{"id":35888,"date":"2019-01-03T02:05:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T02:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/?p=35888"},"modified":"2019-05-04T03:21:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T03:21:38","slug":"vanuatu-defend-oceania-beach-volleyball-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/vanuatu-defend-oceania-beach-volleyball-title\/","title":{"rendered":"VANUATU DEFEND OCEANIA BEACH VOLLEYBALL TITLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p><em>Port Villar,Vanuatu<\/em>,December 26,2018-Vanuatu have defended their Oceania Women\u2019s Beach Volleyball title, denying Tahiti a clean sweep of the podiums in Papeete, Tahiti.<\/p>\n<p>Top seeds Miller Pata and Sherysyn Toko defeated Tahitian\u2019s Emere Maau-Boutry and Vaihere Fareura 21-17 21-17 in the final, having also beaten the hosts top pairing in the pool stages.<\/p>\n<p>The President of Vanuatu Volleyball, Debbie Masauvakalo said the result maintained their winning run in Oceania and was also a chance to give junior player Sherysyn Toko (Tini) some experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is our third Oceania in a row, we won the 2015 in the Cook Islands with Miller and Linline (Matauatu),\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no event in 2016 (because) it was an Olympic year then we won the event in Fiji last year with Linline and Loti (Joe) and Miller and Tini won this event in Tahiti.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMiller played with a junior \u2013 she\u2019s only 21 \u2013 and it\u2019s the first time the junior has won an international medal so yeah very excited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vanuatu\u2019s victory caps off a memorable year, eight months after Miller Pata and Linline Matauatu won a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMiller had a baby at seven months of age so we had to get her fit and game ready so we made it to the Commonwealth Games,\u201d Masauvakalo said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen they made it all the way to the semi final: beating England in the quarter final and then we lost a close match in the semi final against Australia \u2013 a three setter \u2013 and then we beat Cyprus in the bronze medal match and won the bronze medal \u2013 the first team event medal ever for Vanuatu at the Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rest of the year we basically just trained and we\u2019re lucky that we\u2019ve got support from the FIVB, who has funded a coach for us so now we have a German coach Michel Bargmann, which is really great because we have never had an international coach based in Vanuatu to train the girls consistently,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe arrived in September for three months and now he\u2019s back home in Germany for Christmas. Michel will return to Vanuatu in January 2019\u00a0 with a new contract to coach the Vanuatu girls on the FIVB World Tour and Olympic Qualification events\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Related links of AVC<\/p>\n<p>AVC Website: click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianvolleyball.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">www.asianvolleyball.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AVC Facebook: click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AsianVolleyballConfederation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">www.Facebook.com\/AsianVolleyballConfederation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AVC Twitter: click:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/avcvolley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/avcvolley<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AVC Instagram: click:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/avcvolley\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/avcvolley\/?hl=en<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AVC Youtube: click: Asian Volleyball Confederation<\/p>\n<p>AVC WeChat: Asian Volleyball Confederation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Port Villar,Vanuatu,December 26,2018-Vanuatu have defended their Oceania Women\u2019s Beach Volleyball title, denying Tahiti a clean sweep of the podiums in Papeete, Tahiti. 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