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While in Czech Republic for the FIVB Volleyball Women’s U20 World Championship, the U.S. Women’s Junior National Volleyball Team passed time waiting for the bus by playing electronic charades.
Follow the inspirational stories of three athletes as they compete in sitting volleyball at the 2013 Warrior Games. The Warrior Games give ill and injured service members and veterans a chance to be competitive again.
Brazil’s Pedro Solberg and Bruno Oscar Schmidt defeated Corrientes champions Janis Smedins and Aleksandrs Samoilovs to win their first team gold on Sunday at the Transavia The Hague Grand Slam. For Bruno it was his second final in The Hague, in 2010 he won silver with Benjamin Insfran.
In an all-Brazilian final Talita Antunes and Taiana Lima claimed their second gold medal this season. The Shanghai champions defeated Maria Clara and Carolina Salgado in two sets (21-16 21-13) at the Transavia The Hague Grand Slam.
Poland’s Grzegorz Fijalek and Mariusz Prudel defeated Austrian qualifiers Alexander Huber and Robin Seidl on Sunday in two sets (21-18 21-16) to win the bronze medal at the Transavia The Hague Grand Slam. It is their first medal since Berlin last July, where they claimed bronze as well.
Katrin Holtwick and Ilka Semmler claimed the first medal for Germany in four World Tour events in the Netherlands. The German team won the bronze medal match against Dutch Jantine van der Vlist and Marloes Wesslink at the Transavia The Hague Grand Slam.
Karch Kiraly, head coach of the U.S. Women’s National Volleyball Team and three-time Olympic Games gold medalist, peppers with Peruvian youth during the team’s trip to Peru for the 2013 Women’s Pan American Cup.
Interview with Brazil’s Pedro Solberg and Bruno Oscar Schmidt after their semifinal
Smedins/Samoilovs reached the final of the Grand Slam in The Hague. The Latvian couple won in two easy sets against Austria’s Huber/Seidl.
Smedins/Samoilovs reach the finals of the grand slam in The Hague. They Latvian couple won in two sets of Huber/Seidl.
This weekend not only the beach volleyball professionals were gathered at the Scheveningen beach. Recreational players enjoyed playing themselves and watched the Transavia The Hague Grand Slam inbetween their own matches.
Alexander Huber and Robin Seidl came all the way from qualification to reach the semifinals of the Transavia The Hague Grand Slam on Saturday. The Austrian team defeated Poland’s Michal Kadziola and Jakub Szalankiewicz in three sets (15-21 21-17 15-11) in the quarterfinal.
Interview with Brazil’s Emanuel Rego after he and Alison Cerutti beat Italy’s Daniele Lupo and Paolo Nicolai.
Dutch player Jon Stiekema had to withdrew from the Transavia The Hague Grand Slam due to a foot injury. He had just recovered from a broken finger ……………….
Interview with Brazil’s Talita Antunes on Thursday after she and Taiana Lima defeated Spain’s Elsa Baquerizo and Lilliana Fernandez
Dutch school children had the chance to meet their beachvolleybal heroes Alexander Brouwer and Robert Meeuwsen on Thursday at the Transavia The Hague Grand Slam.
Bas van de Goor, tournament director of the Transavia The Hague Grand Slam, talks about his diabetes foundation.
You can play beach volleyball on the beach, or just in the middle of a city. That’s what the promoter of the Transavia The Hague Grand Slam thought. Next to the Dutch parliament building in the city centre of The Hague they built court number four.