Sweden's national team
Karin Lundqvist and Nina Grawender are professional beach volleyball players from Sweden. They started playing together in February 2013 and by achieving good results on the European Tour [1] and World Tour [2] they were selected as Sweden's national team in September 2013. [3]
Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two players on a sand court divided by a net. As in indoor volleyball, the objective of the game is to send the ball over the net and to ground it on the opponent's side of the court, and to prevent the same effort by the opponent. A team is allowed up to three touches to return the ball across the net, and individual players may not touch the ball twice consecutively except after making a block touch. The ball is put in play with a serve—a hit by the server from behind the rear court boundary over the net to the opponents. The rally continues until the ball is grounded on the playing court, goes "out", or a fault is made in the attempt to return the ball. The team that wins the rally scores a point and serves to start the following rally. The four players serve in the same sequence throughout the match, changing server each time a rally is won by the receiving team.
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Scandinavian Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north and Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund, a strait at the Swedish-Danish border. At 450,295 square kilometres (173,860 sq mi), Sweden is the largest country in Northern Europe, the third-largest country in the European Union and the fifth largest country in Europe by area. Sweden has a total population of 10.2 million of which 2.4 million has a foreign background. It has a low population density of 22 inhabitants per square kilometre (57/sq mi). The highest concentration is in the southern half of the country.
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Karin and Nina are coached by Wesley Pinheiro, from Brazil.
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At 8.5 million square kilometers and with over 208 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the fifth most populous. Brazil borders every South American country except Chile and Ecuador. Its capital is Brasília, and its most populated city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the union of the 26 states, the Federal District, and the 5,570 municipalities. It is the largest country to have Portuguese as an official language and the only one in the Americas; it is also one of the most multicultural and ethnically diverse nations, due to over a century of mass immigration from around the world.
Karin Lundqvist and Nina Grawender's best results in 2013 are 9th place at the European Championships in Klagenfurt, Austria, [4] and first place at the Nevza tournaments in Oslo and Gothenburg.
Karin Lundqvist
Karin Lundqvist was born on October 5, 1981 in Stockholm, Sweden. She started playing professional beach volleyball in 2004 and has since then been Swedish champion five times (2004, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012), won the Swedish Beach Tour eight times (2001, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012) and been named Sweden's player of the year six times (2005, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013).
Karin played professional beach volleyball in Brazil fall 2009 until spring 2013. She was ranked top 5 as her best ranking in Brazil and got a 3rd place as her best result in Salvador 2012. In 2013 she teamed up with a Swedish player to pursue her dream of representing Sweden in the Olympic Games of Rio 2016.
Nina Grawender
Nina Grawender was born on October 15, 1987 in Gothenburg, Sweden.
