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Olympics success continues for top four-seeded women’s teams
- Updated: August 16, 2016
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 15, 2016 – The women’s semi-finals here Tuesday will mark the second-straight Olympics and the 27th-time since the FIVB started sanctioning women’s Beach Volleyball in August 1992 that the top four-seeded women’s team have advanced to the “final four” together at the same event.
When play opens Tuesday at the 12,000-season “Coliseu on Copacabana”, top-seeded Brazilians Talita Antunes/Larissa Franca will be challenged by fourth-seeded Laura Ludwig/Kira Walkenhorst of Germany while third-seeded April Ross/Kerri Walsh Jennings confronts second-seeded and reigning FIVB world champions Agatha Bednarczuk/Barbara Seixas of Brazil in semi-finals.
Tuesday’s schedule also features the men’s semi-finals. The women’s medal matches will be play late Wednesday evening with the men following the same schedule Thursday.
The semi-finals at the London 2012 Olympics had the same seed match up as fourth-seeded Jen Kessy and Ross upset Larissa and Juliana Felisberta 2-1 (15-21, 21-19, 15-12) in 58 minutes while the third-seeded Misty May-Treanor and Walsh Jennings broke-through against …
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