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Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour
US$380,000 HP Beach Open
August 23 - 28, 2011

(3) Marcio Araujo/Benjamin Insfran, Brazil

Márcio Henrique Barroso Araújo
Brazil

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Oct 12, 1973 (52 yrs old)

Home Town:

Fortaleza

Height:

192 cm (6'4")

Weight:

90 kg (198 lb)

Seasons:

Tournaments:

170

Career Wins:

Career FIVB WT Wins:

Career Winnings:

US$1,041,687.50

Benjamin Insfran
Brazil

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Apr 14, 1972 (53 yrs old)

Home Town:

Porto Murtinho-MS

Height:

196 cm (6'5")

Weight:

88 kg (194 lb)

Seasons:

Tournaments:

152

Career Wins:

Career FIVB WT Wins:

Career Winnings:

US$704,037.50

Awards

Best Defensive Player 2005
Best Setter 2006, 2007, 2008

Team Career Summary

Tour	Played	1	2	3	4	5	7	9	13	17	25	33	57	Money
FIVB	50	8	7	3	5	10	3	6	1	2	1	3	1	US$621,925.00
FIVB C&S	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	US$4,000.00
Overall	51	9	7	3	5	10	3	6	1	2	1	3	1	US$625,925.00

Previous The Hague Results

Year	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
2009	Did not play	Franco Neto - 5th
2010	Did not play	Bruno Schmidt - 2nd

Recent Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
FIVB	8/16-21/2011	Åland Open	5	1st	600	US$30,000.00
FIVB	8/2-7/2011	Klagenfurt Grand Slam	5	9th	320	US$8,000.00
FIVB	7/26-31/2011	Stare Jablonki Grand Slam	5	9th	320	US$8,000.00

The Hague Open Matches

Date	Bracket	Opponent	Score	Time
Thu, 8/25/2011	Winner 1	Anders Lund Hoyer / Bo Soderberg, Denmark (30, Q1)	Won 19-21, 21-14, 15-10	0:56
Thu, 8/25/2011	Winner 2	Renato "Geor" Gomes / Gia Terceiro, Georgia (19)	Lost 19-21, 22-24	0:46
Fri, 8/26/2011	Contender 2	Casey Jennings / Casey Patterson, United States (20)	Won 21-14, 21-15	0:37
Fri, 8/26/2011	Contender 3	Aleksandrs Samoilovs / Ruslans Sorokins, Latvia (11)	Won 21-17, 21-14	0:35
Fri, 8/26/2011	Contender 4	Grzegorz Fijalek / Mariusz Prudel, Poland (1)	Lost 16-21, 18-21	0:43

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	1	0	0	0	0	$0.00
World Championships	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$30,000.00
Elite/Major Series/Five Star/Grand Slam	12	2	0	0	2	5	0	3	0	0	0	0	$191,600.00
Challenge/Four Star/Open	36	6	7	2	3	5	3	2	1	2	1	0	$400,325.00
Challenger	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$4,000.00
Total	51	9	7	3	5	10	3	6	1	2	1	0	$625,925.00

Individual Finishes by Tournament Type

Marcio Araujo												Benjamin Insfran
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	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$0.00	Olympic Games	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$0.00
5	1	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	$83,000.00	World Championships	3	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	$27,250.00
57	6	3	5	4	9	15	2	4	0	$386,850.00	Elite/Major Series/Five Star/Grand Slam	49	2	1	1	3	12	15	4	1	0	$236,525.00
104	13	14	10	10	19	13	8	3	0	$569,587.50	Challenge/Four Star/Open	97	9	9	8	6	27	9	6	2	0	$435,262.50
2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	$2,250.00	Challenger	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$5,000.00
170	21	19	16	14	29	30	11	7	0	$1,041,687.50	Total	152	13	10	10	9	39	27	10	3	0	$704,037.50

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
2001	FIVB	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	$0.00	1	2	33.3 %
2002	FIVB	10	1	3	0	1	2	0	1	0	0	1	1	$100,325.00	56	11	83.6 %
2003	FIVB	10	3	1	1	1	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	$173,500.00	48	12	80.0 %
2004	FIVB	10	1	0	1	2	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	$129,000.00	36	18	66.7 %
2011	FIVB	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	$52,000.00	14	7	66.7 %
Total	FIVB	35	6	4	2	4	7	2	6	0	1	1	2	$454,825.00	155	50	75.6 %

Individual Finishes by Season

Marcio Araujo													Benjamin Insfran
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	0	1	0	0	$750.00	1996	FIVB
2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	$0.00	1997	FIVB	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	$0.00
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	$0.00	1998	FIVB	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	$0.00
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	$250.00	1998	FIVB C&S
1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	$3,000.00	1999	FIVB	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	$3,000.00
1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$2,000.00	1999	FIVB C&S	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$2,000.00
13	2	3	1	1	2	1	1	0	2	$76,000.00	2000	FIVB	13	2	3	1	1	2	1	1	0	2	$76,000.00
6	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	5	$2,750.00	2001	FIVB	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	$0.00
10	1	3	0	1	2	1	0	1	1	$50,162.50	2002	FIVB	10	1	3	0	1	2	1	0	1	1	$50,162.50
10	3	1	1	1	2	1	1	0	0	$86,750.00	2003	FIVB	10	3	1	1	1	2	1	1	0	0	$86,750.00
10	1	0	1	2	5	1	0	0	0	$64,500.00	2004	FIVB	12	1	0	2	2	6	1	0	0	0	$75,000.00
14	3	3	3	0	3	2	0	0	0	$145,350.00	2005	FIVB	14	1	2	2	3	3	3	0	0	0	$103,425.00
14	4	3	1	2	3	1	0	0	0	$149,500.00	2006	FIVB	11	0	0	2	0	3	1	1	0	4	$36,550.00
15	3	1	5	1	1	2	2	0	0	$135,450.00	2007	FIVB	10	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	7	$8,000.00
											2007	FIVB C&S	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$3,000.00
15	1	1	0	2	3	3	4	1	0	$57,350.00	2008	FIVB	17	1	0	1	0	4	5	0	1	5	$58,850.00
11	0	0	1	0	2	4	0	1	3	$34,650.00	2009	FIVB	13	1	0	0	0	5	2	1	1	3	$51,250.00
11	0	1	2	2	1	2	0	0	3	$61,025.00	2010	FIVB	14	0	1	1	0	5	3	3	0	1	$58,650.00
11	2	1	0	1	2	5	0	0	0	$95,000.00	2011	FIVB	10	1	0	0	0	2	6	1	0	0	$52,450.00
147	21	17	15	13	27	24	10	3	17	$964,487.50	Total	Total	141	13	10	10	8	36	24	10	3	27	$665,087.50

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	116	77.9%	20	13.4%	13	8.7%	136-13	91.3%	17	33.3%	8	15.7%	26	51.0%	17-34	33.3%	116-26	81.7%	37-21	63.8%	6	5	159-52	75.4%
2010-2011	14	82.4%	1	5.9%	2	11.8%	15-2	88.2%	2	22.2%	1	11.1%	6	66.7%	2-7	22.2%	14-6	70.0%	3-3	50.0%	1	0	18-9	66.7%
Against the Field	8	88.9%	0	0.0%	1	11.1%	8-1	88.9%	2	33.3%	0	0.0%	4	66.7%	2-4	33.3%	16-8	66.7%	4-2	66.7%	0	0	10-5	66.7%

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	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2
World Championships	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	3	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	6	2
Elite/Major Series/Five Star/Grand Slam	0	0	0	0	21	3	0	0	19	7	2	2	0	2	2	0	44	15
Challenge/Four Star/Open	6	0	9	3	31	5	0	0	40	10	8	3	1	2	4	4	107	33
Total	6	0	9	3	56	10	0	0	62	18	10	6	2	4	6	4	159	52

Head to Head Results
Araujo/Insfran lead the series against the field 9-4 (Lead 7 Series, Trail 3 Series, 1 Series Tied)

Date	Tour	Tournament	Round	Winning Team	Seed	Losing Team	Seed	Score	Time
Trail the series against # 1 Fijalek/Prudel, Poland 0-1
8/26/11	FIVB	The Hague Open	Contender 4	Fijalek/Prudel	1	Araujo/Insfran	3	21-16, 21-18	0:43
Trail the series against # 5 Koshkarev/Semenov, Russia 0-1
7/29/11	FIVB	Stare Jablonki Grand Slam	Pool N	Koshkarev/Semenov	12	Araujo/Insfran	5	22-20, 21-16	0:39
Lead the series against # 7 Lupo/Nicolai, Italy 1-0
8/19/11	FIVB	Åland Open	Winner 3	Araujo/Insfran	5	Lupo/Nicolai	13	21-18, 21-18	0:45
Lead the series against # 8 Nummerdor/Schuil, Netherlands 1-0
7/29/11	FIVB	Stare Jablonki Grand Slam	Winner 1	Araujo/Insfran	5	Nummerdor/Schuil	8	21-19, 21-19	0:39
Lead the series against # 11 Samoilovs/Sorokins, Latvia 1-0
8/26/11	FIVB	The Hague Open	Contender 3	Araujo/Insfran	3	Samoilovs/Sorokins	11	21-17, 21-14	0:35
Series tied with # 17 Skarlund/Spinnangr, Norway 1-1
8/4/11	FIVB	Klagenfurt Grand Slam	Pool N	Araujo/Insfran	5	Skarlund/Spinnangr	21	21-15, 23-21	0:40
7/28/11	FIVB	Stare Jablonki Grand Slam	Pool N	Skarlund/Spinnangr	21	Araujo/Insfran	5	21-18, 21-17	0:42
Trail the series against # 19 "Geor" Gomes/Terceiro, Georgia 0-1
8/25/11	FIVB	The Hague Open	Winner 2	"Geor" Gomes/Terceiro	19	Araujo/Insfran	3	21-19, 24-22	0:46
Lead the series against # 20 Jennings/Patterson, United States 1-0
8/26/11	FIVB	The Hague Open	Contender 2	Araujo/Insfran	3	Jennings/Patterson	20	21-14, 21-15	0:37
Lead the series against # 21 Gabathuler/Schnider, Switzerland 1-0
8/4/11	FIVB	Klagenfurt Grand Slam	Pool N	Araujo/Insfran	5	Gabathuler/Schnider	28, Q10	21-17, 21-10	0:35
Lead the series against # 30, Q1 Hoyer/Soderberg, Denmark 2-0
8/25/11	FIVB	The Hague Open	Winner 1	Araujo/Insfran	3	Hoyer/Soderberg	30, Q1	19-21, 21-14, 15-10	0:56
7/28/11	FIVB	Stare Jablonki Grand Slam	Pool N	Araujo/Insfran	5	Hoyer/Soderberg	28	21-19, 21-12	0:42
Lead the series against # Q5 Horst/Mullner, Austria 1-0
8/18/11	FIVB	Åland Open	Winner 1	Araujo/Insfran	5	Horst/Mullner	28, Q8	21-14, 21-13	0:37