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Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour
Olympic Games Paris 2024
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 Stadium Court 12:00

Match #16: Pool D

(4) Andre Loyola/George Wanderley, Brazil
vs.
(16) Jorge Alayo/Noslen Diaz, Cuba

Andre Loyola Stein
Brazil

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Aug 19, 1994 (30 yrs old)

Home Town:

Vila Velha

Height:

201 cm (6'7")

Weight:

94 kg (207 lb)

Seasons:

Tournaments:

Career Wins:

Career Winnings:

US$421,537.50

George Souto Maior Wanderley
Brazil

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Sep 12, 1996 (28 yrs old)

Home Town:

João Pessoa

Height:

190 cm (6'3")

Weight:

96 kg (211 lb)

Seasons:

Tournaments:

Career Wins:

Career FIVB WT Wins:

Career Winnings:

US$278,287.50

Team Career Summary

Tour	Played	1	2	3	4	5	7	9	13	17	25	33	37	Money
FIVB	53	5	4	8	2	6	0	14	4	6	2	1	1	US$495,400.00

Previous Paris Results

Year	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
2023	George Wanderley - 5th	Andre Loyola - 5th

Recent Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
FIVB	7/10-14/2024	Elite16 Vienna	1	9th	600	US$6,000.00
FIVB	7/3-7/2024	Elite16 Gstaad	2	2nd	1100	US$20,000.00
FIVB	6/5-9/2024	Elite16 Ostrava	5	13th	460	US$5,000.00
FIVB	5/22-26/2024	BPT Elite16 Espinho	4	3rd	1000	US$14,000.00
FIVB	5/1-5/2024	Elite16 Brasília	10	3rd	1000	US$14,000.00
FIVB	4/17-21/2024	Elite16 Tepic	15, Q4	2nd	1100	US$20,000.00
FIVB	4/11-14/2024	Challenge Guadalajara	5	9th	460	US$2,500.00
FIVB	3/28-31/2024	Challenge Saquarema	6	1st	800	US$10,000.00
FIVB	3/21-24/2024	Challenge Recife	4	9th	460	US$2,500.00
FIVB	3/5-9/2024	Elite16 Doha	7	13th	460	US$5,000.00
FIVB	12/6-9/2023	BPT Finals Doha 2023	9	3rd	0	US$50,000.00
FIVB	11/22-26/2023	Elite16 Joao Pessoa	11	4th	900	US$10,000.00
FIVB	10/6-15/2023	Beach Volleyball World Championships	4	37th	160	US$3,400.00
FIVB	9/27-10/1/2023	Elite16 Paris	3	5th	760	US$8,000.00
FIVB	8/16-20/2023	Elite16 Hamburg	9	4th	900	US$10,000.00

Olympic Games Paris 2024 Matches

Date

Bracket

Opponent

Score

Time

Sat, 7/27/2024

Pool D

Mohamed Abicha / Zouheir Elgraoui, Morocco (21)

Won 21-18, 21-10

0:36

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Andre Loyola	Total	11	4	1	0.273	5	2	1	1
	1	9	4	1	0.333	3	0	0	1
	2	2	0	0	0.000	2	2	1	0
George Wanderley	Total	27	16	2	0.519	0	5	1	0
	1	14	9	1	0.571	0	2	0	0
	2	13	7	1	0.462	0	3	1	0

Tue, 7/30/2024

Pool D

Jorge Alayo / Noslen Diaz, Cuba (16)

Lost 13-21, 18-21

0:35

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Andre Loyola	Total	28	15	5	0.357	2	0	0	2
	1	16	8	2	0.375	0	0	0	2
	2	12	7	3	0.333	2	0	0	0
George Wanderley	Total	13	4	5	-0.077	0	1	1	0
	1	5	1	1	0.000	0	0	1	0
	2	8	3	4	-0.125	0	1	0	0

Thu, 8/1/2024

Pool D

Andy Benesh / Miles Partain, United States (9)

Lost 17-21, 21-14, 8-15

0:54

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Andre Loyola	Total	14	9	2	0.500	1	0	2	3
	1	6	3	1	0.333	0	0	1	0
	2	5	4	1	0.600	0	0	1	2
	3	3	2	0	0.667	1	0	0	1
George Wanderley	Total	31	17	10	0.226	0	7	0	3
	1	11	5	4	0.091	0	2	0	0
	2	11	9	1	0.727	0	4	0	2
	3	9	3	5	-0.222	0	1	0	1

Sun, 8/4/2024

Winner 1

Nils Ehlers / Clemens Wickler, Germany (3)

Lost 16-21, 17-21

0:39

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Andre Loyola	Total	22	14	4	0.455	2	1	0	2
	1	12	5	3	0.167	2	1	0	1
	2	10	9	1	0.800	0	0	0	1
George Wanderley	Total	17	10	0	0.588	0	3	0	3
	1	9	5	0	0.556	0	0	0	3
	2	8	5	0	0.625	0	3	0	0

Overall Tournament Stats
Player	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Andre Loyola	75	42	12	0.400	10	3	3	8
George Wanderley	88	47	17	0.341	0	16	2	6
Total	163	89	29	0.368	10	19	5	14
Opponents	171	104	31	0.427	15	27	9	23

World Championships, World Tour Finals Results

Year	Event	Location	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
2017	World Championships	Vienna	Evandro Goncalves - 1st	Did not play
2017	World Tour Finals	Hamburg	Evandro Goncalves - 2nd	Did not play
2019	World Championships	Hamburg	George Wanderley - 5th	Andre Loyola - 5th
2019	World Tour Finals	Rome	George Wanderley - 17th	Andre Loyola - 17th
2022	World Championships	Rome	George Wanderley - 3rd	Andre Loyola - 3rd
2022	World Tour Finals	Doha	George Wanderley - 5th	Andre Loyola - 5th
2023	World Championships	Tlaxcala	George Wanderley - 37th	Andre Loyola - 37th
2023	World Tour Finals	Doha	George Wanderley - 3rd	Andre Loyola - 3rd

Jorge Luis Alayo Moliner
Cuba

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Jun 6, 2001 (23 yrs old)

Home Town:

Villa Clara

Height:

198 cm (6'6")

Weight:

85 kg (187 lb)

Seasons:

Tournaments:

Career Best:

2nd (3 times)

Career Winnings:

US$35,750.00

Noslen Diaz Amaro
Cuba

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Aug 13, 2002 (22 yrs old)

Home Town:

Havana

Height:

207 cm (6'9")

Seasons:

Tournaments:

Career Best:

2nd (3 times)

Career Winnings:

US$35,750.00

Team Career Summary

Tour	Played	1	2	3	4	5	7	9	13	17	21	25	Money
FIVB	13	0	3	1	2	0	0	4	0	2	1	0	US$71,500.00

Previous Paris Results Neither player has played in this venue before

Recent Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
FIVB	5/30-6/2/2024	Challenge Stare Jablonki	3	2nd	760	US$8,000.00
FIVB	4/25-28/2024	Challenge Xiamen	1	9th	460	US$2,500.00
FIVB	4/17-21/2024	Elite16 Tepic	13, Q1	3rd	1000	US$14,000.00
FIVB	4/11-14/2024	Challenge Guadalajara	3	4th	680	US$6,000.00
FIVB	3/28-31/2024	Challenge Saquarema	2	2nd	760	US$8,000.00
FIVB	3/21-24/2024	Challenge Recife	6	2nd	760	US$8,000.00
FIVB	3/5-9/2024	Elite16 Doha	Q4	21st	340	US$0.00
FIVB	10/6-15/2023	Beach Volleyball World Championships	33	17th	640	US$7,000.00

Olympic Games Paris 2024 Matches

Date

Bracket

Opponent

Score

Time

Sat, 7/27/2024

Pool D

Andy Benesh / Miles Partain, United States (9)

Won 21-18, 21-18

0:38

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Jorge Alayo	Total	18	13	2	0.611	7	0	0	2
	1	7	5	2	0.429	3	0	0	1
	2	11	8	0	0.727	4	0	0	1
Noslen Diaz	Total	22	16	2	0.636	0	6	1	4
	1	10	8	0	0.800	0	2	1	3
	2	12	8	2	0.500	0	4	0	1

Tue, 7/30/2024

Pool D

Andre Loyola / George Wanderley, Brazil (4)

Won 21-13, 21-18

0:35

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Jorge Alayo	Total	17	13	3	0.588	6	0	1	3
	1	6	4	1	0.500	1	0	1	1
	2	11	9	2	0.636	5	0	0	2
Noslen Diaz	Total	18	13	3	0.556	0	5	2	2
	1	9	8	0	0.889	0	4	2	1
	2	9	5	3	0.222	0	1	0	1

Thu, 8/1/2024

Pool D

Mohamed Abicha / Zouheir Elgraoui, Morocco (21)

Won 21-14, 21-11

0:34

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Jorge Alayo	Total	22	15	4	0.500	5	1	0	3
	1	13	10	1	0.692	2	0	0	2
	2	9	5	3	0.222	3	1	0	1
Noslen Diaz	Total	20	15	1	0.700	0	11	0	3
	1	8	6	1	0.625	0	5	0	2
	2	12	9	0	0.750	0	6	0	1

Sun, 8/4/2024

Winner 1

David Ahman / Jonatan Hellvig, Sweden (1)

Lost 11-21, 28-26, 11-15

0:55

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Jorge Alayo	Total	42	21	7	0.333	3	0	2	4
	1	15	4	2	0.133	1	0	1	1
	2	15	11	2	0.600	2	0	1	3
	3	12	6	3	0.250	0	0	0	0
Noslen Diaz	Total	28	15	8	0.250	0	8	0	1
	1	10	4	4	0.000	0	0	0	1
	2	13	8	3	0.385	0	4	0	0
	3	5	3	1	0.400	0	4	0	0

Overall Tournament Stats
Player	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Jorge Alayo	99	62	16	0.465	21	1	3	12
Noslen Diaz	88	59	14	0.511	0	30	3	10
Total	187	121	30	0.487	21	31	6	22
Opponents	177	88	33	0.311	14	20	10	12

World Championships Results

Year	Event	Location	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
2022	World Championships	Rome	Noslen Diaz - 17th	Jorge Alayo - 17th
2023	World Championships	Tlaxcala	Noslen Diaz - 17th	Jorge Alayo - 17th

Head to Head Results
Loyola/Wanderley lead the series 2-1

Date	Tour	Tournament	Round	Winning Team	Seed	Losing Team	Seed	Score	Time
7/30/24	FIVB	Olympic Games Paris 2024	Pool D	Alayo/Diaz	16	Loyola/Wanderley	4	21-13, 21-18	0:35
4/20/24	FIVB	Elite16 Tepic	Semi-Finals	Loyola/Wanderley	15, Q4	Alayo/Diaz	13, Q1	19-21, 21-15, 15-12	0:51
3/31/24	FIVB	Challenge Saquarema	Gold Medal	Loyola/Wanderley	6	Alayo/Diaz	2	21-18, 17-21, 19-17	0:59

Overall Head to Head Results
Loyola/Wanderley lead the series 3-2

Date	Tour	Tournament	Round	Winning Team	Seed	Losing Team	Seed	Score	Time
7/30/24	FIVB	Olympic Games Paris 2024	Pool D	Alayo/Diaz	16	Loyola/Wanderley	4	21-13, 21-18	0:35
4/20/24	FIVB	Elite16 Tepic	Semi-Finals	Loyola/Wanderley	15, Q4	Alayo/Diaz	13, Q1	19-21, 21-15, 15-12	0:51
3/31/24	FIVB	Challenge Saquarema	Gold Medal	Loyola/Wanderley	6	Alayo/Diaz	2	21-18, 17-21, 19-17	0:59
10/27/23	PAN AM	XIX Pan Am Games	Gold Medal	Loyola/Wanderley	3	Alayo/Diaz	6	21-12, 19-21, 15-13	0:56
10/23/23	PAN AM	XIX Pan Am Games	Pool C	Alayo/Diaz	6	Loyola/Wanderley	3	21-16, 18-21, 15-8	0:48