The 6 reasons why Beach Volleyball partners split up

Beachvolley Olympia starting tomorrow 28th July

After some long weeks of preparing and waiting for the start of the 2012 Olympic Games, the beachvolleyball athlets will start their competition tomorrow with the games of the first round, played in a round robin modus.

For both categories, the brazilian teams are the odds-on-favourites and the other teams have to make some real big efforts to win finally against Emanuel-Alison or Larissa-Juliana both active World Champions, with Emanuel Rego 5-times gold-medalist at Olympia and Larissa Franca 2-times gold-medalist.

And even if these both teams fail, other nations will have hard to win against the 2 other brazilian teams Cunha-Ricardo (M) and Talita-Antonelli (W), as well considered as possible gold-medalists.

But even if Beachvolleyball seems therefore to be brazilian territory, it will be very interesting to survey the other teams, Olympia being always a very special event with a huge motivating factor to write some incredible sport stories.

Luxemburgish Beachvolley Championship in Capellen

This year, once again, the national beachvolleyball championship was co-organized by the FLVB and the volleyballclub of Mamer.

The women's competition took place on Saturday 7th July, with 12 teams competing and the men's competition on Sunday 8th July saw 16 teams being in fight for the championship title.

If the victory of Zambon-Grethen was no big surprise, even if the victory had to be earned, Steinbach-Hasdorf played a really big tournament to finish on a well deserved 2nd place. The third team on the podium was Weber-Delcourt, the young ladies from Mamer, who confirmed their good result of last year.

In the men's competition, Tunchev and Freidenfels from Diekirch won the final game against the official national team Angelsberg-Belhaouci. Third place went to Mendes-Zielinski from the club of Walferdange.

Congratulations to all the teams for their results and especially to the 2012 champions, Zambon-GrethenTunchev-Freidenfels !! and

Hopefully we meet them back again at the 2013 Luxemburgish Beachvolley Championship in Steinfort, to defend their title.

Last but not least, two critical remarks concerning the championship and the next Games of the small states of Europe (GSSE) in 2013:

More results of the tournaments in Luxembourg

With some delay, please find below the results of some more tournaments that have been played in June and July:

2x2 Men - 3rd June in Walferdange

1. Wendler Martin - Triebel Tonio
2. Rittener - Eynöthen
3. Betz Philipp - Styrzbecher Vitalij

2x2 Women - 3rd June in Walferdange

1. Weber Béatrice - Schneider Jeanne
2. Steinbach Corinne - Hasdorf Anne
3. Weber Laura - Delcourt Eline

2x2 Mixed - 16th June in Walferdange

1. Stein Christophe - Schneider Jeanne
2. Lazzarin Christophe - Feller Déborah
3. Karier Serge - Ernster Lara

2x2 Men - 29th June in Cessange

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First results 2012 - tournaments in Walferdange and Beckerich

Since the beginning of June, even if the weather does not really indicate that the 2012 beachsummer has begun, the first 3 tournaments were already held, under grey or blue sky, with good or not so good weather.

Season start was 3rd June in Walferdange with a 2x2 tournament for men and women teams.

Winner in the men's category was Martin WENDLER - Tonio TRIEBEL with RITTENER - EYNOETHEN and Philipp BETZ - Vitalij STYRZBECHER finishing on 2nd and 3rd place.

The women's category was won by Béa WEBER - Jeanne SCHNEIDER, successfully challenging Corinne STEINBACH - Anne HASDORF and Laura WEBER - Eline DELCOURT on the following steps of the podium.

The second weekend of the season saw the teams compete in Beckerich at the first 2x2 Mixed tournament of the season. The final was won by the team Michel WIRTZ - Stella TOSTI, competing with success against Jean-Claude LORDONG - Béa WEBER.

The third tournament of the season will already be this coming weekend, once again in Walferdange for their traditional 2x2 Mixed on saturday and the 4x4 Hobby on sunday. So join and encourage the players on 16th and 17th June at the beachcourts in Walferdange and have a delicious Caipirinha :-)