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FIVB 14/03/2013

Beach Volleyball Age Group World Champ cities confirmed

Lausanne, Switzerland,
March 14, 2013 – The International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) is pleased to
announce the host cities and dates of its Beach Volleyball World Championships
for age groups U19, U21 and U23 taking place in 2013.

The 13th
edition of the FIVB Beach Volleyball U21 World Championships will take place in
Umag, Croatia from June 20 to 23 while the FIVB Beach Volleyball U19 World
Championships, in its 12th edition, will be held in Porto,
Portugal from July 11 to 14.

As a major enhancement
to the FIVB beach volleyball calendar, the FIVB Beach Volleyball U23 World
Championships - which will take place in Myslowice, Poland from June 6 to 9 –
has been added to provide another opportunity for players to participate in an
international tournament with the goal of reducing the gap between age-group
and senior level competition.

“We are looking forward
to another exciting year of age group beach volleyball, especially with the
addition of the under 23 World Championships which will assist in the
development of beach volleyball and compliment the growth achieved via the
Continental Cup,” FIVB Beach Volleyball Commission President Mr Vicente Araujo
said. “Every year, we see the level of competition at these annual World
Championships get better and better and we can expect more of the same in
2013.”

Each event will consist
of a main draw of 32 teams (eight pools of four teams with the top two teams
advancing to the single elimination final phase), comprising six teams per
gender per FIVB Confederation (with a maximum of one team per gender per
country) and two teams per gender for the host country.

The Confederations will
select their best six ranked teams either via the last U19/21/23 Continental
Championships or U19/21/23 Continental Tour in 2013 or 2012 or FIVB selection
criteria*.

In the event a
Confederation is unable to use their quota of six teams per gender, the FIVB
will fill the vacancies either via a qualification tournament (one day, single
elimination, minimum of eight teams and a maximum of 16) or FIVB selection
criteria*.

Poland will be looking
to continuing its winning streak in the men’s U19 and U21 Championships. In the
2012 edition, Michel
Bryl and Kacper Kujawiak took home the title for the U19 Championship while Piotr
Kanto and Bartosz Losiak were crowned U21 champions. Poland also made
history last year, having two of its teams go head-to-head for the gold medal
in the U19 Championship.

Last year’s women’s U19
Championship in Larnaka saw Lithuanian
duo Monika Povilaityte and Leva Dumbauskaite edge out Poland’s defending
champions Karolina Baran and Katarzyna Kociolek in the final. In the women’s U21 Championship in
Halifax, Canada, Switzerland’s
Nina Betschart and Anouk Verge-Depre were crowned world champions. With that win, Betschart joined Brazil’s Carolina
Salgado (2004 and 2005) as the only women in the event’s history to win gold in
back-to-back years with different partners.

The FIVB Beach
Volleyball U19 World Championships were first held in 2002 while the FIVB Beach
Volleyball U21 World Championships started in 2001.

FIVB Beach Volleyball
Age-Group World Championships for 2013

Event	Host City	Dates
U23 World Championships	Myslowice, Poland	June 6-9
U21 World Championships	Umag, Croatia	June 20-23
U19 World Championships	Porto, Portugal	July 11-14

* Please refer to the following link for the Qualification Process: http://www.fivb.org/EN/BeachVolleyball/Competitions/U19/2013/document/Procedures_WCHS_Qualification_Process_13.03.13.pdf

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