Defending champions Daniele Lupo and Paolo Nicolai were beaten as pool play continued at the European Beach Volleyball Championships in The Netherlands.
Top seeds Chantal Laboureur and Julia Sude of Germany recovered from losing their opening match by winning their second to keep their qualification hopes alive at the Beach Volleyball European Championships in Apeldoorn.
Defending champions Paolo Nicolai and Daniele Lupo began the Beach Volleyball European Championships in confident fashion in The Netherlands.
Top-seeded Canadians Melissa Humana-Paredes and Sarah Pavan scored the last three points of the women's final to de-throne Germany's Chantal Laboureur and Julia Sude as the reigning champions at the Beach Volleyball Major Series event in Gstaad in Switzerland.
Italy's Paolo Nicolai and Daniele Lupo will begin their bid to claim a fourth continental crown in five years tomorrow with the Beach Volleyball European Championships set to begin in The Netherlands.
Russia's two Marias - Bocharova and Voronina - claimed the Beach Volleyball Under-19 World Championships women’s title in Nanjing after an epic final against Raisa Schoon and Emi van Driel.
Norway's Anders Berntsen Mol and Christian Sandlie Sørum have become the youngest-ever duo to win a Beach Volleyball Major Series event after beating Spain's Pablo Herrera and Adrián Gavira in the men's final in Gstaad in Switzerland today.
China's Dong Jie and Hang Ting's progress at their home Beach Volleyball Under-19 World Championships in Nanjing was ended in the quarter-finals by Raisa Schoon and Emi van Driel of The Netherlands, who beat them 21-12, 21-12 before going on to earn a place in tomorrow’s final.
Four teams from North America, two each from Canada and the United States, are among the eight pairs through to the women’s quarter-finals at the Beach Volleyball Major Series event in Gstaad in Switzerland.
China's Dong Jie and Hang Ting delighted their home fans as they reached the quarter-finals of the Beach Volleyball Under-19 World Championships in Nanjing with a 22-20, 21-19 win over Bolivia's Maria Fernanda Canedo and Nicole Alessandra Nogales.
Dan John and Eric Stadie upset the seeding system in an all-German men's final at the World University Beach Volleyball Championship on home sand in Munich.
Defending champions Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena battled into the second round of the Beach Volleyball Major Series event in Gstaad in Switzerland today.
Two home pairs will contest the men's final at the World University Beach Volleyball Championship in German city Munich.
Germany's Rudy Schneider and Simon Pfretzschner finished top of Pool A to reach the round-of-16 in the men's event at the Beach Volleyball Under-19 World Championships in Nanjing, China.
Home favourites Dan John and Eric Stadie beat second seeds Mateusz Lysikowski and Mateusz Paszkowski today to secure their place in the men’s quarter-finals at the World University Beach Volleyball Championship in Munich.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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