AEGIR-Marine Beach VBall Team Qualifies for Olympics

With just a couple of weeks before the start of the Olympic Games AEGIR’s beach team VanderVlist-VanGestel won the Continental Cup in Stavanger (Norway). The prize: a ticket to Rio de Janeiro to compete in the Olympics 2016. With a victory over the Ukrainian twin Makhno AEGIRs beach team the first step had been set. When later the Dutch team Braakman-Sinnem lost the game with the Ukrainian team Shchypkova-Davidova it was clear that ‘the golden match’ would be played by VanderVlist-VanGestel.

 

The match against the team that was called ‘the sensation of the Continental Cup’ was the one-but-last chance to qualify for AEGIR’s beach volley ball team. ‘We lost the first set, because of stress,’ Sophie van Gestel says, ‘we wanted this so much! The whole year has been about this week!’

However the duo came back strong in the second set. With hard services, good blocking and a couple of aces, they won the set 21-15. AEGIR-Marine has been this Dutch team’s sponsor for 8 years. "We recognized their ambition. It resembles ours," saidRuud Muis, general director AEGIR-Marine, "they aim for the best. They go for that golden medal." Follow AEGIR’s Beachteam to the Olympics in Rio:

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