Sam Pedlow

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Sam Pedlow Volleyball (beach)
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birthday June 14, 1987
place of birth Barrie, Canada
partner 2007 Tom Podstawka
2012–2016 Grant O'Gorman
since 2016 Sam Schachter
World ranking Position 20
successes
2017 - World Cup ninth
(As of February 20, 2018)

Samuel "Sam" Pedlow (born June 14, 1987 in Barrie ) is a Canadian beach volleyball player .

Career

Pedlow went to Queen's University in Kingston after graduating from St. Peter's Catholic Secondary School in Barrie , where he began playing beach volleyball. He made his first international appearances in 2007 with Tom Podstawka . With him he took part in the Challenger tournament in Milan and reached 19th place at the U21 World Cup in Modena . At the Québec Open of the FIVB World Tour 2011 he lost with Aaron Nusbaum in the "Country Quota".

In 2012 Pedlow formed a new duo with Grant O'Gorman . Pedlow / O'Gorman achieved third place at the NORCECA tournament in Mayagüez . In 2013 they finished sixth and fourth in the continental tournaments in Guatemala City and Toluca . In the Grand Slam of the World Tour 2013 they reached 25th place. Afterwards they were successful on the NORCECA tour with third places in Varadero and Puerto Rico as well as a final in Mazatlán before they finished the Grand Slam in São Paulo again in 25th place. They started the 2014 World Tour with a ninth place at the Fuzhou Open. After that, they initially did not get beyond the rear placements. Only in the NORCECA series did things go better with places three, four and two at the tournaments in Toronto , Varadero and Puerto Rico. At the end of the year Pedlow / O'Gorman came 17th at the Xiamen Open and ninth in Paraná .

For a long time they only achieved double-digit results on the World Tour 2015 , while they achieved third place at the NORCECA tournament in North Bay . Later that year they managed to finish ninth in the Rio de Janeiro Open, fifth in Xiamen and ninth again in Antalya, but still some top ten results. At the NORCECA tournament in Trinidad and Tobago they only had to admit defeat to the US duo Dalhausser / Lucena in the final. At the beginning of 2016, Pedlow / O'Gorman finished fifth in the Kisch Open. In addition to some weaker results, they finished four ninth on the 2016 World Tour and another fifth at the Cincinnati Open. In Olsztyn they finished ninth again. Then they earned another starting place for Canada at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro at the Continental Cup in Sochi , which, however, was taken by their rivals Binstock / Schachter . Ninth place at the Grand Slam in Long Beach was their last joint result on the tour.

At the NORCECA tournament in November 2016, Pedlow competed with his new partner Sam Schachter and won the final against the Cubans González / Díaz . On the World Tour 2017 Pedlow / Schachter started with two ninth places in Fort Lauderdale (five-star tournament) and Rio de Janeiro (four stars). They finished fifth again in The Hague , ninth in Poreč and fifth in Gstaad . At the World Championships in Vienna , they finished ninth.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FIVB world rankings (as of February 19, 2018)
  2. ↑ a b Beach volleyball star from Barrie sets sights on the next Olympics. simcoe.com, July 25, 2016, accessed October 17, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Canadian men claim Olympic ticket in Sochi. FIVB, July 10, 2016, accessed on July 16, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Pedlow, Sam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pedlow, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian beach volleyball player
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Barrie , Canada