FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships explained

FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships
Upcoming Season:	2023 Beach Volleyball World Championships
Sport:	Beach volleyball
Teams:	48
Continent:	International (FIVB)
Most Champs:	(men; 7 titles) (women; 6 titles)

The FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships is the double-gender world championship for the sport of beach volleyball organized by the French: Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) the sport's global governing body. The first official edition of the event was held in Los Angeles, United States in 1997 and tournaments had been awarded every two years since then. Before 1997, ten unofficial championships not organized by the FIVB were all held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil between 1987 and 1996. The most recent World Championships took place in Mexico in 2023.

Winning the World Championships is considered to be one of the highest honours in international beach volleyball, surpassing the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour and being surpassed only by the beach volleyball tournament at the Summer Olympic Games.

Format

The tournament has a 48-team main draw per gender and consists of two stages: the group stage followed by the knockout stage. The prize pool for each gender is US$500,000.^[1]

Editions

First Beach Volleyball World Championships were held from 10 to 13 September 1997 in Los Angeles, California (United States). It was the first official edition of this event, after 10 unofficial championships between 1987 and 1996.

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1987–1996: 10 Unofficial World Championships before recognized by FIVB
1	1997			2
2	1999			2
3	2001			2
4	2003			2
5	2005			2
6	2007			2
7	2009			2
8	2011			2
9	2013			2
10	2015			2
11	2017			2
12	2019			2
13	2022			2
14	2023			2
15	2025			2

Results summary

Men's tournament

Year	Host City	width=1% rowspan=16 bgcolor=ffffff		Gold medal match			width=1% rowspan=16 bgcolor=ffffff		Bronze medal match			width=1% rowspan=16 bgcolor=ffffff		Teams
		Gold Medalists	width=9%	Score	Silver Medalists	Bronze Medalists	width=9%	Score	4th place
1997 Details	Los Angeles	Rogério Ferreira and Guilherme Marques	2–1	Canyon Ceman and Mike Whitmarsh	Dain Blanton and Kent Steffes Paulão Moreira and Paulo Emilio Silva	was not played, both pairs who lost at semi-finals were awarded a bronze medal		48
1999 Details	Marseille	José Loiola and Emanuel Rego	1–0	Martin Laciga and Paul Laciga	Rogério Ferreira and Guilherme Marques	1–0	Javier Bosma and Fabio Díez	48
2001 Details	Austria	Mariano Baracetti and Martín Conde	2–1	José Loiola and Ricardo Santos	Vegard Høidalen and Jørre Kjemperud	2–0	Rob Heidger and Chip McCaw	48
2003 Details	Rio de Janeiro	Emanuel Rego and Ricardo Santos	2–0	Dax Holdren and Stein Metzger	Márcio Araújo and Benjamin Insfran	2–0 awarded (walkover)	João Brenha and Miguel Maia	48
2005 Details	Berlin	Márcio Araújo and Fábio Luiz Magalhães	2–0	Sascha Heyer and Paul Laciga	Julius Brink and Kjell Schneider	2–1	Marvin Polte and Thorsten Schön	48
2007 Details	Gstaad	Phil Dalhausser	2–0	Dmitri Barsuk and Igor Kolodinsky	Andrew Schacht and Joshua Slack	2–0	Emanuel Rego and Ricardo Santos	48
2009 Details	Stavanger	Julius Brink and Jonas Reckermann	2–0	Alison Cerutti and Harley Marques Silva	Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers	2–0	David Klemperer and Eric Koreng	48
2011 Details	Rome	Alison Cerutti	2–0	Márcio Araújo and Ricardo Santos	Julius Brink and Jonas Reckermann	2–1	Mārtiņš Pļaviņš and Jānis Šmēdiņš	48
2013 Details	Stare Jabłonki	Alexander Brouwer	2–0	Álvaro Morais Filho and Ricardo Santos	Jonathan Erdmann and Kay Matysik	2–0	Alison Cerutti and Emanuel Rego	48
2015 Details	Netherlands	Alison Cerutti	2–1	Reinder Nummerdor and Christiaan Varenhorst	Evandro Oliveira and Pedro Solberg Salgado	2–0	Theo Brunner and Nick Lucena	48
2017 Details	Vienna	Evandro Oliveira	2–0	Clemens Doppler and Alexander Horst	Viacheslav Krasilnikov and Nikita Liamin	2–0	Maarten van Garderen and Christiaan Varenhorst	48
2019 Details	Hamburg	Oleg Stoyanovskiy	2–1	Julius Thole and Clemens Wickler	Anders Mol and Christian Sørum	2–1	Tri Bourne and Trevor Crabb	48
2022 Details	Rome	Anders Mol and Christian Sørum	2–0	Renato Carvalho and Vitor Felipe	André Stein and George Wanderley	2–1	Chaim Schalk and Theodore Brunner	48
2023 Details	Mexico	Ondřej Perušič and David Schweiner	2–1	David Åhman and Jonatan Hellvig	Bartosz Łosiak and Michał Bryl	2–0	Trevor Crabb and Theodore Brunner	48

Women's tournament

Year	Host City	width=1% rowspan=16 bgcolor=ffffff		Gold medal match			width=1% rowspan=16 bgcolor=ffffff		Bronze medal match			width=1% rowspan=16 bgcolor=ffffff		Teams
		Gold Medalists	width=9%	Score	Silver Medalists	Bronze Medalists	width=9%	Score	4th place
1997 Details	Los Angeles	Sandra Pires and Jackie Silva	2–1	Lisa Arce and Holly McPeak	Shelda Bede and Adriana Behar Karolyn Kirby and Nancy Reno	was not played, both pairs who lost at semi-finals were awarded a bronze medal		48
1999 Details	Marseille	Shelda Bede and Adriana Behar	1–0	Annett Davis and Jenny Johnson Jordan	Liz Masakayan and Elaine Youngs	1–0 awarded (walkover)	Sandra Pires and Adriana Samuel	48
2001 Details	Austria	Shelda Bede and Adriana Behar	2–0	Tatiana Minello and Sandra Pires	Eva Celbová and Soňa Nováková	2–0	Barbra Fontana and Elaine Youngs	48
2003 Details	Rio de Janeiro	Misty May and Kerri Walsh	2–0	Shelda Bede and Adriana Behar	Natalie Cook and Nicole Sanderson	2–0	Annett Davis and Jenny Johnson Jordan	48
2005 Details	Berlin	Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh	2–0	Larissa França and Juliana Silva	Tian Jia and Wang Fei	2–0	Dalixia Fernández and Tamara Larrea	48
2007 Details	Gstaad	Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh	2–0	Tian Jia and Wang Fei	Larissa França and Juliana Silva	2–1	Xue Chen and Zhang Xi	48
2009 Details	Stavanger	Jennifer Kessy and April Ross	2–0	Larissa França and Juliana Silva	Maria Elisa Antonelli and Talita Antunes	2–0	Shelda Bede and Ana Paula Connelly	48
2011 Details	Rome	Larissa França and Juliana Silva	2–1	Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh	Xue Chen and Zhang Xi	2–0	Lenka Háječková and Hana Klapalová	48
2013 Details	Stare Jabłonki	Xue Chen and Zhang Xi	2–1	Karla Borger and Britta Büthe	Liliane Maestrini and Bárbara Seixas	2–0	Whitney Pavlik and April Ross	48
2015 Details	Netherlands	Ágatha Bednarczuk and Bárbara Seixas	2–0	Fernanda Alves and Taiana Lima	Maria Elisa Antonelli and Juliana Silva	2–1	Katrin Holtwick and Ilka Semmler	48
2017 Details	Vienna	Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst	2–1	April Ross and Lauren Fendrick	Larissa França and Talita Antunes	2–1	Sarah Pavan and Melissa Humana-Paredes	48
2019 Details	Hamburg	Sarah Pavan and Melissa Humana-Paredes	2–0	Alix Klineman and April Ross	Taliqua Clancy and Mariafe Artacho del Solar	2–0	Nina Betschart and Tanja Hüberli	48
2022 Details	Rome	Eduarda Santos Lisboa and Ana Patrícia Ramos	2–0	Sophie Bukovec and Brandie Wilkerson	Svenja Müller and Cinja Tillmann	2–1	Joana Heidrich and Anouk Vergé-Dépré	48
2023 Details	Mexico	Sara Hughes and Kelly Cheng	2–0	Ana Patrícia Ramos and Eduarda Santos Lisboa	Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth	2–1	Mariafe Artacho del Solar and Taliqua Clancy	48

Medals

As of 2023 Beach Volleyball World Championships.

Total

See also

• Beach volleyball at the Summer Olympics
• FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour
• European Beach Volleyball Tour
• FIVB Beach Volleyball U23 World Championships
• FIVB Beach Volleyball U21 World Championships
• FIVB Beach Volleyball U19 World Championships
• FIVB Beach Volleyball U17 World Championships

External links

• Fédération Internationale de Volleyball – official website
• 2017 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships – official website

See main article: world championships.

Notes and References

1. Web site: FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships 2017—Hosting Requirements. Fédération Internationale de Volleyball. 22 March 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20150701071202/http://www.fivb.org/Documents/BVB_WCH_2017_HostingRequirements.pdf. 1 July 2015. dead.