Norceca will keep qualifying format in Beach Voleyball for Buenos Aires 2018

TIJUANA, México, January 14 2015 - After de big success for the participation of the Norceca zone teams at the Youth Olympic Games of Nanjing 2014, the Confederation informed that will keep the same classification format to Buenos Aires 2018.

Beach Volleyball had a lot of acceptation by the fans at the Olympic Park in China. The Norceca concluded with a podium after the silver medal won by the Canadian sistes Megan and Nicole McNamara.

“The process must be the same as 2013 and 2014,” said President Cristobal Marte Hoffiz. “We must begin in 2017 and the finals in  2018, just a little time before the Games.”

The cultural component is key for the success, and the Confederation has supported a lot the work done in terms of development also to promote beach volleyball among the new generations.

“We showed it in Nanjing 2014 with Saint Lucia, for example, and now we look forward that the other small countries have their chance. They must work close with their Olympic Committees,” Marte Hoffiz added.

During the preliminary cycle to Nanjing, ther were some qualification dates and the winning couples at every stop in both genders claimed their tickets to the Youth Olympic Games and also there was a final repechage. “It is a fact that with a very low resources, we can achieve very great results,” the commission members remarked.