Nicolás Capogrosso

Nicolás Capogrosso
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birthday	January 15, 1995
place of birth	Rosario, Argentina
size	2.02 m
partner	2014–2016 Ian Mehamed since 2017 Julian Amado Azaad
World ranking	Position 38
successes
2014 - Fifth Paraná Open 2015 - Fifth Rio de Janeiro Open 2017 - World Cup participant
(As of July 25, 2017)

Nicolás Capogrosso (born January 15, 1995 in Rosario ) is an Argentine beach volleyball player .

Career

In 2014 Capogrosso played once with Pablo Bianchi and then with Ian Mehamed at the continental tournament series . With Mehamed he also completed his first tournament on the FIVB World Tour at the Paraná Open and finished fifth. At the beginning of 2015 he played two continental tournaments with Santiago Aulisi and made it into the top five as regularly as he did again with Mehamed. In their first Grand Slam in Saint Petersburg , Capogrosso / Mehamed took 25th place. Then they reached sixth place at the Pan American Games in Toronto . They finished the year with a fifth and a 17th place at the Open tournaments in Rio de Janeiro and Puerto Vallarta . In 2016 they regularly finished at least fifth in the CSV tournaments. On the World Tour, however, they were eliminated early at the Maceió Open and the Grand Slam in Rio de Janeiro. They later completed the Open tournaments in Fortaleza and Cincinnati in 17th place.

In 2017 Capogrosso formed a new duo with Julian Amado Azaad . In the South American series, Capogrosso / Azaad achieved a tournament victory in Lima and further top five results. On the World Tour 2017 they did not get more than double-digit results at the three-star tournaments in Moscow and The Hague and the five-star tournaments in Poreč and Gstaad . They qualified for the 2017 World Cup in Vienna via the CSV preliminary decision .

Web links

• Profile at the world association FIVB (English)
• Profile in the Beach Volleyball Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FIVB world rankings (as of July 24, 2017)
2. ↑ FIVB, Qualification Process - Men