Mariusz Prudel (born 21 January 1986) is a male
beach volleyball player from Poland. He competed in the
2012 Summer Olympics with his partner
Grzegorz Fijałek. The other teams in their pool, group D, were Aleksandrs Samoilovs and Ruslans Sorokins (Latvia),
Jake Gibb and
Sean Rosenthal
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(USA) and the
South African team of
Freedom Chiya and
Grant Goldschmidt.
They lost to the Latvian team, but beat the South African and American teams.
Next they played the Swiss pair of
Sascha Heyer and
Seba Chevallier in the last 16, winning two sets to nil.
In the quarterfinals they lost to the Brazilian team of
Emanuel Rego
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and
Alison Cerutti.
Prudel and Fijałek were considered to be medal contenders in the 2012 Olympics. He and Fijałek were ranked fifth before the competition began after placing 25th at
The Hague Open
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, the pair's 2012 debut. However, the two placed seventh in the Olympic qualifiers. In July 2012, Prudel and Fijałek won a bronze medal at the
Berlin Grand Slam.
Prudel was born in 1986 in his hometown of
Rybnik
Rybnik (Polish pronunciation: ; szl, Rybńik) is a city in southern Poland, in the Silesian Voivodeship, around 38 km (24 mi) southwest of Katowice, the region's capital, and around 19 km (11 miles) from the Czech border. It is ...
, Poland.
He is coached by Martin Olejnak and is married to Ani Prudel.
References
1986 births
Living people
Polish beach volleyball players
Men's beach volleyball players
Olympic beach volleyball players of Poland
Beach volleyball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Beach volleyball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
People from Rybnik
Sportspeople from Silesian Voivodeship
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