Official Bulletin no.42 august 2009

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a very happy anniversary

The year 2009 marked the 20th edition of the World League, a milestone that called for an

equally impressive quality of play and world-class venues at which to host the premier men’s tournament.We got that and much more. From the opening matches to Brazil’s even-tual triumph in the final in Belgrade, we were treated to some of the fin-est Volleyball matches ever played in some of the most accommodating and best-prepared locations around the globe. We also saw the fascinating interplay between veterans and young guns as the teams experimented with their lineups at the beginning of the new Olympic cycle.As I presented Brazilian superstar Giba with the World League trophy follow-ing his team’s impressive victory over runner-up Serbia, I recalled a number of other great triumphs he has savored over the years. But after greeting some of the fresh faces on the gold-medal squad, I was also reminded of all the great young talent – the future stars of our sport – that emerged at the tour-nament.Who will forget Cuba’s then 15-year-old sensation Wilfredo Leon Venero scoring 18 points in his World League debut before going on to finish third in scoring at the tournament, for ex-ample?It is true we expected a lot of the 20th anniversary year of the World League. But I am extremely pleased to say my expectations were surpassed in almost every aspect of the competi-tion. May the next 20 years be equally as successful or more so!

Mr. Jizhong Wei, FIVB President

Brazil triumphs in World league’s 20th year

The team wouldn’t have to wait long. After crushing all comers in the prelimi-nary round, winning 11 of 12 matches, the mighty Brazilians then went 4-0 in the Fi-nal Round in Belgrade from July 22-26 to win their eighth World League title in the competition’s 20 years of existence.

It wasn’t a complete cakewalk for the team in yellow, however. Finalists Ser-bia, playing in front of a bumper crowd of 22,680 at Belgrade Arena, pushed the

Mr. Jizhong Wei, FIVB President

World League champions Brazil

■ Having lost both its Olympic and World league crowns to the united States in 2008, Brazil began its new Olympic cycle with revenge on its mind.

FIVB President Mr. Jizhong Wei awards Brazilian captain Giba the World League trophy

in this issuefiVB

• Editorial Volleyball

• Brazil triumphs in World League’s 20th year

• 2010 World Championship finalists• Boys’ Youth Worlds match schedule• Brazil repeats as Girls’ Youth

champion• Germany wins gold at Women’s

JuniorsBeach Volleyball

• Germans make Beach Volleyball history

• Roseto stop cancelledtechnical

• List of newly approved international referees

• Club World Cup to use Golden Formula

Quick Sets

• News from Planet Earth

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Rank Teams

1 Brazil

2 Serbia

3 Russia

4 cuba

5 argentina

6 uSa

7 italy

finland

Rank Teams

9 Bulgaria

france

netherlands

Poland

13 china

Japan

Korea

Venezuela

2009 World league – final Standings

2009 final Round Best Players

MVP: Santos Sérgio Dutra BRA

Best Scorer: Miljkovic Ivan SRB

Best Spiker: Simón Aties Roberlandy CUB

Best Blocker: Simón Aties Roberlandy CUB

Best Server: Leon Venero Wilfredo CUB

Best Setter: Grbic Nikola SRB

Best Libero: Verbov Alexey RUS

2009 fiVB Boys’ Youth Volleyball World championship

Match Schedule

Teams Dates Location Pool

Japan-Serbia 28 August JESOLO B

algeria-Spain 28 August BASSANO DEL GRAPPA C

iran-uSa 28 August JESOLO B

argentina-france 28 August BASSANO DEL GRAPPA C

india-Poland 28 August JESOLO D

tunisia-Puerto Rico 28 August BASSANO DEL GRAPPA A

Brazil-Russia 28 August JESOLO D

italy-egypt 28 August BASSANO DEL GRAPPA A

iran-Japan 29 August JESOLO B

argentina-algeria 29 August BASSANO DEL GRAPPA C

uSa-Serbia 29 August JESOLO B

france-Spain 29 August BASSANO DEL GRAPPA C

Brazil-india 29 August JESOLO D

egypt-Puerto Rico 29 August BASSANO DEL GRAPPA A

Russia-Poland 29 August JESOLO D

italy-tunisia 29 August BASSANO DEL GRAPPA A

uSa-Japan 30 August JESOLO B

france-algeria 30 August BASSANO DEL GRAPPA C

Serbia-iran 30 August JESOLO B

Spain-argentina 30 August BASSANO DEL GRAPPA C

Russia-india 30 August JESOLO D

tunisia-egypt 30 August BASSANO DEL GRAPPA A

Poland-Brazil 30 August JESOLO D

Puerto Rico-italy 30 August BASSANO DEL GRAPPA A

Jesolo - Bassano del Grappa, italy 28 august - 6 September 2009

1st Preliminary

Round

2nd Preliminary

Round Semi Finals Finals

28 - 29 - 30 August

1 - 2 - 3 September

4 September

5 - 6 September

2009 fiVB Girls’ Youth World championship

Brazil repeats as Girls’ Youth champion

Brazil defended the FIVB Girls’ Youth World Championship it won in Macau four years ago with a solid 3-1 (25-20, 26-24, 23-25, 25-16) victory over Ser-bia in a tense final on July 12. In the bronze-medal match, Belgium defeat-ed Turkey in an exciting five setter that saw them battle back from two sets down 3-2 (20-25, 24-26, 25-19, 28-26, 15-7) to medal for the first time ever at a Volleyball World Championship.

In Thailand, Dominican’s Yenifer Cristina Ramirez Espinal seeks a way through the Brazilian block

nakhonratchasima, thailand3-12 July 2009

Rank Teams1 Brazil2 Serbia3 Belgium4 turkey5 Japan6 Peru7 thailand8 italy

Rank Teams9 Mexico10 Germany11 Dominican Rep.12 uSa13 china14 Slovakia15 egypt16 tunisia

final Standings

victors to a tiebreak, finally succumbing 3-2 (22-25, 25-23, 25-22, 23-25, 15-12) in 2 hours and 4 minutes.

“I’m so happy for this win,” said Brazilian captain Giba. “This was a match with so many emotions. It’s amazing to play a fi-nal in an arena with so many people. This victory is so important for this new gen-eration. We will enjoy this victory, but we will be ready for the next competitions.”Vissotto Neves scored a game-high 29 points, including 24 spikes, for Brazil, while Ivan Miljkovic, who finished the competition as Best Scorer, led the Serbi-ans with 28, including 25 spikes.

Russia went home with the bronze medal when Cuba collapsed in the play-off for third place. The European giants needed only 66 minutes to dispose of Cuba 3-0 (25-13, 26-24, 25-16) in a business-like display.

Ivan Miljkovic (right) of Serbia spikes against Russia during the 2009 World League finals

“We showed team spirit, we found our game and strength after our defeat to Brazil (in the semifinals),” Russian captain Sergey Tetyukhin said. “We played very well. It is not easy when you are beaten in the semifinals.”

Argentina placed 5th and defending champions the United States finished a disappointing 6th after losing both its Final Six matches in straight sets, first to Serbia and then to Russia.

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qualify for the finals when it beat Cameroon on the final day of African Pool C com-petition in Nairobi. Algeria secured the second African ticket to the finals a week later in Africa Pool D.

In Europe, the Czech Repub-lic, Italy, Serbia, Croatia, Tur-key, Poland, Germany and the Netherlands all advanced.South America will be repre-sented by powerhourse Brazil and Peru.

The United States and Puerto Rico ad-vanced from the NORCECA region by winning their respective tournaments, both on home soil, while runners-up

Costa Rica and Canada remain alive in the qualification process and will compete in a four-team NORCECA Playoff Round in Tijuana, Mexico in August. The Playoff Round will fill NORCECA’s final two World Cham-pionship vacancies.

Qualified Men’s Teams:South America: Brazil (bye as de-fending champions)Europe: Russia, Germany, Italy (bye as hosts)

Qualified Women’s Teams:Africa: Kenya, AlgeriaAsia: China, Thailand, Japan (bye as hosts)NORCECA: Cuba, Dominican Repu-blic, USA, Puerto RicoSouth America: Brazil, Peru

Volleyball

The composition of the teams that will vie for the 2010 FIVB World Champion-ships in Italy (Men) and Japan (Women) continued to take shape following the completion of 11 qualifying tourna-ments last month.

Only one of the tournaments was on the men’s side, as many of the top teams were involved in the 2009 FIVB World League tournament. In Finland, Rus-sia and Germany became the first two teams to qualify for the Final Round in Italy, joining the hosts and defending champions Brazil, who received byes.

On the women’s side, China and runner-up Thailand earned berths to the Final Round in Asian Pool D. Kenya became the first African team to

Turkish player Deniz Hakyemez attacks during the third round in Poland

Men’s competition calendar

Confederation Dates Country CityAVC 14 - 16 August China ChengduAVC 28 - 30 August Japan KomakiCAVB 14 - 16 August Tunisia TunisCAVB 16 - 21 August Egypt CairoCAVB 21 - 23 August Cameroon YaoundeCEV 7 - 9 August Finland TampereCEV 14 - 16 August Bulgaria VarnaCEV 14 - 16 August Poland Gdynia CityCEV 14 - 16 August Serbia TBDCSV 10 - 12 August Venezuela GuaricoCSV 28 - 30 August Argentina San LuisNORCECA 14 - 16 August Cuba HavanaNORCECA 15 - 17 August USA IrvineNORCECA 28 - 30 August Mexico Guadalajara

Women’s competition calendar

NORCECA 28 - 30 August Mexico TijuanaConfederation Dates Country City

MEN & WOMEN

2010 fiVB WORlD cHaMPiOnSHiPS2010 World championship line-ups quickly taking shape

Europe: Italy, Czech Republic, Serbia, Croatia, Turkey, Poland, Germany, Neth-erlands, Russia (bye as defending cham-pions)

The Puerto Rico Men’s team celebrate victory in front of their home fans

Rank Teams9 cuba10 china11 czech Republic12 uSa13 Poland14 thailand15 Venezuela16 Kenya

Rank Teams1 Germany2 Dominican Rep.3 Brazil4 Bulgaria5 chinese taipei6 netherlands7 turkey8 Mexico

final Standings

2009 fiVB Women’s Junior World championship

Germany wins gold at Women’s Juniors

Germany are the new world champi-ons of Women’s Junior Volleyball fol-lowing a 28-26, 26-24, 25-16 victory over Dominican Republic in the finals of the FIVB Women’s Junior World Championship on July 26 in Mexicali and Tijuana, Mexico. “It is a dream come true,” said German captain Sa-rah Petrausch, who led all scorers with 14 points in the final.

2009 Junior World Champion Germany

tijuana and Mexicali, Mexico16-25 July 2009

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World Volley NewsBeach VolleyballMEN & WOMEN

Germans make history in busy month following WorldsIt’s been a busy month for Beach Volley-ball players following the SWATCH FIVB World Championships in Norway that ended on July 4.

The teams got right back at it from July 6-12 in Gstaad, Switzerland at the 1 to 1 energy Grand Slam, and followed that up with tournaments in Russia, France, Aus-tria and Poland.

GSTAADIn Gstaad, Julius Brink and Jonas Recker-mann became the first team from Ger-many to win back-to-back SWATCH FIVB World Tour events when they defeated legendary Brazilians Emanuel Rego and Ricardo Santos for the gold medal. The 21-15, 17-21, 15-11 win in 60 minutes over third-seeded Rego and Santos vali-dated Brink and Reckermann’s gold medal success at the 2009 SWATCH FIVB World Championships in Stavanger, where the Germans claimed their first-ever SWATCH FIVB World Tour title together. The wins helped the Germans climb to No. 1 in the world rankings.On the women’s side, Brazil’s Talita An-tunes and Maria Antonelli scored a 21-17, 16-21, 15-12 win in 58 minutes over third-seeded Brazilian rivals Juliana Felisberta Silva and Larissa Franca to capture their third international gold medal. The vic-

July 7-12 - Men’s Grand Slam Gstaad, Switzerland - Podium finish

1 GOlDBrink / Reckermann GeR

2 SilVeRRicardo / emanuel BRa

3 BROnZeHerrera / Gavira eSP

July 6-11 - Women’s Grand Slam Gstaad, Switzerland - Podium finish

1 GOlDtalita / antonelli BRa

2 SilVeRlarissa / Juliana BRa

3 BROnZeBranagh / Youngs uSa

Germany’s Sara Goller watches partner Laura Ludwig bump the Mikasa in Marseille

July 14-19 - Men’s Grand Slam Moscow, Russia - Podium finish

1 GOlDBrink / Reckermann GeR

2 SilVeRRicardo / emanuel BRa

3 BROnZelaciga M. / Bellaguarda Sui

July 13-18 - Women’s Grand Slam Moscow, Russia - Podium finish

1 GOlDlarissa / Juliana BRa

2 SilVeRRenata / leão BRa

3 BROnZeGoller / ludwig GeR

from July 14-19, putting their names in the men’s SWATCH FIVB World Tour record book by winning their third-straight in-ternational Beach Volleyball gold medal. They tied the mark for most consecutive match wins by once again defeating Rego and Santos (24-26, 21-18,16-14) in the fi-nals of the US$600,000 Grand Slam Mos-cow 2009 presented by SEAT.Silva and Franca made up for their loss in the Gstaad final by beating compa-triots Renata Ribeiro and Vanilda Leao 21-18, 21-19 for gold in Moscow. Silva and Franca maintained their perfect record in Russia, having won all four tournaments they’ve played in the country, including the 2005, 2006 and 2007 titles won in St. Petersburg.

MARSEILLEFrom July 20-26, the SWATCH FIVB World Tour settled down in France, where the single-elimination format suited two pairs from the United States very well in-deed. Reigning Olympic champions Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers duplicated the efforts of compatriots Jen Kessy and April Ross in capturing the men’s and women’s gold medals at the US$600,000 World Series 13 Grand Chelem.Kessy and Ross defeated Vassiliki Arvan-iti and Maria Tsiartsiani of Greece 21-16, 21-17 in the 42-minute women’s finale on the Plages Gaston Defferre centre court, before fourth-seeded Dalhausser

Brazilian Emanuel Rego (left) gets in the face of Spain’s Pablo Herrera at the Grand Slam in Gstaad

tory snapped a personal five-game losing streak to their Brazilian rivals, as Antunes and Antonelli had dropped three SWATCH FIVB World Tour matches and two domes-tic-circuit meetings to Silva and Franca.

MOSCOWBrink and Reckermann continued their impressive run of form in Russia’s capital

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Beach Volleyball

Roseto stop cancelled The FIVB announced with regret in July the cancel-lation of the Roseto de-gli Abruzzi stop of the SWATCH FIVB World Tour, scheduled for Septem-ber 1-6. The decision was a result of an exclusivity conflict between promo-ters of the event and the World Tour stop in Rome. The Roseto stop was to be the last stage of the World Tour in Europe before the final two events in United Arab Emirates and China.

July 20-26 - Men’s Grand chelem Marseille, france - Podium finish

1 GOlDRogers / Dalhausser uSa

2 SilVeRHerrera / Gavira eSP

3 BROnZeBrink / Reckermann GeR

July 19-26 - Women’s Grand chelem Marseille, france - Podium finish

1 GOlDRoss / Kessy uSa

2 SilVeRarvaniti / tsiartsiani GRe

3 BROnZeGoller / ludwig GeR

and Rogers captured their first SWATCH FIVB World Tour gold medal this season by defeating seventh-seeded Adrian Ga-vira Collado and Pablo Herrera of Spain 21-8, 21-14 in 35 minutes.

“Todd has been telling me that the single-elimination format is very good,” said

July 28-aug 2 - Men’s Grand Slam Klagenfurt, austria - Podium finish

1 GOlDRogers / Dalhausser uSa

2 SilVeRHarley / alison BRa

3 BROnZenummerdor /Schuil neD

July 27-aug 1 - Women’s Grand Slam Klagenfurt, austria - Podium finish

1 GOlDlarissa / Juliana BRa

2 SilVeRBranagh / Youngs uSa

3 BROnZeRoss / Kessy uSa

august 4-9 - Men’s Open Stare Jablonki, Poland - Podium finish

1 GOlDBenjamin / Pedro BRa

2 SilVeRBrink / Reckermann GeR

3 BROnZeHerrera / Gavira eSP

august 3-8 - Women’s Open Stare Jablonki, Poland - Podium finish

1 GOlDlarissa / Juliana BRa

2 SilVeRPalmer /Bawden auS

3 BROnZetalita / antonelli BRa

Brazilian Emanuel Rego (left) gets in the face of Spain’s Pablo Herrera at the Grand Slam in Gstaad

the 29-year old Dalhausser, who was named the SWATCH most out-standing player for the World Series 13 Grand Chelem.

“I think the format gives you a chance to focus on the matches more and eliminate concerns about who you might play if you lose like in a dou-ble-elimination format.”

KLAGENFURTDalhausser and Rogers were at

it again the following week in Aus-tria, winning the gold medal at the US$600,000 A1 Beach Volleyball Grand Slam presented by Volksbank. The third-seeded Dalhausser and Rogers scored a 21-19, 12-21, 15-12 win in 64 minutes over second-seeded Alison Cerutti and

Harley Marques of Brazil to share the $43,500 first-place prize.On the women’s side, the third time was the charm for Juliana Felisberta Silva and Larissa Franca as the Brazil-ians captured their first gold medal in three attempts in Austria to win the women’s title. The silver medal win-ners at the 2006 and 2007 A1 Beach Volleyball Grand Slam, Juliana and Larissa scored a 21-12, 21-15 win in 39 minutes over fourth-seeded Nicole Branagh and Elaine Youngs of the Unit-ed States.

STARE JABLONKIIn Poland, Benjamin Insfran and Pedro Salgado completed a Brazilian sweep of the Beach Volleyball gold medals by winning the men’s finale at the US$380,000 Mazury Open as each

player claimed their 10th SWATCH FIVB World Tour ti-tle, but their first champion-ship crown together.Silva and Franca started the Brazilian success with a 21-14, 21-16 gold medal win in 38 minutes over Louise Bawden and Becchara Palmer of Australia. Benjamin and Salgado finished the Mazury Open trophy chase with a 23-21, 21-16 gold medal vic-tory in 55 minutes over Julius Brink and Jonas Reckermann of Germany. It was the first time since Alison Cerutti and Harley Marques captured gold in Myslowice, Poland on May 31 that a team from Brazil had topped the men’s podium.

Becchara Palmer of Australia won the Most Outstanding Player award in Stare Jablonki

Sunny skies and amazing fans at the A1 Grand Slam in Klagenfurt

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World Volley NewsTechnical

fiVB technical courses and Seminars calendar - august 09

CouNTrY TYpeDATeS

DAYSFrom To

Sudan Coaches Level II August 1 August 13 13Liechtenstein IrCC Beach refereeing August 2 August 8 7England Coaches Level II August 18 August 30 13England Coaches Level I August 22 August 30 9Morocco Coaches Level II August 24 September 5 12

fiVB Volleyball cooperation Programme calendar - august 09

CouNTrY TYpeDATeS

DAYSFrom To

Burkina Faso VCp Coaches July 27 August 3 8Colombia VCp Coaches July 30 August 6 8Kenya VCp Coaches August 3 August 10 8Botswana VCp Coaches August 10 August 16 7Malawi VCp Teachers August 17 August 21 5

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The FIVB has released a list of new international Volleyball referees, authorized by the Board of Administration. The rel-evant National Federations have already been notified. The list follows:

fiVB publishes list of newly approved international referees

Simone Santi (ITA) is an inspiration to other new referees

ALG Reda BOUZIDIALG Kassama EL HOCINEALG Lotfi FARRAHBIH Emir MULICBRA Andreson CACADORBRA Ivan CARDOSOBRN Abbas ABDULREDABUL Dobromir DOBREVBUL Chavdar MAREVBUL Kiril STOYANOVCAN Gregory ROUAULTCHN Gou MINGCHN Tao ZHANGCMR Marthe Clémence EYIKECMR Felix GOMCHICOL Jorge Ernesto ERAZO MALDONADOCUB José PARDO PEÑACZE Zdenek GRABOVSKYEGY Ms. Taghreed KHATABESA Eduardo Antonio PAIZ LOPEZEST Tiit KOIVFER Jan HENTZEFIN Sari KOLEHMAINENFRA Olivier GUILLETGDP Nicolas BENJAMINGER Jorg KELLENBERGERGUA Edwin Giovanni MORATAYAIND Anil D. GIRAMIND Karuna Nidhan PARMANIK

IRI Ahmad SARMASTIRI Maoud ZOWGHIITA Giorgio GNANIJPN Masato ONOKAZ Kuatbek AIDARBEKOVKAZ Irina KABULBEKOVAKOR Seo-Kyu KIMKOR Park Ki SUKKUW Ali AL USTAZKUW Naif AL-HUMAIDANLAT Salvis KURTISSLTU Audrius GARGASASLBA Alrefaai ABDELSALAMLBA Hussein ELBURKYMAC Ms. Rita LAU HO IANMAR Khalid NOURDINEMAS Azmi Abdul RAHMANMDV Mohamed SOLAHMEX José Roberto LUNA AMEZCUAMEX Saul SOSANED Ben DOGGENNED Gert REICHARDTNEP Gautam PRASAD LASIWANOR Lars RYDLANDPER Jorge Fernando ALVAREZ FARRONANPER Luis HUAYLINOS VALERDEPER Walter VERA MECHANPOL Klehr GREEGORE

club World cup to incorporate Golden formulaThe FIVB and Qatari organizers have agreed to apply the Golden Formula rule at the FIVB Men’s Club World Volleyball Championship, which is re-turning to the international circuit after a 17-year-hiatus this November 3-8 in Doha, Qatar.The Golden Formula playing system requires that the first attack for each team begin from the back row in an attempt to produce longer rallies.While it will be the first time for the FIVB to adopt the rule, it will be business as usual for Qatar, who-se national competitions have incorporated the Golden Formula to great success in recent years.The Club World Championship will feature eight of the world’s best Volleyball clubs: Italy’s Trentino Volley, Egypt’s Zamalek, Iran’s Payakan, Qatar’s Al Arabi Doha, Poland’s PGE Skra Belchatow, Russia’s Dinamo Kazan, Puerto Rico’s Corozal and the team from CSV to be determined at a later date.

POL Tomasz JANIKPOL Marek LAGIERSKIPOL Katarzyna SOKOLPOR Vitor Alexandre GONCALVESPUR Hector ORTIZROU Florin DIMACHIROU Alin MATEIZERRUS Evgeny MAKSHANOVRUS Kirill NESTERENKORUS Alexey PASHKEVICHSIN Yen Kwong HOSLO Anton PEVCSMR Marco SGROSRB Vladimir SIMONOVICSUD Ms. Zobida Mohammad Adam AHMEDSUD Elhaitham Zein Elabdein MOHAMED FADLALLASUI Sascha STANISICSUI Christian WOLFSWE Magnus HAGSTROMSWE Marcus HEMMESWE Martin STENBOCKTHA Cherdchai CHAICHANDEETHA Watchara DOKTAKIANTUN Nejib HACHICHATUN Foued SAIDATUN Mohamed Naceur TOUNSIUAE Ahmed MUBARAK ALSUWADIVEN Carlos Alberto GONZALEZ

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News & Calendar

DATeS eVeNT CouNTrY orG. M/W

2009 Global calendar - competitions and events - Volleyball & Beach Volleyball

Jul 27/Aug 2 SWATCH FIVB World Tour Grand Slam Klagenfurt, Austria FIVB M/W

Jul 31/Aug 2 FIVB World Grand prix – 1st preliminary round Brazil, Poland, China FIVB W

Jul 31/Aug 9 FIVB Men’s Junior Volleyball World Championship Pune, India FIVB M

Jul 31/Aug 9 u-20 Caribbean Championship (CAZoVA) Guadeloupe NORCECA W

Jul 31/Aug 9 u-21 Caribbean Championship (CAZoVA) Guadeloupe NORCECA M

Aug 3-9 SWATCH FIVB World Tour open Stare Jablonki, Poland FIVB M/W

Aug 6-9 CeV Beach Volleyball Satellite Vaduz, Liechtenstein CEV M/W

Aug 7-9 FIVB World Grand prix – 2nd preliminary round Chinese Taipei, China, Japan

FIVB W

Aug 7-9 CeV World Championship Tournament Tampere, Finland CEV M

Aug 10-12 CSV World Championship Tournament Guarico, Venezuela CSV M

Aug 10-16 SWATCH FIVB World Tour open Kristiansand, Norway FIVB M/W

Aug 13-16 2009 - u23 european Beach Volleyball Championships Yantarniy, Russia CEV M/W

Aug 14-16 FIVB World Grand prix – 3rd preliminary round China, Korea, Thailand FIVB W

Aug 14-16 AVC World Championship Tournament Chengdu, China AVC M

Aug 14-16 CAVB World Championship Tournament Tunis, Tunisia CAVB M

Aug 14-16 CeV World Championship Tournament Varna, Bulgaria CEV M

Aug 14-16 CeV World Championship Tournament Gdynia City, Poland CEV M

Aug 14-16 CeV World Championship Tournament Serbia (TBD) CEV M

Aug 14-16 Norceca World Championship Tournament Havana, Cuba NORCECA M

Aug 15-17 Norceca World Championship Tournament Irvine, USA NORCECA M

Aug 14-21 South American Championship Bogotá, Colombia CSV M

Aug 16-21 CAVB World Championship Tournament Cairo, Egypt CAVB M

Aug 17-23 SWATCH FIVB World Tour open Aland, Finland FIVB M/W

Aug 19-23 FIVB World Grand prix – Final round Tokyo, Japan FIVB W

Aug 19-23 2009 SWATCH FIVB Youth World Championships Alanya, Turkey FIVB M/W

Aug 21-23 CAVB World Championship Tournament Yaounde, Cameroon CAVB M

Aug 24-30 SWATCH FIVB World Tour open The Hague, Netherlands FIVB M/W

Aug 26-29 2009 - u20 european Beach Volleyball Championships

Kos, Greece CEV M/W

Aug 28-30 AVC World Championship Tournament Komaki, Japan AVC M

Aug 28-30 CSV World Championship Tournament San Luis, Argentina CSV M

Aug 28-30 Norceca World Championship Tournament Tijuana, Guadalajara, Mexico

NORCECA M/W

Aug 28/Sep 6 FIVB Boys Youth Volleyball World Championship Jesolo, Bassano, Italy FIVB M

Sep 3-13 2009 Men's european Championships Final round Izmir and Istanbul, Turkey CEV M

Sep 5-13 15th Asian Senior Women’s Volleyball Championship Vietnam AVC W

Sep 8-14 Women´s Final Four Araraquara, Brazil CSV W

Sep 8-13 SWATCH FIVB World Tour open Barcelona, Spain FIVB W

Sep 8-15 u-20 Central American Championship Belize NORCECA W

Sep 9-13 european Championship Tour – english Masters Blackpool, England CEV M/W

Sep 12-24 XVI Games Bolivarianos Sucre, Bolivia CSV M/W

Sep 16-19 european Championship Final Sochi, Russia CEV M/W

Sep 16-20 2009 SWATCH FIVB Junior World Championships Blackpool, England FIVB M/W

Sep 18-27 15th Asian Senior Men’s Volleyball Championship Philippines AVC M

Sep 19-28 America’s Cup Brazil NORCECA M

Sep 20-28 Norceca’s Continental Championship Bayamon, Puerto Rico NORCECA W

Sep 25/Oct 4 2009 Women's european Championships Final round

Lodz, Wroclaw, Bydgoszcz, Katowice, Poland

CEV W

Sep 27/Oct 4 2009 African Nations Championship – Senior Men Casablanca, Morocco CAVB M

Sep 28/Oct 4 Women’s South American Championship Porto Alegre, Brazil CSV W

Wei visits Bulgaria On an invitation from Bulgarian Vol-leyball Federation President Dancho Lazarov, FIVB Presi-dent Jizhong Wei

and his wife paid a three-day visit to Bulgaria in July to attend a number of honorary events and 2009 World League clashes between Bulgaria and Cuba. Wei was met by Head of State Georgi Parvanov and was decorated with the Honorary Presidential Sign for his special contribution to the de-velopment of Volleyball in Bulgaria and around the world. Photo: The FIVB President unveils a me-morial plaque at the Vasil Levski Nation-al Stadium in Sofia where Volleyball was accepted as an Olympic sport in 1957.

Brazil wins Pan am cup Olympic champions Brazil claimed their second Women’s Pan American Cup

crown with a convincing straight-sets victory (25-18, 25-20, 25-14) over the Dominican Republic in the gold medal match at the University of Miami on July 6. Brazil’s last Pan American title came in 2006 when the competition took place in Puerto Rico. Dominican Republic was the defending tourna-ment champion.

Medvedev visits VfRJuly 24 was a special day for the Volleyball Federa-tion of Russia. It was the day Dmitry Medvedev, President of the Russian Federation, visited the head office of the Rus-

sian Volleyball Federation under invita-tion from VFR President Nikolay Patrush-ev. Medvedev visited the newly opened Volleyball Museum and showed great interest in every detail of the sport.

faReWellS

fiVB mourns Ha The FIVB and Asian Volleyball families mourned the passing of Vietnamese Ha Manh Thu, the key person be-hind the significant de-velopment of Volleyball

in Vietnam. Ha died of intestinal can-cer at the age of 70. A former secretary-general of the Volleyball Federation of Vietnam and member of the AVC Board of Administration Committee, Ha dedicated his life to the develop-ment of Vietnamese Volleyball.

QuickSets

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MOltenIV5XC (MTV5SLIT) (colour, synthetic leather)

GalaBV 5091S (colour, synthetic leather)

QuinGDaO-SYnSHeen“Star” VB 215-34 (colour, synthetic leather)

fiVB inSPecteD VOlleYBall BallS

MiKaSa SV-2 School

MiKaSa Vp500 park Volley

BeacH VOlleYBall BallS

MiKaSaVLS 200 (colour) Beach

exclusive game ball for all FIVB Competitions incl. oG 2008

MOltenBV5000 (colour) Beach

caMBuci “penalty”

Beach Volley pro

HOMOlOGateD POStS, PaDS, antennae, netS, RefeReeS’ cHaiRS

SenOHposts, pads, nets with antennae & referees’ chairs are exclusive for all FIVB Competitions incl. oG 2012

SHOeS anD unifORMS

aDiDaS Shoes & uniforms

aSicS Shoes & uniforms

cHaMPiOn Uniforms

DacaPO Uniforms

DeScente Shoes & uniforms

GRanDSPORt Uniforms

MiKaSa UniformsInternational referees supplier for Volleyball

MiZunO Shoes & uniforms

niKe Shoes & uniforms

OlYMPiKuS Shoes & uniforms

fiVB aPPROVeD SYntHetic SPORtS flOORS

taRafleXexclusive for all FIVB Competitions incl. oG 2012

taRafleXTaraflex Sport M plus (7 mm thickness colour Teal 6431 and Coral 6146) over wood sub floors or synthetic sub floors

Taraflex Sport performance plus (9 mm thickness same colours as above) over concrete sub floors

MOnDOMoNDoFLeX Blue Laguna H23 + rose Flamingo H41

fiVB RecOMMenDeD SYntHetic SPORtS flOORS

taRafleXTArAFLeX Sport M plus(7 mm thickness colour Teal 6431and Coral 6146)

MOnDOMoNDoSporT Hp-e pVC indoor floor Blue Laguna H23 + rose Flamingo H41

DeScOlpuLASTIC Combi, 2000 and ZS

national federations are requested to select material from the list of the fiVB approved sports material