Grant O'Gorman

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Grant O'Gorman Volleyball (beach)
portrait
birthday 2nd November 1993
place of birth Scarborough, Canada
size 1.89 m
partner 2010–2013 Aaron Nusbaum
2012–2016 Sam Pedlow
2016–2017 Michael Plantinga
since 2017 Ben Saxton
World ranking Position 58
successes
2013 - U21 vice world champion
(As of February 20, 2018)

Grant O'Gorman (born November 2, 1993 in Scarborough ) is a Canadian beach volleyball player .

Career

O'Gorman reached ninth place with Aaron Nusbaum at the U19 World Cup in Porto in 2010 . In 2011 the duo won the bronze medal at the U19 World Cup in Umag . At the Québec Open of the FIVB World Tour , Nusbaum and Sam Pedlow couldn't go beyond the "Country Quota". In 2012, Nusbaum / O'Gorman finished ninth at the U21 World Cup in Halifax . At the U21 World Cup 2013 in Umag, they only had to admit defeat to the Brazilians Guto / Allison in the final.

In 2012, O'Gorman formed a new duo with Sam Pedlow . Pedlow / O'Gorman achieved third place at the NORCECA tournament in Mayagüez . In 2013 they finished sixth and fourth in the continental tournaments in Guatemala City and Toluca . In the Grand Slam of the World Tour 2013 they reached 25th place. Afterwards they were successful on the NORCECA tour with third places in Varadero and Puerto Rico as well as a final in Mazatlán before they finished the Grand Slam in São Paulo again in 25th place. They started the 2014 World Tour with a ninth place at the Fuzhou Open. After that, they initially did not get beyond the rear placements. Only in the NORCECA series did things go better with places three, four and two at the tournaments in Toronto , Varadero and Puerto Rico. At the end of the year Pedlow / O'Gorman came 17th at the Xiamen Open and ninth in Paraná .

For a long time they only achieved double-digit results on the World Tour 2015 , while they achieved third place at the NORCECA tournament in North Bay . Later that year they managed to finish ninth in the Rio de Janeiro Open, fifth in Xiamen and ninth again in Antalya, but still some top ten results. At the NORCECA tournament in Trinidad and Tobago they only had to admit defeat to the US duo Dalhausser / Lucena in the final. At the beginning of 2016, Pedlow / O'Gorman finished fifth in the Kisch Open. In addition to some weaker results, they finished four ninth on the 2016 World Tour and another fifth at the Cincinnati Open. In Olsztyn they finished ninth again. Then they earned another starting place for Canada at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro at the Continental Cup in Sochi , which, however, was taken by their rivals Binstock / Schachter . Ninth place at the Grand Slam in Long Beach was their last joint result on the tour.

At the NORCECA tournament in November 2016, O'Gorman and his new partner Michael Plantinga took on sixth place. On the 2017 World Tour , O'Gorman / Plantinga started with a ninth place in Fort Lauderdale (five-star tournament) and then had mostly double-digit placements.

O'Gorman has been playing alongside Ben Saxton since the end of 2017 . At their first joint tournament on the FIVB World Tour in Sydney , the Canadians took first place.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FIVB world rankings (as of February 19, 2018)
  2. ↑ Canadian men claim Olympic ticket in Sochi. FIVB, July 10, 2016, accessed on February 20, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Beach volleyball star from Barrie sets sights on the next Olympics. simcoe.com, July 25, 2016, accessed February 20, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Annika Schultz: "I wanted to win!" beach-volleyball.de, December 29, 2017, accessed on February 20, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME O'Gorman, Grant
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian beach volleyball player
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd November 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Scarborough , Canada