Julia Willand

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Julia Willand
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NationalityFlag of South Africa.svg  South Africa
Born (1972-04-06) April 6, 1972 (age 51)
Nuremberg, West Germany
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight69 kg (152 lb)

Julia Willand (born 6 April 1972 in Nuremberg) is a South African beach volleyball player. [1]

Willand was born in Nuremberg, West Germany, and came at the age of six years with her family to South Africa. [2] Between 1991 and 2002 she competed in indoor volleyball where she attended the 2001 Women's African Volleyball Championship in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, with the South African national team. [3]

In 2002 she decided to move to the beach volleyball and formed a duo with Leigh-Ann Naidoo. [3] They competed at the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour in 2003 and 2004 and qualified for the Summer Olympics, in Athens. [4] They lost all three matches in the group stage and did not advance to the medal round. [1]

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