FIVB World Tour leaders featured Olympic Beach Volleyball pairs Sunday on Copacabana

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 6, 2016 – The second day of Beach Volleyball competition at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games will feature the top men’s and women’s teams on the 2015-2016 FIVB World Tour as Aleksandrs Samoilovs/Janis Smedins of Latvia and Laura Ludwig/Kira Walkenhorst of Germany will play their match here Sunday.

Gold medal winners at last week’s SWATCH Major Series stop in Klagenfurt, Austria, Samoilovs and Smedins will playing Ben Saxton and Chaim Schalk of Canada in Sunday’s final match at midnight as the two teams will be meeting for the eighth-time international.  Saxton and Schalk lead the series 4-3, but the Latvians defeated the Canadians in the semi-finals of the A1 Major Klagenfurt before topping a team from Brazil in the finals.

While Samoilovs is competing in …

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