China and Serbia won their opening games of the third round of the International Volleyball Federation

(FIVB) Women's Volleyball World Championships in the Japanese city of Nagoya.

Nagoya.Serbia celebrate winning a point against Japan in the third round of the FIVB Women's World Volleyball

meet April Ross and Alexandra Klineman of the United States in the women's final of the International Volleyball

three matches today to reach the final of the four-star Beach World Tour event at the Yangzhou Beach Volleyball

book their place in round two of the men's competition as action continued today at the International Volleyball

triumph 21-19, 16-21, 15-10 against home favourites Gao Peng and Ha Likejiang at the Yangzhou Beach Volleyball

Olympic and Paralympic sports that do not currently receive full UK Sport funding will be able to bid for additional investment to help more talented athletes compete at Tokyo 2020, British Sports Minister Tracey Crouch has announced today.

BaseballSoftballUK, British Fencing, British Handball, GB Luge, GB Wheelchair Rugby, Table Tennis England, British Volleyball

States, The Netherlands and hosts Japan secured the final places in the third round of the International Volleyball

Match info: https://t.co/UJLaTCb8hN#volleyballWCHs#volleyball pic.twitter.com/TVXQi1paWE— Volleyball

Brazil's pair of Pedro Solberg and Bruno Oscar Schmidt won both their matches today at the International Volleyball

before also seeing off wildcards Li Zhuoxin and Zhou Chawei of China 21-10, 21-11 at the Yangzhou Beach Volleyball

Brazilian and Russian pairs were successful in the qualifying round of the International Volleyball Federation

competition, three Brazilian pairs went through at the four star event, held at the Yangzhou Beach Volleyball

Italy and China joined Serbia in the final six of the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) Women's

World Volleyball Championships in Japan.

(15-25, 25-23, 25-23, 25-23)#volleyball #volleyballWCHs pic.twitter.com/6qOElJMgbx— Volleyball World

Shooter Caitlin Connor has won the women's prize in the United States Olympic Committee's (USOC) Best of September awards.

pic.twitter.com/6pR79XENJ3— Team USA (@TeamUSA) October 9, 2018Matt Anderson, part of the American volleyball

team that won bronze at the World Volleyball Championships in Turin, was awarded the male athlete prize.The

The International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) is back in China for the next event on its 2018-2019 beach

volleyball World Tour calendar, the inaugural Yangzhou Open.

make his beach debut in the qualification round ©Getty ImagesIn the men's qualification round Olympic volleyball

Serbia became the first team to qualify for the top six at the International Volleyball Federation

(FIVB) Women's World Volleyball Championship in Japan.

Mexico, beating them 23-25, 25-23, 25-13, 25-19.Serbia celebrate beating Germany at the FIVB Women's Volleyball

Germany came from behind to beat Brazil in five sets in the second round of the International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) Women's World Volleyball Championships in Japan.

Republic over five-sets at the opening day of the second round of matches in the FIVB Women's World Volleyball

The National Olympic Committee of Zambia (NOCZ) and Zambia Volleyball Association (ZAVA) held a sport

administrators workshop for Volleyball Administrators.

A group of 25 volleyball administrators attended the workshop held at the Olympic Youth Development Centre

 Participants were encouraged to continue to develop volleyball across Zambia.

and Fariba Ahadi made history as they became the first Iranian women to referee international sitting volleyball

I am honoured to be one of first Sitting Volleyball refereeing delegates from Iran and I hope other woman

very proud to be involved in the course and being able to learn from so many other passionate Sitting Volleyball

When I was a second level referee for the International Volleyball Federation, I was invited to a national

sitting volleyball tournament for be a line judge and scorer and that’s where I became very interested

“I like very much, the friendly atmosphere and different relationships in sitting volleyball – the referees

mistaking it for a nightclub rather than the venue of the semi-finals and final of the International Volleyball

 These changes have been described as an attempt at "revolutionising" volleyball.

 Other innovations introduced by the the FIVB include Volleyball TV, which was launched at

the start of the Volleyball Nations League in May.This broadcasts live volleyball to more than 50 

We must spread volleyball all around the world," he said."

I insist on saying that volleyball is the sport of the family."