Beach volleyball at the 2019 Pacific Games explained

Event:Beach volleyball
Games:2019 Pacific Games
Venue:Apia Waterfront
Dates:8–12 July
Prev:2015

The beach volleyball competitions for men's and women's teams at the 2019 Pacific Games was held in Apia, Samoa on 8–12 July 2019 at the Apia Waterfront.

Teams

The nations competing were:

Medal summary

Results

Men's tournament
Tim Dickson
Marcus Ferguson

Terau Ena
Jeremie Paraue

Semisi Funaki
Tio Fonohema
Women's tournament
Miller Pata
Sherysyn Toko

Vaihere Fareura
Emere Maau

Litara Keil
Deveney Pula

Men's tournament

Pool stage

The sixteen beach volleyball men's pairs were seeded into four pools and a four-team bracket was played within each pool. Teams with two wins after this stage – i.e. the top-ranked side from each pool – advanced directly to the quarter-finals.

Teams losing their first pool match played off, and the losing sides from those games were eliminated. The playoff winners each played a crossover match against a second-placed side from another pool in a repechage to determine the remaining quarter-finalists.

Pool A
Pool B
Pool C
Pool D

Finals matches

The winners of each pool – the teams from Tuvalu, Samoa, Tonga and Australia – advanced directly to the quarter-finals. Their respective opponents in the round of eight – American Samoa, Tahiti, Kiribati, and Papua New Guinea – won through via repechage match playoffs.[1]

The Australia pair of Tim Dickson and Marcus Ferguson won the final, overcoming an injury to Dickson during the first set to defeat Tahiti in three sets,[2] while Tonga took out the bronze medal by defeating American Samoa,[3] also in three sets.

Women's tournament

Pool matches

Pool A
Pool B
Pool C

Finals

The Vanuatu women's team of Miller Pata (née Elwin) and Sherysyn Toko won gold, defeating the Tahiti women's pair in straight sets in the final.[4] American Samoa defeated Solomon Islands for the bronze.[3]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Pacific Games beach volleyball quarter-finals confirmed . AsianVolleyball.net . https://web.archive.org/web/20190712080644/https://asianvolleyball.net/new/pacific-games-beach-volleyball-quarter-finals-confirmed/ . 12 July 2019 . 10 July 2019.
  2. Web site: Smith . Matthew . Australia overcome injury to win 2019 Pacific Games men's beach volleyball as Vanuatu triumph in women's event . Inside the Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20190713070953/https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1081963/samoa-2019-beach-volleyball . 13 July 2019 . 12 July 2019.
  3. Web site: Road to the finals . AsianVolleyball.net . https://web.archive.org/web/20190713070535/https://asianvolleyball.net/new/road-to-the-finals/ . 13 July 2019 . 11 July 2019.
  4. News: Sport: Golden farewell for Vanuatu beach volleyball star . Radio New Zealand . 12 July 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190712205131/https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/394270/sport-golden-farewell-for-vanuatu-beach-volleyball-star . 12 July 2019.