Who Is Coming To Charlotte?
A massive field of athletes is expected for World Cup #1 in Charlotte, NC on March 8-11, 2012. So far 74 women & 97 men have confirmed their attendance with the Mexicans still to come. This means there will be 3 qualification groups for both the women & men, so qualification for the final will be extremely tricky for the athletes. The last time this happened was World Cup #2 last year and represents the first time this has occurred outside of Europe.
All the big names are included in the 171 athletes traveling to North Carolina, such as Andrei Moiseev (RUS), Adam Marosi (HUN), Victoria Tereshuk (URK) & Lena Schoneborn (GER). The only star missing is triple World Champion Amelie Caze (FRA) who is still cautiously coming back from injury that ruled her out of the 2011 World Cup Final and World Championships.
Below are the names scheduled to appear, since this is a live sporting event spectators could expect changes to this roster.
WOMEN | MEN | |||
COUNTRY | NAME | COUNTRY | NAME | |
ARGENTINA ARGENTINA AUSTRALIA BELARUS BELARUS BELARUS BELARUS BRAZIL BRAZIL BULGARIA BULGARIA CANADA CANADA CANADA CANADA CHINA CHINA CHINA CHINA CHINA CZECH REPUBLIC CZECH REPUBLIC EGYPT FINLAND FINLAND FRANCE FRANCE GERMANY GERMANY GERMANY GERMANY GREAT BRITIAN GREAT BRITIAN GREAT BRITIAN GREAT BRITIAN GUATEMALA GUATEMALA HUNGARY HUNGARY IRELAND ITALY ITALY ITALY ITALY JAPAN KOREA KOREA LATVIA LITHUANIA LITHUANIA POLAND POLAND POLAND POLAND RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA SWITZERLAND TURKEY UKRAINE UKRAINE UKRAINE UKRAINE USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA |
Pamela Zapata Ayelen Zapata Chloe Esposito Anastasiya Prokopenko Volya Papush Hanna Vasilionak Tatsiana Elizarova Yane Marques Priscila Oliveira Tanya Barakova Polina Struchkova Melanie McCann Mathea Stevens Donna Vakalis Kelly Fitzsimmons Qian Chen Yihua Miao Yanyan Wu Wenjing Zhu Ye Zhang Natalie Dianova Lucie Grolichova Aya Medany Laura Salminen Eevi Bengs Elodie Clouvel Elfie Arnaud Janine Kohlmann Lena Schoneborn Eva Trautmann Annika Schleu Freyja Prentice Mhairi Spence Heather Fell Samantha Murray Marines Garza Geraldina Garzo Leila Gyenesei Sarolta Kovacs Natalya Coyle Sabrina Crognale Alessia Mancini Lavinia Bonessio Claudia Cesarini Narumi Kurosu Soojin Yang Mina Jeong Jelena Rublevska Laura Asadauskaite Gintare Venckauskaite Sylwia Gawlikwska Katarzyna Wojcik Aleksandra Skarzynska Joanna Gomolinska Evdokia Grechishnikova Ekaterina Kjuraskina Donata Rimshaute Yulia Kolwgova Belinda Schreiber Nehir Gunce Dasci Viktoriya Tereshchuk Iryna Khokhlova Natalia Levchenko Anastasiya Spas Rendy Opdycke Samantha Achterberg Caitlin Flathers Margaux Isaksen Michelle Kelly Christine McGrath Alison English Suzanne Stettinius Isabella Isaksen Rosalie Purvis |
ARGENTINA ARGENTINA AUSTRIA AUSTRALIA BELARUS BELARUS BELARUS BELARUS BULGARIA BULGARIA CANADA CANADA CHILE CHINA CHINA CHINA CHINA CHINESE TAIPEI CHINESE TAIPEI CZECH REPUBLIC CZECH REPUBLIC CZECH REPUBLIC CZECH REPUBLIC EGYPT EGYPT EGYPT EGYPT FINLAND FRANCE FRANCE FRANCE FRANCE GERMANY GERMANY GERMANY GERMANY GREAT BRITIAN GREAT BRITIAN GREAT BRITIAN GREAT BRITIAN GREECE GUATEMALA GUATEMALA HUNGARY HUNGARY HUNGARY HUNGARY IRELAND IRELAND ITALY ITALY ITALY ITALY JAPAN JAPAN JAPAN JAPAN KAZAKHSTAN KAZAKHSTAN KAZAKHSTAN KOREA KOREA KOREA KOREA LATVIA LITHUANIA LITHUANIA LITHUANIA NETHERLANDS POLAND POLAND POLAND POLAND PORTUGAL PORTUGAL RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA SLOVAKIA SPAIN UKRAINE UKRAINE UKRAINE UKRAINE USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA |
Emmanuel Zapata Sergio Villamayor Thomas Daniel Edward Fernon Mikalai Hayanouski Dzimitry Meliakh Stanislau Zhurauliou Mihail Prokopenko Blagoy Dimitrov Doicho Ivanov Josh Riker-Fox Chris Pietruczuk Esteban Bustos Rodriguez Zhongrong Cao Guan Wang Jianli Guo Jiawei Liu I-Lang Jung Chun-Wei Juan Michal Michalik Ondrej Polivka Michal Sedlechy David Svoboda Omar ElGeziry Amro ElGeziry Mostafa Nofal Yasser Hefny Ismo Salminen Jean Maxence Berrou Maurin Holyst Christopher Patte Valentin Prades Delf Borrmann Steffen Gebhardt Stefan Koellner Alexander Nobis Nicholas Woodbridge Samuel Weale James Cooke Steven Mason Vasilis Floros Andrei Gheorghe Nikkos Papadopolo Adam Marosi Robert Kasza Peter Tibolya Bence Demeter Eanna Bailey Arthur Lanigan-O’Keeffe Nicola Benedetti Riccardo DeLuca Federico Giancamilli Pier Paolo Petroni Shinya Fujii Hayato Noguchi Shohei Iwamoto Tomoyuki Ono Rustem Sabirkhuzin Andrey Soldatov Pavel Ilyashenko Choonhaun Lee Jinwoo Hong Woojin Hwang Jinhwa Jung Deniss Cerkovskis Krungolcas Edvinas Kinderis Justinas Paulius Aleksandravicius Kelvin Hilgeholt Remigiusz Golis Tomasz Chmielewski Bartosz Majewski Szymon Staskiewicz Afonso Pegado Ricardo Rego Andrey Moiseev Ilya Frolov Sergei Kariakin Alexander Lesun Juraj Szalay Cristobal Rodriguez Dmytro Kirpulianskyi Pavlo Kirpulyanskyy Pavlo Tymoshchenko Oleksandr Mordasov Brendan Anderson Robert Ely Bremer Mike Gostigian Justin Torrellas Dennis Bowsher Mackenzie Morris Sam Sacksen Nathan Schrimsher William Brady Matt Wyble Josh Spegman Lucas Schrimsher |