Debutants David Åhman and Jonatan Hellvig started the 2023 International Volleyball Federation (FIVB)

Beach Volleyball World Championships with a commanding win.

.🌞 #Tlaxcala2023 #BeachVolleyball pic.twitter.com/kHKvuggkz7— Beach Volleyball World (@BeachVBWorld

It’s great to start with a good win," Salgado was quoted as saying by Volleyball World."

The duo was the first team to clinch the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour event in Tlaxcala.It was also

Paris 2024 quotas for winners is expected to make the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) Beach

Volleyball World Championships in Tlaxcala, Mexico, exciting.

MexBeachVolley (@mexbeachvolley)The Vikings took have had a decent season, having won gold in three of the seven Volleyball

Chefs de Mission for the Accra 2023 African Games representing 19 nations have toured the facilities at the University of Ghana and the Legon and Borteyman sites ahead of next year's postponed event.

Complex is due to host 10 sports - aquatics, handball, judo, karate, taekwondo, badminton, boxing, volleyball

Olympic bronze medallist Harry Garside is among a 13-strong Australian boxing team named for this year's Pacific Games in the Solomon Islands.

Australia will also compete in archery, athletics, beach volleyball, judo, sailing, taekwondo and weightlifting

A host of Brazil’s sporting greats took part in the first edition of the COB Expo in São Paulo, organised by the Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB).

Pan American champion were present.Others assisting included Olympic freestyle wrestler Laís Nunes, volleyball

Brazil's Ana Patrícia Ramos and Eduarda Santos Lisboa made it back-to-back elite 16 event victories on the Volleyball

against Austria's Julian Hörl and Alexander Horst.Paris was the final elite 16 event before the Beach Volleyball

group of 24 countries will bid for six places at next year's Olympics at three Road to Paris men's volleyball

be aiming to defend their Tokyo 2020 title on home soil.Only the top 24 teams in the International Volleyball

relinquishing their world title by losing the final to Italy last year, the Poles recovered by winning the Volleyball

©Getty ImagesTokyo's qualifier will take place at Yoyogi National Stadium and will double up as the Volleyball

Olympic volleyball gold medallist Walewska Oliveira has died at the age of 43, with Brazil's players

holding a minutes' silence and wearing armbands during their International Volleyball Federation (FIVB

) Volleyball Women's Olympic Qualification Tournament match against Turkey.

Oliveira was part of the Brazilian team which won the women's volleyball tournament at Beijing 2008.She

had earlier contributed to a bronze at Sydney 2000 and played at Athens 2004.At the FIVB Volleyball

Games gold at Winnipeg 1999 and silver at Rio de Janeiro 2007, and was a three-time winner of the FIVB Volleyball

bronze at the Sydney 2000 Olympics ©Getty ImagesBrazilian Volleyball Confederation (CBV) President Radamés

will forever be cherished and remembered".A minute's silence was held before Brazil's FIVB Volleyball

North Korea’s flag continues to fly at the Asian Games here contrary to World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) sanctions as they claimed their first gold medals of the event.

men’s sprint and men’s omnium titles.Cherif Samba and Amed Janko of Qatar retained the men’s beach volleyball

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Mohsen Mohammadseifi ©Hangzhou 2022Cherif Samba, left, and Ahmed Janko of Qatar retained the men's beach volleyball

There was a gap of 47 years between the youngest and oldest winners of gold medals today as athletes with youth and experience topped the podium at the Asian Games here.

a fourth successive victory for China in the sport.Xia Xinyi completed a hat-trick of women’s beach volleyball

History was made at the Asian Games here as China became the first-ever esports gold medallists with victory in the Arena of Valor final.

awarded to Hong Kong following their 14-7 victory over South Korea.Iran secured a third successive men’s volleyball

Team Islamic Republic of Iran🇮🇷 defended their Men's Volleyball Championship title 🏆 with a victory

#Hangzhou #AsianGames #Volleyball #HangzhouAsianGames… pic.twitter.com/YHCTCNkCvx— 19th Asian Games

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The women's volleyball teams of Dominican Republic, Serbia, Turkey, Brazil, the United States and Poland

All six nations finished top two in their respective groups at the International Volleyball Federation

(FIVB) Road to Paris Olympic Volleyball Qualifying Tournament held across three cities.Pool A Games

🏐 #volleyball pic.twitter.com/VxUs9ySdh7— Volleyball World (@volleyballworld) September 24, 2023Serbia

🏐 #Volleyball pic.twitter.com/T7GofPtZb2— Volleyball World (@volleyballworld) September 24, 2023Hosts

Head of the Afghanistan women's volleyball delegation Khushal Malakszai has been left furious at the

Hangzhou Normal University Cangqian Gymnasium is set to stage women's volleyball matches at the Hangzhou

2022 Asian Games ©OCAThe women's volleyball competition at Hangzhou 2022 is due to start on Saturday