Marco Tullio Teixeira has been appointed President of the South American Volleyball Confederation (CSV

sudden loss of Lloreda, a dear friend and leader to all of us in South America," said Teixeira, a former beach

volleyball player.Colombia's Rafael Lloreda died at the age of 69 after being hospitalised with COVID

-19 last month ©FIVB"We have advanced a lot on the continent, both in beach volleyball and on the court

These are very sad times for the entire volleyball family," said Graça."

Rafael was not only an accomplished volleyball professional, he was a very dear friend of mine.

Weightlifting, tennis and va'a have been formally added to the programme for the next Pacific Mini Games, scheduled to take place in June 2022 in the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI).

additions at a meeting in April.It takes the number of sports to nine - baseball, badminton, athletics, beach

volleyball, triathlon and golf were the existing six."

Rhine-Ruhr and Turin have been confirmed as hosts of the 2025 World University Games by the International University Sport Federation (FISU) today.

Games, with 18 sports on the programme across 12 days of competition.Rhine-Ruhr has already announced beach

volleyball, rowing and 3x3 basketball as its proposed optional sports.Duisburg’s previous hosting of

Rhine-Ruhr is poised to be awarded the 2025 Summer World University Games tomorrow after the International University Sport Federation's (FISU) Acting President said he hoped the German bid would reach a "pleasing conclusion".

Games, with 18 sports on the programme across 12 days of competition.Rhine-Ruhr has already announced beach

volleyball, rowing and 3x3 basketball as its proposed optional sports.

World ParaVolley wants prospective players interested in taking part in the beach event at the International

Portugal later this year ©World ParaVolleyClassification will be available, and the event will carry beach

Dutch beach volleyball player Madelein Meppelink will be President of the International Volleyball Federation

President of the Athletes' Commission from 2016 to 2020.Meppelink, who was ranked women’s world number one beach

volleyball player in 2013, said: "I am honoured and humbled to be elected by my fellow colleagues at

After the first FIVB Athletes' Commission election, Dutch beach volleyball player Madelein Meppelink

Commission has equal gender representation among its membership, and the same number of representatives from volleyball

and beach volleyball.

The German Olympic Sports Federation (DOSB) and the German Disabled Sports Association (DBS) have launched a campaign telling the stories of athletes journeys to participating in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

German Olympic and Paralympic team, and features athletes including tennis player Angelique Kerber, beach

volleyball player Laura Ludwig, handball player Patrick Wiencek, decathlete Niklas Kaul, gymnast Marcel

Ahmed Tijan made it third time lucky in Cancun as they secured the men’s title at the International Volleyball

Federation Beach Volleyball World Tour event.

Eduarda Lisboa.Huge win for @ausvolley Olympians @TaliquaClancy and @MariafeADS at the 4-star FIVB Beach

Volleyball World Tour at Cancun Hub @MexBeachVolley ?

Commonwealth Games Australia (CGA) has re-named its athlete support scheme – worth a total of Aus$2 million (£1.1 million/$1.5 million/€1.3 million) - “Breakthrough2022” as the countdown continues to the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

2022 Games.A further Aus$240,000 (£134,000/$185,000/€154,000) was delivered to women’s T20 cricket, beach

volleyball and Para-table tennis when those sports were added to the Games programme in August 2019.

Cherif Younousse Samba and Ahmed Tijan will play for gold in the third and final International Volleyball

Federation Beach Volleyball World Tour event in Cancun - having had to settle for silver in the first

We've been trying to improve our volleyball IQ, game by game, and just play better matches every time

Brazil progressed to the quarter-finals of the men's competition at the third and final International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) Beach Volleyball World Tour event in Cancún.

The contest for the second United States spot in women's beach volleyball for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic

up following Kerri Walsh Jennings and Brooke Sweat's progression to the last 16 stage of the final Beach

Volleyball World Tour event in Cancún.

A hotel staff member working at the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) Beach World Tour Cancun

held as part of the Cancun Hub ©Getty Images"The FIVB has been in contact with Cherif and the Qatar Volleyball

Norway's Anders Mol and Christian Sørum won their second International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) Beach

Volleyball World Tour gold medal in a week, winning a rematch in the men's final against Qatar's Cherif

I was so tired, but Anders played some really good volleyball."

The pair are set to skip the third and final FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour tournament in the hub and

☀️ #CancunHUB2021 #BeachVolleyball pic.twitter.com/5hsqUk6gjV— Beach Volleyball World (@BeachVBWorld

six days after both pairs advanced at the second of three four-star tournaments at the International Volleyball

Federation Beach World Tour hub in Cancun.

☀️ #CancunHUB2021 #BeachVolleyball pic.twitter.com/mYvXzpESsU— Beach Volleyball World (@BeachVBWorld