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Beach volleyball: Ludwig and Kozuch get their first title together

2019-09-08T21:16:26.879Z


It was their first joint final - and it went very well: Olympic champion Laura Ludwig and her new partner Margareta Kozuch won the World Tour Final.



Laura Ludwig and Margareta Kozuch celebrated their first joint tournament victory in the beach volleyball world series. At the World Tour Final in Rome, Olympic champion Ludwig and her new partner beat Brazilian women Agatha Bednarczuk and Eduarda Santos Lisboa 2: 0 (21:19, 21:17).

As a reward, in addition to the prize money of $ 40,000 (around 36,250 euros), there were also points for qualifying for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. "I have no words," Kozuch said, holding back her tears of joy, "we're just happy."

Ludwig said, "We always believed that was possible." With her former partner Kira Walkenhorst, Ludwig was able to win the final of the world tour in 2016 and 2017. With Kozuch it was the first final participation in their first year together.

The best result in the most important series in the sand was previously a fifth place in the major tournament in Vienna. At the European Championships in Moscow, they were eliminated in the second round, at the home World Cup in Hamburg was already in the first knockout round.

In the final of the men, the German vice-world champion Julius Thole and Clemens Wickler had to give up. In a new edition of the World Cup final of Hamburg, the duo defeated the dominant Russian world champions Vyacheslav Krasilnikov and Oleg Stoyanovsky 0: 2 (16:21, 16:21).

Source: spiegel

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