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Qataris make history with maiden Olympic win
- Updated: August 9, 2016
Rio de Janeiro, August 8, 2016 – Jefferson Pereira and Cherif Younousse made history when they became the first Qatari side to win an Olympic beach volleyball match, on day three of the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games beach volleyball tournament.
Jefferson and Cherif fought back from losing the opening set to experienced Spanish duo Pablo Herrera and Adrian Gavira to win 2-1 (13-21, 21-18, 15-12). READ MORE
Later in the day Austria’s Clemens Doppler and Alexander Horst recovered from their opening defeat to Alex Ranghieri and Adrian Carambula to pull off a surprise victory over number one seeds Alison Cerutti and Bruno Schmidt.
The Austrians ignored the majority Brazilian crowd to hold their nerve in a tie-break to prevail 2-1 (23-21, 16-21, 15-13) and give themselves the chance to finishing in …
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