Rihards Finsters

Rihards Finsters
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birthday	May 21, 1991
place of birth	Liepāja, Latvia
size	1.91 m
partner	2010–2013 Aleksandrs Solovejs since 2013 Edgars Točs 2016 Ruslans Sorokins
World ranking	Position 60
(As of July 23, 2017)

Rihards Finsters (born May 21, 1991 in Liepāja ) is a Latvian beach volleyball player .

Career

Finsters took part in 2010 with Aleksandrs Solovejs in the U20 European Championship in Catania and reached the 13th place. In 2011 Finsters / Solovejs came 25th at the CEV satellite tournament in Baden . In 2013 they lost the game for bronze at the U23 World Cup in Mysłowice against the Austrians Petutschnig / Winter . At the tournaments of the EEVZA series (Eastern European Volleyball Zonal Association) in Pärnu they came second and in Anapa they played their first open tournament on the FIVB World Tour .

At the EEVZA tournament in Moscow he appeared for the first time with his new partner Edgars Točs and came in ninth. In 2014, Točs / Finsters were eliminated early on at the CEV satellite tournaments in Antalya and Vaduz and at the Masters in Baden . After a fourth place at the EEVZA tournament in Saint Petersburg , they were ninth in the satellite tournament in Jūrmala . Finsters then achieved this result at the Eastern European tournaments in Batumi with Solovejs and in Riga with Atvars Vilde . In 2015 Točs / Finsters won the tournament in Vilnius in the EEVZA series after a fifth place in Moscow . They also finished fifth at the satellite tournament in Skopje , while they were eliminated early at the Grand Slam in Olsztyn and 21st at the CEV Masters in Milan . They finished the Eastern European tournament in Batumi in seventh place. After that they competed in two open tournaments of the World Tour in Antalya and Qatar , where they came in 17th and ninth place. You finished the year with a fifth place at the EEVZA tournament in Riga.

At the beginning of 2016 Točs / Finsters reached the 25th place at the Grand Slam in Rio de Janeiro . Then they played six open tournaments of the World Tour 2016 and achieved their best result with 17th place in Sochi . At the following Grand Slam in Moscow they did not get past 25th place. Then Finsters competed at the EEVZA tournament in Moscow (third place) and at the major in Hamburg with Ruslans Sorokins . With Točs, the results at the Grand Slam in Olsztyn and the Major in Gstaad stayed in double figures . Then Točs / Finsters played twice in a row in Jūrmala and were third in the EEVZA tournament and ninth in the CEV Masters.

At the beginning of the World Tour 2017, Točs / Finsters were eliminated early in the five-star tournament in Fort Lauderdale . After a seventh place in the satellite tournament in Gothenburg , they came 17th in the three-star tournaments of the FIVB series in Xiamen and Moscow. At the EEVZA tournament in Rokiškis they were third. The two Latvians qualified for the 2017 World Cup in Vienna via the CEV 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 17, 2017)