Expressions of interest invited for 2023, 2025 and 2027 editions Volleyball World has officially invited National Federations (NFs) and organisers to submit expressions of interest to host the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships in 2023, 2025 or 2027. The FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships represents the pinnacle of beach volleyball, a sport which boasts a...

Credit: dailypost.vu, vanuatuvolleyball.com Luganville City in Vanuatu The Australian High Commission’s First Secretary, Frederic Jeanjean, has handed over funding assistance to the Vanuatu Volleyball Federation (VVF) for the construction of two beach volleyball courts in Luganville recently. The Australian co-funded beach volleyball project, dubbed by VVF officials as “The Field of Dreams”, will see the...

Both competitions will now be held in December 2021 The FIVB, event organiser and Thailand Volleyball Association have jointly decided to reschedule the FIVB Beach Volleyball U19 and U21 World Championships to December 3-8 and December 14-19, 2021 respectively in Roi Et, Thailand. Originally scheduled for 14-19 September and 24-29 September, the decision to reschedule...

Apply now! Journalists and broadcasters can now request accreditations for the 2021 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Finals Virtual Mixed Zone. Featuring the top teams in the world, the World Tour Finals will take place from October 6-10 and serve as the climax of the 2021 beach volleyball season. Accreditations for the Virtual Mixed Zone...

Beach volleyball is one of nine sports on the core programme for the 2023 and 2025 ANOC World Beach Games Beach Volleyball was confirmed as one of nine sports that will form the core programme for the 2023 and 2025 ANOC World Beach Games. Beach Volleyball 4×4 featured at the inaugural ANOC World Beach Games...

World Tour Finals are now scheduled for October 6-10 in Sardinia, Italy The FIVB has announced that the 2021 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Finals have been rescheduled for October 6-10, 2021 in Sardinia, Italy, following a joint decision by the FIVB, Volleyball World, the Italian Volleyball Federation (FIPAV), Sport e Salute and other relevant...

Hard work, patience and discipline key to the Qatari team’s success At the start of the 2021 beach volleyball season, Cherif Younousse and Ahmed Tijan were not far above the cut-off line in the provisional Olympic ranking and their qualification for Tokyo 2020 was far from certain. At the time, hardly anyone could expect the...

Australia’s Mariafe Artacho Del Solar and Taliqua Clancy settled for silver in Tokyo 2020, their first Olympic medal and third overall for their country, after the Sydney 2000 gold and the Atlanta 1996 bronze of Natalie Cook and Kerri Pottharst. April Ross and Alix Klineman triumphed as Tokyo 2020 Olympic champions after winning the women’s...

Artacho Del Solar & Clancy and April & Alix claim straight-set victories in Thursday’s semifinals Australia’s Mariafe Artacho Del Solar and Taliqua Clancy will take on USA’s April Ross and Alix Klineman for the Olympic gold at the Tokyo 2020 women’s beach volleyball tournament on Friday. After Thursday’s straight-set semifinal wins over Latvia’s Tina Graudina...

The two teams emerge victoriously from Wednesday evening’s quarterfinals in Tokyo Reigning world champions Viacheslav Krasilnikov and Oleg Stoyanovskiy of ROC progressed to the semifinals of the Tokyo 2020 men’s Olympic beach volleyball tournament after a straight-set victory over Germany’s Julius Thole and Clemens Wickler. Cherif Younousse and Ahmed Tijan will be their next opponents...

A number of upsets in Tuesday’s quarterfinals USA’s April Ross and Alix Klineman dethroned reigning Olympic champion Laura Ludwig and her teammate Margareta Kozuch on Tuesday to snatch the first semifinal spot at the Tokyo 2020 women’s beach volleyball tournament. On Thursday, in one of the duels for a place in Friday’s final, the Americans...

Makroguzova & Kholomina, Evandro & Bruno, Cherif & Ahmed top their pools unbeaten Paolo Nicolai and Daniele Lupo grabbed the tenth available spot in the Round of 16 at the Tokyo 2020 men’s Olympic beach volleyball tournament, after finishing top of their pool unbeaten. China’s Chen Xue and Xinxin Wang booked their spot in the...