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France eliminate hosts Bulgaria at Men’s European Volleyball Championships as surprise package Slovenia

  • Volleyball

sets down to claim a dramatic victory over Bulgaria and reach the final of the 2015 Men’s European Volleyball

storiesOctober 2015: Slovenia stun world champions Poland to earn semi-final spot at Men's European Volleyball

ChampionshipsOctober 2015: Serbia survive scare with comeback victory over Estonia at Men's European Volleyball

ChampionshipsOctober 2015: Bulgaria book quarter-final spot at European Volleyball Championships but

awaits ItalyOctober 2015: Exclusive: Bulgaria and Italy "90 per cent" likely to co-host 2018 Men's World Volleyball


Serbian elected President of European Volleyball Confederation

  • Volleyball

Serbia's Aleksandar Boricic has been elected President of the European Volleyball Confederation (CEV)

Boricic, who will serve a four-year term until 2019, is also President of the Volleyball Federation of

Serbia, and previously led the Yugoslav Volleyball Federation and the Volleyball Federation of Serbia

A graduate of the College of Economic Sciences and the Advanced School of Volleyball Coaches from the

We also want to bring together all Member Federations into one common European Volleyball family.

and beach volleyball.” 



World Taekwondo Federation target Olympic TV Channel to help raise profile

  • Taekwondo

Developing a new digital strategy to raise the global profile of the sport has been hailed as a key ambition by new World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) secretary general Hoss Rafaty here today, with the new Olympic TV Channel targeted as one potential market. 

Federations from across strive to keep their disciplines relevant and fresh.One of the best examples comes in volleyball

, where the International Volleyball Federation have signed an innovative media partnership with Red


Slovenia stun world champions Poland to earn semi-final spot at Men's European Volleyball Championships

  • Volleyball

Slovenia’s fairy tale run at the 2015 Men’s European Volleyball Championships continued today as they

This year’s European Volleyball Confederation (CEV) Volleyball European League winners were far too

France.Related storiesOctober 2015: Serbia survive scare with comeback victory over Estonia at Men's European Volleyball

ChampionshipsOctober 2015: Bulgaria book quarter-final spot at European Volleyball Championships but

awaits ItalyOctober 2015: Exclusive: Bulgaria and Italy "90 per cent" likely to co-host 2018 Men's World Volleyball

Rio 2016 spot while Italy deny Poland second Olympic berthAugust 2015: Video released for European Volleyball


Serbia survive scare with comeback victory over Estonia at Men's European Volleyball Championships

  • Volleyball

Estonia by rallying from two sets down to book their place in the quarter-finals of the Men’s European Volleyball

The Serbian side, runners-up at the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) World League event, started

Bulgaria in the next round.Related storiesOctober 2015: Bulgaria book quarter-final spot at European Volleyball

awaits ItalyOctober 2015: Exclusive: Bulgaria and Italy "90 per cent" likely to co-host 2018 Men's World Volleyball

Rio 2016 spot while Italy deny Poland second Olympic berthAugust 2015: Video released for European Volleyball

Championships anthemAugust 2015: Website launched ahead of European Volleyball Championships


Bulgaria book quarter-final spot at European Volleyball Championships but a play-off awaits Italy

  • Volleyball

Bulgaria have advanced to the quarter-finals of the European Men's Volleyball Championships but co-hosts

favourites to progress after booking their Rio 2016 place by finishing second at the International Volleyball

set to host the semi-finals and finals of the tournament, which is being organised by the European Volleyball

storiesOctober 2015: Exclusive: Bulgaria and Italy "90 per cent" likely to co-host 2018 Men's World Volleyball



USOC names triathlete Jorgensen among Team USA Awards' winners for September after retaining world crown

  • PASO

Gwen Jorgensen is among those named on the Team USA Awards’ Best of September honours list, announced by the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), after claiming her second straight World Championship title with a convincing victory at last month's International Triathlon Union (ITU) World Triathlon Grand Final in Chicago.

UWW/Martin GaborJoining Jorgensen and Burroughs on the honours list is the US men’s national indoor volleyball

team, which won the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) World Cup for the first time in 30 years


Exclusive: Bulgaria and Italy "90 per cent" likely to co-host 2018 Men's World Volleyball Championships

  • Volleyball

Championships, becoming the first nations to jointly hold the showpiece event, according to International Volleyball

shared around several cities in one nation.Italian and Bulgarian officials meeting with the European Volleyball

edition of the Women's World Championships, scheduled for 2018.Related storiesOctober 2015: International Volleyball

Federation unveil nine goals aimed at propelling growth of sportOctober 2015: Nick Butler: "Decade of Volleyball


Nick Butler: Beach volleyball providing a perfect blueprint for embracing the modern world

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unable to see them this weekend because I had been sent on a last-minute trip to Florida for the beach volleyball

on the sun-kissed beach virtually within a miscued shot of the Ocean, the event, the International Volleyball

Olympic Committee (IOC) battles hard to appear fresh and “hip” and in touch with young people, beach volleyball

surfing were proposed as new additions for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, and having watched beach volleyball

Phil Dalhausser provided most excitement for the home crowd ©Getty ImagesAlthough it is women’s beach volleyball

A colourful figure who has survived questions of malpractice during his time at the Brazilian Volleyball


Exclusive: Iran set to be awarded beach volleyball World Tour event as FIVB work to lift ban on women

  • Volleyball

Iran is set to host a leg on the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) World Tour in 2016, insidethegames

-year long rule banning women from attending football matches in the Islamic nation was extended to volleyball

matches, even if locals were still forbidden.FIVB President Ary Graça, who vowed yesterday to make volleyball

intentions" ©Change.orgIt is possible that awarding Iran, one of the sport's rising powers in indoor volleyball

, its first event on the prestigious beach volleyball World Tour forms part of this, as well as illustrating

now adopting a carrot rather than a stick approach as the best way to remedy the problem.Four indoor volleyball


Russia retain Women’s European Volleyball Championship title after overcoming hosts The Netherlands

  • Volleyball

Russia secured back-to-back Women’s European Volleyball Championship titles after cruising to a dominant

semi-final, earned bronze after claiming a comfortable straight-sets win over Turkey.The International Volleyball

25-19, 25-17, 25-18 victory.Related storiesOctober 2015: Dutch hosts seal spot in Women's European Volleyball

Championship final with victory over TurkeyOctober 2015: Mixed fortunes for Women's European Volleyball

stageSeptember 2015: Germany book quarter-final spot with victory over Hungary at Women's European Volleyball

ChampionshipSeptember 2015: Belgium face play-off at Women's European Volleyball Championship but Dutch



International Volleyball Federation unveil nine goals aimed at propelling growth of sport

  • Volleyball

Shifting volleyball from a group two to a group one sport in the International Olympic Committee (IOC

In total, nine goals were unveiled by International Volleyball Federation President (FIVB) Ary Graça

to achieving a vision of becoming the "number one family entertainment sport in the world".Raising volleyball

and beach volleyball have enjoyed strong ticket sales so far and are expected to be among the highlights

Our success has been built on the foundation of a strong vision: to make volleyball the number one family

"These goals are fundamental to the ongoing growth and development of volleyball and beach volleyball