Qatar’s Cherif Younousse and Ahmed Tijan and USA’s Jake Gibb and Tri Bourne secured their spots in the knockout stages of the men’s Olympic beach volleyball tournament by putting their hands on the top two places in the Pool C standings on Wednesday. The new FIVB World Ranking leaders, Cherif and Ahmed, were trailing Italy’s...

Credit: volleyballaustralia.org.au Chris McHugh and Damien Schumann bowed out of the Olympic tournament after going down to Spain 16-21, 16-21. Desperately needing a win against the no. 13 seed to keep their Tokyo Games campaign alive, the Australians fought bravely but couldn’t overcome the Spanish pairing of Herrera and Gavira, who together boast eight Olympic...

Credit: volleyball.qa Qatar’s beach volleyball stars Cherif Younousse and Tijan Ahmed, who are presently competing at the Tokyo Olympic Games, reached the World No. 1 spot in the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) ranking for the first time. The new list released on Monday placed Younousse and Ahmed right at the top with 5160 points. Last...

Wang & Xia, April & Alix, Bryl & Fijalek, Evandro & Bruno Schmidt advance to knockout stage The two Chinese pairs delivered the big upsets of the day in the women’s beach volleyball tournament at Tokyo 2020. One of them, Fan Wang and Xinyi Xia, as well as USA’s April Ross and Alix Klineman booked...

New Zealand’s Zeimann and Polley among the four duos that advance from the qualifier Led by New Zealand’s Shaunna Polley and Alice Zeimann, teams from four different countries won a pair of matches on Thursday to advance to the main draw of the third FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour one-star event in Sofia. With only...

Tokyo 2020 will be beach volleyball’s seventh consecutive appearance at the Olympic Games As beach volleyball prepares to grace Tokyo Bay for its seventh appearance at an Olympic Games, the most charming sport on the programme celebrates 25-years since its Olympic debut at Atlanta 1996. From humble beginnings on Californian beaches in the 1920s and...

Iran1 clinched men’s title and Australia1 captured the women’s crown Nakhon Pathom, Thailand, July 15, 2021 – On a day when visiting teams stole the show, reigning champions Thailand lost both men’s and women’s crowns in the 4th Asian U21 Beach Volleyball Championships at the competition site in front of Mida Grande Hotel Dhavaravati Nakhon...

Thailand1’s Suchinna/Apinya and Australia1’s Fejes/Stevens set up women’s final rematch of Asian U19 Championships Nakhon Pathom, Thailand, July 14, 2021 – Thailand has its stranglehold on the 4th Asian U21 Beach Volleyball Championships with all three teams securing their men’s semifinal berths, as Thailand1’s Suchinna Choemphun/Apinya Saengpaeng and Australia1’s Stefanie Fejes/Alisha Stevens set up the...

Three Thai teams advanced to men’s quarterfinals Nakhon Pathom, Thailand, July 13, 2021 – History is repeating itself when the Wednesday women’s semifinals become all-Thais, all-Australians affairs as last week’s Asian U19 Championships, while three home teams strolled into the men’s quarterfinals of the 4th Asian U21 Beach Volleyball Championships in front of Mida Grande...

The Olympic beach volleyball tournament will take place from July 24 to August 7 The schedule for the pool phase of the beach volleyball tournament at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 has now been confirmed after a draw held in Moscow, Russia on July 5 split the 24 teams per gender into six pools. Olympic...

Nakhon Pathom, Thailand, July 12, 2021 – Thai men dominated the opening day of the 4th Asian U21 Beach Volleyball Championships in front of Mida Grande Hotel Dhavaravati Nakhon Pathom with a clean sweep on Monday, as Australia1 Stefanie Fejes/Alisha Stevens look to extend their reign as the dominant force in women’s event with two...

Nakhon Pathom, Thailand, July 11, 2021 – With the U19 tournament wrapped up last Tuesday, all eyes are now on the 4th Asian U21 Beach Volleyball Championships to be held behind closed doors from July 12 to 15 at the makeshift competition site in front of Mida Grande Hotel Dhavaravati Nakhon Pathom here. Australians Alisha...