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Brazilian Olympic Committee to send all-female athlete support team to South American Beach Games

  • PASO

Committee (COB) has announced it will send an all-female athlete support team to this year's South American Beach

communications.Brazil plan to send 62 athletes to Argentina where they will compete in nine sports - beach

handball,  beach rugby, beach soccer, beach volleyball, open water swimming, sailing, surfing,

will be held on March 8 in the build-up to the Games.Rosário is hosting this year's South American Beach

giving the athletes an opportunity to compete and observe their potential adversaries at the World Beach


India to become 50th country to host FIVB Beach World Tour leg in Visakhapatnam

  • Volleyball

India will become the 50th country to host an International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) Beach World

Both men's and women's tournaments will be held at the one-star event, with matches taking place at RK Beach

on the Bay of Bengal.The country has not staged international beach volleyball since 2010, when Chennai

staged a challenger level event.The Federation International Volleyball (FIVB's) 1st ever #BeachVolleyball

hosted by #LeisureSportsManagement under the governance of #SAAP from Feb 28th to March 03rd, 2019 at RK Beach

 Being organized by the Volleyball Federation of India and Leisure Sports Management, a Kolkata-based



World ParaVolley announce members of revamped Athletes' Commission

  • Volleyball News

World ParaVolley has announced the members of its revamped Athletes' Commission after elections held across the world.

States selected as a general member after a global vote.Russia's Tatiana Ivanova was named as sitting volleyball

representative with a beach representative due to be chosen soon.The vice chair of the body is also




Olympic Council of Asia make first inspection visit to Sanya before 2020 Asian Beach Games

  • Asian Beach Games

Coordination Committee has made its first visit to Sanya to assess preparations for the 2020 Asian Beach

Municipal People's Government of Hainan Province.Sanya 2020 will be the sixth edition of the Asian Beach

has yet to be finalised.Raja Randhir Singh headed the visit in the Chinese city ©Getty ImagesHowever, beach

soccer, beach volleyball, beach handball, beach woodball, beach kabaddi, 3x3 basketball, beach athletics

preparation work of the Sanya City Government and Hainan Provincial Government as the host of the next Asian Beach


Four Japanese teams make round-of-16 at FIVB Beach World Tour event in Phnom Penh

  • Volleyball

Four Japanese teams qualified for the round-of-16 at the International Volleyball Federation Beach World

partner Ayumi Kusano were one of four Japanese teams that progressed to the round-of-16 at the FIVB Beach

Volleyball World Tour event in Phnom Penh ©Getty ImagesTop seeds Sayaka Mizoe and Suzuka Hashimoto comfortably


New partners Laird and Palmer reach main draw at FIVB Beach World Tour event in Phnom Penh

  • Volleyball

Palmer celebrated their debut as partners by earning a place in the main draw at the International Volleyball

Federation Beach World Tour event in Phnom Penh.

Cyprus’ Mariota Angelopoulou and Daria Gusarova.Action at the women's-only event, known as the Anchor Beach

Volleyball Carnival, is due to continue tomorrow with the first of two days of pool play.The semi-finals


FIVB Beach World Tour set to resume in Cambodia's capital

  • Volleyball

The International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) Beach World Tour is set to resume in Phnom Penh with the

A total of 39 teams from 20 countries have entered the second annual Anchor Beach Volleyball Carnival

other comprising Oeum Chansophy and Tom Kanha.All four players will be contesting their first-ever FIVB Beach

last year when 29 countries from 17 countries fought for the medals.Qualification at the 2019 Anchor Beach

Volleyball Carnival is due to be held tomorrow.It will be followed by pool play on Friday (February


Athletes in 17 sports to benefit from Australian Olympic Committee medal incentive funding programme before Tokyo 2020

  • ONOC

Athletes in 17 sports are poised to receive a boost in funding from the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) as part of a medal incentive funding programme in the build-up to Tokyo 2020.

results are a good guide to Tokyo 2020 success ©Getty ImagesAthletes from archery, athletics, basketball, beach

volleyball, cycling, diving, football and hockey are set to benefit from medal incentive funding.Athletes


History of YOG

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roller skating - with this continuing to function as it had during the event.The Sports Park was home to beach

volleyball, hockey, rugby sevens and BMX during the Games and has become a sport facility open to the

the sports programme as well as many new disciplines and events such as BMX freestyle, kiteboarding, beach


Beach volleyball qualifiers for 2019 African Games increased to 24

  • Morocco 2019

The number of qualifiers for the men's and women's beach volleyball tournaments at the 2019 African Games

As reported by Xinhua, African Volleyball Confederation (CAVB) President Amr Elwani has said qualification

event in Casablanca and Rabat in Morocco.At the 2015 African Games in Congo's capital Brazzaville, beach

volleyball had 12 teams per gender."

The 24 beach volleyball teams will be divided into six preliminary pools of four teams and the top two

Elwani has also confirmed that the senior Africa Beach Cup, which is due to take place from March 27


Problems for SASCOC continue as former media partner files liquidation request

  • ANOCA

Problems at the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) look set to continue for some time after their former media partner, Highbury Media, filed for the body’s liquidation.

President Gideon Sam as "dictatorial" ©YouTubeHe alleged the problems started after Highbury turned down a beach

volleyball sponsorship deal worth ZAR3 million (£171,800/$222,700/€195,400) from former SASCOC chief

executive Tubby Reddy, who had formerly served as President of Volleyball South Africa."

and SASCOC began working together] was always good, until we expressed no interest in committing to a beach

volleyball tournament in the Free State," Walker is quoted as saying."