Weekend Roundup: Olympic spots earned by Workforce Canada in snowboarding and seaside volleyball – Workforce Canada
World Taking pictures – Kenji Haruta/OIS – NORCECA
Eight extra Workforce Canada athletes earned their tickets to Paris 2024 with performances final weekend.
This group contains 4 skaters who secured their Olympic locations after the conclusion of the Olympic qualifying collection in Budapest, Hungary, and two seaside volleyball duos who had been victorious within the current continental qualifiers in Mexico.
Elsewhere, the Canadian volleyball crew heading to Paris 2024 had an ideal week within the Volleyball Nations League.
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Snowboarding: 4 Canadians qualify for Paris 2024
Cordano Russell, Matt Berger, Ryan DeCenzo, and Fay Di Fazio-Ebert have earned their tickets to Paris 2024 after their performances on the 2nd Olympic Qualifying Collection competitors in Budapest, Hungary. Russell, Berger and DiCenzo will signify Canada within the males’s park whereas Di Fazio-Ebert certified within the girls’s park.
Learn: 4 skaters qualify for Paris 2024
The outcomes of the Olympic Qualifying Collection competitions in Shanghai and Budapest had been mixed with the World Olympic Skating Rankings to create a remaining rating from which 20 quota factors had been allotted in every skating occasion.
De Fazio Ebert was ranked twenty third total, however earned a spot within the quota as a consequence of there being a most of three athletes per nation in every occasion, and Japan, Brazil and america every had 4 athletes forward of De Fazio Ebert.
All three Canadian males completed within the prime 20 within the males’s avenue standings, with Russell at sixteenth, Berger at 18th, and DiCenzo at nineteenth.
Seaside Volleyball: Canada qualifies two groups to Paris within the Final Likelihood Championship
It was weekend for the Canadian seaside volleyball duo on the NORCECA Seaside Volleyball Olympic Qualifying Event in Tlaxcala, Mexico.
READ: Canadians earn remaining Olympic qualifying shot in males’s and ladies’s seaside volleyball
Heather Bansley and Sophie Bukovic certified to compete on the ladies’s aspect, whereas Sam Schachter and Daniel Dearing did the identical on the boys’s aspect to earn a spot of their respective tournaments at Paris 2024.
The 2 groups entered the final likelihood qualifiers ranked twenty fourth on the earth. They each led 6-0, not dropping a set. In addition they each beat a Mexican crew to ebook their locations.
Bansley and Bukovic will be a part of Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandi Wilkerson – who certified by way of their world rankings – within the girls’s Olympic match. Bansley performed with Wilkerson in Tokyo 2020, however then retired earlier than returning and teaming up with Bukovic lower than a yr in the past. This was Bansley’s second Olympic look after making her debut in Rio 2016 with Sarah Pavan. Paris will likely be Bukovic’s first Olympics.
Schachter will return to the Olympics eight years after his final look. He competed with Josh Bienstock at Rio 2016. Dearing will likely be making his Olympic debut. They would be the solely Canadian males’s seaside volleyball crew at Paris 2024.
Taking pictures: Peters scores prime 5 at World Cup
Erik Peters reached the quarterfinals of the boys’s singles occasion, ending fifth total on the third stage of the Taking pictures World Cup in Antalya, Turkey. Dealing with two-time Olympic crew champion Kim Woojin of South Korea within the quarterfinals, Peters took a 4-0 lead earlier than Kim got here again with an ideal spherical of 30 to win the match 6-4.
Peters is now ranked fifth on the earth for his profession. His fifth-place end in Antalya was his greatest World Cup outcome this yr, and matches his career-best outcome on the observe achieved in April 2023.
Volleyball: Canada is on fireplace heading into the NWSL quarterfinals
With their journey to Paris 2024 already secured, Workforce Canada’s males’s volleyball crew had an awesome week to conclude the preliminary spherical of the Volleyball Nations League.
The Canadiens had been good of their VNL Week 3 matches, reeling off 4 straight wins to clinch a spot within the quarterfinals. They entered the week with a 4-4 report which positioned them in seventh place. They rose to fifth place within the VNL standings with their total report of 8-4 within the preliminary spherical. In addition they moved up three locations to ninth place In the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) world rankings..
They beat Japan in 5 units, swept Germany and Brazil in straight units, and at last downed the Netherlands in a five-set thriller. Stever Marr continues to steer Canada’s offense, averaging 15.75 offensive factors per recreation through the profitable streak.
Canada will face Japan, ranked second on the earth, within the quarter-finals of the Nationwide Soccer League in Lodz, Poland, on Thursday.
