Becchara Palmer

Becchara Palmer ( born June 18, 1988 in Adelaide ) is an Australian beach volleyball player.

Career

Palmer was discovered in 2003 by talent scouts. Your first international appearance she had when she won at the World Junior Championships 2005 in Saint Quay Portrieux with Alice Rohkamper ninth place. At the Junior World Cup in 2006 in Mysłowice the two Australian women achieved the same result. At the World Junior Championships the same year in Bermuda, they won the title. 2007 Palmer played first some open tournaments with Eileen Romanowski, before they came together again with Rohkamper and with it reached the final of the Junior World Championships in Modena. Gold and silver in Bermuda in Modena were previously the only medals in junior competitions for Australia. The following year, they were fifth in Brighton. Early 2008, Palmer made ​​already a new duo with Heike Jensen. Palmer / Jensen qualified for the 2009 World Championships in Stavanger. There, however, they won only one set and left after the first round of.

At the Grand Slam in Marseille Palmer first played with Louise Bawden. A little later Bawden / Palmer came into the final of the Open tournament in Stare Jabłonki and ranked fifth among the Kristiansand Open. They also won the 2009 national championship. 2010 and 2011 scored the Matildas more top ten results in the international tournament series. At the World Championships 2011 in Rome, she came into the knockout stages without dropping a set as group winners. After a victory in the first round against a Chinese duo they had to in the second round in three sets to Czech women Klapalová / Háječková defeated and occupied ninth place. In the same year Bawden / Palmer arrived at the continental championship of the AVC fifth. In 2012 she achieved a fifth place in Sanya and three ninth places. After Vorrundenaus at the Olympic Games in London, Bawden and Palmer parted.