Freedom Chiya

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Freedom Chiya Volleyball (beach)
portrait
birthday July 11, 1979
place of birth Cape Town, South Africa
partner 2004 Alwie Lester
2005 Andile Masinga
2007 Gershon Rorich
2011–2013 Grant Goldschmidt
successes
2011 - Winner Pan-African Games
2012 - Olympic participant
(As of May 31, 2013)

Freedom Chiya (born July 11, 1979 in Cape Town ) is a South African beach volleyball player .

Career

Chiya started his career in indoor volleyball and played for the national team . In 2004 he completed an FIVB beach tournament for the first time with Alwie Lester in his hometown and finished 41st. In the same tournament in 2005, he improved to 25th place alongside Andile Masinga . After a year without international appearances, he joined Gershon Rorich at the Fortaleza Open in 2007 and reached 33rd place. From 2008 to 2010 he was again inactive internationally.

Chiya has formed a duo with Grant Goldschmidt since 2011 . In September Goldschmidt / Chiya won the beach volleyball tournament of the Africa Games in Maputo by beating a duo from Angola in the final . In 2012 they played at the Prague Open and the Grand Slams in Berlin and Gstaad without taking up any front seats. The two South Africans achieved another success in April 2012 when they won the Continental Cup and qualified for the Olympic Games in London . There they could not win a set in their three group games and were eliminated after the preliminary round.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Profile in the Beach Volleyball Database (English)
  2. ^ Mark Etheridge: Gold for Grant, Freedom. (No longer available online.) Roadtorio.co.za, September 14, 2011, archived from the original on December 17, 2013 ; accessed on May 31, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.roadtorio.co.za
  3. ^ South African men claim Olympic Games berth. FIVB, April 16, 2012, accessed on May 31, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Chiya, Freedom
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African beach volleyball player
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Cape Town , South Africa