Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two to four players each 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 also works in unison to prevent the opposing team from grounding the ball on their side of the court.
The International Volleyball Federation 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 Fabio Azevedo of Brazil.
Rosir Calderón Díaz is a Cuban-born Russian volleyball player who was a member of the Cuban women's national team that won the bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. In November 2014, she received Russian Sport citizenship. She plays for the Greek club AEK Athens of the A1 Ethniki women's volleyball league.
Áurea Esther "Aury" Cruz Dalmau is an indoor and beach volleyball player from Puerto Rico who currently plays for the Orlando Valkyries of the Pro Volleyball Federation. She is best known for competing for the Puerto Rico national team at the 2008 Olympic Qualification Tournament in Japan, where she was named Best Server at the event.
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.
Jordan Quinn Larson is an American professional volleyball player who plays as an outside hitter for the United States women's national volleyball team. A four-time Olympian, Larson earned the USA its first-ever gold in women's volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She also has two silver medals from the 2012 and 2024 Summer Olympics and a bronze medal from the 2016 Summer Olympics.
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 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 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 Men's Volleyball 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 except in 2017 and 2018 where both hosted by Poland.
The FIVB Women's Volleyball Club World Championship is an international women's club volleyball competition organised by the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The competition was first contested in 1991 in Brazil. It was not held between 1995 and 2009, but since 2010, the competition has been held every year, and has been hosted by Qatar, Switzerland, the Philippines, Japan, China and Turkey. The competition was held in Zhejiang Province of China in 2018 and 2019. After the 2020 championship was cancelled due to corona virus pandemic, the competition was held in Turkey in 2021.
Nina Brunner is a Swiss professional beach volleyball player who plays as a right side defender with her partner Tanja Hüberli. She is a two-time European Champion, winning the title in 2021 and 2023, the silver medallist at the 2018 and 2022 European Championships, and the bronze medalist at the 2024 Summer Olympics. 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 3 gold, 4 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 Volleyball 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 Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup was the inaugural edition of the FIVB Women's Volleyball Challenger Cup, a new annual women's international volleyball tournament contested by six national teams that acts as a qualifier for the FIVB Women's Volleyball 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 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] 
United States (Phil Dalhausser & Nick Lucena) (m) / 
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] 
Switzerland (Esmée Böbner & Zoé Vergé-Dépré) (f)
Vaduz [54] 
Siófok [55] 
Montpellier [56] 
Kazakhstan (Alexey Sidorenko & Alexandr Dyachenko)
Belarus (Aliaksandr Dziadkou & Pavel Piatrushka) (m) / 
Greece (Peny Karagkouni & Vassiliki Arvaniti) (f)
