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US$1,000,000 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships Mazury 2013
July 2 - 7, 2013

(6) Aleksandrs Samoilovs/Janis Smedins, Latvia

Aleksandrs Samoilovs
Latvia

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Apr 6, 1985 (39 yrs old)

Home Town:

Riga

Height:

196 cm (6'5")

Weight:

96 kg (211 lb)

Seasons:

22

Tournaments:

209

Career Wins:

15

Career FIVB WT Wins:

13

Career Winnings:

US$776,151.48

Janis Smedins
Latvia

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Jul 31, 1987 (37 yrs old)

Home Town:

Kuldiga

Height:

191 cm (6'3")

Weight:

84 kg (185 lb)

Seasons:

22

Tournaments:

170

Career Wins:

14

Career Winnings:

US$695,109.35

Team Career Summary

Tour	Played	1	2	3	4	5	7	9	13	17	19	21	25	33	Money
FIVB	105	13	5	8	6	15	0	31	2	16	2	1	3	3	US$1,131,175.00

Previous Stare Jablonki Results

Year	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
2005	Martins Plavins - 25th	Did not play
2006	Did not play	Toms Smedins - 41st
2007	Martins Plavins - 7th	Toms Smedins - 25th
2008	Martins Plavins - 33rd	Did not play
2009	Ruslans Sorokins - 17th	Did not play
2010	Ruslans Sorokins - 17th	Martins Plavins - 9th
2011	Ruslans Sorokins - 25th	Martins Plavins - 17th
2012	Ruslans Sorokins - 25th	Martins Plavins - 1st

Recent Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
FIVB	6/18-23/2013	Rome Grand Slam	6	2nd	720	US$22,000.00
FIVB	6/11-16/2013	The Hague Grand Slam	10	2nd	720	US$22,000.00
FIVB	5/22-26/2013	Corrientes Grand Slam	9	1st	800	US$33,000.00
FIVB	4/30-5/4/2013	Shanghai Grand Slam	6	9th	400	US$5,500.00
FIVB	4/23-27/2013	Fuzhou Open	6	17th	200	US$2,300.00

Stare Jablonki World Championships Matches

Date

Bracket

Opponent

Score

Time

Tue, 7/2/2013

Pool F

Toms Smedins / Ruslans Sorokins, Latvia (30)

Won 18-21, 21-17, 15-12

0:48

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Aleksandrs Samoilovs	Total	41	27	3	0.585	4	7	0	1
	1	15	9	2	0.467	0	2	0	0
	2	13	9	1	0.615	2	4	0	1
	3	13	9	0	0.692	2	1	0	0
Janis Smedins	Total	21	8	4	0.190	1	3	0	8
	1	10	3	2	0.100	1	2	0	5
	2	8	5	2	0.375	0	0	0	3
	3	3	0	0	0.000	0	1	0	0

Wed, 7/3/2013

Pool F

Daniel Mullner / Jorg Wutzl, Austria (43)

Won 21-23, 22-20, 21-19

1:04

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Aleksandrs Samoilovs	Total	29	15	1	0.483	1	6	0	1
	1	10	8	0	0.800	0	3	0	1
	2	13	4	1	0.231	1	3	0	0
	3	6	3	0	0.500	0	0	0	0
Janis Smedins	Total	47	30	5	0.532	2	6	0	3
	1	17	9	2	0.412	0	2	0	1
	2	15	10	2	0.533	2	2	0	2
	3	15	11	1	0.667	0	2	0	0

Thu, 7/4/2013

Pool F

Daan Spijkers / Christiaan Varenhorst, Netherlands (19)

Won 21-16, 21-18

0:36

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Aleksandrs Samoilovs	Total	16	10	1	0.563	6	4	0	0
	1	9	5	1	0.444	4	3	0	0
	2	7	5	0	0.714	2	1	0	0
Janis Smedins	Total	22	11	3	0.364	0	6	1	0
	1	7	4	1	0.429	0	2	0	0
	2	15	7	2	0.333	0	4	1	0

Fri, 7/5/2013

Winner 1

Sebastian Dollinger / Stefan Windscheif, Germany (11)

Won 22-20, 27-25

0:46

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Aleksandrs Samoilovs	Total	25	15	3	0.480	3	6	0	2
	1	12	8	2	0.500	1	3	0	1
	2	13	7	1	0.462	2	3	0	1
Janis Smedins	Total	35	22	3	0.543	0	4	0	1
	1	17	11	2	0.529	0	3	0	1
	2	18	11	1	0.556	0	1	0	0

Sat, 7/6/2013

Winner 2

Ben Saxton / Chaim Schalk, Canada (40)

Lost 15-21, 18-21

0:34

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Aleksandrs Samoilovs	Total	29	13	5	0.276	1	6	0	2
	1	17	6	2	0.235	0	3	0	1
	2	12	7	3	0.333	1	3	0	1
Janis Smedins	Total	16	11	3	0.500	1	2	0	2
	1	7	6	0	0.857	0	0	0	0
	2	9	5	3	0.222	1	2	0	2

Overall Tournament Stats
Player	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Aleksandrs Samoilovs	140	80	13	0.479	15	29	0	6
Janis Smedins	141	82	18	0.454	4	21	1	14
Total	281	162	31	0.466	19	50	1	20
Opponents	302	167	43	0.411	17	46	10	28

World Championships Results

Year	Event	Location	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
2007	World Championships	Gstaad	Martins Plavins - 37th	Did not play
2009	World Championships	Stavanger	Ruslans Sorokins - 9th	Did not play
2011	World Championships	Rome	Ruslans Sorokins - 17th	Martins Plavins - 4th
2015	World Championships	The Hague	Martins Plavins - 17th	Did not play
2017	World Championships	Vienna	Janis Smedins - 9th	Aleksandrs Samoilovs - 9th
2019	World Championships	Hamburg	Janis Smedins - 17th	Aleksandrs Samoilovs - 17th
2022	World Championships	Rome	Janis Smedins - 17th	Aleksandrs Samoilovs - 17th

World Championships Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
FIVB	7/2-7/2013	Stare Jablonki World Championships	6	9th	500	US$11,000.00
FIVB	7/28-8/6/2017	Vienna World Championships	2	9th	480	US$11,000.00
FIVB	6/28-7/7/2019	World Championships Hamburg	11	17th	640	US$7,000.00
FIVB	6/10-19/2022	Beach Volleyball World Championships	20	17th	640	US$7,000.00

Head to Head Results
Samoilovs/Smedins lead the series against the field 24-6 (Lead 16 Series, Trail 2 Series, 1 Series Tied)

Date	Tour	Tournament	Round	Winning Team	Seed	Losing Team	Seed	Score	Time
Lead the series against # 1 Fijalek/Prudel, Poland 1-0
6/13/13	FIVB	The Hague Grand Slam	Pool G	Samoilovs/Smedins	10	Fijalek/Prudel	7	21-15, 21-14	0:33
Lead the series against # 2 Cerutti/Rego, Brazil 1-0
6/23/13	FIVB	Rome Grand Slam	Semi-Finals	Samoilovs/Smedins	6	Cerutti/Rego	7	21-10, 21-14	0:31
Trail the series against # 3 Dalhausser/Rosenthal, United States 0-1
6/23/13	FIVB	Rome Grand Slam	Gold Medal	Dalhausser/Rosenthal	3	Samoilovs/Smedins	6	21-19, 21-18	0:44
Lead the series against # 4 Gibb/Patterson, United States 1-0
5/26/13	FIVB	Corrientes Grand Slam	Gold Medal	Samoilovs/Smedins	9	Gibb/Patterson	7	21-16, 21-19	0:39
Trail the series against # 5 Schmidt/Solberg, Brazil 1-2
6/16/13	FIVB	The Hague Grand Slam	Gold Medal	Schmidt/Solberg	4	Samoilovs/Smedins	10	21-19, 21-12	0:41
5/26/13	FIVB	Corrientes Grand Slam	Semi-Finals	Samoilovs/Smedins	9	Schmidt/Solberg	4	14-21, 21-17, 15-11	0:51
4/26/13	FIVB	Fuzhou Open	Winner 1	Schmidt/Solberg	3	Samoilovs/Smedins	6	22-24, 33-31, 15-11	1:03
Lead the series against # 9 Lupo/Nicolai, Italy 1-0
6/22/13	FIVB	Rome Grand Slam	Winner 2	Samoilovs/Smedins	6	Lupo/Nicolai	1	21-19, 22-20	0:38
Lead the series against # 10 Filho/Santos, Brazil 1-0
6/22/13	FIVB	Rome Grand Slam	Winner 3	Samoilovs/Smedins	6	Filho/Santos	9	19-21, 22-20, 15-10	0:57
Lead the series against # 11 Dollinger/Windscheif, Germany 4-1
7/5/13	FIVB	Stare Jablonki World Championships	Winner 1	Samoilovs/Smedins	6	Dollinger/Windscheif	11	22-20, 27-25	0:46
6/21/13	FIVB	Rome Grand Slam	Winner 1	Samoilovs/Smedins	6	Dollinger/Windscheif	13	18-21, 21-17, 15-10	0:50
6/14/13	FIVB	The Hague Grand Slam	Winner 2	Samoilovs/Smedins	10	Dollinger/Windscheif	13	21-19, 19-21, 15-12	0:57
5/25/13	FIVB	Corrientes Grand Slam	Winner 3	Samoilovs/Smedins	9	Dollinger/Windscheif	13	21-9, 21-13	0:31
4/25/13	FIVB	Fuzhou Open	Pool F	Dollinger/Windscheif	11	Samoilovs/Smedins	6	21-14, 21-13	0:31
Lead the series against # 14 Dyachenko/Sidorenko, Kazakhstan 1-0
5/2/13	FIVB	Shanghai Grand Slam	Pool F	Samoilovs/Smedins	6	Dyachenko/Sidorenko	11	15-21, 21-19, 17-15	0:53
Lead the series against # 15 Doppler/Horst, Austria 2-1
6/21/13	FIVB	Rome Grand Slam	Pool F	Doppler/Horst	11	Samoilovs/Smedins	6	21-18, 21-18	0:38
6/15/13	FIVB	The Hague Grand Slam	Winner 3	Samoilovs/Smedins	10	Doppler/Horst	18	21-19, 21-17	0:38
5/25/13	FIVB	Corrientes Grand Slam	Winner 2	Samoilovs/Smedins	9	Doppler/Horst	16, Q1	21-18, 29-27	0:47
Lead the series against # 19 Spijkers/Varenhorst, Netherlands 1-0
7/4/13	FIVB	Stare Jablonki World Championships	Pool F	Samoilovs/Smedins	6	Spijkers/Varenhorst	19	21-16, 21-18	0:36
Lead the series against # 20 Felipe/Goncalves, Brazil 1-0
6/12/13	FIVB	The Hague Grand Slam	Pool G	Samoilovs/Smedins	10	Felipe/Goncalves	23, Q2	21-19, 22-20	0:38
Lead the series against # 22 Huber/Seidl, Austria 1-0
6/15/13	FIVB	The Hague Grand Slam	Semi-Finals	Samoilovs/Smedins	10	Huber/Seidl	22, Q1	21-12, 21-14	0:31
Lead the series against # 27 Chevallier/Kovatsch, Switzerland 1-0
5/1/13	FIVB	Shanghai Grand Slam	Pool F	Samoilovs/Smedins	6	Chevallier/Kovatsch	22	21-15, 18-21, 20-18	0:47
Lead the series against # 28 Eithun/Horrem, Norway 1-0
5/23/13	FIVB	Corrientes Grand Slam	Pool H	Samoilovs/Smedins	9	Eithun/Horrem	24	21-15, 21-15	0:34
Lead the series against # 30 Smedins/Sorokins, Latvia 1-0
7/2/13	FIVB	Stare Jablonki World Championships	Pool F	Samoilovs/Smedins	6	Smedins/Sorokins	30	18-21, 21-17, 15-12	0:48
Lead the series against # 31 Gabathuler/Weingart, Switzerland 3-0
6/20/13	FIVB	Rome Grand Slam	Pool F	Samoilovs/Smedins	6	Gabathuler/Weingart	22, Q3	21-15, 21-10	0:33
6/13/13	FIVB	The Hague Grand Slam	Pool G	Samoilovs/Smedins	10	Gabathuler/Weingart	26	21-18, 21-14	0:37
5/23/13	FIVB	Corrientes Grand Slam	Pool H	Samoilovs/Smedins	9	Gabathuler/Weingart	25, Q7	21-16, 21-17	0:44
Series tied with # 40 Saxton/Schalk, Canada 1-1
7/6/13	FIVB	Stare Jablonki World Championships	Winner 2	Saxton/Schalk	40	Samoilovs/Smedins	6	21-15, 21-18	0:34
6/19/13	FIVB	Rome Grand Slam	Pool F	Samoilovs/Smedins	6	Saxton/Schalk	27, Q9	21-11, 21-13	0:31
Lead the series against # 43 Mullner/Wutzl, Austria 1-0
7/3/13	FIVB	Stare Jablonki World Championships	Pool F	Samoilovs/Smedins	6	Mullner/Wutzl	43	21-23, 22-20, 21-19	1:04