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Today In Beach Volleyball History |
In 1993 On September 24, beach volleyball becomes an Olympic sport when the International Olympic Committee grants the sport medal status at Monte Carlo’s IOC meeting. Twenty-four men's teams and eighteen women's teams will compete for the first Beach Volleyball Olympic Gold Medal in the upcoming 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
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In 1995 Ze Marco de Melo and Emanuel Rego won the FIVB Indonesia Open.
It was the 4th win for Ze Marco de Melo, the 4th win for Emanuel Rego, and the 4th win for the team.
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In 2017 Karla Borger and Margareta Kozuch won the CEV Beach Volleyball Satellite Satu Mare.
It was the 5th win for Karla Borger, the 1st win for Margareta Kozuch, and the 1st win for the team.
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In 2022 Taylor Crabb and Taylor Sander won the AVP Phoenix Championships.
It was the 14th win for Taylor Crabb, the 1st win for Taylor Sander, and the 1st win for the team.
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In 2022 Taryn Kloth and Kristen Nuss won the AVP Phoenix Championships.
It was the 6th win for Taryn Kloth, the 6th win for Kristen Nuss, and the 6th win for the team.
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In 2023 Tobia Marchetto and Jakob Windisch won the FIVB BPT Futures Cervia.
It was the 2nd win for Tobia Marchetto, the 6th win for Jakob Windisch, and the 2nd win for the team.
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In 2023 Menia Bentele and Anna Lutz won the FIVB BPT Futures Cervia.
It was the 1st win for Menia Bentele, the 1st win for Anna Lutz, and the 1st win for the team.
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Latest News and Feature Articles |
9/22/2023 |
Alix ready to tackle challenges for a spot in Paris
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Challenges have never scared Alix Klineman away from anything. If that were the case, she would have never left a stable and successful volleyball career behind at the age of 27 and moved to the sand to pursue her dream of becoming an Olympic champion, a goal she accomplished just four years into her beach experience. |
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Partain & Benesh to headline stellar men’s line-up at Paris Elite16
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The last Elite16 event on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour before the 2023 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships in Mexico is set to take place in Paris next week, from September 27 through October 1, with most of the world’s best men’s pairs competing at the remarkable Roland-Garros Stadium for the second time, after 2022, with less than a year to go to the 33rd Summer Olympic Games... |
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9/21/2023 |
Roland-Garros to welcome world’s best women’s teams again
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It will have been over a month since the last high-level event on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour when the stars of women’s beach volleyball line up to shine again next week at the eighth Elite16 event of the season. The iconic Roland-Garros Stadium will welcome the world’s elite for the second time as the Paris Elite16 takes place from September 27 through October 1... |
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FIVB And Olympic Solidarity Join Forces To Develop Youth Beach Volleyball Teams With Pilot Project In The Caribbean
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The FIVB and the International Olympic Committee (IOC), through Olympic Solidarity, have launched a joint pilot project with the aim of supporting the development of youth beach volleyball teams in the Eastern Caribbean Zone. The project is supported through the Olympic Solidarity Youth Athlete Development programme and marks a collaborative effort between the FIVB and the IOC. |
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9/20/2023 |
Canada’s Santiago 2023 Beach Volleyball team announced
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September 20, 2023 - Volleyball Canada and the Canadian Olympic Committee have announced Canada’s beach volleyball team nominated to compete at the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games. The Team Canada beach volleyball athletes – one duo per gender – for the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games are... |
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Jon Alvarez, Volleyball Life, and “volleyball people doing cool stuff for volleyball”
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HERMOSA BEACH, CALIFORNIA — Jon Alvarez’s professors at the University of Denver’s Daniels College of Business had to have been tired of it. Every single time they assigned Alvarez to write a business plan, he’d come back with the same two ideas: “It was either a volley bar or Volleyball Life,” he said, more than three decades later, laughing. |
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Italian teams trying to maintain winning tradition in Cervia
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Italy is set to host a Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Futures event for the fourth time in the season and the home fans certainly hope that the outcome of this week’s tournament in Cervia is the same as the first three, which each had a local team at the top of the podium. International beach volleyball is coming to the Fantini Club at the start of autumn after the event had to be postponed... |
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Asian Games Underway With Exciting Volleyball And Beach Volleyball Duels
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Competitive action in both volleyball and beach volleyball at the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games got underway on Tuesday in China with plenty of teams supported by the FIVB Volleyball Empowerment programme vying for continental honours at the prestigious multi-sport event. |
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9/19/2023 |
Mexico’s elder statesman Virgen thrilled with home World Championship
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Host country Mexico will have 12 players in action at the 2023 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championship in Tlaxcala from October 6-15 and all of them are counting the days for the start of the event, including veteran Juan Virgen. A Rio 2016 Olympian, the 36-year-old Virgen will have a major role in the tournament, not only representing Mexico’s main hopes of a good result... |
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Seain Cook: Reach the Beach
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Volleyball has defined my life and given me almost everything I have – my wife, my son, our life, and some of my closest and best friends. I rub shoulders with Olympians and some of the all-time greats. I never thought I would be here. I shouldn’t be here, but I am. And I want more. When I was 8, I remember very explicitly finishing a swimming training session and speaking with my coach. |
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9/18/2023 |
Big change: Beach Olympian Sponcil goes indoors, signs with PVF’s Grand Rapids
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The next, perhaps surprising, stop on Sarah Sponcil’s volleyball career, as a highly touted player on the upstart Grand Rapids Rise in the inaugural season of the Pro Volleyball Federation, began in an unlikely spot: Kenya. This past May, Sponcil visited Kenya, in part to see her good friend Gaudencia Makokha, whom she met competing at the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games, in part to help a non-profit organization... |
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9/17/2023 |
FIVB Volleyball Empowerment-Supported Kyrgyzstan And Honduras Make Zonal Event Podiums
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The women’s national beach volleyball team of Kyrgyzstan and the women’s national volleyball team of Honduras, both supported by the FIVB through the Volleyball Empowerment programme, made it to the second highest steps of the podiums at zonal competitions this week – the AVC Continental Cup Central Zone event in Bangladesh and the AFECAVOL Central American Cup in Nicaragua. |
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9/16/2023 |
AVP 2023 Season Recap
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Feels like both yesterday and an eternity ago that the 2023 AVP Season began. Thinking back on that first event in Miami, there is just so much that has happened between then and now. Here are some of my personal highlights from the 2023 season... |
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Upcoming Tournaments |
Dates |
Tour |
Tournament |
Gender |
Purse |
Sep 21-24, 2023 |
FIVB |
BPT Futures Cervia, Italy |
M |
€ 5,000 |
Sep 21-24, 2023 |
FIVB |
BPT Futures Cervia, Italy |
W |
€ 5,000 |
Sep 21-24, 2023 |
FIVB |
BPT Futures Halifax, Canada |
M |
US$5,000 |
Sep 21-24, 2023 |
FIVB |
BPT Futures Halifax, Canada |
W |
US$5,000 |
Sep 27-Oct 1, 2023 |
FIVB |
BPT Elite16 Paris, France |
M |
US$150,000 |
Sep 27-Oct 1, 2023 |
FIVB |
BPT Elite16 Paris, France |
W |
US$150,000 |
Sep 29-Oct 1, 2023 |
NORCECA |
NORCECA Punta Cana, Dominican Republic |
M |
US$3,500 |
Sep 29-Oct 1, 2023 |
NORCECA |
NORCECA Punta Cana, Dominican Republic |
W |
US$3,500 |
Oct 6-15, 2023 |
FIVB |
Beach Volleyball World Championships, Tlaxcala, Mexico |
M |
US$500,000 |
Oct 6-15, 2023 |
FIVB |
Beach Volleyball World Championships, Tlaxcala, Mexico |
W |
US$500,000 |
Oct 13-15, 2023 |
AVP |
Tour Series Laguna Beach Open |
M&W |
$20,000 |
Oct 18-22, 2023 |
FIVB |
2023 Beach Pro Tour Futures Mallorca, Spain |
W |
€ 5,000 |
Oct 19-22, 2023 |
FIVB |
BPT Challenge Goa, India |
M |
US$75,000 |
Oct 19-22, 2023 |
FIVB |
BPT Challenge Goa, India |
W |
US$75,000 |
Oct 21-26, 2023 |
PAN AM |
XIX Pan Am Games, Santiago, Chile |
M |
US$ |
Oct 21-26, 2023 |
PAN AM |
XIX Pan Am Games, Santiago, Chile |
W |
US$ |
Oct 25-29, 2023 |
FIVB |
2023 Beach Pro Tour Futures Mallorca, Spain |
M |
€ 5,000 |
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