Petr Beneš
Petr Beneš ( born November 27, 1974 in Prague) is a Czech beach volleyball player.
Career
Petr Beneš played 1997 and 1998, its first FIVB tournaments with his brother Josef Beneš. In 2005 he returned to the international beach competitions. The Beneš brothers were subject at the European Championships in 2005 in the second round of the main German duo Dieckmann / scouring plow and retired from against the Lithuanians Cyvas / Vasiliauskas. The following year the tournament in Den Haag was completed for them as well after two games as the 2007 European Championships in Valencia. The following year Beneš formed a new duo with Martin Tichý, the ninth of the Grand Slam in Klagenfurt. At the European Championships in Hamburg, however, he took up with Premysl Kubala. After a defeat in the second round against the Germans Brink / Dieckmann they came up in the fifth round losers, in which they lost to the Swiss Heuscher / Heyer.
Since 2009, Beneš forms a solid duo with Kubala. The Czechs achieved in the first year together some top placings at the Masters tournaments, but resigned at the European Championships 2009 in the first round, even though they were equal on points with rivals from Poland and Spain. 2010 you get some top ten results at Grand Slams and Open tournaments, as they missed the European Championship. The following year she came as group winners in the first major round of the World Championship in Rome and had to be in three sets the Brazilians Bruno / Benjamin defeated. Then they were each ninth in three consecutive Grand Slams and missed in Klagenfurt against the eventual winner Ricardo / Cunha just under the semifinals. At the European Championships 2011 in Kristiansand and 2012 in Scheveningen they landed each in 17th At Olympic tournament in London in 2012 were Benes / Kubala third in their preliminary round group and then excreted out after a 1-2 defeat against the Germans Erdmann / Matysik. At the 2013 World Championships in Stare Jabłonki they parted, despite a victory over the Kazakhs Yakovlev / Kuleshov made after the preliminary round.