Dries Koekelkoren

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Dries Koekelkoren Volleyball (beach)
portrait
birthday May 25, 1988
place of birth Herk-de-Stad, Belgium
size 1.93 m
partner 2010 Tom van Walle
2013 Aljosa Urnaut
since 2014 Tom van Walle
World ranking Position 14
successes
2017 - Winner of the CEV Masters Baden
(As of July 17, 2017)

Dries Koekelkoren (born May 25, 1988 in Herk-de-Stad ) is a Belgian beach volleyball player .

Career

Koekelkoren played internationally for the first time in 2010 with Tom van Walle . When CEV -Satellite tournament in Lausanne , the duo finished in 17th place and in The Hague Open the two Belgians for their first tournament at the stepped FIVB World Tour at. In 2013 Koekelkoren was active on the national tour with Aljosa Urnaut . In 2014 he won two national tournaments with van Walle in Hechtel and Kortrijk . With Robin Adriaensen he finished ninth at a tournament of the WEVZA (Western European Volleyball Zonal Association) in Palermo and 17th place at the satellite tournament in Jūrmala . At the CEV Masters in the same place, he was reunited with van Walle in 2015 and finished ninth. Then Koekelkoren / van Walle played further WEVZA tournaments, where they came second in Rome and Montpellier after a fifth place in Barcelona . In between, they took part in their first Grand Slam in Saint Petersburg . After a fourth and third place in the satellite tournaments in Vaduz and Skopje , another Grand Slam followed in Olsztyn . After a fifth place at the CEV Masters in Milan , Koekelkoren / van Walle completed four open tournaments in 2015. They rose from 17th place in Xiamen to ninth place in Puerto Vallarta to fifth place in Antalya , before finishing ninth again in Qatar .

Koekelkoren / van Walle also started 2016 on the World Tour with a ninth place at the Kisch Open. After two weaker appearances in Brazil, they were ninth in Doha . At the following FIVB tournaments they did not make it into the top ten. At the 2016 European Championships in Biel / Bienne , they won one of three preliminary round games, but were eliminated as the bottom of the group. Then they finished 17th at the major tournament in Hamburg . At the satellite tournament in Vaduz they only had to admit defeat to the Swiss Beeler / Strasser in the final. After double-digit results at the Klagenfurt Major and the Grand Slam in Long Beach , they achieved another top ten result as fourth in the CEV Masters in Jūrmala.

At the first tournament of the World Tour 2017 in Fort Lauderdale (five stars) they were eliminated early. After that, they played some three-star tournaments, but after fifth place in Kisch they did not get beyond 17th places. They were more successful at the CEV Masters in Baden ; there they celebrated their first international tournament victory with a final victory against the Austrians Doppler / Horst . In the FIVB series they reached ninth place after an early exit in Poreč at the tournament in Gstaad (both five stars).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FIVB world rankings (as of July 17, 2017)
  2. ↑ Koekelkoren and van Walle claim historic gold for Belgium at Baden Masters. CEV, June 25, 2017, accessed on July 17, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Koekelkoren, Dries
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian beach volleyball player
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Herk-de-Stad , Belgium