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Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour
US$800,000 Beach Volleyball FIVB World Tour Finals presented by Vodafone
August 15 - 18, 2018

(1) Julius Thole/Clemens Wickler, Germany

Julius Thole
Germany

Photo: CEV

Personal Info

Birth Date:

May 17, 1997 (28 yrs old)

Home Town:

Hamburg

Height:

206 cm (6'9")

Weight:

90 kg (198 lb)

Seasons:

Tournaments:

Career Best:

2nd (3 times)

Career Winnings:

US$120,775.00

Clemens Wickler
Germany

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Apr 28, 1995 (30 yrs old)

Home Town:

Starnberg

Height:

190 cm (6'3")

Weight:

83 kg (183 lb)

Seasons:

Tournaments:

Career Wins:

1 (FIVB U18/19 World Championships Porto 2013)

Career FIVB WT Best:

2nd (7 times)

Career Winnings:

US$293,700.00

Awards

Most Improved Team 2019 (with Clemens Wickler)

Awards

Most Improved Team 2019 (with Julius Thole)

Team Career Summary

Tour	Played	1	2	3	4	5	7	9	13	17	25	33	41	Money
FIVB	28	0	3	2	1	3	0	8	0	4	4	2	1	US$214,000.00

Previous Hamburg Results

Year	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
2016	Lorenz Schumann - 25th	Did not play

Recent Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
FIVB	8/8-12/2018	Moscow Four Star	16	17th	320	US$3,000.00
FIVB	7/31-8/5/2018	Vienna Major	23	17th	480	US$6,000.00
FIVB	7/3-8/2018	Espinho Four Star	19, Q1	3rd	640	US$10,000.00
FIVB	6/27-7/1/2018	Poland Four Star	27, Q9	9th	400	US$4,000.00
FIVB	6/20-24/2018	Ostrava Four Star	30, Q19	5th	480	US$6,000.00
FIVB	5/16-20/2018	Itapema Four Star	27, Q4	25th	240	US$2,000.00
FIVB	5/9-13/2018	Lucerne Three Star	22, Q3	25th	180	US$1,000.00
FIVB	5/2-6/2018	Mersin Three Star	24, Q3	9th	300	US$2,000.00
FIVB	4/18-22/2018	Xiamen Four Star	Q18	33rd	160	US$0.00
FIVB	3/6-10/2018	Doha Four Star	Q22	33rd	160	US$0.00
FIVB	2/27-3/4/2018	Fort Lauderdale Major	Q23	41st	60	US$0.00
FIVB	2/20-24/2018	Kish Island Three Star	24, Q11	17th	240	US$2,000.00

2018 World Tour Finals Hamburg Matches

Date	Bracket	Opponent	Score	Time
Wed, 8/15/2018	Pool A	Oleg Stoyanovskiy / Igor Velichko, Russia (10)	Won 21-19, 21-11	0:33
Thu, 8/16/2018	Pool A	Daniele Lupo / Paolo Nicolai, Italy (8)	Won 21-17, 18-21, 15-13	0:52
Thu, 8/16/2018	Pool A	Aleksandrs Samoilovs / Janis Smedins, Latvia (5)	Won 17-21, 21-12, 15-12	0:47
Fri, 8/17/2018	Pool A	Piotr Kantor / Bartosz Losiak, Poland (4)	Lost 15-21, 15-21	0:34
Fri, 8/17/2018	Winner 1	Martins Plavins / Edgars Tocs, Latvia (7)	Won 22-20, 15-21, 15-13	0:53
Sat, 8/18/2018	Semi-Finals	Anders Mol / Christian Sorum, Norway (2)	Lost 16-21, 21-16, 9-15	1:00
Sat, 8/18/2018	Bronze Medal	Piotr Kantor / Bartosz Losiak, Poland (4)	Lost 21-19, 15-21, 13-15	1:00

Team Finishes By Tournament Type

Tournament Type	Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-6th	7-8th	9-12th	13-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)
Olympic Games	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	$0.00
World Championships	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$45,000.00
World Tour Finals	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$67,000.00
Elite/Major Series/Five Star/Grand Slam	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	$12,000.00
Challenge/Four Star/Open	18	0	1	2	0	2	0	7	0	1	3	0	$85,000.00
Futures/Three Star/Two Star/One Star	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	$5,000.00
Total	28	0	3	2	1	3	0	8	0	4	4	0	$214,000.00

Individual Finishes by Tournament Type

Julius Thole												Clemens Wickler
Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)	Tournament Type	Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)
1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	$0.00	Olympic Games	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	$0.00
1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$22,500.00	World Championships	4	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	$45,500.00
2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	$33,500.00	World Tour Finals	4	0	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	$51,000.00
9	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	$11,000.00	Elite/Major Series/Five Star/Grand Slam	38	0	2	2	4	11	4	6	2	0	$130,500.00
22	0	1	2	0	2	7	3	4	0	$46,500.00	Challenge/Four Star/Open	31	0	2	3	0	4	11	4	3	0	$64,200.00
9	0	0	0	1	1	1	2	2	0	$7,275.00	Futures/Three Star/Two Star/One Star	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	$2,500.00
1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$0.00	U21 World Championships	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	$0.00
1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$0.00	U18/19 World Championships	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$0.00
46	0	3	2	2	4	10	8	7	0	$120,775.00	Total	85	1	7	5	6	19	17	12	6	0	$293,700.00

Team Finishes by Season

			Results												Matches
Season	Assoc	Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-6th	7-8th	9-12th	13-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)	Won	Lost	Pct
2018	FIVB	13	0	0	1	1	1	0	2	0	3	2	3	$71,000.00	32	21	60.4 %
Total	FIVB	13	0	0	1	1	1	0	2	0	3	2	3	$71,000.00	32	21	60.4 %

Individual Finishes by Season

Julius Thole													Clemens Wickler
Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)	Season	Association	Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)
											2013	FIVB Age Group WC	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$0.00
											2014	FIVB	9	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	2	2	$13,200.00
1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$0.00	2014	FIVB Age Group WC	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	$0.00
											2015	FIVB	5	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	$1,000.00
4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	$2,000.00	2016	FIVB	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	$0.00
8	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	1	4	$7,025.00	2017	FIVB	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	$0.00
1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$0.00	2017	FIVB Age Group WC
14	0	0	1	1	1	2	4	2	3	$36,250.00	2018	FIVB	13	0	0	1	1	1	2	3	2	3	$35,500.00
28	0	0	1	2	2	4	5	4	10	$45,275.00	Total	Total	32	1	0	1	1	2	4	7	4	12	$49,700.00

Team Match Records

	Won 1st Set								Lost 1st Set								2 Set Matches		3 Set Matches		By Forfeit		All Matches
Season	Won 2-0		Won 2-1		Lost 2-1		Overall		Won 2-1		Lost 2-1		Lost 2-0		Overall		Overall		Overall		Won	Lost	Overall
Overall	53	67.9%	8	10.3%	17	21.8%	61-17	78.2%	10	28.6%	5	14.3%	20	57.1%	10-25	28.6%	53-20	72.6%	18-22	45.0%	2	2	73-44	62.4%
2017-2018	20	58.8%	6	17.6%	8	23.5%	26-8	76.5%	6	31.6%	2	10.5%	11	57.9%	6-13	31.6%	20-11	64.5%	12-10	54.5%	0	0	32-21	60.4%
Against the Field	8	40.0%	5	25.0%	7	35.0%	13-7	65.0%	4	40.0%	2	20.0%	4	40.0%	4-6	40.0%	16-8	66.7%	18-18	50.0%	0	0	17-13	56.7%

Team Match Records by Round

	Country Quota		Qualifier		Pool Play		Lucky Loser		Elimination Rounds		Semi-Finals		Bronze Medal		Gold Medal		Overall
Tournament Type	Won	Lost	Won	Lost	Won	Lost	Won	Lost	Won	Lost	Won	Lost	Won	Lost	Won	Lost	Won	Lost
Olympic Games	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2
World Championships	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	7	1
World Tour Finals	0	0	0	0	5	1	0	0	3	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	9	4
Elite/Major Series/Five Star/Grand Slam	0	0	0	1	2	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	5
Challenge/Four Star/Open	0	0	8	2	20	12	0	0	13	10	1	2	2	0	0	1	44	27
Futures/Three Star/Two Star/One Star	0	0	5	0	3	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	5
Total	0	0	13	3	35	19	0	0	20	15	3	3	2	1	0	3	73	44

Head to Head Results
Series tied against the field 8-8 (Lead 4 Series, Trail 3 Series, 1 Series Tied)

Date	Tour	Tournament	Round	Winning Team	Seed	Losing Team	Seed	Score	Time
Trail the series against # 2 Mol/Sorum, Norway 1-2
8/18/18	FIVB	2018 World Tour Finals Hamburg	Semi-Finals	Mol/Sorum	2	Thole/Wickler	1	21-16, 16-21, 15-9	1:00
7/7/18	FIVB	Espinho Four Star	Winner 3	Thole/Wickler	19, Q1	Mol/Sorum	9	21-18, 22-24, 15-13	0:50
4/18/18	FIVB	Xiamen Four Star	Qualifier 2	Mol/Sorum	23, Q2	Thole/Wickler	Q18	13-21, 21-14, 15-8	0:42
Lead the series against # 3 Brouwer/Meeuwsen, Netherlands 1-0
6/21/18	FIVB	Ostrava Four Star	Pool C	Thole/Wickler	30, Q19	Brouwer/Meeuwsen	3	21-23, 21-17, 15-9	0:50
Trail the series against # 4 Kantor/Losiak, Poland 0-3
8/18/18	FIVB	2018 World Tour Finals Hamburg	Bronze Medal	Kantor/Losiak	4	Thole/Wickler	1	19-21, 21-15, 15-13	1:00
8/17/18	FIVB	2018 World Tour Finals Hamburg	Pool A	Kantor/Losiak	4	Thole/Wickler	1	21-15, 21-15	0:34
6/23/18	FIVB	Ostrava Four Star	Winner 3	Kantor/Losiak	5	Thole/Wickler	30, Q19	21-19, 21-13	0:33
Trail the series against # 5 Samoilovs/Smedins, Latvia 1-2
8/16/18	FIVB	2018 World Tour Finals Hamburg	Pool A	Thole/Wickler	1	Samoilovs/Smedins	5	17-21, 21-12, 15-12	0:47
7/8/18	FIVB	Espinho Four Star	Semi-Finals	Samoilovs/Smedins	4	Thole/Wickler	19, Q1	15-21, 21-16, 15-8	0:45
6/30/18	FIVB	Poland Four Star	Winner 2	Samoilovs/Smedins	10	Thole/Wickler	27, Q9	21-14, 21-18	0:34
Lead the series against # 6 Gavira/Herrera, Spain 1-0
6/28/18	FIVB	Poland Four Star	Pool F	Thole/Wickler	27, Q9	Gavira/Herrera	6	21-11, 21-15	0:33
Lead the series against # 7 Plavins/Tocs, Latvia 2-0
8/17/18	FIVB	2018 World Tour Finals Hamburg	Winner 1	Thole/Wickler	1	Plavins/Tocs	7	22-20, 15-21, 15-13	0:53
6/23/18	FIVB	Ostrava Four Star	Winner 2	Thole/Wickler	30, Q19	Plavins/Tocs	13	21-16, 16-21, 15-12	0:48
Lead the series against # 8 Lupo/Nicolai, Italy 1-0
8/16/18	FIVB	2018 World Tour Finals Hamburg	Pool A	Thole/Wickler	1	Lupo/Nicolai	8	21-17, 18-21, 15-13	0:52
Series tied with # 10 Stoyanovskiy/Velichko, Russia 1-1
8/15/18	FIVB	2018 World Tour Finals Hamburg	Pool A	Thole/Wickler	1	Stoyanovskiy/Velichko	10	21-19, 21-11	0:33
8/9/18	FIVB	Moscow Four Star	Pool A	Stoyanovskiy/Velichko	1	Thole/Wickler	16	17-21, 26-24, 15-10	0:48