FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships

The FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships is the double-gender world championship for the sport of beach volleyball organized by the (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.

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.

Edition	Year	Host City	Host Country	Events
1987–1996: 10 Unofficial World Championships before recognized by FIVB
1	1997	Los Angeles		2
2	1999	Marseille		2
3	2001	Klagenfurt - Maria Wörth - Velden		2
4	2003	Rio de Janeiro		2
5	2005	Berlin		2
6	2007	Gstaad		2
7	2009	Stavanger		2
8	2011	Rome		2
9	2013	Stare Jabłonki		2
10	2015	The Hague - Amsterdam - Apeldoorn - Rotterdam		2
11	2017	Vienna		2
12	2019	Hamburg		2
13	2022	Rome		2
14	2023	Tlaxcala - Apizaco - Huamantla		2
15	2025	Adelaide		2

Results summary

Men's tournament

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

Women's tournament

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

Medals

As of 2023 Beach Volleyball World Championships.

Men

Women

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