Marco Grimalt

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Marco Grimalt Volleyball (beach)
Marco Grimalt
2011 in Santiago de Chile
portrait
birthday July 11, 1989
place of birth Queilen, Chile
size 1.95 m
partner since 2011 Esteban Grimalt
World ranking Position 9
successes
2013 - World Cup participant
2015 - World Cup participant
2016 - Olympic participant
2017 - World Cup participant
2019 - Victory FIVB 3-star Sydney
2019 - Victory FIVB 4-star Doha
(As of March 18, 2019)

Marco Grimalt (born July 11, 1989 in Queilen ) is a Chilean beach volleyball player .

Career

Marco Grimalt has been playing with his cousin Esteban Grimalt since 2011 . The coach is her uncle Rodrigo Grimalt , who participated in the 1997 World Cup . The Grimalt cousins ​​took part in a tournament of the FIVB World Tour for the first time at the Brasília Open 2011 . In the same year they played in Åland and The Hague . In 2012 they were again represented in Brasília. In 2013 they achieved some success on the continental tour. After the Fuzhou Open, they completed their first Grand Slams in Shanghai and Corrientes . At the 2013 World Cup in Stare Jabłonki they were eliminated as the worse group third after the preliminary round. At the following Grand Slams in Gstaad and São Paulo, they rose to seventeenth and ninth place. In 2014 they won more victories on the continental tour. They finished fifth at the Puerto Vallarta Open and two ninth places were added to the Grand Slams in The Hague and Klagenfurt . At the end of the year, the Grimalt cousins reached the final at the Open tournaments in Paraná and Mangaung . In 2015 they achieved further top ten results in ninth place at the Fuzhou Open and the Grand Slam in Saint Petersburg . At the 2015 World Cup in the Netherlands, they came third in the first knockout round and were defeated by the German duo Erdmann / Matysik . Shortly thereafter, they finished fourth in the Pan American Games . On the World Tour they finished ninth at the Grand Slam in Olsztyn and finished 17th at the Grand Slam in Long Beach and three open tournaments. In 2016, they finished ninth in the Grand Slam in Rio de Janeiro and four open tournaments before finishing fourth in Fortaleza . At the CSV Continental Cup , the Cubans prevailed against competitors from South America and qualified for the 2016 Olympic Games . Here they were eliminated without a win after the preliminary round. At the World Cup 1017 in Vienna , they finished 17th.

In March 2019, Grimalt / Grimalt won the FIVB tournaments in Sydney and Doha .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FIVB world rankings (as of March 18, 2019)
  2. ^ The Grimalt connection that ties Chile and Canada. FIVB, July 11, 2016, accessed on August 3, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Grimalt, Marco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean beach volleyball player
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Queilen , Chile