Today in Jurmala begins the U22 Beach Volleyball European Championship – Sport

Today, in Majorca, the Under-22 European Championship will be held at beach volleyball, where Latvian dances will also be preferred – for men, Mikhail Samoilov and Kristaps Shmits, and for women Tina Graudina and Anastasia Kravchenko

teams that will be divided into eight groups each in four units. The winners of each group immediately enter the eighth finals, but win second and third place, 16 teams will compete for the remaining eight places among the top 16 teams.

Latvia will be the only national championship in the country. . Tina Graudina / Anastasia Kravchenko, European Champion 2016, and Kristaps Schmitz / Mikhail Samoilov, bronze medalist at the U21 World Championships last year, are on the podium. Rinalds Aispurs / Rinalds Belerts, Alexander Nasonovs / Robert Klavins, Varvara Brailko / Anete Namique and Vanesa Grosberga / Kristine Briede will also participate. The head coach of the Latvian women's team is Genādijs Samoilovs, while the men's manager is Lauris Iecelnieks

Samoylov and Shmits in the men's tournament are presented with the first number and play in group A. In the first phase of the tournament, the Latvians will have opponents against Norway's Rud / Offstate (32), Slovakia's Cizmacia / Pokopec (17th) and Moldova's Mak / Korsakov (16th). In this competition, the Latvians are pretty well chosen to win the first place and automatically enter the eighth final.

Aishpour and Belerts are introduced on the 26th and play in Group G against the Duo of England, Italy and Spain. Nasonov and Klavin were number 29, which means playing for teams in Cyprus, Denmark and Austria. The first goal for these two domes of Latvia could certainly be to escape the group.

Graudina and Kravchenko also have the status of main favorites and the first number giving rise to group A. In the Latvian duo group, the Slovaks Blizmanova / Sandanusova (32), Hungarian Orban / Harmata (17) and Dutch Stama / Van Drilla (16)

Grosberger and Bryde in the tournament 28th place and place in group E with teams from Kosovo, Finland and Lithuania. Braille and Namique are in 30th place in group C, which will face duoties from Denmark, Italy and Germany

"Our ambitions are very high, I'm not afraid of to say that we want to win this tournament, of course, the Russians [Nadežda Makroguzova/Svetlana Holomina] are better ranked than ours, in theory they counted the favorites of this tournament, but we did not play together because they will see how they are going to be and if we are going to meet at all, "It was said before the tournament by a sailor Tina Graudina

It should be noted that Sunday, starting with the semi-finals men and women, all matches will be visible on the Sportacentrs.com and Sportacentrs.com TV broadcasts on Sunday.

Dates of Latvian men in subgroup games

Hours duo of ladies in sets of subgroups