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Celebrity Match, Manly Beach - Wednesday 27th Feb See Aussie Olympic gold medallists Natalie Cook and Kerri
Pottharst pair up World Series Event in Australia?
- October 6th 2001 Although with the collapse of Ansett (the only carrier to fly to Broome) and the September 11 events in the sponsors minds. The event is not a certainty. Heres hoping that a FIVB Beach Event will be on our shores in the
near future. At this stage, we have not received any concrete offer from
organisers to promote an event in 2002 in Australia. So there is light at the end of the tunnel in regards to the FIVB
staging beach events in Australia in the future. Sporting Frontiers began with Former IMG general manager Mr Michael Porra teaming up with former "Mr Olympics" Rod McGeoch and advertising holding company The Communications Group to establish what is being billed as a "major force" in Australian sports marketing."SMH 01/06/00" The Sporting Frontiers company is expected to set up offices world-wide. At the moment it has offices in Melbourne and Sydney and Britain, South Africa, India, Thailand, China and Hong Kong. It is expected the company (Sporting Frontiers) will have 30 offices around the world within two years. Sporting Frontiers already has agreements to represent Basketball
Australia, Rally Australia and the Australian Cricketers' Association.
It is in discussion with several other big sporting and commercial
players in Australia.(L. McConnell - 16 February 2001) Teams of the Decade - September 22nd 2001 Sinjin Smith & Randy Stokles, José Loiola and Emanuel Rego, Jacqueline Silva and Sandra Pires and Kerri Pottharst and Natalie Cook were awarded the Best Beach Volleyball teams of the last decade at a Gala dinner in Berlin last Friday evening (21 September). Women's World Tour China Open, Maoming 15-19 August After a rather lack lustre season from the Sydney Olympic Gold Medallists, Kerry and Nat were looking to put past results behind them and have a consistent tournament. There were three Australian teams in the main draw. Cook-Pottharst , seeded 3rd, Gerlic-Clarke, seeded 13th and Lochowicz-Kloeden 17th. Cook and Pottharst cruised through the first two rounds just to crash into a hurdle of the local, 6th seeded Chinese team of Chi-Xiong. The gold medallists loosing in three sets 19-21, 21-18, 11-15. Cook and Pottharst went on to win their next three games with out dropping a set to gain entry to the semi finals, where they were to meet Sandra Pires-Minello of Brazil. In a see-sawing match the aussies went down to the Brazilians in three sets 18-21, 21-19, 15-9. The Australians not making a final in the past 7 events. There last podium finish was in Cagliari, Italy back in June, where they finished second to the American pairing of Youngs and Fontana. Kerri and Nat won the third place play off against the local team that eliminated them from the winners bracket of the draw in three sets. Other Australian results saw Gerlic-Clarke take a 17th and Lochowicz-Kloeden 25th. Next stop Hong Kong 22nd - 26th August 2001. New Promoters for ABVT in 2001-2003 - August 15 2001 I-Sport have been dumped by the AVF to promote beach volleyball in Australia. The AVF bought the rights back off I-Sport and recently appointed International Quarterback as the ABVT promoter for the next two years. Read I-Sports media release here. Read International Quarterback media release here. Sinjin Smith to retire? - August 11 2001 Sinjin Smith, one of the top players and most recognizable names in volleyball history, will retire in two weeks after the Manhattan Beach Open. Smith, 44, won two national titles at UCLA and parlayed his indoor talents into international fame and fortune as a pro beach volleyball player. Smith, who has had six surgeries on his right knee, has won 139 career beach volleyball tournaments, second only to archrival Karch Kiraly (142). "He doesn't want to quit, but he knows it's time," said his wife, Patty. A resident of Pacific Palisades, Smith finished 17th with partner Carl Henkel at a tournament Friday in Belgium. He was unavailable for comment. Read full story.. Belgium Open 10th August 2001 Coming off a disappointing 9th at the World Championships in Austria, Julian "the Thunder from Down under" Prosser and Lee Zahner, were out to prove a point at the next stop for the World Tour in Ostende, Belgium. The Australians were eventually knocked out of the event by the number one seeds that they had defeated earlier in the event Emanuel - Tande in two easy sets 21-17, 21-12. This gave Prosser and Zahner a 5th Finish in the event. For the record the final placings for the event saw Emanuel-Tande (Brazil) get the Gold Medal, Second Ricardo-Loiola (Brazil) with third going to Swiss pairing of Laciga P.- Laciga M. More News...  World Championships
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