In 2008 Reigning Olympic champions Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh set a record for team gold medal finishes on the SWATCH FIVB World Tour in Berlin as the tandem for the United States defeated Jia Tian and Jie Wang of China 21-18 and 22-20 in 45 minutes for the US$600,000 smart Grand Slam title. May-Treanor and Walsh increased their career international gold medal count to 32 to break a tie with Brazilians Emanuel Rego/Ricardo Santos on the men’s list and Adriana Behar/Shelda Bede in the women’s international record book.
Strong day takes Svozilova and Štochlová to the quarterfinals in Alanya
One of just two teams coming from the Round of 24 to make it to the quarterfinals of the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Challenge event held in Alanya on Friday, Czechs Marketa Svozilova and Marie-Sára Štochlová had a productive day in the Turkish event. With teams from seven different countries competing in the quarterfinals on Saturday, the tournament held at the Beach Sports Center...
French duel highlights Alanya Challenge Round of 16
Only half of the 32 men’s teams that entered the main draw of this week’s Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Alanya Challenge continue alive in the race for the title in Türkiye as the tournament entered the elimination rounds on Friday. Duos from ten different countries are set to appear in the Round of 16 of the event held at the Beach Sports Center facility on Saturday morning...
Schoon and Konink on to the Round of 16 in Türkiye
Playing just their second tournament as partners on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour, Dutch Raisa Schoon and Mila Konink won a pair of tie-breakers on Thursday to go undefeated in the first day of the main draw of the Alanya Challenge, in Türkiye. Besides the Dutch, seven other teams also prevailed on both their pool matches at the Beach Sports Center facility...
After going winless in the first two tournaments they played in the 2025 Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour season, German Olympic medalists Nils Ehlers and Clemens Wickler finally got to celebrate a positive result at the international level this year on Thursday in Alanya, Türkiye. The Europeans are among the 16 men’s duos that won their first pool matches at the Beach Sports Center...
The two women’s teams that represented hosts France at last year’s Paris Olympics had a successful first day at this week’s Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Challenge event held in Alanya, Türkiye, overcoming the qualifier on Wednesday and securing a spot in the main draw. Eight teams in each gender went undefeated in the first day of matches in Türkiye...
Olympic champions Åhman and Hellvig to play in Malmö this week
Reigning Olympic champions David Åhman and Jonatan Hellvig will make a rare appearance in a Volleyball World Beach Pro Four Futures event this week as the Swedish stars are set to compete in front of their home fans in Malmö. Set to take place between Thursday and Sunday, the Malmö event, which will only see the men get on the court, will be one of three Futures tournaments...
World champions and Olympic medalists highlight Alanya Challenge entry lists
The Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour gets to Türkiye, the fifth country to host high-caliber events in 2025, this week, and the Challenge tournament set to take place at the Beach Sports Center facility, in the city of Alanya, will have a very strong field of contenders. The third city to host a Challenge event in 2025, after Mexico’s Yucatán, in March, and China’s Xiamen, in May...
USA Volleyball Announces 2025 Beach Collegiate/U26 National Team
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (June 9, 2025) – USA Volleyball is proud to announce the 31 athletes selected to the 2025 Beach Collegiate/U26 National Team. This elite group, featuring 14 men and 17 women, will participate in a 10-day training block from June 9-19 in Hermosa Beach, California. The Beach Collegiate/U26 National Team will train alongside USA Volleyball’s Beach A2 National Team...
Grossig & Seiser and Serdiuk & Romaniuk triumph at Sveti Vlas Futures
Austria’s Laurenc Grossig & Mathias Seiser collected their first Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour gold together as they triumphed at the Sveti Vlas Futures on the beautiful Black Sea beach in Bulgaria. Serbia’s Djordje Klasnic & Marko Makaric took silver, while Dimitar Mehandzhiyski & Dimitar Kalchev wrote history by earning Bulgaria’s first ever Beach Pro Tour medal in either gender...
Host nation Czechia claimed five of the six medals at the Prague Futures on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour that came to an end on Sunday. Katerina Pavelkova & Anna Pavelkova, Marie-Sara Stochlova & Marketa Svozilova and Martina Maixnerova & Kylie Neuschaeferova, in that order, lined up on the women’s podium with gold, silver and bronze. Jakub Sepka & Jiri Sedlak finished runners-up...
Excellent season for Elazar & Cuzmiciov continues with gold in Krakow
Once again, Israeli pair Eylon Elazar & Kevin Cuzmiciov showed that they are in excellent shape this season and topped the podium at the men’s Krakow Futures on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour that came to an end on Sunday in Poland. Home team Jedrzej Brozyniak & Piotr Janiak and Denmark’s Mads Mollgaard & Nicolai Houmann took silver and gold, respectively.
Teams from ten countries win medals in busy weekend
Beach volleyball teams from ten different European countries returned home with Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour medals after a busy weekend, which had three Futures events taking place in the region simultaneously. Austria, Bulgaria, Czechia, Denmark, Israel, the Netherlands, Poland, Serbia, Spain and Ukraine were the nations that succeeded over the weekend...
Busy week ahead with events in Prague, Sveti Vlas and Krakow
The 2025 Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour season is set to have a busy weekend in Europe as three Futures events will take place simultaneously on the continent from Thursday to Sunday, involving as many as 140 teams. The Czech capital Prague and the Bulgarian coastal town of Sveti Vlas will both have double-gender events over the weekend, while in Krakow, Poland...
Miller Pata leads Vanuatu to bronze in Empowerment-supported coaching milestone
Vanuatu’s bronze medal at the Beach Pro Tour Futures in Wuhan Qingshan marked a significant career milestone for women’s national team coach Miller Pata, who earned her first event medal as a coach following a decorated playing career. Pata guided Majabelle Lawac and Sherysyn Toko to a 2-1 (21-15, 7-21, 15-10) victory over China’s Lin MeiMei and Xie Hong in the bronze medal match...
Ahman & Hellvig back up to number two in World Ranking
After winning the Ostrava Elite on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour last week, reigning Olympic champions David Ahman & Jonatan Hellvig climbed back up to the number two spot in the men’s FIVB Beach Volleyball World Ranking. No changes in the women’s top five occurred as the charts received their weekly update on Monday.
Rossi & Viscovich beat Ranghieri & Alfieri in all-Italian Battipaglia Futures men’s final
A stellar clash between the new teams of Italian Olympians Enrico Rossi and Alex Ranghieri decided the men’s gold medal at the Battipaglia Futures on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour. Enrico Rosi & Marco Viscovich celebrated on top of the podium, leaving Alex Ranghieri & Manuel Alfieri with silver. The bronze went to Austrian Olympians Alexander Huber & Robin Seidl.
The first Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Elite event held in Europe in the 2025 season was vastly successful for teams from the continent, who occupied five of the six spots on the podium in Ostrava, Czechia, on Sunday. Reigning Olympic champions David Åhman of Sweden topped the men’s podium in Ostrava, which also featured Norwegian stars Anders Mol and Christian Sørum...
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