Canadian men's national beach volleyball team
The Canada men's national beach volleyball team represents Canada in international beach volleyball competitions run by the FIVB. The team trains at the Team Canada Beach Volleyball Training Centre at Downsview Park in Toronto during the winter.[1]
History[edit]
The first players to represent Canada at an international FIVB-sanctioned tournament were James Helmer and Stephen Joseph at the Jesi Open in Italy in 1989 and they finished 18th.[2] This was only the fourth sanctioned event run by the FIVB.[3]
It wasn't until 1996 that John Child and Mark Heese claimed Canada's first gold medal on the FIVB Tour at the German Open in Berlin.[4][5] The team of Child/Heese continued their success during beach volleyball's debut at the 1996 Olympic Games, where they won bronze. This was Volleyball Canada's first Olympic medal.[6]
At the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, beach volleyball was included for the first time and the team of Jody Holden and Conrad Leinemann won gold on home soil.
The national team has qualified for every Olympic Games that has included beach volleyball except Beijing as well as every Beach Volleyball World Championships highlighted by a 5th at the 2013 World Championships by Ben Saxton and Chaim Schalk.
At the inaugural 2018 Commonwealth Games beach volleyball event, Sam Pedlow and Sam Schachter took home the silver medal.[7]
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Confederation | NORCECA | |||||||||||||||||||
Head coach | Josh Nichol | |||||||||||||||||||
FIVB ranking | 6 (as of October 2018) | |||||||||||||||||||
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Results[edit]
Olympic Games[edit]
- 1996 Atlanta — Bronze medal Child/Heese, 17th Drakich/Dunn
- 2000 Sydney — 5th Child/Heese, 9th Holden/Leinemann
- 2004 Athens — 5th Child/Heese
- 2008 Beijing — did not qualify
- 2012 London — 17th Binstock/Reader
- 2016 Rio de Janeiro — 9th Saxton/Schalk, 19th Binstock/Schachter,
- 2020 Tokyo — TBD
World Championships[edit]
- 1997 Los Angeles — 9th Child/Heese, 17th Holden/Leinemann
- 1999 Marseille — 9th Child/Heese, 17th Holden/Leinemann
- 2001 Klagenfurt — 17th Child/Heese, 17th Holden/Leinemann, 17th Ljubicic/Slean, 33rd Cadieux/Chaloupka
- 2003 Rio de Janeiro — 17th Holden/Leinemann, 37th Child/Heese
- 2005 Berlin — 9th Leinemann/VanHuizen, 33rd Child/Heese, 33rd Cadieux/Domingo
- 2007 Gstaad — 25th Cadieux/Heese, 33rd Leinemann/VanHuizen
- 2009 Stavanger — 9th Redmann/VanHuizen, 37th Cadieux/Reader
- 2011 Rome — 17th Redmann/Saxton
- 2013 Stare Jablonki — 5th Saxton/Schalk
- 2015 The Hague — 9th Binstock/Schachter, 17th Saxton/Schalk
- 2017 Vienna — 5th Saxton/Schalk, 9th Pedlow/Schachter, 33rd Nusbaum/Vandenburg
- 2019 Hamburg — 17th Pedlow/Schachter, 17th O'Gorman/Saxton
Commonwealth Games[edit]
- 2018 Gold Coast — Silver medal Pedlow/Schachter
Pan American Games[edit]
- 1999 Winnipeg — Gold medal Holden/Leinemann, 7th Gatzke/Lewis
- 2003 Santo Domingo — 5th Ljubicic/Slean
- 2007 Rio de Janeiro — 4th Kruger/Montgomery
- 2011 Guadalajara — 9th Redmann/Saxton
- 2015 Toronto — 8th Binstock/Schachter
- 2019 Lima — 4th Nusbaum/Plantinga
Team[edit]
Current squad[edit]
The following is current as of December 29, 2020.
Senior[edit]
Name | Position | Date of birth (age) | Height | Hometown |
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Grant O'Gorman | Defender | November 2, 1993 | 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) | Scarborough, ON |
Samuel Pedlow | Blocker | June 14, 1987 | 6 ft 5 in (196 cm) | Barrie, ON |
Ben Saxton | Blocker | November 21, 1988 | 6 ft 7 in (201 cm) | Calgary, AB |
Sam Schachter | Defender | May 8, 1990 | 6 ft 5 in (196 cm) | Richmond Hill, ON |
Next Gen[edit]
Name | Position | Date of birth | Height | Hometown |
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Alex Russell | Surrey, BC | |||
Sergiy Grabovskyy | Defender | August 19, 1994 | 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) | Aurora, BC |
Liam Kopp | Defender | January 30, 1995 | 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) | St. Catharines, ON |
Jake Macneil | Defender | May 1, 1996 | 6 ft 0 in (183 cm) | Georgetown, ON |
Aaron Nusbaum | Defender | January 13, 1993 | 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) | Aurora, ON |
Mike Plantinga | Blocker | May 23, 1990 | 6 ft 7 in (201 cm) | Langley, BC |
Will Hoey | Blocker | November 24, 1994 | 6 ft 8 in (203 cm) | Brampton, BC |
Ivan Reka | Blocker | November 8, 1993 | 6 ft 3 in (191 cm) | Longeuil, QC |
Mike Plantinga | Blocker | May 23, 1990 | 6 ft 7 in (201 cm) | Langley, BC |
Chris Towe | Caledon, ON |
Coaching staff[edit]
In February 2021, Josh Nichol was promoted to NextGen Head Coach and Felipe Humana-Paredes was hired as Performance Analyst and NextGen Assistant Coach.[10]
See also[edit]
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- Canadian beach volleyball players
- Canada men's national volleyball team
- Canada men's junior national volleyball team
- Canada women's national volleyball team
References[edit]
- ↑ "Beach Volleyball Centre". Volleyball Canada. Retrieved 2020-12-29.
- ↑ "Jesi Open". Beach Volleyball Database. Retrieved 2021-02-15.
- ↑ "Beach Volleyball History". FIVB. Retrieved 2021-02-15.
- ↑ "Mark Heese". Aurora Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2021-02-15.
- ↑ "HEESE CELEBRATES 51ST WITH MEMORIES". FIVB. 2020-08-15. Retrieved 2021-02-15.
- ↑ "History Beach". Volleyball Canada. Retrieved 2021-02-15.
- ↑ "Canadians make history by winning inaugural Commonwealth Games beach volleyball event". CBC. The Canadian Press. 2018-04-12. Retrieved 2021-02-15.
- ↑ "Men Beach Senior". Volleyball Canada. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
- ↑ "Beach Men Next Gen". Volleyball Canada. Retrieved 2020-12-29.
- ↑ "Volleyball Canada's Beach Program Announcement". Volleyball Canada. 2021-02-17. Retrieved 2021-02-21.
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