Worldwide competitions at varied ranges in volleyball and seaside volleyball awarded medals throughout the globe final week: the ladies’s volleyball Pan American Cup, the lads’s volleyball AFECAVOL Central American Championship, the ladies’s Southeast Asian Volleyball League, the SCA Seaside Volleyball Zonal Championships for girls and for males, the EEVZA U16 and U18 Seaside Volleyball Championships for ladies and for boys, in addition to the seaside volleyball tournaments on the Commonwealth Youth Video games. Many FIVB Volleyball Empowerment beneficiaries efficiently made their technique to the podiums.
Pan American Cup – ladies’s volleyball
The ladies’s nationwide group of Argentina received the Pan American Cup for the primary time in historical past. In Sunday’s ultimate of the occasion held in Ponce, they managed a 3-2 (25-17, 25-22, 23-25, 19-25, 15-6) victory over hosts Puerto Rico. The Argentinean ladies’s group has to this point been allotted a complete of CHF 136,000 of coach help by Volleyball Empowerment.
The competitors’s most embellished group, america, accomplished the rostrum on the 10-team event after producing a 3-1 (25-22, 25-20, 21-25, 27-25) win over the Dominican Republic, the winners of the earlier two editions. Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Canada, Chile and Costa Rica lined up within the locations from fifth to tenth within the ultimate standings.
Argentina’s reverse Bianca Cugno (pictured in the primary picture; credit: norceca.internet) was honoured because the Most Invaluable Participant (MVP) of the Pan American Cup. She was additionally awarded because the Finest Scorer and the Finest Server of the event, in addition to with a spot on the competitors’s Dream Group, which additionally included setter Ivonne Martínez (Mexico), outdoors hitters Simone Lee (USA) and Ana Karina Olaya (Colombia), center blockers Geraldine Gonzalez (Dominican Republic) and Jocelyn Urias (Mexico), and libero Joseline Landeros (Mexico). The latter additionally took the award for Finest Defender, whereas Peru’s Ysabella Sanchez was recognised as Finest Receiver.
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AFECAVOL Central American Senior Championship – males’s volleyball
Beneath the steering of coach Andrea Genova, funded by Volleyball Empowerment, El Salvador celebrated the silver medals on the males’s Affiliation of Central American Volleyball Federations (AFECAVOL) Central American Senior Championship. El Salvador has to this point obtained CHF 36,000 from the FIVB for its males’s volleyball nationwide group.
Guatemala topped the ultimate standings within the seven-team round-robin event held in Belize Metropolis. They received 5 of their six matches. El Salvador completed second on a 4-2 win-loss report, whereas hosts Belize accomplished the rostrum on 3-3 and 14 factors, one away from fourth-placed Nicaragua (3-3). Panama, Honduras and Costa Rica, in that order, adopted down the ultimate desk on 2-4 every.
Guatemala’s Carlos Lopez was named MVP and Dream Group outdoors hitter. The perfect seven of the event additionally included setter Astergio Diaz (Panama), reverse Karym Coleman (Belize), outdoors hitter Ernest Broaster (Belize), center blockers Emilio Andrews (Nicaragua) and Manuel Platero (El Salvador), and libero Miguel Medina (Panama), who was additionally named Finest Digger. Belize’s Raheem Flowers was recognised because the Finest Receiver, whereas Guatemala’s Andy Bianco was awarded because the Finest Server. Two gamers, Andy Bianco and El Salvador’s Rodrigo Chavez, shared the Finest Scorer honours.
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Southeast Asian Volleyball League – ladies’s volleyball
The second leg of the inaugural Southeast Asian Ladies’s Volleyball League came about in Chiang Mai. Similar to within the first leg held in Vietnam the earlier week, Thailand topped the rostrum undefeated in all three of their matches of the four-team round-robin occasion, adopted by Vietnam on a 2-1 win-loss report, Indonesia on 1-2 and the Philippines on 0-3.
After attaining three-point victories over their opponents on the primary two competitors days, Thailand and Vietnam went face to face within the final recreation on the programme, the de facto ultimate of the event, with the Thais celebrating a 3-0 (25-15, 25-23, 25-22) victory. Silver medallists Vietnam are supported by Volleyball Empowerment by the 2023 Information Switch programme by hiring a physiotherapist to work with the group.
Thai star Chatchu-On Moksri was named MVP of the occasion, whereas setter Arneta Putri Amelian (Indonesia), reverse Alyssa Solomon (Philippines), outdoors hitters Vi Thi Nhu Quynh (Vietnam) and Ratri Wulandari (Indonesia), center blockers Jarasporn Bundasak (Thailand) and Doan Thi Xuan (Vietnam), and libero Piyanut Pannoy had been recognised on the Dream Group.
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Full home in Chiang Mai for the Thailand v Vietnam decider (Photograph credit: seavleague.com)
SCA Zonal Championships – ladies’s and males’s seaside volleyball
Scotland and England, two federations benefiting from Volleyball Empowerment coach help, picked up a mixed 4 of the six medals on the ladies’s and males’s Small Nations Affiliation (SCA) Seaside Volleyball Zonal Championships held in Perth.
Within the ultimate of the 12-team ladies’s primary draw, Scotland’s Kathryn Barbour and Rachel Morrison happy the house crowd with a 2-0 (21-18, 21-18) win over England’s Victoria Palmer and Alana Snow. One other dwelling pair, Lynne Beattie and Mhairi Agnew, joined the rostrum after a 2-0 (21-11, 21-11) sweep of the bronze medal recreation in opposition to Eire’s Fiona Lamont and Lara McNichols. A Scottish duo reached the lads’s ultimate as effectively. Luxembourg’s Colin Hilbert and Steve Weber claimed the gold upon defeating David Lewis Mexson and James McHardy in straight units, 2-0 (21-15, 21-18). The bronze went to Monaco’s Pascal Ferry and Vincent Ferry, who mastered a 2-0 (21-9, 21-17) win over Conor Robins and Davoud Ahmad Panah of Wales within the third-place recreation.
Scotland’s seaside volleyball has to this point been allotted a complete of CHF 108,000 by Volleyball Empowerment for coach help of their nationwide duos in each genders. In the meantime, CHF 72,000 price of coach help went to England’s nationwide seaside volleyball pairs.
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EEVZA U16 Seaside Volleyball Championships – U16 ladies’ and U16 boys’ seaside volleyball
Three Ukrainian pairs had been among the many six medallists on the Japanese European Volleyball Zonal Affiliation (EEVZA) U16 Seaside Volleyball Championships for each genders held in Riga. They compete internationally with Volleyball Empowerment help of CHF 210,000 by an ongoing Memorandum of Understanding between the FIVB and their nationwide federation.
Within the boys’ ultimate, Ukraine’s Yehor Skrypnychenko and Andrii Lunkan mastered a 2-0 (21-19, 21-11) straight-setter in opposition to Estonia’s Toomas Patrik Parejogi and Armin Kender. One other Ukrainian duo, Bohdan Romanyshyn and Mykola Trofymchuk, produced an emphatic 2-0 (21-10, 21-17) sweep of the bronze medal match in opposition to Latvia’s Tomass Blekte and Bruno Liepins.
The Ukrainian ladies’ tandem of Oleksandra Krasnozhon and Mariia Shkurat took dwelling a silver medal. The gold went to Latvia’s Milana Tina Aleksejeva and Megija Rumaka, who happy the house crowd with a 2-1 (17-21, 21-10, 15-11) turnaround within the ultimate. Marta Mia Ploomipuu and Hannemai Hanimagi accomplished the ladies’ podium, additionally after a comeback from a set down within the third-place match, 2-1 (15-21, 21-13, 15-9) in opposition to Latvia’s Monika Mamaja and Deneva Sauberga Lepe.
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EEVZA U18 Seaside Volleyball Championships – U18 ladies’ and U18 boys’ seaside volleyball
Additionally benefiting from Volleyball Empowerment help, Ukraine’s Tymofii Tverdokhlib and Dmytro Kozii took the boys’ bronze on the EEVZA U18 Seaside Volleyball Championships in Riga.
Within the ultimate, Latvia’s Karlis Jaundzeikars and Matiss Salkovskis delighted the house followers with a 2-0 (21-19, 21-11) win over Poland’s Jakub Krzeminski and Wanat Marcel, whereas Tverdokhlib and Kozii defeated Lithuania’s Raigardas Macionis and Dovydas Sinkevicius by a hard-fought 2-1 (21-19, 20-22, 15-11).
On the ladies’ facet, Poland’s Paulina Labuz and Julia Radelczuk triumphed as EEVZA champions after a 2-0 (21-14, 21-17) win over Latvia’s Marta Beatrise Gintere and Eva Elizabete Brokane within the ultimate. The bronze went to a different Polish duo, Joanna Bartosiewicz and Zuzanna Rapczynska, who produced a 2-0 (21-18, 21-15) victory over Ukraine’s Soffia Shchutska and Kateryna Biliak within the third-place recreation.
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Commonwealth Youth Video games – U18 ladies’ and U18 boys’ seaside volleyball
Volleyball Empowerment beneficiaries from New Zealand claimed the bronze medals in each genders on the Commonwealth Youth Video games held in Trinidad and Tobago. New Zealand’s seaside volleyball has to this point been allotted CHF 252,000 of coach help.
Kiana Stevenson and Tineke Hinton took the women’ bronze. Within the third-place match, they defeated Kenya’s Sharon Chepkogei and Abigael Chebet by 2-0 (22-20, 21-16). The gold medals went to Canada’s Calinda Kok and Katarina Drozd after an emphatic 2-0 (21-14, 21-14) sweep of the ultimate in opposition to Australia’s Jasmine Rayner and Cameron Zajer.
Canada took the gold within the boys’ competitors too. Oliver Toomes and Andon Kiriakou mastered a 2-0 (21-16, 21-14) victory over England’s Peter Soczewka and Robert Morgan within the ultimate. New Zealand’s Calum Stewart and Juraj Krajci got here again from a set down in opposition to Cyprus’s Anninos-Alexios Chrysostomou and Alexis Savvidis to win the bronze medal recreation by a slim 2-1 (12-21, 21-19, 16-14).
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