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- Updated: August 17, 2016
Rio de Janeiro, August 17, 2016 – Over the next two days at the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games two new sets of Olympic beach volleyball champions will be crowned at the Copacabana Beach Arena.
On Wednesday Brazil’s world champion duo of Agatha Bednarczuk and Barbara Seixas will face European champions Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst of Germany. A day later on Thursday in the men’s gold medal match the world champions again meet the European champions, in this case when Brazil’s Alison Cerutti and Bruno Schmidt take on Italian duo Daniele Lupo and Paolo Nicolai.
Two people who knows what it takes to win Olympic gold are Australian duo Kerri Pottharst and Natalie Cook who topped the podium at Sydney 2000. Like the two Brazilian pairs they were going for home gold on a world-famous beach, in their case Bondi.
They delivered by defeating Brazil’s Shelda Bede and Adriana Behar in front of a …
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