FIVB World Tour 1990/91

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The FIVB World Tour 1990/91 consisted of four events. To the host countries of beach volleyball tournament series of the 1989-90 season Italy , Japan and Brazil came France added.

Tournaments

Sète

The French Open took place from July 27-29, 1990. Eighteen beach couples were at the start, including for the first time a German team with Thomas Brall and Jan Fell, which reached seventh place and received US $ 1,228 in prize money. In total, just over 30,000 US dollars were distributed. Five participating teams came from the host country, two each from the United States , Brazil and Italy. The remaining participants were from Austria , Switzerland , Spain , Denmark , Australia and Japan.

The Brazilians Andre Lima and Guilherme Marques were the winners, ahead of the Americans John Eddo and Sean Fallowfield, with Robert Lopes and Franco Neto, another Brazilian couple, taking third place. The best Europeans were the French Jean-Philippe Jodard and Christian Penigaud in fourth place.

gold Silver bronze 4th Place 5th place 6th place 7th place 8th place
Brazil 1968BrazilAndrè Perlin / Guilherme United StatesUnited States Eddo / Fallowfield Brazil 1968Brazil Roberto Lopes / Franco FranceFrance Jodard / Penigaud ItalyItaly Lequaglie / Solustri FranceFranceGlowacz / Kvalheim GermanyGermany Brall / fur SpainSpain Galan / Vicedo

Lignano

The Italian Open started on August 1st and ended on August 5th, 1990. Twenty beach couples competed. The prize money was at the same level as last year at US $ 50,000, of which US gold medalists Tim Hovland and Kent Steffes each received US $ 6000 . Like France, their compatriots John Eddo and Sean Fallowfield came in second, while Brazilians Eduardo Garrida and Roberto Moreira took third place. The Italians Dio Lequaglie and Marco Solustri were the best Europeans in fourth place ahead of another Brazilian couple. Roberto Lopes and Franco Neto could not fully confirm their third place from Sete.

gold Silver bronze 4th Place 5th place 6th place 7th place 8th place
United StatesUnited StatesHovland / Steffes United StatesUnited States Eddo / Fallowfield Brazil 1968Brazil Garrida / Moreira ItalyItaly Lequaglie / Solustri Brazil 1968Brazil Roberto Lopes / Franco ItalyItaly Bastianelli / Fracascia ItalyItaly Budani / Pezzullo ItalyItaly Bertoli / Fullo

Enoshima

Just four days after the end of the Italian tournament, the Japan Open began on August 9th. In three days of the tournament, twelve teams played for a total of 50,000 US dollars in prize money, of which the winners Leif Hanson and Eric Wurts from the United States received 12,000 dollars. The second-placed Al Janc and Tim Walmer also came from the USA, the bronze medal went to the Italians Dio Lequaglie and Marco Solustri, followed by the French Philippe Blain and Alain Fabiani and the Brazilians Roberto Lopes and Franco Neto in fourth and fifth. The only Korean participants, Park Hyung-Yong and Man-Soo Kang, were eighth ahead of the best Japanese Shoji Setoyama and Kazuyuki Takao and thus also the best Asians ahead of two other Japanese and one Chinese couple.

gold Silver bronze 4th Place 5th place 6th place 7th place 8th place
United StatesUnited States Hanson / Wurts United StatesUnited States Janc / Walmer ItalyItaly Lequaglie / Solustri FranceFrance Blain / Fabiani Brazil 1968Brazil Roberto Lopes / Franco Brazil 1968Brazil Garrida / Moreira Soviet UnionSoviet Union Kuwitschka / Sagorskij Korea SouthSouth Korea Hyung-Yong / Kang

Rio de Janeiro

As in the previous year, the World Series ended with the tournament in Rio, which this time took place from February 12 to 23, 1991. As in 1990, twenty-two pairs of participants competed for victory at the Brazil Open in 1991 and the top three places were teams from the same nations in the same order as last year. Stoklos / Smith won the tournament on Sugar Loaf for the third time in a row and relegated their American compatriots Tim Hovland, who this time competed with Kent Steffes, to second place. The bronze medal went to Andre Lima and Guilherme Marques, two players from the host's country. Behind Mike Dodd (this time with Jon Stevenson) from the United States, four more of a total of eight Brazilian teams started fifth to eighth.

gold Silver bronze 4th Place 5th place 6th place 7th place 8th place
United StatesUnited States Smith / Stoklos United StatesUnited StatesHovland / Steffes Brazil 1968BrazilAndrè Perlin / Guilherme United StatesUnited States Dodd / Stevenson Brazil 1968Brazil Roberto Lopes / Franco Brazil 1968Brazil Marlos / Tullio Brazil 1968Brazil Edinho / Tinoco Brazil 1968Brazil Clovis / Atila

Awards

FIVB Tour Champion Randy Stoklos / Sinjin Smith

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.bvbinfo.com/Tournament.asp?ID=450
  2. ↑ http://www.bvbinfo.com/Tournament.asp?ID=452
  3. ↑ http://www.bvbinfo.com/Tournament.asp?ID=454
  4. ↑ http://www.bvbinfo.com/Tournament.asp?ID=459