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Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour
US$400,000 le World Series 13
July 5 - 9, 2006

(2) Julius Brink/Christoph Dieckmann, 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

Christoph Dieckmann
Germany

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Jan 7, 1976 (49 yrs old)

Home Town:

Bonn

Height:

198 cm (6'6")

Weight:

89 kg (196 lb)

Seasons:

Tournaments:

112

Career Wins:

Career Winnings:

US$447,060.00

Awards

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

Team Career Summary

Tour	Played	1	2	3	4	5	7	9	13	17	19	25	Money
FIVB	33	3	4	3	6	7	3	4	0	1	1	1	US$476,500.00

Previous Marseille Results

Year	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
1998	Did not play	Markus Dieckmann - 9th
1999	Did not play	Markus Dieckmann - 25th
2000	Did not play	Markus Dieckmann - 25th
2001	Rudiger Strosik - 41st	Did not play
2003	Kjell Schneider - 41st	Andreas Scheuerpflug - 4th
2004	Kjell Schneider - 25th	Andreas Scheuerpflug - 5th

Recent Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
FIVB	6/28-7/2/2006	Norway Grand Slam	3	5th	480	US$12,800.00
FIVB	6/21-25/2006	Switzerland Grand Slam	2	3rd	640	US$22,100.00
FIVB	6/14-18/2006	Portugal Open	4	1st	600	US$32,000.00
FIVB	5/23-27/2006	China Open	6	3rd	480	US$16,000.00

France Open Matches

Date	Bracket	Opponent	Score	Time
Thu, 7/6/2006	Winner 1	Anders Lund Hoyer / Bo Soderberg, Denmark (31, Q28)	Won 21-17, 21-15	0:40
Thu, 7/6/2006	Winner 2	Florian Gosch / Bernhard Strauss, Austria (15)	Won 19-21, 21-8, 15-10	0:58
Fri, 7/7/2006	Winner 3	Koichi Nishimura / Katsuhiro Shiratori, Japan (26, Q7)	Won 21-17, 21-17	0:50
Fri, 7/7/2006	Winner 4	Marcio Araujo / Fabio Luiz Magalhaes, Brazil (3)	Lost 19-21, 17-21	0:51
Sat, 7/8/2006	Contender 6	Emanuel Rego / Ricardo Santos, Brazil (1)	Lost 11-21, 15-21	0:38

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	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	$0.00
World Championships	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	$7,000.00
Elite/Major Series/Five Star/Grand Slam	13	0	0	2	5	4	0	2	0	0	0	0	$204,400.00
Challenge/Four Star/Open	18	3	4	1	1	3	3	2	0	0	1	0	$265,100.00
Total	33	3	4	3	6	7	3	4	0	2	1	0	$476,500.00

Individual Finishes by Tournament Type

Julius Brink												Christoph Dieckmann
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	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	$0.00
4	1	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	$68,500.00	World Championships	5	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	$15,250.00
44	2	3	7	7	7	6	3	4	0	$312,575.00	Elite/Major Series/Five Star/Grand Slam	25	1	0	3	6	8	6	1	0	0	$178,675.00
59	5	8	5	2	11	9	7	4	0	$290,260.00	Challenge/Four Star/Open	78	4	4	1	2	13	25	14	12	0	$251,985.00
											Challenger	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	$1,150.00
109	9	11	14	9	18	15	12	8	0	$671,335.00	Total	112	5	4	4	8	23	34	17	13	0	$447,060.00

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
2006	FIVB	5	1	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	$92,900.00	23	7	76.7 %
Total	FIVB	5	1	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	$92,900.00	23	7	76.7 %

Individual Finishes by Season

Julius Brink													Christoph Dieckmann
Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)	Season	Association	Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)
											1996	FIVB	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	$0.00
											1997	FIVB	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	3	$1,750.00
											1997	FIVB C&S	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$400.00
											1998	FIVB	13	0	0	0	0	1	5	6	1	0	$20,225.00
											1998	FIVB C&S	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	$750.00
											1999	FIVB	13	0	0	0	0	1	6	0	6	0	$21,500.00
1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$2,000.00	2000	FIVB	12	0	0	0	0	0	5	2	5	0	$14,250.00
4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	$0.00	2001	FIVB
4	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	$3,210.00	2002	FIVB	4	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	$7,110.00
9	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	6	$4,500.00	2003	FIVB	8	0	0	0	1	1	5	1	0	0	$30,250.00
12	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	6	1	$19,375.00	2004	FIVB	11	0	0	1	1	4	3	2	0	0	$42,625.00
9	1	0	2	0	2	3	1	0	0	$65,175.00	2005	FIVB	8	2	0	0	0	4	2	0	0	0	$64,000.00
5	1	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	$46,450.00	2006	FIVB	5	1	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	$46,450.00
44	2	0	4	0	5	8	6	6	13	$140,710.00	Total	Total	82	3	0	3	2	14	30	14	12	4	$249,310.00

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	86	74.1%	20	17.2%	10	8.6%	106-10	91.4%	23	33.3%	11	15.9%	35	50.7%	23-46	33.3%	86-35	71.1%	43-21	67.2%	0	2	129-58	69.0%
2005-2006	27	79.4%	7	20.6%	0	0.0%	34-0	100.0%	7	33.3%	4	19.0%	10	47.6%	7-14	33.3%	27-10	73.0%	14-4	77.8%	0	0	41-14	74.5%
Against the Field	34	70.8%	9	18.8%	5	10.4%	43-5	89.6%	12	31.6%	6	15.8%	20	52.6%	12-26	31.6%	68-40	63.0%	42-22	65.6%	0	0	55-31	64.0%

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	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2
World Championships	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1
Elite/Major Series/Five Star/Grand Slam	0	0	0	0	28	5	0	0	23	7	0	7	2	5	0	0	54	24
Challenge/Four Star/Open	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	45	15	7	2	1	1	3	4	71	31
Total	0	0	0	0	32	7	0	0	68	23	7	9	3	6	3	4	129	58

Head to Head Results
Brink/Dieckmann lead the series against the field 14-7 (Lead 9 Series, Trail 2 Series, 1 Series Tied)

Date	Tour	Tournament	Round	Winning Team	Seed	Losing Team	Seed	Score	Time
Trail the series against # 1 Rego/Santos, Brazil 2-3
7/8/06	FIVB	France Open	Contender 6	Rego/Santos	1	Brink/Dieckmann	2	21-11, 21-15	0:38
6/25/06	FIVB	Switzerland Grand Slam	Semi-Finals	Rego/Santos	1	Brink/Dieckmann	2	21-15, 21-17	0:48
6/18/06	FIVB	Portugal Open	Gold Medal	Brink/Dieckmann	4	Rego/Santos	1	21-13, 21-17	0:44
6/16/06	FIVB	Portugal Open	Winner 4	Rego/Santos	1	Brink/Dieckmann	4	21-17, 21-16	0:45
5/27/06	FIVB	China Open	Bronze Medal	Brink/Dieckmann	6	Rego/Santos	1	19-21, 22-20, 16-14	0:56
Trail the series against # 3 Araujo/Magalhaes, Brazil 1-2
7/7/06	FIVB	France Open	Winner 4	Araujo/Magalhaes	3	Brink/Dieckmann	2	21-19, 21-17	0:51
6/24/06	FIVB	Switzerland Grand Slam	Winner 4	Araujo/Magalhaes	3	Brink/Dieckmann	2	21-14, 23-25, 15-11	1:12
6/17/06	FIVB	Portugal Open	Contender 6	Brink/Dieckmann	4	Araujo/Magalhaes	2	21-13, 21-14	0:36
Lead the series against # 4 Cunha/Neto, Brazil 2-1
6/25/06	FIVB	Switzerland Grand Slam	Bronze Medal	Brink/Dieckmann	2	Cunha/Neto	4	21-17, 16-21, 15-13	1:08
6/17/06	FIVB	Portugal Open	Semi-Finals	Brink/Dieckmann	4	Cunha/Neto	3	21-18, 12-21, 15-12	1:01
5/26/06	FIVB	China Open	Semi-Finals	Cunha/Neto	5	Brink/Dieckmann	6	21-15, 21-18	0:46
Lead the series against # 6 Kjemperud/Skarlund, Norway 1-0
6/16/06	FIVB	Portugal Open	Winner 3	Brink/Dieckmann	4	Kjemperud/Skarlund	12	21-11, 21-16	0:44
Lead the series against # 15 Gosch/Strauss, Austria 1-0
7/6/06	FIVB	France Open	Winner 2	Brink/Dieckmann	2	Gosch/Strauss	15	19-21, 21-8, 15-10	0:58
Lead the series against # 16 Amore/Fenili, Italy 1-0
7/1/06	FIVB	Norway Grand Slam	Winner 2	Brink/Dieckmann	3	Amore/Fenili	23	21-17, 21-17	0:43
Lead the series against # 18, Q2 Berg/Svensson, Sweden 1-0
6/29/06	FIVB	Norway Grand Slam	Pool C	Brink/Dieckmann	3	Berg/Svensson	30, Q10	21-11, 19-21, 15-11	0:56
Lead the series against # 21 Brenha/Maia, Portugal 1-0
6/30/06	FIVB	Norway Grand Slam	Pool C	Brink/Dieckmann	3	Brenha/Maia	14	21-17, 21-18	0:42
Lead the series against # 23 Arkaev/Barsuk, Russia 1-0
6/30/06	FIVB	Norway Grand Slam	Pool C	Brink/Dieckmann	3	Arkaev/Barsuk	19	21-13, 21-15	0:38
Lead the series against # 26, Q7 Nishimura/Shiratori, Japan 1-0
7/7/06	FIVB	France Open	Winner 3	Brink/Dieckmann	2	Nishimura/Shiratori	26, Q7	21-17, 21-17	0:50
Lead the series against # 31, Q28 Hoyer/Soderberg, Denmark 1-0
7/6/06	FIVB	France Open	Winner 1	Brink/Dieckmann	2	Hoyer/Soderberg	31, Q28	21-17, 21-15	0:40
Series tied with Insfran/Marques, Brazil 1-1
7/1/06	FIVB	Norway Grand Slam	Winner 3	Insfran/Marques	4	Brink/Dieckmann	3	21-17, 21-18	0:44
5/25/06	FIVB	China Open	Winner 3	Brink/Dieckmann	6	Insfran/Marques	3	19-21, 21-16, 15-9	0:54