Team Preview

Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour
US$1,000,000 SWATCH FIVB World Championship presented by ConocoPhillips
June 26 - July 5, 2009

(3) Julius Brink/Jonas Reckermann, Germany

Julius Brink
Germany

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Jul 6, 1982 (43 yrs old)

Home Town:

Düsseldorf

Height:

186 cm (6'1")

Weight:

86 kg (189 lb)

Seasons:

Tournaments:

109

Career Wins:

Career Winnings:

US$671,335.00

Jonas Reckermann
Germany

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

May 26, 1979 (46 yrs old)

Home Town:

Rheine

Height:

200 cm (6'7")

Weight:

97 kg (213 lb)

Seasons:

Tournaments:

104

Career Wins:

Career Winnings:

US$691,427.50

Awards

Team of the Year 2009 (with Jonas Reckermann)
Tour Champion 2009 (with Jonas Reckermann)

Awards

Best Blocker 2009
Team of the Year 2009 (with Julius Brink)
Tour Champion 2009 (with Julius Brink)

Team Career Summary

Tour	Played	1	2	3	4	5	7	9	13	17	25	Money
FIVB	33	5	7	9	3	3	1	3	0	2	0	US$657,500.00

Previous Stavanger Results

Year	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
2001	Did not play	Markus Dieckmann - 41st
2002	Did not play	Markus Dieckmann - 5th
2003	Kjell Schneider - 33rd	Did not play
2004	Kjell Schneider - 25th	Did not play
2005	Kjell Schneider - 17th	Markus Dieckmann - 4th
2006	Christoph Dieckmann - 5th	Did not play
2007	Christoph Dieckmann - 5th	Mischa Urbatzka - 9th
2008	Christoph Dieckmann - 3rd	Mischa Urbatzka - 2nd

Recent Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
FIVB	5/26-31/2009	Myslowice Open	3	4th	420	US$11,200.00
FIVB	5/12-17/2009	Rome Open	4	1st	600	US$30,000.00
FIVB	4/29-5/3/2009	Shanghai Open	3	3rd	480	US$15,000.00

Stavanger World Championships Matches

Date

Bracket

Opponent

Score

Time

Fri, 6/26/2009

Pool C

Mykola Babich / Sergiy Mykhaylov, Ukraine (46)

Won 21-12, 21-10

0:40

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Julius Brink	Total	20	15	1	0.700	0	9	5	4
	1	13	9	1	0.615	0	6	3	1
	2	7	6	0	0.857	0	3	2	3
Jonas Reckermann	Total	13	12	0	0.923	2	1	1	0
	1	5	5	0	1.000	0	1	1	0
	2	8	7	0	0.875	2	0	0	0

Sun, 6/28/2009

Pool C

Emiel Boersma / Joppe Paulides, Netherlands (27)

Won By Forfeit

Tue, 6/30/2009

Pool C

Mariano Baracetti / Jose Salema, Argentina (22)

Won 21-13, 21-11

0:36

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Julius Brink	Total	20	18	1	0.850	0	8	3	3
	1	13	12	1	0.846	0	4	3	2
	2	7	6	0	0.857	0	4	0	1
Jonas Reckermann	Total	13	11	1	0.769	3	0	1	4
	1	4	3	1	0.500	1	0	0	3
	2	9	8	0	0.889	2	0	1	1

Thu, 7/2/2009

Winner 1

Pedro Cunha / Pedro Solberg, Brazil (4)

Won By Forfeit

Fri, 7/3/2009

Winner 2

Jake Gibb / Sean Rosenthal, United States (23)

Won 21-18, 21-16

0:47

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Julius Brink	Total	18	10	3	0.389	0	6	0	6
	1	13	6	2	0.308	0	3	0	5
	2	5	4	1	0.600	0	3	0	1
Jonas Reckermann	Total	14	10	1	0.643	10	1	1	2
	1	5	4	1	0.600	6	1	1	2
	2	9	6	0	0.667	4	0	0	0

Sat, 7/4/2009

Winner 3

Emanuel Rego / Ricardo Santos, Brazil (5)

Won 14-21, 21-15, 15-13

1:03

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Julius Brink	Total	26	19	2	0.654	0	6	0	6
	1	6	4	1	0.500	0	2	0	3
	2	6	6	0	1.000	0	0	0	2
	3	14	9	1	0.571	0	4	0	1
Jonas Reckermann	Total	31	18	0	0.581	1	1	3	3
	1	15	6	0	0.400	1	0	0	2
	2	11	8	0	0.727	0	1	3	1
	3	5	4	0	0.800	0	0	0	0

Sun, 7/5/2009

Semi-Finals

Phil Dalhausser / Todd Rogers, United States (2)

Won 21-17, 16-21, 15-10

1:07

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Julius Brink	Total	44	23	6	0.386	0	19	3	6
	1	12	6	2	0.333	0	4	1	3
	2	19	8	4	0.211	0	5	2	3
	3	13	9	0	0.692	0	10	0	0
Jonas Reckermann	Total	20	12	1	0.550	6	0	0	2
	1	10	8	0	0.800	3	0	0	1
	2	5	2	0	0.400	2	0	0	0
	3	5	2	1	0.200	1	0	0	1

Sun, 7/5/2009

Gold Medal

Alison Cerutti / Harley Marques, Brazil (1)

Won 21-16, 21-19

0:50

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Julius Brink	Total	9	6	3	0.333	0	6	2	4
	1	5	4	1	0.600	0	3	2	1
	2	4	2	2	0.000	0	3	0	3
Jonas Reckermann	Total	30	16	4	0.400	4	0	4	5
	1	13	7	2	0.385	1	0	3	4
	2	17	9	2	0.412	3	0	1	1

Overall Tournament Stats
Player	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Julius Brink	137	91	16	0.547	0	54	13	29
Jonas Reckermann	121	79	7	0.595	26	3	10	16
Total	258	170	23	0.570	26	57	23	45
Opponents	261	137	49	0.337	11	53	4	26

World Championships Results

Year	Event	Location	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
2001	World Championships	Klagenfurt	Did not play	Markus Dieckmann - 9th
2003	World Championships	Rio de Janeiro	Did not play	Markus Dieckmann - 17th
2005	World Championships	Berlin	Kjell Schneider - 3rd	Markus Dieckmann - 9th
2007	World Championships	Gstaad	Christoph Dieckmann - 17th	Mischa Urbatzka - 17th
2009	World Championships	Stavanger	Jonas Reckermann - 1st	Julius Brink - 1st
2011	World Championships	Rome	Jonas Reckermann - 3rd	Julius Brink - 3rd

World Championships Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
FIVB	6/26-7/5/2009	Stavanger World Championships	3	1st	1000	US$60,000.00
FIVB	6/13-19/2011	Rome World Championships	4	3rd	800	US$35,000.00

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	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$0.00
World Championships	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$95,000.00
Elite/Major Series/Five Star/Grand Slam	17	2	3	4	2	2	0	3	0	1	0	0	$357,800.00
Challenge/Four Star/Open	13	1	4	4	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	$204,700.00
Total	33	5	7	9	3	3	1	3	0	2	0	0	$657,500.00

Individual Finishes by Tournament Type

Julius Brink												Jonas Reckermann
Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)	Tournament Type	Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)
2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	$0.00	Olympic Games	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$0.00
4	1	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	$68,500.00	World Championships	6	1	0	1	0	0	2	2	0	0	$63,250.00
44	2	3	7	7	7	6	3	4	0	$312,575.00	Elite/Major Series/Five Star/Grand Slam	40	3	4	4	4	11	13	1	0	0	$324,925.00
59	5	8	5	2	11	9	7	4	0	$290,260.00	Challenge/Four Star/Open	56	2	14	6	4	11	6	10	1	0	$303,252.50
109	9	11	14	9	18	15	12	8	0	$671,335.00	Total	104	7	18	11	8	22	22	13	1	0	$691,427.50

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
2009	FIVB	4	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$116,200.00	23	6	79.3 %
Total	FIVB	4	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$116,200.00	23	6	79.3 %

Individual Finishes by Season

Julius Brink													Jonas Reckermann
Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)	Season	Association	Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)
1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$2,000.00	2000	FIVB
4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	$0.00	2001	FIVB	9	0	0	0	0	2	4	1	0	2	$19,000.00
4	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	$3,210.00	2002	FIVB	7	0	0	1	0	1	2	2	1	0	$17,652.50
9	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	6	$4,500.00	2003	FIVB	9	0	2	0	1	3	1	2	0	0	$47,500.00
12	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	6	1	$19,375.00	2004	FIVB	11	2	2	0	2	2	2	1	0	0	$78,500.00
9	1	0	2	0	2	3	1	0	0	$65,175.00	2005	FIVB	9	0	3	0	1	2	3	0	0	0	$65,625.00
9	2	1	2	1	3	0	0	0	0	$88,700.00	2006	FIVB
12	0	0	0	3	4	3	1	1	0	$58,050.00	2007	FIVB	13	0	2	0	0	4	4	3	0	0	$60,350.00
12	1	3	1	2	3	1	1	0	0	$91,500.00	2008	FIVB	13	0	2	1	1	4	3	2	0	0	$74,050.00
4	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	$58,100.00	2009	FIVB	4	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	$58,100.00
76	6	4	6	7	13	12	8	7	13	$390,610.00	Total	Total	75	4	11	3	6	18	19	11	1	2	$420,777.50

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	107	76.4%	19	13.6%	14	10.0%	126-14	90.0%	33	50.8%	6	9.2%	26	40.0%	33-32	50.8%	107-26	80.5%	52-20	72.2%	3	0	162-46	77.9%
2008-2009	37	77.1%	6	12.5%	5	10.4%	43-5	89.6%	10	62.5%	0	0.0%	6	37.5%	10-6	62.5%	37-6	86.0%	16-5	76.2%	2	0	55-11	83.3%
Against the Field	48	72.7%	10	15.2%	8	12.1%	58-8	87.9%	18	46.2%	2	5.1%	19	48.7%	18-21	46.2%	96-32	75.0%	56-20	73.7%	3	0	79-26	75.2%

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	3	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	7	0
World Championships	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	6	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	15	1
Elite/Major Series/Five Star/Grand Slam	0	0	0	0	42	6	0	0	27	6	5	6	4	2	2	3	80	23
Challenge/Four Star/Open	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	37	9	5	5	4	1	1	4	60	22
Total	0	0	0	0	51	6	0	0	72	15	12	12	9	3	5	7	162	46

Head to Head Results
Brink/Reckermann lead the series against the field 20-6 (Lead 12 Series, Trail 2 Series, 1 Series Tied)

Date	Tour	Tournament	Round	Winning Team	Seed	Losing Team	Seed	Score	Time
Trail the series against # 1 Cerutti/Marques, Brazil 1-3
7/5/09	FIVB	Stavanger World Championships	Gold Medal	Brink/Reckermann	3	Cerutti/Marques	1	21-16, 21-19	0:50
5/30/09	FIVB	Myslowice Open	Semi-Finals	Cerutti/Marques	1	Brink/Reckermann	3	21-17, 21-16	0:44
5/15/09	FIVB	Rome Open	Winner 4	Cerutti/Marques	1	Brink/Reckermann	4	22-20, 21-15	0:49
5/3/09	FIVB	Shanghai Open	Semi-Finals	Cerutti/Marques	1	Brink/Reckermann	3	17-21, 21-17, 16-14	1:11
Lead the series against # 2 Dalhausser/Rogers, United States 1-0
7/5/09	FIVB	Stavanger World Championships	Semi-Finals	Brink/Reckermann	3	Dalhausser/Rogers	2	21-17, 16-21, 15-10	1:07
Lead the series against # 4 Cunha/Solberg, Brazil 3-0
7/2/09	FIVB	Stavanger World Championships	Winner 1	Brink/Reckermann	3	Cunha/Solberg	4	By Forfeit
5/30/09	FIVB	Myslowice Open	Contender 6	Brink/Reckermann	3	Cunha/Solberg	2	16-21, 21-17, 17-15	1:10
5/17/09	FIVB	Rome Open	Gold Medal	Brink/Reckermann	4	Cunha/Solberg	2	28-26, 20-22, 15-13	1:23
Lead the series against # 5 Rego/Santos, Brazil 2-0
7/4/09	FIVB	Stavanger World Championships	Winner 3	Brink/Reckermann	3	Rego/Santos	5	14-21, 21-15, 15-13	1:03
5/16/09	FIVB	Rome Open	Semi-Finals	Brink/Reckermann	4	Rego/Santos	3	21-12, 21-19	0:42
Lead the series against # 6 Klemperer/Koreng, Germany 1-0
5/15/09	FIVB	Rome Open	Winner 3	Brink/Reckermann	4	Klemperer/Koreng	5	21-23, 21-9, 15-8	1:04
Lead the series against # 9 Barsuk/Kolodinsky, Russia 2-0
5/29/09	FIVB	Myslowice Open	Winner 3	Brink/Reckermann	3	Barsuk/Kolodinsky	6	19-21, 21-16, 15-13	0:58
5/1/09	FIVB	Shanghai Open	Winner 3	Brink/Reckermann	3	Barsuk/Kolodinsky	6	21-12, 21-12	0:37
Lead the series against # 14 Hoidalen/Kjemperud, Norway 1-0
5/1/09	FIVB	Shanghai Open	Winner 2	Brink/Reckermann	3	Hoidalen/Kjemperud	19	21-17, 21-18	0:52
Series tied with # 16 Kais/Vesik, Estonia 1-1
5/3/09	FIVB	Shanghai Open	Bronze Medal	Brink/Reckermann	3	Kais/Vesik	10	21-17, 21-9	0:37
5/2/09	FIVB	Shanghai Open	Winner 4	Kais/Vesik	10	Brink/Reckermann	3	21-16, 21-14	0:44
Lead the series against # 22 Baracetti/Salema, Argentina 1-0
6/30/09	FIVB	Stavanger World Championships	Pool C	Brink/Reckermann	3	Baracetti/Salema	22	21-13, 21-11	0:36
Trail the series against # 23 Gibb/Rosenthal, United States 1-2
7/3/09	FIVB	Stavanger World Championships	Winner 2	Brink/Reckermann	3	Gibb/Rosenthal	23	21-18, 21-16	0:47
5/31/09	FIVB	Myslowice Open	Bronze Medal	Gibb/Rosenthal	15	Brink/Reckermann	3	21-16, 21-19	0:50
5/29/09	FIVB	Myslowice Open	Winner 4	Gibb/Rosenthal	15	Brink/Reckermann	3	13-21, 24-22, 15-9	1:00
Lead the series against # 26 Lochhead/Pitman, New Zealand 2-0
5/28/09	FIVB	Myslowice Open	Winner 2	Brink/Reckermann	3	Lochhead/Pitman	19	22-20, 18-21, 15-13	0:59
5/14/09	FIVB	Rome Open	Winner 2	Brink/Reckermann	4	Lochhead/Pitman	13	21-19, 21-12	0:44
Lead the series against # 27 Boersma/Paulides, Netherlands 1-0
6/28/09	FIVB	Stavanger World Championships	Pool C	Brink/Reckermann	3	Boersma/Paulides	27	By Forfeit
Lead the series against # 33 "Geor" Gomes/Terceiro, Georgia 1-0
5/16/09	FIVB	Rome Open	Contender 6	Brink/Reckermann	4	"Geor" Gomes/Terceiro	23	21-18, 21-18	0:52
Lead the series against # 45 Horrem/Maaseide, Norway 1-0
5/14/09	FIVB	Rome Open	Winner 1	Brink/Reckermann	4	Horrem/Maaseide	29	22-20, 21-18	0:53
Lead the series against # 46 Babich/Mykhaylov, Ukraine 1-0
6/26/09	FIVB	Stavanger World Championships	Pool C	Brink/Reckermann	3	Babich/Mykhaylov	46	21-12, 21-10	0:40