Grant Goldschmidt

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Grant Goldschmidt Volleyball (beach)
portrait
birthday April 16, 1983
place of birth Cape Town, South Africa
size 1.94 m
partner 2005 Jerome Fredericks
2008 Gershon Rorich
2011–2013 Freedom Chiya
successes
2011 - Winner Pan-African Games
2012 - Olympic participant
(As of May 31, 2013)

Grant Goldschmidt (born April 16, 1983 in Cape Town ) is a South African beach volleyball player .

Career

Goldschmidt began his career in indoor volleyball and played for the national team . In 2005 he took part with Jerome Fredericks for the first time in a beach tournament of the FIVB and finished 25th. After he had not competed internationally in the following two years, he formed a duo with Gershon Rorich in 2008 . Goldschmidt / Rorich completed four open tournaments in Europe and finished 41st and 57th. However , Goldschmidt missed qualifying for the Olympic Games in Beijing due to an injury. In 2009 and 2010 he was again not active in international tournaments.

Since 2011 he has formed a duo with Freedom Chiya . 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. ↑ Goldschmidt at FIVB Heroes  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.fivbheroes.com  
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ South African men claim Olympic Games berth. FIVB, April 16, 2012, accessed on May 31, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Goldschmidt, Grant
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African beach volleyball player
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Cape Town , South Africa