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.
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 November 2014, she received Russian Sport citizenship. She plays for the Greek club AEK Athens of the A1 Ethniki women's volleyball league.
Volleyball in Canada dates back to the beginning of the 20th century. Today, the sport is played at various levels of competition throughout the country.
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 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 gold medal meant that she had completed the rare trifecta of winning Olympic bronze, silver, and gold medals.
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 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 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 except in 2017 and 2018 where both hosted by Poland.
The FIVB Volleyball Women's 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.
The following were the events of Volleyball for the year 2014 throughout the world.
Nina Betschart 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, 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, 3 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 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 six 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 were the events of volleyball for the year 2018 throughout the world.
The following articles list indoor volleyball, beach volleyball, snow volleyball and sitting volleyball records and statistics:
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.
Udon Thani [1] 
Hamburg [2] 
Russia (Oleg Stoyanovskiy & Viacheslav Krasilnikov) (m) / 
Canada (Sarah Pavan & Melissa Humana-Paredes) (f)
Rome [3] 
Haiyang [4] 
Gstaad [7] 
Norway (Anders Mol & Christian Sørum) (m) / 
United States (April Ross & Alexandra Klineman) (f)
Vienna [8] 
The Hague [9] 
Brazil (Ana Patricia Silva Ramos & Rebecca Cavalcanti Barbosa Silva) (f)
Doha (men only) [10] 
Chile (Marco Grimalt & Esteban Grimalt)
Ostrava [14] 
Warsaw [15] 
Australia (Mariafe Artacho del Solar & Taliqua Clancy) (f)
Espinho [16] 
Tokyo [17] 
Latvia (Aleksandrs Samoilovs & Jānis Šmēdiņš) (m) / 
Switzerland (Anouk Vergé-Dépré & Joana Heidrich) (f)
Chetumal 
Kuala Lumpur [20] 
Phnom Penh (women only) [24] 
Greece (Peny Karagkouni & Vassiliki Arvaniti)
Aydın [26] 
Visakhapatnam [31] 
Ukraine (Denys Denysenko & Vladyslav Iemelianchyk) (m) / 
Chinese Taipei (Kou Nai-han & LIU Pi-hsin) (f)
Gothenburg [36] 
Belarus (Aliaksandr Dziadkou & Pavel Piatrushka) (m) / 
Tuần Châu (women only) [37] 
Boracay [38] 
Daegu (women only) [41] 
Ljubljana [44] 
Vaduz [46] 
Budapest [48] 
Knokke-Heist [49] 
Rubavu District [50] 
Salalah (men only) [51] 
Denmark (Daniel Thomsen & Morten Overgaard)
Montpellier (men only) [52] 
Bandar Torkaman (men only) [54] 
Tel Aviv [55] 
