Sofia, Bulgaria. Alexander Huber and Christoph Dressler, one of Austria’s best beach volleyball pairs, currently #47 in the FIVB World Ranking, but still below the line for next year’s Olympic Games, hope to make up ground on the road to Tokyo 2020. And they have been quick to return to competitive action. “Everything went really fast …
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Lausanne, Switzerland. Let’s Keep the Ball Flying, a non-profit foundation which drives social development worldwide, is leveraging the power of volleyball to tackle social imbalances and bring about positive social change. The foundation, which has the support of the FIVB and Dutch Volleyball Association, was founded by Lesley de Jonge who grew up playing volleyball …
Vienna/Wolfurt, Austria. The 2020 Austrian Beach Volleyball Tour continued this past weekend with the 31st edition of the Raiffeisen Wolfurttrophy, where – despite the tough competition brought by some elite foreign players – Austrian teams secured the gold and silver medals, with international visitors settling for third place finishes ‘only’. On Sunday, the weather was …
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Lausanne, Switzerland. The FIVB Medical Commission, has developed guidelines to help Continental Confederations, National Federations and National Leagues create a safe environment to restart volleyball and beach volleyball activities, but only if permitted by local health and government authorities. The guidelines, though not intended to replace local public health guidance, are an extensive set of …
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CEV, Luxembourg. The CEV Technical and Development Department is delighted to launch a second series of webinars featuring four high-profile speakers to help inspire anyone working at the grassroots level in their efforts to grow the game. Make sure you register through this link https://schoolprojectwebinarseries2020.cev.eu/ to join friends, colleagues and members of the Volleyball family from across …
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Baden, Austria. Beach Volleyball fans can nurture very high expectations for the 1-Star World Tour event coming up later this month in Baden, Austria. The men’s competition will feature, inter alia, home stars Clemens Doppler and Alexander Horst, with the silver medal winners from the 2017 World Championship hoping to retain the title that they …
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Ljubljana, Slovenia. Although the organisers from the Volleyball Federation of Slovenia did not exactly know what to expect and they were aware of the potential risk that they were to deal with, they can now confirm that hosting the Beach Volleyball World Tour 1-Star event in Ljubljana was the right decision. Seeing the joy of …
Ljubljana 1-Star event a shining light at the end of the tunnel Read More »
Lausanne, Switzerland. After a 136-day break, the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour resumed play this past weekend in Ljubljana, Slovenia with teams from Denmark and Italy topping the podium in the 13th event on the 2019-2020 international beach volleyball calendar. The next events on the World Tour are scheduled to take place in Baden, Austria …
World Tour looks ahead to events in Baden and Montpellier Read More »
Tel Aviv, Israel. The Israel Volleyball Association (IVA) held elections on Sunday night, with Mr Asher Kaso now due to lead the country’s Volleyball family for the next four-year term. Kaso, 58, who is married and has four children, has been working as the principal of the Ramot Yam High School for the past five …
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Ljubljana, Slovenia. Denmark’s Clara Windeleff and Line Trans Hansen claimed the gold medal in the women’s competition, while Andrea Abbiati and Tiziano Andreatta emerged victorious in the men’s gold medal match of the 1-Star event held in the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana. Windeleff and Trans Hansen secured the very first Danish gold medal from a …
Historic All-Danish Final for the first live event of the summer Read More »
