FIVB Long Beach Grand Slam

Who's Playing in the FIVB Long Beach Grand Slam?

Who's Playing in the FIVB Long Beach Grand Slam?

The FIVB Long Beach Grand Slam is the second-to-last event of the 2016 international beach volleyball season. Less than a week after the beach volleyball me

Aug 22, 2016 by Megan Kaplon
Who's Playing in the FIVB Long Beach Grand Slam?
The FIVB Long Beach Grand Slam is the second-to-last event of the 2016 international beach volleyball season. Less than a week after the beach volleyball medals were awarded at the 2016 Olympics in Rio, some of the top pros chose to stay home instead of competing. Twenty Olympic duos will be in attendance, and with 15 American teams signed up, USA beach volleyball fans will have plenty to watch.

Some entry highlights, in addition to all four of the USA beach volleyball Olympic teams, include Venezuela Olympian Olaya Pazo competing with her sister Rebeca, Team USA's Taylor and Trevor Crabb, and young American duo Sara Hughes and Kelly Claes, who defeated Olympic gold medalists Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst of Germany last time they played in an FIVB tournament.

Here is the full list of teams competing in Long Beach this week:

2016 FIVB Long Beach Grand Slam Men's Entries


Seed Player 1 Player 2 Country
1 Aleksandrs Samoilovs Janis Smedins Latvia
2 Nick Lucena Phil Dalhausser USA
3 Pedro Solberg Evandro Goncalves Brazil
4 Jake Gibb Casey Patterson USA
5 Chaim Schalk Ben Saxton Canada
6 Piotr Kantor Bartosz Losiak Poland
7 Pablo Herrera Adrian Gavira Spain
8 Gustavo Albrecht Carvalhaes Andre Loyola Stein Brazil
9 Juan Virgen Lombardo Ontiveros Mexico
10 John Hyden Tri Bourne USA
11 Mariusz Prudel Grzegorz Fijalek Poland
12 Alvaro Morais Filho Vitor Goncalves Felipe Brazil
13 Sam Pedlow Grant O'Gorman Canada
14 Esteban Grimalt Marco Grimalt Chile
15 Oleg Stoyanovskiy Artem Yarzutkin Russia
16 Josh Binstock Sam Schachter Canada
17 Michal Kadziola Jakub Szalankiewicz Poland
18 Martins Plavins Haralds Regza Latvia
19 Jonathan Erdmann Bennet Poniewaz Germany
20 Taylor Crabb Trevor Crabb USA
21 Alex Ranghieri Marco Caminati Italy
22 Dries Koekelkoren Tom van Walle Belgium
23 Oivind Hordvik Bjarte Usken Norway
24 Stefan Windscheif Sebastian Fuchs Germany
Q1 Michal Bryl Kacper Kujawiak Poland
Q2 Joshua Court Damien Schumann Australia
Q3 Cameron Wheelan Michael Plantinga Canada
Q4 Ryan Doherty John Mayer USA
Q5 Billy Allen Theo Brunner USA
Q6 Jhonatan Golindano Ronald Fayola Venezuela
Q7 Christian Redmann Felipe Humana-Paredes Canada
Q8 Jonas Kissling Marco Krattiger Switzerland
Q9 Oscar Brandao Joalisson Laurindo Gomes Brazil
Q10 Adrian Heidrich Gabriel Kissling Switzerland
Q11 Nejc Zemljak Jan Pokersnik Slovakia
Q12 Thiago Santos Barbosa Geroge Souto Maior Wanderley Brazil
Q13 Armin Dollinger Lorenz Schumann Germany
Q14 Maxime Thiercy Romain Di Giantommaso France
Q15 Katsuhiro Shiratori Shinpei Aoki Japan
Q16 Dillon Lesniak Ozz Borges Virgin Islands
Q17 Seain Cook Robin Miedzybrodzki Scotland
Q18 Jake MacNeil Gabriel Burlacu Canada
Q19 Christian Helland Jarle Fornes Norway
Q20 Simon Baldauf Lucas Skrabal Austria
Q21 Omar Bartoli Davide Boncompagni Italy
Q22 Shamsu Awudu Jonathan Scott Sarpong Ghana
Q23 Leo Williams Grant Goldschmidt South Africa
Q24 Momota Shimada Masato Kurasaka Japan


2016 FIVB Long Beach Grand Slam Women's Entries


Seed Player 1 Player 2 Country
1 Larissa Franca Talita Antunes Brazil
2 April Ross Kerri Walsh Jennings USA
3 Karla Borger Britta Buthe Germany
4 Eduarda Santos Lisboa Elize Secomandi Maia Brazil
5 Chantal Laboureur Julia Sude Germany
6 Kinga Kolosinska Monika Brzostek Poland
7 Liliana Fernandez Steiner Elsa Baquerizo McMillan Spain
8 Lauren Fendrick Brooke Sweat USA
9 Juliana Felisberta Da Silva Taiana Lima Brazil
10 Isabelle Forrer Anouk Verge-Depre Switzerland
11 Marketa Slukova Barbora Hermannova Czech Republic
12 Ana Gallay Georgina Klug Argentina
13 Katrin Holtwick Ilka Semmler Germany
14 Nina Betschart Tanja Huberli Switzerland
15 Jantine van der Vlist Sophie van Gestel Netherlands
16 Melissa Humana-Paredes Taylor Pischke Canada
17 Chen Xue Ningya Tang China
18 Michelle Sharon Valiente Amarilla Gabriela Filippo Paraguay
19 Lane Carico Summer Ross USA
20 Ekaterina Syrtseva Alexandra Moiseeva Russia
21 Miki Ishii Megumi Murakami Japan
22 Olaya Pazo Rebeca Pazo Venezuela
23 Julie Gordan Brandie Wilkerson Canada
24 Kelly Claes Sara Hughes USA
Q1 Maria Antonelli Liliane Maestrini Brazil
Q2 Josemari Alves Fernanda Alves Brazil
Q3 Teresa Mersmann Isabel Schneider Germany
Q4 Irene Hester Emily Day USA
Q5 Kendra Van Zwieten Kimberly DiCello USA
Q6 Victoria Faye Kjolberg Janne Kongshavn Norway
Q7 Ester Ribera Boter Amaranta Fernandez Navarro Spain
Q8 Joy Stubbe Jolien Sinnema Netherlands
Q9 Erika Sofia Mongelos Bobadilla Patricia Carolina Caballero Pena Paraguay
Q10 Alexander Jupiter Aline Chamereau France
Q11 Kim Behrens Anni Schumacher Germany
Q12 Kelley Larsen Betsi Flint USA
Q13 Megan Nagy Marie-Christen Lapointe Canada
Q14 Carolina Horta Maximo Ana Patricia Silva Ramos Brazil
Q15 Camille Saxton Rachel Cockrell Canada
Q16 Eliska Galova Sara Olivova Czech Republic
Q17 Maria Jose Orellana Maria Andrea Orellana Aragon Guatemala
Q18 Shinako Tanaka Sakurako Fujii Japan
Q19 Yukako Suzuki Kaho Sakaguchi Japan
Q20 Azusa Futami Keiko Urata Japan
Q21 Chiyo Suzuki Mai Tanaka Japan
Q22 Aleksandra Wachowicz Agnieszka Pregowska Poland