Taliqua Clancy

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Taliqua Clancy Volleyball (beach)
2019-07-06 BeachVolleyball World Championship Hamburg 2019 StP 0302 LR by Stepro.jpg
2019 at the World Cup in Hamburg
portrait
birthday June 25, 1992
place of birth Kingaroy, Australia
size 1.84 m
Partner 2010–2012 Eliza Hynes
2012–2013 Mariafe Artacho del Solar
2013–2017 Louise Bawden
since 2017 Mariafe Artacho del Solar
World ranking Position 5
successes
2010 - Third U19 World Cup
2012 - Third U21 World Cup
2014 - Asian Champion
2015 - Third Major Poreč
2015 - Asian Champion
2016 - Olympic Fifth Rio de Janeiro
2017 - Asian Champion
2017 - Winner 3-Star Qinzhou
2017 - Winner 2-Star Sydney
2018 - Third 4-Star Xiamen
2018 - Winner 3-Star Lucerne
2018 - Winner 4-Star Espinho
2018 - Third World Tour Final Hamburg
2018 - Asian Champion
2019 - Third 4-Star Xiamen
2019 - Asian Champion
2019 - Second 4-Star Jinjiang
2019 - Winner 4th -Star Warsaw
2019 - World Cup third
2019 - winner 4-star Chetumal
(As of November 21, 2019)

Taliqua Clancy (born June 25, 1992 in Kingaroy ) is an Australian beach volleyball player . She was Asian champion five times and took part in the 2016 Olympic Games.

Career

Clancy tried a variety of sports before joining volleyball in high school , and growing up away from the beach, she first played indoors. At the age of fifteen she received a fellowship from the Queensland Academy of Sport and moved to Brisbane . Two years later she moved to Adelaide for further funding . The athlete Cathy Freeman was a role model for the Aborigines .

At the U19 World Championships 2009 in Alanya , Clancy reached ninth place with Katie Bartoli . In the same competition, she came third a year later with Eliza Hynes in Porto . In 2011, Clancy / Hynes played their first open tournaments on the World Tour in Åland and The Hague . At the 2011 U21 World Cup in Halifax , they finished 19th. The Sanya Open on the World Tour 2012 was their last tournament together. Clancy then formed a new duo with Mariafe Artacho del Solar . At the Challenger tournament in Seoul , Clancy / Artacho finished ninth. They then reached third place at the U21 World Cup, which was again held in Halifax. They played their only joint open tournament in Bang Saen . They finished fourth in the Asian Championship in China.

Since 2013, Clancy has played with Louise Bawden . Bawden / Clancy dominated the national and continental tour with various tournament victories. On the World Tour 2013 they came in ninth in the Grand Slams in Corrientes and Rome in the top ten. At the World Championships in Stare Jabłonki , Bawden / Clancy reached the first main round as second in the group, in which they were eliminated against the Spanish Liliana / Baquerizo . After the World Cup they finished ninth in Gstaad and fifth in Moscow . In 2014 they were initially successful again on a national level. In June they won the Asian Championship in China. On the 2014 World Tour , they finished ninth in Shanghai, Moscow and The Hague and fifth in Berlin and Long Beach . They started the 2015 season with a fifth place in Fuzhou and a ninth place in Moscow. Third in the Poreč Major, they won their first medal at an FIVB tournament and in Stavanger they were fifth again. At the World Cup in the Netherlands , they got into the knockout phase as second in the group and won there against the Swiss Forrer / Vergé-Dépré and the Dutch Meppelink / van Iersel , before they had to admit defeat to the Brazilian duo Lima / Fernanda in the quarter-finals WM finished in fifth place. In the subsequent tournaments in Gstaad, Yokohama and Long Beach they finished fifth, nine and four. In October they were again Asian champions in Hong Kong .

On the World Tour 2016 , Bawden / Clancy came fourth in Vitória , ninth in Moscow and fifth in Hamburg . They achieved ninth places in Gstaad and Klagenfurt. As the fifth best team in the Olympic rankings, they qualified for the Olympic Games in Rio . There they won all preliminary round matches and the round of 16 against Poles Kołosińska / Brzostek . In the quarterfinals they had to admit defeat to the US duo Walsh / Ross and thus took fifth place. In April 2017, Bawden / Clancy became Asian champions for the third time. After several fifth and ninth places on the World Tour and a 17th place at the World Cup in Vienna , the two parted ways.

Mariafe Artacho del Solar has been Clancy's partner again since October 2017. The two Australians had numerous top ten results on the 2017/18 World Tour and won the tournaments in Qinzhou , Sydney , Lucerne and Espinho . They finished third at the World Tour Final in Hamburg and then won the Asian Championship. In 2019, Clancy / Artacho continued their successful streak. In April she became Asian champions again and on the World Tour they came third in Xiamen , second in Jinjiang and won in Warsaw . At the World Championships in Hamburg they won the bronze medal.

Web links

Commons : Taliqua Clancy  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FIVB world rankings (as of November 18, 2019)
  2. ↑ a b c Profile at the Australian Olympic Committee (English)
  3. ^ Louise Bawden and Taliqua Clancy - Beach Volleyball. optus.com, August 25, 2016, accessed on August 27, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Clancy, Taliqua
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian beach volleyball player
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Kingaroy , Australia