Julia Willand (born 6 April 1972 in
Nuremberg) is a South African beach volleyball player.
Willand was born in Nuremberg,
West Germany, and came at the age of six years with her family to South Africa. 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.
In 2002 she decided to move to the beach volleyball and formed a duo with
Leigh-Ann Naidoo
Leigh-Ann Naidoo (born 12 July 1976 in Durban) is a South African beach volleyball player.
Naidoo began her career at the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour in 1999 attending only the Acapulco Open alongside Alena Schurkova. Already with partner ...
.
They competed at the
FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour
The FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour (known between 2003 and 2012 as the FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch World Tour for sponsorship reasons) was the worldwide professional beach volleyball tour for both men and women organized by the ' ( FIVB), the ...
in 2003 and 2004 and qualified for the
Summer Olympics
The Summer Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'été), also known as the Games of the Olympiad, and often referred to as the Summer Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inau ...
, in Athens.
They lost all three matches in the group stage and did not advance to the medal round.
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Living people
1972 births
South African beach volleyball players
Olympic beach volleyball players for South Africa
Beach volleyball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Nuremberg
Women's beach volleyball players
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