Canada defeats Brazil for men's gold at SWATCH FIVB Junior 

ALANYA, Turkey, September 19, 2010—Undefeated and refusing to be knocked out in their march to the championship with seven consecutive victories, Canada’s Garrett May and Sam Schachter overcame the challenge they faced with the world’s best men’s youth beach volleyball players to win the men’s gold medal Sunday over Brazil’s experienced Vitor Felipe/Alvaro Filho at the 2010 SWATCH FIVB Junior World Championships for players under the age of 21.

The five-day, double gender event was held for the first time in Turkey at Milli Egemnlik, Obakoy in Alanya, on the Turkish Mediterranean.

The event, which started 78 total men and women’s teams representing 32 nations saw Sunday’s medal matches in each gender televised live throughout Turkey on SportTV.

Doing what they did much of the tournament, May, 18 of Toronto and Schachter, 19 of Richmond Hill, won the gold medal match over last year’s silver medalists medalists Felipe/Filho, 21-23, 21-16 and 15-13 in their 64-minute championship on the Alanya centre court.

With their victory, May/Schachter gave Canada its first medal and first final four placement for either gender in the 10-year history.