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Heather Bansley (born September 13, 1987) [1] is a Canadian beach volleyball player, playing as a left-side defender. [2] She has been named FIVB Best Defensive Player of the World Tour in 2015, [ 3 ] 2016 [ 4 ] and 2018.
Team USA beach volleyball player's Taryn Kloth and Kristen Nuss are seeing success at the 2024 Paris Olympics. ... beating Canada’s Heather Bansley and Sophie Bukovec on July 27 and Australia's ...
Brandie Wilkerson (born July 1, 1992) is a Canadian [2] beach volleyball player who plays as a right-side blocker. [1] She currently competes with partner Melissa Humaña-Paredes, with whom she won a silver medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
In 2023, Bukovec reached out to Heather Bansley to pair up, with the latter coming out of retirement to pair up with Bukovec. [3] They competed in their first tournament together in Edmonton in July 2023. [5] The duo would go on to win silver at the 2024 Recife Challenge, as part of the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour. [6]
Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Beach Volleyball - Women - Round of 16 - Canada (Bansley/Brandie) v United States (Claes/Sponcil) - Shiokaze Park, Tokyo, Japan - August 1, 2021.
The women's beach volleyball tournament at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, took place at the Copacabana Stadium. The competition was held from 6 to 17 August 2016. Twenty four teams with 48 athletes around the world competed for the gold medal.
Wilkerson and Humana-Paredes will return to Canada with the country's first beach volleyball medal since the men won bronze at the 1996 Atlanta Games. That team was coached by Humana-Paredes' father.
The 2019 FIVB Women's Beach Volleyball Intercontinental Olympic Qualification Tournament was a volleyball tournament for women's beach volleyball players organised by Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), held in September 2019. 16 teams played in the tournament, where the top 2 teams qualified to the 2020 Olympic volleyball tournament.