In an Olympic rarity, no U.S. girls’s seaside volleyball staff will win a medal this yr.
The ultimate final U.S. duo, reigning international champs Sara Hughes and Kelly Cheng, misplaced their quarterfinal fit on Tuesday in Paris 2-0 (21-18, 21-19) to Switzerland’s Nina Brunner and Tanja Huberli.
The end result got here an afternoon after the U.S. pair of Taryn Kloth and Kristen Nuss fell to a Canadian pair within the spherical of 16.
The USA ultimate did not earn an Olympic medal in girls’s seaside volleyball in 2000. As well as, 4 of the previous 5 Olympic gold-medal groups have been from the USA — Misty Would possibly and Kerry Walsh Jennings in 2004, 2008 and 2012, plus Alix Klineman and April Ross in 2021.
Within the day’s different girls’s quarterfinal, Australia’s Mariafe Artacho del Sun and Taliqua Clancy edged Switzerland’s Zoe Verge-Depre and Esmee Boebner 2-1 (21-19, 16-21, 15-12).
Males’s groups from Sweden and Germany posted 2-0 sweeps of their quarterfinal suits on Tuesday.
Sweden’s David Ahman and Jonatan Hellvig crowned Brazil’s Evandro Goncalves Oliveira Junior and Arthur Diego Mariano Lanci 21-17, 21-16. Germany’s Nils Ehlers and Clemens Wickler downed the Netherlands’ Stefan Boermans and Yorick de Groot 22-20, 21-15.
The ultimate final U.S. males’s duo, Miles Partain and Andrew Benesh, will oppose Qatar’s Cherif Younousse and Ahmed Tijan in a Wednesday quarterfinal.
–Box Stage Media
