Porec, Croatia, June 29, 2017 - The pre-draw placement for the men’s and women’s beach volleyball teams competing next month in the 2017 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships in Vienna has been confirmed ahead of the drawing of lots ceremony on Saturday, which will take place at 10.30 local time at the venue of the Porec Major to determine the seedings and pool allocations.
The pre-draw placement for each of the 96 teams (48 men and 48 women) competing in the 2017 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships was based on each pair’s points 35 days prior to the Vienna event as a tandem’s best six of last eight finishes on the FIVB World Tour over a 365-day period are used to determine their technical entry points. The top 12 teams on the technical entry points’ list are seeded No. 1 through No. 12.
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FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour 2017Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games - Beach VolleyballFIVB.com - Beach VolleyballLatest VideosFacebookTwitterInstagramMedia Guides2017 World Championship formatWith each gender’s competition featuring 48 teams divided into 12 pools with four tandems in each group, the top men’s and women’s pairs were seeded into the top slot in each cluster with draws being held to fill out the second, third and fourth position in each pool. Each team will play three pool play matches and, as the host country, no Austrian teams will be in the same group.
The top two pairs in each pool will advance directly to the 32-team elimination bracket along with the four best third-place duos based on match points, set-point ratios and/or rally-point ratios. A Lucky Loser round for the teams ranked fifth through 12th will be played with the four winners advancing to the elimination bracket.
For the bracket phase of the Vienna competition, there will be a draw to place each team in the bracket based on their pool standings with the 12 pool winners being seeded No. 1 to No. 12, and the third-place finishers, including the Lucky Losers being seeded No. 25 through No. 32. The second-place finishers in each pool will be seeded No. 13 through No. 24.
Men’s top seeds
Seed, Team, Country, Seeding points1, Saymon Barbosa/Alvaro Filho, Brazil, 3,500
2, Aleksandrs Samoilovs/Janis Smedins, Latvia, 3,260
3, Phil Dalhausser/Nick Lucena, United States, 3,240
4, Evandro Goncalves/Andre Loyola, Brazil, 2,840
5, Alison Cerutti/Bruno Oscar Schmidt, Brazil, 2,700
6, Viacheslav Krasilnikov/Nikita Liamin, Russia, 2,690
7, Piotr Kantor/Bartosz Losiak, Poland, 2,645
8, Gustavo "Guto" Carvalhaes/Pedro Solberg, Brazil, 2,540
9, Adrian Gavira/Pablo Herrera, Spain, 2,480
10, Alexander Brouwer/Robert Meeuwsen, Netherlands, 2,360
11, Daniele Lupo/Paolo Nicolai, Italy, 2,280
12, Clemens Doppler/Alexander Horst, Austria (best host country), 1,860
Reigning world and Olympic champions Alison Cerutti and Bruno Oscar Schmidt will be among the teams to beat in Vienna
Men’s Draw 1 (will play seeds 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 or 12)
Draw position, Team, Country, Seeding points13, Oleg Stoyanovskiy/Artem Yarzutkin, Russia, 2,200
14, Sam Pedlow/Sam Schachter, Canada, 2,150
15, Michal Bryl/Grzegorz Fijalek, Poland, 2,100
16, Ben Saxton/Chaim Schalk, Canada, 2,000
17, Theo Brunner/Casey Patterson, United States, 1,975
18, Taylor Crabb/Jake Gibb, United States, 1,970
Men’s Draw 2 (will play seeds 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6)
Draw position, Team, Country, Seeding points19, Ryan Doherty/John Hyden, United States, 1,932
20, Esteban Grimalt/Marco Grimalt, Chile, 1,900
21, Nivaldo Diaz/Sergio Gonzalez, Cuba, 1,830
22, Lombardo Ontiveros/Juan Virgen, Mexico, 1,780
23, Dries Koekelkoren/Tom van Walle, Belgium, 1,658
24, Jefferson Santos Pereira/Cherif Younousse, Qatar, 1,635
Men’s Draw 3
Draw position, Team, Country, Seeding points25, Kacper Kujawiak/Mariusz Prudel, Poland, 1,632
26, Martins Plavins/Haralds Regza, Latvia, 1,566
27, Christoph Dressler/Thomas Kunert, Austria, 1,548
28, Christopher McHugh/Damien Schumann, Australia, 1,538
29, Karell Pina/Daisel Quesada, Cuba, 1,468
30, Adrian Carambula/Alex Ranghieri, Italy, 1,450
31, Markus Bockermann/Lars Fluggen, Germany, 1,380
32, Rahman Raoufi/Bahman Salemiinjehboroun, Iran, 1,236
33, Robin Seidl/Tobias Winter, Austria, 1,222
34, Julian Azaad/Nicolas Capogrosso, Argentina, 1,190
35, Mohammad Ashfiya/Ade Rachmawan, Indonesia, 1,078
36, Rihards Finsters/Edgars Tocs, Latvia, 988
Men’s Draw 4
Draw position, Team, Country, Seeding points37, Maarten Van Garderen/Christiaan Varenhorst, Netherlands, 816
38, Marlon Phillip/Daneil Williams, Trinidad and Tobago, 792
39, Marco Cairus/Mauricio Vieyto, Uruguay, 780
40, Luis Garcia/Andy Leonardo, Guatemala, 598
41, Jhonatan Golindano/Carlos Rangel, Venezuela, 540
42, Aaron Nusbaum/Ryan Vandenburg, Canada, 538
43, Roger Battilana/Gregorio Godoy, Paraguay, 460
44, Austria (to be determined following trial)
45, Jamaine Naidoo/Leo Williams, South Africa, 60
46, Mohamed Abicha/Zouheir Elgraoui, Morocco, 0
47, Aldevino Nguvo/Justino Tovela, Mozambique, 0
48, Abubakarr Kamara/Lombie Patrick, Sierra Leone, 0
Women’s top seeds
Seed, Team, Country, Seeding points1, Talita Antunes/Larissa Franca, Brazil, 3,760
2, Chantal Laboureur/Julia Sude, Germany, 3,320
3, Agatha Bednarczuk/Eduarda "Duda" Lisboa, Brazil, 2,990
4, Laura Ludwig/Kira Walkenhorst, Germany, 2,710
5, Summer Ross/Brooke Sweat, United States, 2,585
6, Barbora Hermannova/Marketa Slukova, Czech Republic, 2,360
7, Melissa Humana-Paredes/Sarah Pavan, Canada, 2,180
8, Fernanda Alves/Barbara Seixas, Brazil, 2,160
9, Maria Antonelli/Carolina Salgado, Brazil, 2,083
10, Nina Betschart/Tanja Huberli, Switzerland, 2,064
11, Louise Bawden/Taliqua Clancy, Australia, 2,056
12, Katharina Schutzenhofer/Stefanie Schwaiger, Austria (host country), 1,267
Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst won Olympic gold in 2016
Women’s Draw 1 (will play seeds 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 or 12)
Draw position, Team, Country, Seeding points13, Joana Heidrich/Anouk Verge-Depre, Switzerland, 2,020
14, Lauren Fendrick/April Ross, United States, 2,000
15, Fan Wang/Yuan Yue, China, 2,000
16, Heather Bansley/Brandie Wilkerson, Canada, 1,916
17, Kristyna Kolocova/Michala Kvapilova, Czech Republic, 1,872
18, Kelly Claes/Sara Hughes, United States, 1,780
Women’s Draw 2 (will play seeds 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6)
Draw position, Team, Country, Seeding points19, Taru Lahti/Riikka Lehtonen, Finland, 1,766
20, Madelein Meppelink/Sophie van Gestel, Netherlands, 1,751
21, Valentyna Davidova/Ievgeniia Shchypkova, Ukraine, 1,722
22, Victoria Bieneck/Isabel Schneider, Germany, 1,652
23, Karla Borger/Margareta Kozuch, Germany, 1,562
24, Elsa Baquerizo/Angela Lobato, Spain, 1,524
Women’s Draw 3
Draw position, Team, Country, Seeding points25, Taiana Lima/Elize Maia, Brazil, 1,508
26, Nadja Glenzke/Julia Grossner, Germany, 1,418
27, Julie Gordon/Camille Saxton, Canada, 1,366
28, Marta Menegatti/Rebecca Perry, Italy, 1,332
29, Jamie Broder/Taylor Pischke, Canada, 1,310
30, Ana Gallay/Virginia Zonta, Argentina, 1,300
31, Nicole Laird/Jessyka Ngauamo, Australia, 1,250
32, Ekaterina Birlova/Nadezda Makroguzova, Russia, 1,247
33, Nicole Branagh/Kerri Walsh Jennings, United States, 1,217
34, Lidiannis Echeverria/Leila Martinez, Cuba, 1,213
35, Tatyana Mashkova/Bakhtygul Samalikova, Kazakhstan, 1,184
36, Erika Bobadilla/Gabriela Filippo, Paraguay, 1,175
Women’s Draw 4
Draw position, Team, Country, Seeding points37, Norisbeth Agudo/Gabi Brito, Venezuela, 1,129
38, Varapatsorn Radarong/Tanarattha Udomchavee, Thailand, 1,120
39, Lena Plesiutschnig/Cornelia Rimser, Austria, 1,076
40, Xinxin Wang/Chen Xue, China, 998
41, Manon Nummerdor-Flier/Marleen van Iersel, 993
42, Andrea Galindo/Claudia "Gorda" Galindo, Colombia, 980
43, Natalia Alfaro/Karen Charles, Costa Rica, 752
44, Katharina Holzer/Teresa Strauss, Austria, 668
45, Denyse Mutatsimpundu/Charlotte Nzayisenga, Rwanda, 0
46, Mahassine Siad/Imane Zeroual, Morocco, 0
47, Gaudencia Makokha/Naomie Too, Kenya, 0
48, Liocadia Manhica/Vanessa Muianga, Mozambique, 0
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First-time countries qualifying a men’s and/or women’s team for the FIVB World Championships are Colombia (one women’s team), Iran (men), Kenya (women), Mozambique (men and women), Rwanda (women), Sierra Leone (men) and Trinidad & Tobago (men).
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