Ios, Messina and Geneva are this week’s destinations
The Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour 2025 season continues to progress at full pace in Europe, and over the next few days, three Futures events will be held simultaneously in the continent for a third-straight week, putting as many as 15 medals in play. Starting on Thursday and ending on Sunday, double-gender events will be held in Ios, Greece, and Messina, Italy.
Two Teams Ready for NORCECA Beach U23 Event in Grand Cayman
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (June 16, 2025) – USA Volleyball is proud to announce the athletes selected to represent the U.S. at the 2025 U23 NORCECA Continental Tour in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, June 20-22. The event will feature top U23 pairs from across the NORCECA zone in three days of international competition. Teams will begin with pool play on June 20...
Anouk Dupin on a roll with fourth consecutive Futures podium!
France’s Anouk Dupin is on a roll this season! She has made the podium at every single Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour event she has attended so far this year. And Sunday’s gold at the Jurmala Futures in Latvia was her fourth consecutive medal, as well as second in a row with Marine Kinna as a partner. Two Estonian pairs – Eva Liisa Kuivonen & Liisa-Lotta Jurgenson...
Swedish talents Holting Nilsson & Andersson earn home gold in Malmo
Sweden’s Jacob Holting Nilsson & Elmer Andersson delighted the home crowd in Malmo by earning Futures gold at the first Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour event ever held in the northern European country. Germany’s Momme Lorenz & Tilo Rietschel claimed bronze, while Spain’s Alvaro Viera & Antonio Saucedo settled for silver. 20-year-old Holting Nilsson and 18-year-old Andersson...
Makhno twins bring home first Tour gold in three years
30-year-old Ukrainian twins Inna Makhno & Iryna Makhno triumphed at the women’s Krakow Futures on Sunday to celebrate their first Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour gold in three years. On the podium in Poland, they were joined by Norway’s Frida Berntsen & Oda Steinsvag and Spain’s Sofia Izuzquiza & Sofia Gonzalez. The Makhno sisters, seeded ninth in the Krakow main draw...
Race for the last spots in the Finals starts in Messina
The last three spots in each gender in the 2025 CEV Beach Volley Nations Cup Finals will be awarded this week, and the first ones will be in play in the Italian city of Messina between Tuesday and Wednesday. Set to host a Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Futures event over the weekend at the Piazza Duomo, the Italian city will first welcome women’s duos from Belgium and France...
Host nation China swept the women’s podium and took the men’s bronze at the Qingdao Futures on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour, while the men’s gold and silver went to pairs from Brazil and Indonesia. Mateus Rodrigues (Manaus) & Vilsomar Brito, Bintang Akbar & Sofyan Rachman Efendi and Wang Yanwei & Du Hongjun, in that order, lined up from first to third...
The home victory of reigning European champions Martins Plavins and Kristians Fokerots in Jurmala was the highlight of another intense week of beach volleyball in the continent, which had duos from Europe taking home all 12 medals in play across three Beach Pro Tour Futures events. Besides the Latvians, duos from France, Sweden and Ukraine also triumphed in the tournaments...
European teams were extremely successful in the first Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Challenge tournament held on the continent in the 2025 season, claiming five out of the six medals in play in Alanya, Türkiye, including gold in both genders. Swiss Olympians Anouk and Zoé Vergé-Dépré were the winners of the women’s tournament, with reigning world champions...
World champions Ondrej Perušic and David Schweiner confirmed the expectations and topped the podium at the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Challenge event held in Alanya, Türkiye, this week. The Czech stars were among the three teams to win medals in the event held at the Beach Sports Center facility on Sunday, joining silver medalists Téo Rotar and Arnaud Gautiher-Rat...
Anouk and Zoé claim first Beach Pro Tour gold together in Alanya
Swiss Olympians Anouk and Zoé Vergé-Dépré celebrated the first title of their young partnership on Sunday, when they were crowned as the champions of the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Challenge event held in Alanya, Türkiye. The sisters, who joined forces before the start of the 2025 season, stepped at the top of the podium at the Beach Sports Center facility...
Brazilian and French qualifiers make it to the semifinals in Alanya
With six Olympians and two teams that started the tournament in the qualifier, the men’s semifinals of this week’s Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Challenge event held in Alanya, Türkiye, were set on Saturday. Scheduled for 10:00 and 11:00 local time (7:00 and 8:00 GMT) on Sunday, the decisive matches at the Beach Sports Center facility will have...
Strong day takes Svozilova and Štochlová to the quarterfinals in Alanya
One of just two teams coming from the Round of 24 to make it to the quarterfinals of the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Challenge event held in Alanya on Friday, Czechs Marketa Svozilova and Marie-Sára Štochlová had a productive day in the Turkish event. With teams from seven different countries competing in the quarterfinals on Saturday, the tournament held at the Beach Sports Center...
French duel highlights Alanya Challenge Round of 16
Only half of the 32 men’s teams that entered the main draw of this week’s Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Alanya Challenge continue alive in the race for the title in Türkiye as the tournament entered the elimination rounds on Friday. Duos from ten different countries are set to appear in the Round of 16 of the event held at the Beach Sports Center facility on Saturday morning...
Schoon and Konink on to the Round of 16 in Türkiye
Playing just their second tournament as partners on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour, Dutch Raisa Schoon and Mila Konink won a pair of tie-breakers on Thursday to go undefeated in the first day of the main draw of the Alanya Challenge, in Türkiye. Besides the Dutch, seven other teams also prevailed on both their pool matches at the Beach Sports Center facility...
After going winless in the first two tournaments they played in the 2025 Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour season, German Olympic medalists Nils Ehlers and Clemens Wickler finally got to celebrate a positive result at the international level this year on Thursday in Alanya, Türkiye. The Europeans are among the 16 men’s duos that won their first pool matches at the Beach Sports Center...
The two women’s teams that represented hosts France at last year’s Paris Olympics had a successful first day at this week’s Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Challenge event held in Alanya, Türkiye, overcoming the qualifier on Wednesday and securing a spot in the main draw. Eight teams in each gender went undefeated in the first day of matches in Türkiye...
Olympic champions Åhman and Hellvig to play in Malmö this week
Reigning Olympic champions David Åhman and Jonatan Hellvig will make a rare appearance in a Volleyball World Beach Pro Four Futures event this week as the Swedish stars are set to compete in front of their home fans in Malmö. Set to take place between Thursday and Sunday, the Malmö event, which will only see the men get on the court, will be one of three Futures tournaments...
World champions and Olympic medalists highlight Alanya Challenge entry lists
The Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour gets to Türkiye, the fifth country to host high-caliber events in 2025, this week, and the Challenge tournament set to take place at the Beach Sports Center facility, in the city of Alanya, will have a very strong field of contenders. The third city to host a Challenge event in 2025, after Mexico’s Yucatán, in March, and China’s Xiamen, in May...
USA Volleyball Announces 2025 Beach Collegiate/U26 National Team
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (June 9, 2025) – USA Volleyball is proud to announce the 31 athletes selected to the 2025 Beach Collegiate/U26 National Team. This elite group, featuring 14 men and 17 women, will participate in a 10-day training block from June 9-19 in Hermosa Beach, California. The Beach Collegiate/U26 National Team will train alongside USA Volleyball’s Beach A2 National Team...
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