Tīna Graudiņa

Tina Graudiņa
2017 in Jūrmala
portrait
birthday	March 9, 1998
place of birth	Jūrmala, Latvia
size	1.84 m
Partner	2013, since 2016 Anastasija Kravčenoka 2014–2015 Inese Jursone 2015–2016 Paula Neciporuka
World ranking	Position 24
successes
2014 - Third European Championship U18 2015 - European Champion U18 2016 - European Champion U22 2019 - European Champion
(As of August 11, 2019)

Tina Graudiņa (born March 9, 1998 in Jūrmala ) is a Latvian beach volleyball player .

Career

Tina Graudiņa played her first tournaments with Anastasija Kravčenoka in 2013 and came ninth at the U18 European Championships in Maladsetschna . In 2014 she took part in the CEV satellite tournaments in Antalya , Montpellier and Stuttgart with Inese Jursone and Marta Ozolina . She won her first medal in third place at the U19 World Cup in Acapulco with Linda Gramberga . In 2015 Graudiņa was also active with changing partners. After two top ten results at EEVZA tournaments, she was ninth with Ozolina at the European Games in Baku . At the satellite tournament in Vaduz , she and Jursone reached the final against the German duo Mersmann / Schneider . In Riga, she and Paula Neciporuka won the U18 European championship in the final against the Austrians Holzer / Kiss . At the Grand Slam in Olsztyn she played with Jursone for the first time on the FIVB World Tour . In 2016 Graudiņa / Neciporuka finished ninth in the U21 World Cup in Lucerne and achieved the same result at the EEVZA tournament in Moscow. Then Graudiņa completed two satellite tournaments with Kravčenoka and was fifth with her in the U20 European Championship in Antalya. At the U19 World Cup in Larnaka , Graudiņa finished ninth with Neciporuka, before she played again with Kravčenoka at the U22 European Championship in Thessaloniki and won the title by beating the Poles Kociołek / Gruszczyńska in the final . At the CEV Masters in Jūrmala and the EEVZA tournament in Batumi , Graudiņa / Kravčenoka also made it into the top five.

They started 2017 with a third place in Koropovo (EEVZA). In Baden they were fifth in the U22 European Championship and ninth in the subsequent CEV Masters. There were further fifth places at the satellite tournament in Laholm and the U21 World Cup in Nanjing . On the World Tour 2017 , Graudiņa / Kravčenoka played the four-star tournament in Olsztyn , where they were eliminated early. At the CEV satellites in Vilnius and Jantarny , however, they finished second and fifth. They also qualified for the European Championship in Graudiņa's hometown. There they reached the quarter-finals without losing a set, which they lost to the German Laboreur / Sude .

In 2019, Graudiņa / Kravčenoka became European champions in Moscow .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FIVB world rankings (as of August 5, 2019)