Alison Cerutti

Alison Cerutti
on the FIVB World Tour in Prague 2011
portrait
birthday	7th December 1985
place of birth	Vitória, Brazil
size	2.03 m
partner	2006 Harley Marques 2007–2008 Bernardo Romano 2008 Pedro Cunha 2009 Harley Marques 2010–2013 Emanuel Rego 2014–2018 Bruno Oscar Schmidt 2018 André Loyola Stein since 2019 Álvaro Morais Filho
World ranking	Position 10
successes
2009 - Vice World Champion 2009 - World Tour Champion 2011 - World Champion 2011 - World Tour Champion 2011 - Winner Pan-American Games 2012 - Olympic Silver 2013 - World Cup Winner 2014 - Winner South American Games 2015 - World Champion 2015 - World Tour Champion 2016 - Olympic Champion
(As of July 22, 2019)

Alison Conte Cerutti (born December 7, 1985 in Vitória , Espírito Santo ) is a Brazilian beach volleyball player . He became world champion in 2011 and 2015. In 2016 he won the Olympic gold medal after losing the final four years earlier.

Career

Alison first played indoor volleyball before joining beach volleyball as a training partner of José Loiola at the age of 16 . In the beginning he felt clumsy himself and was nicknamed "Mammoth" after a character from the movie Ice Age . In October 2006 played his first tournaments on the FIVB World Tour with Harley Marques . After the duo in Vitória was still defeated in the "Country Quota", they finished ninth at the Acapulco Open. With Bernardo Romano , Alison was third at the Challenger tournament in Cyprus in 2007 and reached the peloton in Åland . Alison / Romano succeeded in doing this in Stare Jabłonki the following year . They then successively won the Challenger tournaments in Brno and Pärnu and the satellite tournament in Lausanne . At the Grand Slam in Gstaad , Alison played with Emanuel Rego and came third. With Bernardo Romano he finished ninth in Guarujá . The last two tournaments of the year he completed with Pedro Cunha . After a fifth place in Dubai , Alison / Pedro won the Manama Open against the French Andy and Kevin Cès .

In 2009 Alison played again with Harley Marques. At the first tournament in Brasília , Alison / Harley reached the final, which they lost to Emanuel / Ricardo . In the final in Shanghai there was the next Brazilian duel in the final, which they won against Cunha / Solberg . After a third place in Rome they succeeded in Mysłowice against the US duo Matthew Fuerbringer / Jennings the next tournament victory. At the World Championships in Stavanger they reached the quarter-finals without losing a set; with two tie-break victories against Fuerbringer / Jennings and the German duo Klemperer / Koreng they qualified for the final, in which they were defeated by the Germans Brink / Reckermann . In the further course of the World Tour, Alison / Harley stayed in the top ten at all tournaments. They reached another final at the Grand Slam in Klagenfurt against Dalhausser / Rogers . You completed the series as World Tour Champion.

In 2010 Alison played a duo with Emanuel Rego . In the first three tournaments of the World Tour 2010 there was a duel with Rogers / Dalhausser. In Brasília and Rome, the Brazilians lost in the final, in Shanghai they defeated the Americans in the game for third place. After a fourth place in Mysłowice and a ninth place in Moscow , Alison / Emanuel also lost the Prague final against Rogers / Dalhausser. In Gstaad they missed the top ten of an FIVB tournament for the only time in their joint career. Then they were third in Klagenfurt and Kristiansand and fifth in Stare Jabłonki. At the first tournament of the World Tour 2011 they had to admit defeat to Rogers / Dalhausser again in the final. At the Prague Open they managed to get their revenge and in Beijing they won the Grand Slam in the final against Brink / Reckermann. At the World Cup in Rome they reached the semi-finals unbeaten, in which they prevailed against the German defending champions; then they also won the final against Márcio Araújo and Ricardo Santos . After a fifth place in Stavanger, the new world champions continued their winning streak with tournament wins in Gstaad (against Rogers / Dalhausser) and Moscow (against the Swiss Bellaguarda / Heuscher ). Third places were then in Stare Jabłonki and Åland. Alison / Emanuel became World Tour Champion and “Team of the Year” of the FIVB. Alison also received awards for Best Blocker, Best Hitter and Best Offensive Player. In October, Alison / Emanuel won the gold medal at the Pan American Games in Guadalajara in the final against the Venzolaner Hernandez / Mussa .

Alison (right) at the Grand Slam in Moscow 2012

At the start of the 2012 World Tour , they finished seventh in Brasília, fifth in Shanghai and third in Beijing. In Prague they lost the final against Pedro Cunha and Ricardo Santos. They then won the Moscow final against the Dutch Numbersdor / Schuil . In Rome and Gstaad they had to admit defeat to the US duo Gibb / Rosenthal before they could prevail against the same opponent in Berlin . At the Olympic Games in London , for which they had qualified as the best team in the Olympic rankings, they reached the final unbeaten. There they were defeated by the Germans Brink / Reckermann in the tiebreak and thus won the silver medal. With a fifth place in the Grand Slam in Stare Jabłonki they ended the season. On the World Tour 2013 they finished ninth in Corrientes, fifth in The Hague and fourth in Rome. At the World Championships in Stare Jabłonki , Alison / Emanuel reached the semi-finals after six wins in a row, in which they had to admit defeat to their compatriots Ricardo / Filho . They lost the game for third place against the Germans Erdmann / Matysik . Then they reached two fifth and two ninth places. The Grand Slam in São Paulo was their last FIVB tournament together. Alison already completed the Grand Slam in Moscow with Vitor Gonçalves Felipe , before the interim duo won the Grand Slam in Xiamen and finished ninth in Durban .

In 2014 Alison formed a new duo with Bruno Oscar Schmidt , who won the South American Games in Santiago de Chile in March and made it to the final at the Fuzhou Open against the Italians Nicolai / Lupo . With the exception of Shanghai, Alison / Bruno always made it into the top ten on the 2014 World Tour . They finished third in Berlin and were only defeated in Gstaad in the final against Dalhausser / Rosenthal . In the final of the Grand Slam in Klagenfurt, they managed to take revenge against Nicolai / Lupo. The 2015 season started for her with a fourth place in Moscow. After finishing 17th in the Poreč Major, they were ninth twice. At the World Cup in the Netherlands they only gave up one set before the final. They won the final in three sets against the Dutch Numbersdor / Varenhorst . Alison became world champion for the second time. Then Alison / Bruno won the Gstaad Major and the Grand Slams in Yokohama, Long Beach and Olsztyn one after the other . They also won the World Tour Final by beating Dalhausser / Lucena . This made them World Tour Champion and also received the “Team of the Year” award.

At the beginning of the 2016 season , Alison / Bruno won the Vitória Open in the final against Nicolai / Lupo after finishing fifth in Rio de Janeiro . They lost the finals of the Grand Slams in Moscow and Olsztyn against Numberdor / Varenhorst and the Latvians Samoilovs / Šmēdiņš . The next tournament victory they succeeded in Poreč against the Austrian duo Doppler / Horst . As world champions, they were set for the Olympic Games in Rio . There they were group winners despite a defeat against Doppler / Horst. With wins against Herrera / Gavira , Dalhausser / Lucena and the Dutch Brouwer / Robert Meeuwsen , they reached the final, which they won 2-0 against Nicolai / Lupo. At the end of the season, Alison / Bruno were able to repeat their previous year's victory at the World Tour Final in Toronto . At the 2017 World Cup in Vienna , the Brazilians only finished ninth. After the previous great successes also failed to materialize on the World Tour , Alison and Bruno separated in May 2018. Afterwards Alison played alongside André Loyola Stein and since April 2019 with Álvaro Morais Filho .

Web links

Commons : Alison Cerutti  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Profile at the world association FIVB (English)
• Profile in the Beach Volleyball Database (English)
• Alison Cerutti in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FIVB world rankings (as of July 22, 2019)
2. ^ ^{A b} Alison: "Germany has a great future in beach volleyball". beach-volleyball.de, August 3, 2016, accessed on August 20, 2016 .