Mirco Gerson

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Mirco Gerson Volleyball (beach)
portrait
birthday December 29, 1992
place of birth Belp, Switzerland
size 1.84 m
partner 2010–2011 Gabriel Kissling
2012, 2014–2016 Philip Gabathuler
2013 Alexei Prawdzic
2016–2017 Michiel Zandbergen
since 2018 Adrian Heidrich
World ranking Position 10
successes
6 times Swiss Junior Champion (Halle)
3 times Swiss Junior Champion
2012 - Swiss Vice Champion
2012 - Swiss Youngster of the Year
2013 - Swiss Champion
2014 - Ninth Grand Slam Berlin
2014 - Third Grand Slam Stavanger
2014 - Ninth Grand Slam Klagenfurt
2014 - ninth Grand Slam Stare Jablonki
2014 - Swiss champion
2015 - world championship ninth
2015 - EM ninth
2015 - Swiss runner-up
2016 - ninth Grand Slam Olsztyn
2016 - Swiss champion
2018 - ninth 5-star Gstaad
2018 - EM ninth
2019 - fifth 4-star Den Haag
2019 - World Cup seventeenth
2019 - ninth 5-star Gstaad
2019 - fifth 5-star Vienna
2019 - EC ninth
2019 - Swiss champions
2019 - ninth WT final Rome
2019 - winner 3-star Qinzhou
(As of November 7, 2019)

Mirco Gerson (born December 29, 1992 in Belp ) is a Swiss beach volleyball player .

Career

As an indoor volleyball player, Gerson was six times Swiss junior champion. He made his first international appearance in beach volleyball at the 2010 World Youth Championship in Porto with Gabriel Kissling. The following year the two young Swiss finished ninth at the U20 European Championships in Tel Aviv . They finished the Junior World Championships 2011 in Halifax in fifth place. They also won the national junior championship. In 2012 the experienced Swiss beach volleyball players Philip Gabathuler and Jan Schnider decided to compete with young partners. Both duos are trained by Gerson's father Marc . Mirco Gerson has played with Gabathuler ever since. At the European Championships in Scheveningen , Gabathuler / Gerson reached the first main round as second in the group, which they also survived victoriously before they were defeated by the later third-placed Skarlund / Spinnangr from Norway. In the same year Gerson won the silver medal together with Gabriel Kissling at the Junior World Championships in Halifax . At the Swiss Championships 2012, Gerson / Gabathuler surprisingly reached the final, where they lost to Heyer / Chevallier . Mirco Gerson was also named Swiss Youngster of the Year 2012 . In 2013 Gerson played with Alexei Prawdzic . At the European Championships in Klagenfurt , Gerson / Prawdzic came into the next round as second in the group after two wins in the preliminary round. They survived the first knockout round without a fight before they were eliminated in the round of 16 against the later bronze medal winners Fijałek / Prudel . After winning the Swiss championship , Gerson parted ways with Prawdzic and from 2014 played again with Philip Gabathuler, with whom he was able to successfully defend the Swiss championship . In 2015 Gabathuler / Gerson finished ninth at the World Championships in the Netherlands . After winning the Swiss championship again in 2016, the two separated. In 2017 Gerson played alongside Michiel Zandbergen .

Adrian Heidrich has been his partner since 2018 . At the domestic FIVB 5-star tournament in Gstaad and at the European Championship in the Netherlands , Gerson / Heidrich finished ninth. The best results on the FIVB World Tour 2019 were fifth in The Hague (4 stars), ninth in Gstaad (5 stars), fifth in Vienna (5 stars) and ninth in the World Tour finals in Rome . Added to this was 17th place at the world championship in Hamburg , ninth place at the European championship in Moscow and another Swiss championship title. At the beginning of November, Gerson / Heidrich won the 3-star tournament in Qinzhou .

Private

Mirco Gerson's parents Cornelia and Marc Gerson and his sister Dunja are also successful volleyball / beach volleyball players.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FIVB world rankings November 4th, 2019
  2. ↑ Profile at VBCM ( Memento from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Report to Gabathuler / Schnider ( Memento from June 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Gerson, Mirco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss beach volleyball player
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1992