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TORONTO, Canada, July 11, 2015. – The Beach Volleyball
tournament of the Toronto 2015 XVIII Pan American Games starts
on Monday July 13 at the Chevrolet Beach Volleyball Centre
generating high expectations with the best teams of the American
continent.
The competition presents a total of 32 teams representing 19
countries qualified in accordance to the Pan American Volleyball
Union regulations, with the top ten teams of the NORCECA
Confederation ranking, the top five of the South American
Volleyball Confederation and the host country.
The competition format, team distribution, regulations and
general details were presented during the general technical
meeting that was conducted by Cristobal Marte Hoffiz, 1st FIVB
Vice President, with the attendance of the representative of the
Pan American Sports Association “PASO”,
control committee and organizing committee members, athletes,
delegates, coaches and referees.
Marte Hoffiz addressed the athletes, “beach volleyball is the
major attraction of the Pan Am Games, you are the heart of the
Pan American Park here in Toronto and hundreds of volunteers as
well as technical international and local officers are here to
provide the necessary support for your successful performance”.
He also praised the wonderful performance of Brazil at the past
FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships.
Teams will be competing in a preliminary pool-play round, in
which the top pool winners advance to the quarterfinals, while
second and third placed teams will compete in a playoff for the
quarterfinals. Winners of the quarter-finals advance to the
semifinals and final matches. There will be a classification
round for the 5th to 16th places.
Pool composition in the women’s division is:
Pool A
Canada, Uruguay, Puerto Rico, Cayman Islands
Pool B
Brazil, Costa Rica, Chile, Nicaragua
Pool C
United States, Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador
Pool D
Argentina, Mexico, Cuba, Trinidad and Tobago.
Pool composition in the men’s division is:
Pool A
Canada, Uruguay, Guatemala, Nicaragua
Pool B
Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, Aruba
Pool C
United States, Argentina, Cuba, St. Lucia
Pool D
Chile, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, El Salvador
Monday’s schedule begins at 9:00 (local time) with Liliane
Maestrini and Carol Maximo of Brazil facing Elia Machado and
Lolette Rodriguez of Nicaragua; followed by Karen Copa and
Natalia Alfaro of Costa Rica against Chile’s Francisca Rivas and
Pilar Mardones, both of the women’s division
Women’s Teams
Ana Gallay/Georgina Klug (ARG), Liliane Maestrini/Carol Maximo (BRA),
Melissa Humana-Paredes/Taylor Pischke (CAN), Chante
Smith-Johnson/Ileann Powery (CAY), Francisca Rivas/Pilar
Mardones (CHI), Andrea Galindo/Claudia Galindo (COL), Karen Cope/Natalia
Alfaro (CRC), Lianma Flores/Leila Martinez (CUB), Ivonne
Soler/Laura Molina (ESA), Maria Jose Orellana/Blanca Recinos (GUA),
Martha Revuelta/Bibiana Candelas (MEX), Elia Machado/Lolette
Rodriguez (NCA), Lina Bernier/Eva Torruella (PUR), Ayana Dyette/Malika
Davidson (TTO), Eugenia Nieto/Fabiana Gomez (URU), Kelley
Larsen/Betsi Metter (USA),
Men’s Teams
Ian Mehamed/Nicolas Capogrosso (ARG), Eargenell Decuba/Daniel
Mitchel (ARU), Alvaro Morais/Victor Felipe (BRA), Josh Binstock/Sam
Schachter (CAN), Marcos Grimalt/ Esteban Grimalt (CHI), Nivaldo
Diaz/Sergio Gonzalez (CUB), Carlos Escobar/David Vargas (ESA),
Julio Recinos/Luis Garcia (GUA), Lombardo Ontiveros/Juan Virgen
(MEX), Ruben Mora/Gerson Contreras (NCA), Roberto Rodriguez/Erick
Haddock (PUR), Julian Bissette/Joseph Clercent (LCA), Daniel
Williams/Fabian Whitfield (TTO), Renzo Cairus/Mauricio Vieyto
(URU), Ian Satterfield/Miles Evans (USA), Jackson Henriquez/Jesus
Villafañe (VEN) |
