrennial!
Emanuel Rego and Ricardo Santos, the 2004 Olympic champions, found success in Klagenfurt prior to the Athens Summer Games as the legendary Brazilian pair defeated compatriots Franco Neto and Tande Ramos 2-1 (17-21, 21-16, 15-10) in the 61-minute Lake Wörthersee finale. To reach the 2004 Klagenfurt finale, Emanuel and Ricardo defeated Athens-bound Christoph Dieckmann and Andreas Scheuerpflug of Germany 2-1 (17-21, 21-16, 15-11) in a 56-minute semi-final match.
The 2004 Klagenfurt women’s finale just missed being an Athens scene-setter as three of the four players in gold medal match on the Lake Wörthersee center count that August 1 would appear 23 days later in the Greek Olympic championship match.
With American Misty May-Treanor sidelined with an abdominal strain, Rachel Wacholder (now Scott) teamed with Kerri Walsh Jennings to defeat Adriana Behar and …
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