Volleyball · Level 10: Professional · Sub-level 10.5
Beach and Sitting Volleyball
10 tests · 100 facts · updated 25 October 2026 · markdown
The Beach Pro Tour, the Beach World Championships, the men's and women's Olympic beach champions, May-Treanor and Walsh Jennings, the Nordic pairs, how the beach game is played, and the men's and women's Paralympic sitting volleyball champions and the sitting game.
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Test 1The Beach Pro TourTake a test
The Beach Pro Tour began in 2022.
Source: Wikipedia: Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour, FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships, beach and sitting volleyball at the Olympics and Paralympics · recall
Elite16 events bring together the best sixteen teams.
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Challenge events form the middle tier.
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Futures events are the lowest tier.
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The best teams meet at the season-ending Finals.
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The world body and its commercial arm run the tour.
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The name gives the number of teams in the main draw.
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Elite16 at the top, Futures at the base.
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1989, 1992 and 2022.
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Elite16 events are the top tier of the Beach Pro Tour.
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Test 2Beach World ChampionshipsTake a test
Hamburg, Germany, hosted in 2019.
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Rome hosted in 2022.
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Tlaxcala, Apizaco and Huamantla shared the event.
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Adelaide hosted in 2025.
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The Latvians won in Adelaide.
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Hughes and Cheng won in Mexico.
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Ondřej Perušič and David Schweiner won in Mexico.
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2019, 2022, 2023 and 2025.
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Canada, Brazil, the USA and Latvia.
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The 2025 championships were in Adelaide.
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Test 3Olympic beach champions: menTake a test
Alison Cerutti and Bruno Oscar Schmidt won at home.
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Anders Mol and Christian Sørum won.
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Mol and Sørum took Norway's first beach gold.
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David Åhman and Jonatan Hellvig won.
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Julius Brink and Jonas Reckermann won for Germany.
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Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers won for the USA.
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Emanuel Rego and Ricardo Santos won in 2004.
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Brazil, the USA, Germany, Brazil, Norway and Sweden.
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Rio, Tokyo and Paris.
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Åhman and Hellvig won at Paris 2024.
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Test 4Olympic beach champions: womenTake a test
Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst won in Rio.
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April Ross and Alix Klineman won.
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Ross and Klineman won for the USA.
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Ana Patrícia Ramos and Duda Lisboa won.
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Natalie Cook and Kerri Pottharst won in Sydney.
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Sarah Pavan and Melissa Humana-Paredes won in Hamburg.
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The German pair won in Rio.
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Germany, the USA and Brazil.
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2000, 2004-12, 2016, 2020 and 2024.
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Duda and Ana Patrícia won the 2022 worlds and 2024 gold.
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Test 5May-Treanor and Walsh JenningsTake a test
They won in 2004, 2008 and 2012.
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Three Olympiads in a row.
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They played for the United States.
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No other pair has three straight Olympic beach golds.
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Dain Blanton and Eric Fonoimoana won in 2000.
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With two players, understanding between partners is everything.
Source: Wikipedia: Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour, FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships, beach and sitting volleyball at the Olympics and Paralympics · recall
The USA swept both beach golds in Beijing.
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2004, 2008 and 2012.
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2000, 2004, 2008 and 2020.
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They won in 2004, 2008 and 2012.
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Test 6The Nordic pairsTake a test
Anders Mol and Christian Sørum won both.
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David Åhman and Jonatan Hellvig won in Adelaide.
Source: Wikipedia: Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour, FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships, beach and sitting volleyball at the Olympics and Paralympics · recall
Nordic players train much of the year indoors on sand.
Source: Wikipedia: Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour, FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships, beach and sitting volleyball at the Olympics and Paralympics · recall
Indoor sand halls allow year-round training.
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The Russian pair won in Hamburg.
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Evandro Oliveira and André Stein won in Vienna.
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Both pairs won Olympic gold and a world title.
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2017, 2019, 2022, 2023 and 2025.
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2021, 2022, 2024 and 2025.
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Norway won in 2021 and Sweden in 2024.
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Test 7The beach gameTake a test
The beach court is smaller than the indoor 18 by 9.
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Sets go to 21, a deciding third set to 15.
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Fingers behind the back show which shot to block.
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Teams switch every seven points, and every five in the third set.
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On the beach the block touch uses one of the team's touches.
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Placed shots go around a lone blocker.
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Players usually play barefoot on sand.
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10 x 6, 16 x 8 and 18 x 9 metres.
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Two sets to 21, then 15.
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Hand signals tell the partner which shot to defend.
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Test 8Sitting volleyball: the menTake a test
Iran won eight golds between 1988 and 2024.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina beat Iran in both finals.
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Iran beat Bosnia and Herzegovina in the final.
Source: Wikipedia: Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour, FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships, beach and sitting volleyball at the Olympics and Paralympics · recall
Egypt finished third three times.
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Their rivalry shaped the event.
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The RPC team took silver; Bosnia and Herzegovina bronze.
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Iran won in 2016, 2020 and 2024.
Source: Wikipedia: Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour, FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships, beach and sitting volleyball at the Olympics and Paralympics · recall
2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012.
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Gold, silver and bronze in 2024.
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Iran has the most men's Paralympic golds.
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Test 9Sitting volleyball: the womenTake a test
China won in 2004, 2008 and 2012.
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The United States won three in a row.
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China lost three finals to the USA.
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Brazil took bronze twice.
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Canada finished third in Paris.
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The Dutch took silver behind China.
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They met in all five finals of that span.
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Three Chinese golds, then three American.
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Gold, silver and bronze in 2024.
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The US women won three straight golds.
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Test 10The sitting gameTake a test
The sitting court is much smaller than the indoor one.
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The men's net is 1.15 m high; the women's 1.05 m.
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The women's net is 1.05 m high.
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The attack line is 2 m from the centre line.
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World ParaVolley took over from WOVD in 2014.
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Players may not rise off the floor to play the ball.
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Moving on the floor covers less ground.
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1.05, 1.15, 2.24 and 2.43 m.
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1956, 1981, 1994 and 2014.
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The sitting court measures 10 by 6 m.
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Sources
FIVB, Volleyball World and Olympic results records; original questions authored, nothing reproduced. Numbered FIVB rules belong to the Rules category.
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