Tom van Walle

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Tom van Walle Volleyball (beach)
portrait
birthday August 7, 1987
place of birth Ekeren, Belgium
size 1.98 m
partner 2010 Dries Koekelkoren
2011–2013 Ward Coucke
since 2014 Dries van Koekelkoren
World ranking Position 14
successes
2017 - Winner of the CEV Masters Baden
(As of July 17, 2017)

Tom van Walle (born August 7, 1987 in Ekeren ) is a Belgian beach volleyball player .

Career

Van Walle made his first international appearances in 2010 with Dries Koekelkoren . When CEV -Satellite tournament in Lausanne , the duo finished in 17th place and in The Hague Open the two Belgians for their first tournament at the stepped FIVB World Tour at.

In 2011 van Walle formed a new duo with Ward Coucke . The first open tournaments in Brasília , Shanghai and Prague were unsuccessful, but van Walle / Coucke came third at the CEV Masters in Novi Sad and ninth at the Challenger tournament in Varna . The 2011 European Championship in Kristiansand was over for them after the preliminary round after they lost the last group game against the Dutch Brouwer / Meeuwsen after more than an hour with 23:25 in the tie-break. They ended the year with the The Hague Open. At the EM 2012 in Scheveningen they were tied on points and in sets with two other teams, but were eliminated as the bottom of the group after the preliminary round. Then they played the Grand Slams in Gstaad , Berlin and Klagenfurt , each of which ended in 41st place. In 2013 van Walle / Coucke only competed in national tournaments, but were successful. They won the tournaments in Brussels , Hechtel , Gent , Sint-Niklaas and Leuven .

Since 2014 van Walle has been playing with Koekelkoren again and won other national tournaments with him in Hechtel and Kortrijk . In 2015 Koekelkoren / van Walle finished ninth at the CEV Masters in Jūrmala . Then they played some tournaments of the WEVZA, where they came second after a fifth place in Barcelona in Rome and Montpellier . In between, they took part in their first Grand Slam in Saint Petersburg . After a fourth and third place in the satellite tournaments in Vaduz and Skopje , another Grand Slam followed in Olsztyn . After a fifth place at the CEV Masters in Milan , Koekelkoren / van Walle completed four open tournaments in 2015. They rose from 17th place in Xiamen to ninth place in Puerto Vallarta to fifth place in Antalya , before finishing ninth again in Qatar .

Koekelkoren / van Walle also started 2016 on the World Tour with a ninth place at the Kisch Open. After two weaker appearances in Brazil, they were ninth in Doha . At the following FIVB tournaments they did not make it into the top ten. At the 2016 European Championships in Biel / Bienne , they won one of three preliminary round games, but were eliminated as the bottom of the group. Then they finished 17th at the major tournament in Hamburg . At the satellite tournament in Vaduz they only had to admit defeat to the Swiss Beeler / Strasser in the final. After double-digit results at the Klagenfurt Major and the Grand Slam in Long Beach , they achieved another top ten result as fourth in the CEV Masters in Jūrmala.

At the first tournament of the World Tour 2017 in Fort Lauderdale (five stars) they were eliminated early. After that, they played some three-star tournaments, but after fifth place in Kisch they did not get beyond 17th places. They were more successful at the CEV Masters in Baden ; there they celebrated their first international tournament victory with a final victory against the Austrians Doppler / Horst . In the FIVB series they reached ninth place after an early exit in Poreč at the tournament in Gstaad (both five stars).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FIVB world rankings (as of July 17, 2017)
  2. ↑ Koekelkoren and van Walle claim historic gold for Belgium at Baden Masters. CEV, June 25, 2017, accessed on July 17, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Van Walle, Tom
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian beach volleyball player
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Ekeren , Belgium