Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two or more players on a sand court divided by a net. Similar to indoor volleyball, the objective of the game is to send the ball over the net and to ground it on the opponent's side of the court. Each team works in unison to prevent the opposing team from grounding the ball on their side of the court.
The Fédération Internationale de Volleyball, commonly known by the acronym FIVB, is the international governing body for all forms of volleyball. Its headquarters are located in Lausanne, Switzerland, and its current president is Ary Graça of Brazil.
Brenda Castillo is a volleyball player from the Dominican Republic and plays as a libero. She was a member of the Dominican Republic national team that won fifth place in the 2012 Summer Olympics, while she was named the tournament's Best Libero. She played in the 2014 World Championship reaching also the fifth place and ranking 17th in the 2010 World Championship and the 2011 FIVB World Cup where her national team ranked eight and the 2015 FIVB World Cup, winning the Best Libero individual award and ranking in seventh place.
David Cameron Lee is an American volleyball player, currently working as the technical director for Indian Club, Bengaluru Torpedoes. As a member of the United States men's national volleyball team, he is an Olympic Champion at the 2008 Summer Olympics, an Olympic bronze medalist at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and a three-time Olympian. He is also a two-time NORCECA Champion, a gold medalist at the 2015 World Cup, and a gold medalist of the World League.
Jordan Quinn Larson is an American former volleyball player and a three-time Olympic medalist. Larson won gold with the national team at the 2014 World Championship, the Rimini Volleyball Nations League, and the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, silver at the 2012 London Summer Olympics, and bronze at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Her 2020 Olympics win allowed her to complete the trifecta of winning an Olympic bronze, silver, and gold medal.
The 2015 FIVB Men's World Cup was held from 8 to 23 September 2015 in Japan. The tournament served as a qualification process for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The top two teams, USA and Italy, qualified for the Olympics, and joined Brazil as they had already secured a berth as the host country.
Kimberly Hill is an American former professional volleyball player who played as an outside hitter for the United States women's national volleyball team. Hill won gold with the national team at the 2014 World Championship, the Rimini Volleyball Nations League, and the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, and bronze at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
Rachael Alexis Adams is an American former professional volleyball player who played as a middle blocker for the United States women's national volleyball team. Adams won gold with the national team at the 2014 World Championship and bronze at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
The 2018 FIVB Women's World Championship was the eighteenth edition of the event, contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The final tournament was held in Japan from 29 September to 20 October 2018. The final four was held at the Yokohama Arena in Yokohama.
The qualification for the 2016 Men's Olympic Volleyball Tournament was held from 8 September 2015 to 5 June 2016. Twelve teams qualified, the hosts, the FIVB World Cup champions and runners-up, five continental Olympic qualification tournament champions and four teams from two World Olympic qualification tournaments. Teams already qualified for the event were not eligible to play in the following qualification tournaments.
The following were the events of Volleyball for the year 2015 throughout the world.
The following were the events of Volleyball for the year 2016 throughout the world.
The qualification for the 2016 Women's Olympic beach volleyball tournament was held from 26 June 2015 to 26 June 2016. A maximum of two teams per country were allowed to qualify. 24 teams from 17 countries qualified.
The FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship is an international men's club volleyball competition organised by the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The competition was first contested in 1989 in Italy. It was not held between 1993 and 2008, but since 2009, the competition has been held every year, and has been hosted by Qatar and Brazil.
Nina Betschart is a Swiss professional beach volleyball player who plays as a right side defender with her partner Tanja Hüberli. She is the 2021 European Champion and the silver medallist at the 2018 and 2022 European Championships. With her former partner Nicole Eiholzer, she won the gold medal at the first ever European Games in 2015. Alongside Hüberli, Betschart has won combined total of 1 gold, 2 silver and 6 bronze medals on FIVB World Tour and its successor Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour. Betschart / Hüberli team represented Switzerland at the 2020 Summer Olympics where they finished in ninth place and played a pivotal role at their country's triumph in the women's event of the inaugural CEV Beach Volleybal Nations Cup in 2022. They achieved a career-high World ranking of No. 2 in November 2021.
The following were the events of Volleyball for the year 2017 throughout the world.
The 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup was the inaugural edition of the FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup, a new annual women's international volleyball tournament contested by 6 national teams that acts as a qualifier for the FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League. The tournament was held in Lima, Peru between 20 and 24 June.
The following articles list indoor volleyball, beach volleyball, snow volleyball and sitting volleyball records and statistics:
The following were volleyball-related events during 2019 throughout the world.
Krista Vansant is a volleyball player and coach who played collegiately for Washington. In 2022, she was named as the assistant coach for the University of Illinois volleyball team after spending 3 seasons as an assistant coach at Indiana.
Munich [1] 
Nanjing [2] 
The Hague, Rotterdam, Utrecht, & Apeldoorn [3] [4] 
Norway (Anders Mol & Christian Sørum) (m) / 
Brazil (Ágatha Bednarczuk & Eduarda Santos Lisboa) (f)
Fort Lauderdale, Florida [7] 
Gstaad [8] 
Canada (Sarah Pavan & Melissa Humana-Paredes) (f)
Vienna [9] 
Czech Republic (Barbora Hermannová & Markéta Sluková) (f)
Latvia (Mārtiņš Pļaviņš & Edgars Tocs) (m) / 
Doha (men only) [11] 
Russia (Oleg Stoyanovskiy & Igor Velichko) (m) / 
Spain (Pablo Herrera & Adrián Gavira) (m) / 
Warsaw [16] 
Espinho [17] 
Australia (Taliqua Clancy & Mariafe Artacho del Solar) (f)
Kish Island (men only) [21] 
Mersin [22] 
Tokyo [25] 
Chile (Marco Grimalt & Esteban Grimalt) (m) / 
Chetumal (women only) [27] 
Phnom Penh (women only) [28] 
Singapore [32] 
Agadir [33] 
Italy (Marta Menegatti & Viktoria Orsi Toth) (f)
Muscat (men only) [36] 
Satun [38] 
Langkawi [39] 
Manila [40] 
Tuần Châu (women only) [41] 
Serbia (Stefan Basta & Lazar Kolaric) (m) / 
Cuba (Mailen Deliz Tamayo & Leila Consuelo Martinez Ortega) (f)
Monaco, but it was cancelled.
Poreč [48] 
Ukraine (Sergiy Popov & Vladyslav Iemelianchyk) (m) / 
Daegu (women only) [50] 
Chinese Taipei (Kou Nai-han & LIU Pi Hsin)
Ljubljana #1 [53] 
Vaduz [54] 
Siófok [55] 
Montpellier [56] 
Kazakhstan (Alexey Sidorenko & Alexandr Dyachenko)
Belarus (Aliaksandr Dziadkou & Pavel Piatrushka) (m) / 
Greece (Peny Karagkouni & Vassiliki Arvaniti) (f)
