top seeds Talita Antunes and Larissa Franca of Brazil will bid for a second straight International Volleyball

are the second seeds for the Olympic competition, which is due to be held on the iconic Copacabana Beach

Hosts Brazil continued their impressive start to the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) World

win by overcoming Thailand 25-22, 25-22, 25-13 in the same city.Pool E1 action took place in Long Beach

Friendship and cooperation between countries will be strengthened by the Asian Beach Games in Danang,

I’m sure that Viet Nam and Danang will host the 5th Asian Beach Games with great success."

Danang will be the fifth edition of the Asian Beach Games and follows a successful edition at Phuket

These include aquatics sports, beach kabaddi, beach soccer, beach volleyball, beach handball, basketball

3x3, beach sepaktakraw, beach shuttlecock, beach petanque, beach bodybuilding, beach woodball, coastal

rowing, beach athletics and beach martial arts.Wrestling, sambo, ju-jitsu, kurash, pencak silat, vovinam

Bahamas 2017 have launched a campaign titled “Who’s Next? Recruiting Legends” as they seek to find the next generation of sporting stars at the Commonwealth Youth Games.

from July 18 to 23, with athletics, swimming, rugby sevens, road cycling, judo, boxing, tennis and beach

soccer all included on the sport programme.Beach volleyball could be added, should it be ratified by

Kira Walkenhorst will be among the favourites for the women’s title at this week’s International Volleyball

The FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour returns to Olsztyn, the capital of Warmian-Masurian province, with

Polish Volleyball Federation President Paweł Papke is looking forward to welcoming the athletes to Olsztyn

engaged so deeply in organising this event and in promoting the Warmian-Masurian region," said Polish Volleyball

We all know that the Grand Slam is a wonderful promotion of our region, but also of beach volleyball

and of the Polish Volleyball Federation."

Dalhausser and Nick Lucena earned a straight sets victory in the men's final of the International Volleyball

The duo had already claimed three titles during this year’s FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour and closed

Construction has been temporarily suspended at the Rio 2016 beach volleyball venue on Copacabana beach

Olympic tennis venue.Brazil will be expected to challenge for medals in both the men’s and women’s beach

volleyball competitions at the Games, with the sport enjoying huge popularity in the country.As a result

beach volleyball is expected to be among the most iconic events at Rio 2016, and the sport is among

television cameras.Rio de Janeiro has organised 16 men's tournaments sanctioned by the International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) since the first on Ipanema beach in 1987, and nine women's.The first international

defeating Brazil’s Agatha Bednarczuk and Barbara Seixas in the women’s final at the International Volleyball

Now we are playing beach volleyball and I think we can go two steps up."

Pollution worries have once again risen ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games after a report claimed that drug-resistant "super-bacteria” has been found at several beaches across the city.

found traces of the bacteria Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC) in samples taken from Flamengo Beach

particular worry at the Guanabara Bay sailing venue ©Getty Images Copacabana, the iconic Rio landmark where beach

volleyball will be held at the Games, was least affected with 10 per cent.Oswaldo Cruz Institute also

Mexico’s Juan Virgen and Lombardo Ontiveros won both of their matches today at the International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) Major Series event in Hamburg to ensure their country will be represented by both a beach

volleyball and volleyball team at an Olympic Games for the first time in history. 

finishes at FIVB World Tour stops or continental championships since the start of the process.Mexico’s volleyball

To join our indoor team in Rio is significant for the development of volleyball and beach volleyball

A new five-star structure for the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) Beach Volleyball World

Graça, to modernise and streamline its competitions as it strives to enter into a golden period for volleyball

The introduction of our new five-star structure for the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour will make the

Rio 2016 will be a huge moment for volleyball and we want to ensure that everything is in place after

All events on the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour will be assigned a star rating between one and five

Any interested promoters or national volleyball federations wishing to contact the FIVB in connection

Reigning International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) world champions Agatha Bednarczuk and Barbara Seixas

on the back of placing 17th in their last FIVB World Tour appearance for their worst international beach

volleyball placement in 17 events.Bednarczuk and Seixas had not finished lower than ninth at a FIVB

defeating their Brazilian counterparts 21-12, 19-21, 15-13 at a United States Grand Slam in Long Beach

champions Talita Antunes and Larissa Franca of Brazil kept their hopes of consecutive International Volleyball

Franca, one-half of the London 2012 women's beach volleyball bronze medallists, and her partner saw off

Spanish duo Adrian Gavira and Pablo Herrera’s bid for a successful International Volleyball Federation

Olympic Games, caused the biggest upset on the opening day of main draw action at the Vodny Stadium Beach

their superb success in Cincinnati as they crashed out of the qualification round of the International Volleyball

draw by beating Yury Bogatov and Maksim Hudyakov of Russia 18-21, 21-13, 15-12 at the Vodny Stadium Beach