2011 Beach Volleyball World Championships
The beach volleyball World Cup 2011 was held from June 19 in Rome (Italy ) of 13. The competitions for men and women were held in parallel. It was the eighth official World Cup. For women, the Brazilians Larissa and Juliana defeated in the final of the U.S. duo May-Treanor/Walsh after the latter in the quarterfinals of the defending champions Jennifer Kessy and April Ross ( also USA) had conquered. The men's tournament ended with a purely Brazilian final, won the Emanuel and Alison Márcio Araújo and against Ricardo. The defending champions Julius Brink and Jonas Recker man from Germany won the bronze. The German Volleyball Federation was a total of nine duos at the start, the six teams presented Switzerland and Austria was represented by four teams.
- 3.2.1 Group Games
- 3.2.2 Main Round
Organization and media
The World Championship was held to a total of five seats in the Foro Italico. For the spectators the entrance to the first days of the tournament was free, only acquired for the finals had cards.
A total of one million U.S. dollars in prize money was awarded to the participants. The new world champion got them each $ 60,000, who retired as Group Four teams $ 3,400 each. In addition, the winning teams each earned 1000 points for the world rankings.
The matches on Centre Court were shown in a live Internet stream, the FIVB operates in cooperation with laola1.tv. German viewers could also pursue Sport 1 on the pay - TV channel the tournament; the final of the men was seen live on the radio station's free-TV channel.
Mode
For women and men, respectively 48 teams competed. Italy hosts could muster a maximum of six teams. For both tournaments three wildcards were awarded. This included benefited the German duo Geeske Banck / Anja Günther. Every continent was represented by at least one team.
In twelve preliminary round groups of four teams played FFA for a place in the main round. For a victory, there were two points for a defeat one point. In case of equal first counted the direct comparison and then the rate ratio. The top two teams from each group and the eight best third reached the next round. From there on it was in the simple knockout system on to the finals.