A day after the end of the second stop of the Russian national tour the next of three events scheduled for this week – the EEVZA U-18 Beach Volleyball Championships – did start yesterday in the Kaliningrad Region.
This is the very first time ever that such a competition is being held and the organization was allotted to the Russian Volleyball Federation. The venue is the city of Yantarniy, located in the Kaliningrad region. This tournament in Russia will be the main rehearsal for a flurry of young athletes before the 2010 CEV U-18 European Championships which are set to run in early August in Porto.
A total of five and six teams did register for the women’s and men’s competition respectively. Apart from the hosting country, Estonia, Belarus and Latvia are also represented in Yantarniy. According to the competition formula, boys and girls will play a round robin and then matches for the gold and bronze medals will be held. The medalists of the first ever EEVZA U18 Championships will be known on July 21.
On Tuesday, each team had to play two or three matches. To the delight of the local audience, the leaders after the first competition day were representatives of the Russian team. In the boys’ division Kiriyenko and Andrianov did not suffer any single defeat, as did also Narmania/Poltoranina among the girls, as they also won three games in a row. Two more couples did also show pretty good results, namely Korovka/Zhirkov and Sorokina/Dabija. Both teams added to their score two victories and one defeat. The same results were clipped by Latvians Pekmanish/Natrinsh. The Baltic athletes beat their teammates Buyvids/Andersons, as well as the Estonian team Soo/Järv, losing only to the leaders Kiriyenko/Andrianov.
This is the very first time ever that such a competition is being held and the organization was allotted to the Russian Volleyball Federation. The venue is the city of Yantarniy, located in the Kaliningrad region. This tournament in Russia will be the main rehearsal for a flurry of young athletes before the 2010 CEV U-18 European Championships which are set to run in early August in Porto.
A total of five and six teams did register for the women’s and men’s competition respectively. Apart from the hosting country, Estonia, Belarus and Latvia are also represented in Yantarniy. According to the competition formula, boys and girls will play a round robin and then matches for the gold and bronze medals will be held. The medalists of the first ever EEVZA U18 Championships will be known on July 21.
On Tuesday, each team had to play two or three matches. To the delight of the local audience, the leaders after the first competition day were representatives of the Russian team. In the boys’ division Kiriyenko and Andrianov did not suffer any single defeat, as did also Narmania/Poltoranina among the girls, as they also won three games in a row. Two more couples did also show pretty good results, namely Korovka/Zhirkov and Sorokina/Dabija. Both teams added to their score two victories and one defeat. The same results were clipped by Latvians Pekmanish/Natrinsh. The Baltic athletes beat their teammates Buyvids/Andersons, as well as the Estonian team Soo/Järv, losing only to the leaders Kiriyenko/Andrianov.
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