by Juan | Jan 7, 2019 | FIVB, News, Olympics
Kira Walkenhorst (28) is going to end her beach volleyball career for health reasons. With her partner Laura Ludwig (32) she had dominated women’s beach volleyball in recent years. After winning the Olympic gold medal in Rio 2016, they did also win the World...
by Juan | Sep 21, 2018 | FIVB, News, Olympics
Last season, the FIVB had already doubled the number of World Tour events compared to the previous season. But the 2018/2019 calendar that has been announced this week is even bigger. 87 events (both genders) at 52 different stops is huge. And there are even more...
by admin | Aug 27, 2018 | AVC, FIVB, Interviews, Olympics
INTERVIEW Megumi & Miki on their Mission Impossible Megumi Murakami and Miki Ishii giggle when the translator asks them about the current status of beach volleyball in Japan. Women’s beach volleyball in Japan is primarily perceived as watching cute women...
by admin | Aug 5, 2018 | AVP, FIVB, Interviews, Olympics
INTERVIEW Brandie Wilkerson Living the beach volleyball gypsy life Brandie Wilkerson is just back from Switzerland where she met parts of her family. Born in Switzerland, playing for Canada, sometimes living in the United States and having triple citizenship of the...
by admin | Jul 15, 2018 | FIVB, News, Olympics
Two strong Canadian teams claimed gold and bronze at the Gstaad Major Series event this week. While Heather Bansley and Brandie Wilkerson won the bronze medal match against Agatha/Duda (Brazil), Melissa Humana-Paredes and Sarah Pavan defeated German top team Chantal...
by Juan | Mar 28, 2018 | CEV, FIVB, Interviews, News, Olympics
INTERVIEW The Lion King on his nickname, Latvian beach volleyball and his Olympic dream There are many players on the tour and many nicknames out there, some of them little-known to the public. But probably all beach volleyball fans around the world know the...
