Chinese pair win gold in beach volleyball worlds (Xinhua) Updated: 2006-08-06 09:02
VIENNA, August 5 -- China's Tian Jia and Wang Jie captured their first
international beach volleyball gold medal in the World Beach Volleyball Tour in
Austrian south city Klagenfurt on Saturday, local TV ORF said.
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| Wang Jie(Front)
and Tian Jia [Xinhua] |
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their 20-22, 21-16 and 15-11 win in 56 minutes over top-seeded Juliana
Felisberta Silva and Larissa Franca of Brazil, the fifth-seeded Tian and Wang
became the second team from China to capture a SWATCH-FIVB World Tour gold medal
this season.
After the top-seeded Silva and Franca got the first set with their
experienced cooperation, Tian and Wang improved the defence and played more
aggressive while their rivals played a little impatiently. Tian and Wang since
then controlled the tempo in the match and kept the advantage to the end.
In a quarterfinal, China's men players Wu Penggen and Xu Linyin were defeated
by their Brazilian opponents 2-1.
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