Tamsin Hinchley

2007 - Australian Champion 2007 - Winner FIVB tournament Seoul 2007 - 9th place World Cup 2008 - Australian Champion 2008 - 5th place Olympic Games 2011 - World Cup participant 2012 - Olympian

As of August 10, 2012

Tamsin Barnett Hinchley ( born March 10, 1980 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia ) is a former beach volleyball and indoor volleyball player.

Career Hall

The volleyball talent of Tamsin Barnett was discovered and promoted at the age of ten years. My gym teacher Ross Sullivan in her hometown Ballarat encouraged her to apply for the national selection of Victoria. Barnett played two years in the team of the state, before she was appointed at the age of 18 years in the Australian national team. After participating in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, where the team finished ninth and sixth place at the Asian Championships in 2001, the Australian opted for a career in Germany. In the last three months of the year, she starred in Unterschleissheim. After Bayern other jurisdictions had to file for bankruptcy, Tamsin Barnett joined in early 2002 for Schwerin SC and has been with this club German masters. In the same year she played for the national team of their home country at the World Cup in Germany and was awarded the volleyball player of the year in Australia. The following season, Tamsin Barnett stood at Caja de Avila under contract. The team reached the finals in the CEV Cup and finished second in the Spanish league to fourth place. However, in the Championship play-offs, the Australian injured very badly. The meniscus tear cost her first participation in the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004. Then decided Barnett to end their career hall so as not to endanger the damaged knee through the hard ground on.

Career Beach

With the training for her second career Australian sportswoman of 2004 began. In June of the following year she started with Stacey Kloeden at their first tournament of the FIVB World Tour in Gstaad, where the two Australians never got on the qualifications. After three more events with two 25th places as best results Barnett moved to Summer Lochowicz. After two 25 also ranks the two athletes obtained in Bali ninth place. This result, they were able to repeat the following season in Stavanger and St. Petersburg.

In February 2007, Tamsin Barnett appeared for the first time with Natalie Cook in the World Tour. After a seventh place in Shanghai and a ninth place on Sentosa Barnett managed their first victory on the tour in Seoul. With the Olympic champion, she won against the set at number three Talita / Renata and defeated the number two Juliana / Larissa. In the semifinals, Leila / Anna Paula documents listed on the Fourteen Australians, who prevailed in the final against top-seeded Jia Tian Chinese women / Jie Wang. The following events in Warsaw, Paris, Stavanger and Montréal Cook / Barnett were each fifth, while they finished ninth at the World Championships in Gstaad. The following year, the two Australian athletes reached fourth place in Osaka and Gstaad, and ranks fifth in Shanghai and at the Olympic Games in Beijing. In addition there were a seventh and ninth four places. In the last two tournaments of the season Tanzim Barnett stepped in with the Becchara Palmer and finished fourth at Ko Phuket and the seventeenth rank in Sanya.

2010

Tamsin Barnett Hinchley, who had married in the meantime, the competitions played again with Natalie Cook. However, the two could not repeat the success of 2007 and 2008, three seventeenth places in Marseille, Klagenfurt and The Hague were the best results.

2011

Barnett Hinchley, who had already competed in the final event of the past year with Alice Rohkamper, started with the young athlete in the new season. However, in the six joint tournaments of the World Tour, surviving only once the qualification and occupied in Sanya seventh. At the World Championships in Rome, she retired after losing their three group matches from the last to their pools.

In Québec were again Cook and Barnett Hinchley a duo and were fifth. After a 33 rank in Poland and a 17th place in Finland, the Australians in The Hague came in ninth again in the top ten.

2012

After two fifth places at the Grand Slams of Berlin and Klagenfurt Barnett Hinchley landed with Cook at the 2012 Olympic Games in London after three defeats in the first round at No. 19

Private

Tamsin Barnett Hinchley has two brothers. She tells of a grandfather who was nominated for the Dutch Olympic team, but was never allowed to start because of the Second World War. The Australian athlete is married to Al Hinchley and got in September 2009, a son named Arley K. Therefore, they denied 2009, no competitions.