Raúl Mesa

Raúl Mesa
portrait
birthday	April 16, 1982
place of birth	Zaragoza, Spain
size	1.90 m
partner	2001–2002 Pablo Herrera Allepuz 2003 Javier Bosma 2003 Manuel Carrasco Saenz 2004 Javier Pineda Luna 2004–2008 Pablo Herrera Allepuz 2008 Adrián Gavira Collado 2009–2012 Inocencio Lario Carrillo 2016 Javier Monfort Minaya since 2016 Christian García
successes
2001 - Vice World Champion Juniors 2002 - World Champion Juniors 2005 - European Champion
(As of July 20, 2018)

Raúl Mesa (born April 16, 1982 in Saragossa ) is a Spanish beach volleyball player .

Career

In 2001, Mesa and Pablo Herrera Allepuz became vice world champion of the juniors and won the junior title a year later. In the next two years he played with changing partners. At the 2003 World Cup he was eliminated with Manuel Carrasco Saenz after the preliminary round.

From the end of 2004 he formed a permanent duo with Herrera again. The following year they failed at the World Championships in Berlin because of the Estonians Kais / Vesik and the Austrians Berger / Doppler . Two months later they became European champions in Moscow with a 2-1 victory in the final against the Swiss Patrick Heuscher and Stefan Kobel . As defending champions they came in seventh in 2006 in The Hague after defeats against the Belgians Joosen / Melis and the Swiss brothers Martin and Paul Laciga .

At the 2007 World Cup they had to admit defeat to Kais / Vesik again in the round of 16. The following European Championships in Valencia they finished in 13th place. The following year they were defeated by the Swiss Heuscher / Heyer and the Russians Barsuk / Kolodinski in Hamburg and came in seventh. Shortly afterwards they took part in the Olympic tournament in Beijing , where they reached the round of 16 against the Americans Gibb / Rosenthal . After that, they parted ways.

After an interlude with Adrián Gavira Collado , Mesa played with Inocencio Lario Carrillo from 2009 to 2012 . In their first year together, the new duo came in 17th at the World Championships in Stavanger and ninth at the European Championships in Sochi . In 2010 in Berlin , Mesa / Lario just barely missed an EM medal with a 2-0 draw against Plavins / Smedins from Latvia . At the 2011 World Cup, they were eliminated in the first main round against the eventual overall winner Emanuel / Alison .

Web links

• Profile at the world association FIVB (English)
• Profile in the Beach Volleyball Database (English)
• Raúl Mesa in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )