Phil Dalhausser

Phil Dalhausser
Phil Dalhausser at the World Cup in Hamburg 2019
portrait
birthday	January 26, 1980
place of birth	Baden , Switzerland
size	2.06 m
partner	2003–2005 Nick Lucena 2005–2012 Todd Rogers 2013–2015 Sean Rosenthal since 2015 Nick Lucena
World ranking	Position 11
successes
2005 - AVP Best Offensive Player. 2006 - FIVB Most Improved Player 2007 - World Champion 2007 - FIVB Best Blocker 2007 - FIVB Best Hitter 2008 - Olympic Champion Beijing 2008 - FIVB Sportsperson of the Year 2008 - FIVB Best Hitter 2008 - FIVB Best Offensive Player 2008 - FIVB Best Blocker 2008 - AVP MVP 2008 - AVP Best Offensive Player 2008 - AVP Best Defensive Player 2008 - AVP Team of the Year (with Todd Rogers) 2009 - 3rd place World Championship 2009 - USA Volleyball Male Beach Athlete of the Year 2009 - FIVB Best Offensive Player 2009 - FIVB Best Hitter 2009 - FIVB Best Setter 2009 - AVP MVP 2009 - AVP Best Defensive Player 2009 - AVP Best Offensive Player 2009 - AVP Team of the Year (with Todd Rogers) 2010 - FIVB Tour Champion 2010 - FIVB Team of the year 2010 - FIVB Best Blocker 2010 - FIVB Best Hitter 2010 - FIVB Best Offensive Player 2010 - FIVB Best Setter 2010 - FIVB Most Outstanding 2011 - FIVB Best Setter 2012 - 9th Olympic Games London 2012 - FIVB Best Blocker 2012 - FIVB Best Offensive Player 2012 - FIVB Bes t Setter 2013 - FIVB Most Outstanding 2014 - FIVB Most Outstanding 2014 - FIVB Best Blocker 2014 - FIVB Best Server 2014 - FIVB Best Setter 2015 - FIVB Best Setter 2016 - 5th place Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro 2016 - FIVB Best Setter 2017 - 5th place WM in Vienna 2017 - FIVB Most Outstanding 2017 - FIVB Best Blocker 2017 - FIVB Best Offensive Player
(As of July 26, 2018)

Philip Peter Dalhausser (born January 26, 1980 in Baden , Switzerland ) is an American beach volleyball player , Olympic champion and world champion.

Athletic career

In 2003 Phil Dalhausser started his beach volleyball career in Fort Lauderdale with Nick Lucena , but the two failed in qualifying. In the next year they reached the semifinals of the AVP tour for the first time and defeated u. a. Karch Kiraly with his partner Mike Lambert. In 2006 Dalhausser / Lucena achieved their first victory in the AVP, in the same year the native of Baden started the FIVB tour with Todd Rogers . In 2006 the two succeeded in winning the FIVB tournament in Klagenfurt, which they followed in 2007 with the world championship title . For the first time in the men's race, the winner was not from South America. In addition, Dalhausser / Rogers reached the semi-finals in all seventeen AVP tournaments they contested, ten times they were at the top of the podium. In 2008 the two Americans were able to improve this performance. In addition to their Olympic gold medal in Beijing in 2008 , they won eleven AVP events and four FIVB events. 2009 was not quite as successful for Rogers / Dalhausser, after a defeat in the semifinals against the Germans Brink / Reckermann , the Americans were able to secure the bronze medal at the World Championships in Stavanger , there were also eight AVP and two FIVB successes.

2010

The two professionals from North America built on their successes of previous years in the first tournaments of the year. They won the Brasilia Open , the Foro Italico Beach Volley Grand Slam and the Mysłowice Open (after winning the semifinals over their successors as world champions Brink / Reckermann), only in Shanghai they only managed to finish 4th. At the Moscow Open , Rogers / Dalhausser lost the final against the Chinese Wu / Xu, but in the Czech Republic they were number one again after beating the Brazilians Emanuel / Alison . After a semi-final defeat in Stavanger, as they did at the World Cup last year, again against a German team, the Americans were able to retaliate in the final of the next tournament in Switzerland with a 2-0 win over their conquerors from Norway and after their success over Klemperer / Koreng have already received the fifth gold medal of the year. The Olympic champions achieved their sixth tournament victory in Klagenfurt after defeating Emanuel Rego and Alison Cerutti in the semifinals and their American compatriots Matt Fuerbringer and Nick Lucena in the final. Dalhausser / Rogers were overall winners of the tour and also voted Team of the Year. Phil Dalhausser was also named Best Blocker, Best Hitter, Best Offensive Player, Best Setter and Most Outstanding.

2011

2011 in Prague

After winning tournaments at the World Tour in Brasilia and Shanghai , Dalhausser / Rogers came in second in Prague . At the World Championships , the Americans failed to Julius Brink and Jonas Reckermann in the second round. This was the only event of the year in which the athletes from the United States participated and did not finish in the top eight teams. At the following tournament in Norway , Dalhausser and Rogers took fifth place as well as at the event in Beijing , which took place right before the world championships. These three events and the last two tournaments of the season, in which the Olympic champions no longer participated, remained the only ones in 2011 without a medal. The reigning Tour Champions reached the final in Gstaad , finished third in Moscow and won the tournaments in Canada and Poland . They finished bronze at the Grand Slam in Klagenfurt before finishing their season as silver medalists at the Åland Open and second in the overall ranking of the year. Phil Dalhausser was then named the best player on the 2011 tour.

2012

After two wins at the Brasila Open and the Grand Slam in Shanghai , Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers only finished ninth at the 2012 Olympic Games in London after a 2-0 defeat in the round of 16 against the Italians Nicolai / Lupo . In the World Tour of the same year, the two Americans took bronze twice at the Prague Open and at the last tournament of the season in Stare Jablonki . They also reached the semi-finals at the events in Gstaad and Klagenfurt .

2013-2016

Phil Dalhausser played with Sean Rosenthal from 2013 and won the Fuzhou Open and the Grand Slam in Rome . At the World Championships in Stare Jabłonki , Dalhausser / Rosenthal finished ninth.

After Dalhausser missed the World Cup in 2015 because of an injury, Rosenthal split from him. As a result, Nick Lucena has been Dalhausser's partner again since August 2015. Lucena / Dalhausser took second place at the Grand Slam in Long Beach , won the Xiamen Open and finished second at the World Tour Final in Fort Lauderdale. In the 2015/16 season there were almost without exception top ten placements for the Americans with several tournament victories, including a. at the major in Hamburg.

At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro 2016 they were eliminated in the quarterfinals against the later gold medalists Alison / Bruno and finished fifth.

2019

At the Beach Volleyball World Championships in 2019 he played with Nick Lucena and was eliminated in the quarterfinals against the German team Julius Thole / Clemens Wickler 2-0.

Private

The "Thin Beast" was born in 1980 as the son of the German-speaking Swiss Marianne and the German Peter Dalhausser in Baden and spent the first year of his life in Switzerland. Dalhausser then grew up with his brother Mark in Ormond Beach , Florida . He then went to high school in Daytona Beach , where his main sports were tennis and baseball , and volleyball he did not play until his senior year. Phil Dalhausser received his PhD in business administration from the University of Central Florida . On October 16, 2011, he married Jennifer Corral, a former beach volleyball player on the AVP Tour.

Web links

Commons : Phil Dalhausser  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of Phil Dalhausser (English)
• Phil Dalhausser in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile at the world association FIVB (English)
• Profile in the Beach Volleyball Database (English)
• Profile at TeamUSA (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FIVB world rankings (as of July 23, 2018)
2. ↑ Elimination Matches. World Champs Hamburg. In: hamburg2019.com. Retrieved July 6, 2019 . 
3. ^ Phil Dalhausser's wife Jennifer Corral. playerwives.com, August 8, 2016, accessed November 11, 2016 .