FACT SHEET $150,000 FIVB The Hague Three-Star The Hague, Netherlands, June 14-18, 2017

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1 Fédération Internationale de Volleyball Telephone FACT SHEET $150,000 FIVB The Hague Three-Star The Hague, Netherlands, June 14-18, 2017 Updated on June 12, 2017, this fact sheet provides information on the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball and the 2017 FIVB Beach Volleyball calendar. The 2017 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour schedule features a new starred classification of its events, with three Five-Star events, all of which are the Swatch Major Series, two Four-Star events, five Three-Star events, four Two-Star events, and six One-Star events, along with the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships, the Swatch FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Finals, and one FIVB Age Group World Championships. The 2017 schedule began in February in the United States and concludes in October in China marks the 31st anniversary of the first FIVB Beach Volleyball event held February 17-22, 1987 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. One event played in 2017, Qinzhou, China, will be part of the 2018 FIVB World Tour. The double-gender $150,000 FIVB The Hague Three-Star is the eighth men s and the eighth women s event on the 2017 FIVB Beach Volleyball calendar and the fourth of the five Three-Star rated events. The FIVB returns to The Netherlands for the seventh time, after a one-year layoff. The Netherlands has hosted twelve previous FIVB World Tour events a double-gender event every season since 2009, except 2012 and 2016 when no events were held. For more information regarding the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour, please visit fivb.org. June 14-18, The Hague, Men and Women, $150,000 All previous events in The Netherlands have been held in The Hague, with the 2014 Grand Slam also using Amsterdam and Apeldoorn as venues, and the 2015 World Championships adding Rotterdam to the other three. Host country Netherlands has won just three previous medals on its home soil, a men s gold and two men s silvers. Reinder Nummerdor has been a part of all three medals, winning gold and silver with Richard Schuil, and a silver in the World Championships with Christiaan Varenhorst. The FIVB The Hague Three-Star starts June 14 and concludes June 18. The winning teams in each gender will share the $10,000 first-place prize. Here is the tentative schedule: Wednesday, June 14...Country Quota (if necessary) and Men s and Women s Qualification Tournament Thursday, June Men s and Women s Pool Play Main Draw Matches Friday, June Men s Round of 24 and Women s Round of 24 and Round of 16 Matches Saturday, June Men s Round of 16 and Men s and Women s Quarterfinal and Semi-Final Matches Sunday, June Men s and Women s Medal Matches A total of 132 teams from 39 countries (81 men s teams from 34 countries and 51 women s teams from 23 countries) are entered into the FIVB The Hague Three-Star (as of June 12, 2017), including Argentina (1 men s team, 0 women s team), Australia (3,3), Austria (4,2), Belarus (1,0), Belgium (1,1), Brazil (4,6), Canada (3,4), Croatia (0,1), Czech Republic (4,2), Denmark (0,1), England (2,0), Estonia (1,0), Finland (0,1), France (2,1), Germany (4,4), Hungary (1,1), Iran (2,0), Israel (2,0), Italy (4,1), Japan (3,0), Kazakhstan (0,1), Latvia (3,0), Lithuania (1,0), Mexico (1,0), Netherlands (7,4), New Zealand (1,0), Norway (1,2), Poland (2,2), Qatar (2,0), Russia (4,3), Serbia (1,0), Slovak Republic (0,1), Spain (2,1), Sweden (1,0), Switzerland (4,3), Turkey (1,0), Ukraine (2,2), United States (4,4), and Venezuela (2,0). The FIVB The Hague Three-Star is the 360th men s and the 321st women s event on the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour (open, grand slam, Olympic and Goodwill). The first men s FIVB World Tour event was played February 17-22, 1987 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and the first women s event was played August 14-16, 1992 at Almeria, Spain. TABLE OF CONTENTS... Page Past FIVB World Tour Results in The Netherlands (2009 to present for men and women)... 2 Olympic & World Championship Gold Medal Teams and Schedule... 3 FIVB The Hague Three-Star Men s Entries (through June 11)... 4 FIVB The Hague Three-Star Women s Entries (through June 11) FIVB World Tour Highlights FIVB World Tour Schedule and Results FIVB World Tour Results FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Rankings FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Money Leaders FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Points Leaders FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Money Leaders Men s FIVB World Tour - Country Medals & Final Fours Women s FIVB World Tour - Country Medals & Final Fours... 14

2 Past Dutch Men s Medals Brazil 7, Netherlands 3, United States 3, Poland 2, Latvia 1, Russia 1, Spain 1 Site Year Gold Medal Silver Medal Bronze Medal 1. The Hague 2009 Reinder Nummerdor/Richard Schuil, NED Adrian Gavira/Pablo Herrera, ESP Alison Cerutti/Harley Marques, BRA 2. The Hague 2010 Casey Jennings/Kevin Wong, USA Benjamin Insfran/Bruno Oscar Schmidt, BRA Matt Fuerbringer/Nick Lucena, USA 3. The Hague 2011 Pedro Cunha/Ricardo Santos, BRA Nummerdor/Schuill, NED Yaroslav Koshkarev/Konstantin Semenov, RUS 4. The Hague 2013 Pedro Solberg/Schmidt, BRA Aleksandrs Samoilovs/Janis Smedins, LAT Grzegorz Fijalek/Mariusz Prudel, POL 5. The Hague* 2014 Fijalek/Prudel, POL Phil Dalhausser/Sean Rosenthal, USA Emanuel Rego/Solberg, BRA 6. The Hague**2015 Alison/Bruno, BRA Nummerdor/Christiaan Varenhorst, NED Evandro Goncalves/Pedro, BRA * Included Amsterdam and Apeldoorn *World Championships (Included Amsterdam, Apeldoorn, and Rotterdam) Past Dutch Women s Medals Brazil 13, Germany 2, United States 2, China 1 Site Year Gold Medal Silver Medal Bronze Medal 1. The Hague 2009 Juliana Felisberta/Larissa Franca, BRA Maria Antonelli/Talita Rocha, BRA Vivian Cunha/Angela Vieira, BRA 2. The Hague 2010 Maria/Talita, BRA Chen Xue/Xi Zhang, CHN Angie Akers/Tyra Turner, USA 3. The Hague 2011 Juliana/Larissa, BRA Misty May-Treanor/Kerri Walsh, USA Maria/Talita, BRA 4. The Hague 2013 Taiana Lima/Talita, BRA Carolina Salgado/Maria Clara Salgado, BRA Katrin Holtwick/Ilka Semmler, GER 5. The Hague* 2014 Fernanda Alves/Taiana, BRA Holtwick/Semmler, GER Antonelli/Juliana, BRA 6. The Hague**2015 Agatha Bednarczuk/Barbara Seixas, BRA Antonelli/Juliana, BRA Alves/Taiana, BRA * Included Amsterdam and Apeldoorn *World Championships (Included Amsterdam, Apeldoorn, and Rotterdam)

3 FIVB Beach Volleyball Major Championships Men... Olympic Champions... Women Karch Kiraly/Kent Steffes, United States... Atlanta Sandra Pires/Jackie Silva, Brazil Dain Blanton/Eric Fonoimoana, United States... Sydney Natalie Cook/Kerri Pottharst, Australia Emanuel/Ricardo Santos, Brazil... Athens Misty May-Treanor/Kerri Walsh, United States Phil Dalhausser/Todd Rogers, United States... Beijing May-Treanor/Walsh, United States Julius Brink/Jonas Reckermann, Germany... London May-Treanor/Walsh, United States Alison Cerutti/Bruno Oscar Schmidt, Brazil... Rio Laura Ludwig/Kira Walkenhorst, Germany Boys... Youth Olympic Champions... Girls Oleg Stoyanovskiy/Artem Yarzutkin, Russia... Nanjing Eduarda Lisboa/Ana Patricia Silva, Brazil Men... FIVB Beach Volleyball World Champions... Women Para Ferreira/Guilherme Marquez, Brazil... Los Angeles Sandra Pires/Jackie Silva, Brazil Emanuel Rego/Jose Loiola, Brazil... Marseille Adriana Behar/Shelda Bede, Brazil Mariano Baracetti/Martin Conde, Argentina... Klagenfurt Adriana/Shelda, Brazil Emanuel/Ricardo Santos, Brazil... Rio de Janeiro Misty May-Treanor/Kerri Walsh, United States Marcio Araujo/Fabio Magalhaes, Brazil... Berlin May-Treanor/Walsh, United States Phil Dalhausser/Todd Rogers, United States... Gstaad May-Treanor/Walsh, United States Julius Brink/Jonas Reckermann, Germany... Stavanger Jen Kessy/April Ross, United States Alison Cerutti/Emanuel, Brazil... Rome Juliana Felisberta Silva/Larissa Franca, Brazil Alexander Brouwer/Robert Meeuwsen, Netherlands Stare Jablonki Chen Xue/Xi Zhang, China Alison Cerutti/Bruno Oscar Schmidt, Brazil... Netherlands Agatha Bednarczuk/Barbara Seixas, Brazil July 28-August 8... Austria Vienna Men... FIVB Beach Volleyball U- 23 World Champions... Women Piotr Kantor/Bartosz Losiak, Poland... Poland Victoria Bieneck/Isabell Schneider, Germany Maciej Kosiak/Maciej Rudol, Poland... Poland Mariafe Artacho/Nicole Laird, Australia Men... FIVB Beach Volleyball U- 21 World Champions... Women Pedro Cunha/Anselmo Sigoli, Brazil... France Shaylyn Bede/Maria Clara Salgado, Brazil Pablo Herrera/Raul Mesa, Spain... Italy Juliana Felisberta Silva/Taiana Lima, Brazil Cunha/Pedro Solberg, Brazil... France Anna Morozova/Alexandra Shiryaeva, Russia Miguel Angel Amo/Inocencio Lario, Spain... Portugal Taiana/Carolina Salgado, Brazil Martins Plavins/Aleksandrs Samoilovs, Latvia... Brazil Carolina/Camillinha Saldanha, Brazil Bruno Oscar Schmidt/Salgado, Brazil... Poland Carolina Aragao/Barbara Figueiredo Seixas, Brazil Francesco Giontella/Paolo Nicolai, Italy... Italy Liliane Maestrini/Seixas Figueiredo, Brazil Giontella/Nicolai, Italy... Great Britain Marleen Van Iersel/Daniëlle Remmers, Netherlands Michal Kadziola/Jakub Szalankiewicz, Poland... Great Britain Monika Brzostek/Kinga Kolosinka, Poland Garrett May/Sam Schachter, Canada... Alanya Tara Roenicke/Summer Ross, United States Sergiy Popov/Valeriy Samoday, Ukraine... Canada Nina Betshart/Joana Heidrich, Switzerland Piotr Kantor/Bartosz Losiak, Poland... Canada Nina Betschart/Anouk Verge-Depre, Switzerland Gustavo Carvalhaes/Allison Cittadin, Brazil... Croatia Jagoda Gruszczynska/Katarzyna Kociolek, Poland Michal Bryl/Kacper Kujawiak, Poland... Cyprus Sophie Bukovec/Tiadora Miric, Canada Arthur Mariano/George Wanderley, Brazil... Switzerland Eduarda Lisboa/Ana Patricia Silva, Brazil July China Nanjing Boys... FIVB Beach Volleyball U-19 World Champions... Girls Ian Borges/Pedro Solberg, Brazil... Greece 2002*... Sanne Keizer/Arjanne Stevens, Netherlands Sebastian Fuchs/Thomas Kaczmarek, Germany... Thailand 2003*... Jana Kohler/Laura Ludwig, Germany Arunas Kirsnys/Arvydas Miseikis, Lithuania... Italy 2004*... Katarzyna Urban/Joanna Wiatr, Poland Tine Urnaut/Nejc Zemljak, Slovenia... France Barbra Figueiredo Seixas /Carolina Aragao, Brazil Jonathan Erdmann/Marvin Klass, Germany... Bermuda Becchara Palmer/Alice Rohkamper, Australia Michal Kadziola/Jakub Szalankiewicz, Poland... Poland Danielle Remmers/Michelle Stiekema, Netherlands Kristo Kollo/Oliver Venno, Estonia... Netherlands Chantal Laboureur/Levke Springer, Germany Sergiy Popov/Valeriy Samoday, Ukraine... Turkey Christine Aulenbrock/Victoria Bieneck, Germany Piotr Kantor/Bartosz Losiak, Poland... Portugal Jane Croson/Summer Ross, United States Lukasz Kaczmarek/Maciej Kosiak, Poland... Croatia Karolina Baran/Katarzyna Kociolek, Poland Michal Bryl/Kacper Kujawiak, Poland... Cyprus Ieva Dumbauskaite/Monika Povilaityte, Lithuania Moritz Reichert/Clemens Walker, Germany... Portugal Eduarda Lisboa/Taina Silva, Brazil Arthur Mariano/George Wanderley, Brazil... Portugal Andressa Cavalcanti/Eduarda Lisboa, Brazil Renato Lima/Rafael Mendonca, Brazil... Cyprus Eduarda Lisboa/Victoria Lopes, Brazil *For players under the age of 18 through 2004 Boys... FIVB Beach Volleyball Youth U-17 World Champions... Girls Florian Breer/Yves Haussener, Switzerland... Mexico Morgan Martin/Kathryn Plummer, United States

4 2017 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour FIVB The Hague Three-Star Men s Entries (as of June 11, 2017) Main Draw Entries Christopher McHugh/Damien Schumann, Australia Clemens Doppler/Alexander Horst, Austria Christoph Dressler/Thomas Kunert, Austria Dries Koekelkoren/Tom van Walle, Belgium Saymon Barbosa/Alvaro Filho, Brazil Gustavo "Guto" Carvalhaes/Pedro Solberg, Brazil Evandro Goncalves/Andre Loyola, Brazil Grant O'Gorman/Michael Plantinga, Canada Sam Pedlow/Sam Schachter, Canada Daniele Lupo/Paolo Nicolai, Italy Martins Plavins/Haralds Regza, Latvia Aleksandrs Samoilovs/Janis Smedins, Latvia Lombardo Ontiveros/Juan Virgen, Mexico Mees Blom/Ruben Penninga, Netherlands Alexander Brouwer/Robert Meeuwsen, Netherlands Maarten Van Garderen/Christiaan Varenhorst, Netherlands Michal Bryl/Grzegorz Fijalek, Poland Maciej Rudol/Jakub Szalankiewicz, Poland Jefferson Santos Pereira/Cherif Younousse, Qatar Viacheslav Krasilnikov/Nikita Liamin, Russia Adrian Gavira/Pablo Herrera, Spain Nico Beeler/Marco Krattiger, Switzerland Billy Allen/Stafford Slick, United States Theo Brunner/Casey Patterson, United States Qualification Entries Julian Azaad/Nicolas Capogrosso, Argentina Martin Ermacora/Florian Schnetzer, Austria Julian Horl/Alexander Huber, Austria Aliaksandr Dziadkou/Aliaksandr Kavalenka, Belarus Vitor Felipe/George Wanderley, Brazil Ondrej Perusic/David Schweiner, Czech Republic Chris Gregory/Jake Sheaf, England Quincy Aye/Youssef Krou, France Romain Di Giantommaso/Maxime Thiercy, France Markus Bockermann/Clemens Wickler, Germany Armin Dollinger/Jonathan Erdmann, Germany Sebastian Fuchs/Kay Matysik, Germany Lorenz Schumann/Julius Thole, Germany Sean Faiga/Ariel Hilman, Israel Jannes van der Ham/Sven Vismans, Netherlands Daniel Bergerud/Christian Sorum, Norway Julio Nascimento/Ahmed Tijan, Qatar Ruslan Bykanov/Yaroslav Koshkarev, Russia Mirco Gerson/Michiel Zandbergen, Switzerland Murat Giginoglu/Sefa Urlu, Turkey Mykola Babich/Iaroslav Gordieiev, Ukraine Oleksiy Denin/Sergiy Popov, Ukraine Taylor Crabb/Marty Lorenz, United States Trevor Crabb/Sean Rosenthal, United States Reserve Entries Cole Durant/Zachery Schubert, Australia Thomas Faulkner/Allister Lyne, Australia Aaron Nusbaum/Ryan Vandenburg, Canada Jan Dumek/David Lenc, Czech Republic David Kufa/Robert Kufa, Czech Republic Martin Tichy/Jindrich Weiss, Czech Republic Mark Garcia-Kidd/Matthew Hunter, England Kusti Nolvak/Mart Tiisaar, Estonia Tamas Meszlenyi/Izsak Soos, Hungary Abolhamed Mirzaali/Aghamohammad Salagh, Iran Abbas Pourasgari/Arash Vakili, Iran Netanel Ohana/Amir Vinarsky, Israel Marco Caminati/Enrico Rossi, Italy Valerio Del Carpio/Fabiano Falcione, Italy Andrea Lupo/Francesco Vanni, Italy Junki Hatabe/Hitoshi Murakami, Japan Ryota Sato/Keisuke Shimizu, Japan Katsuhiro Shiratori/Takumi Takahashi, Japan Toms Smedins/Aleksandrs Solovejs, Latvia Lukas Kazdailis/Arnas Rumsevicius, Lithuania Noah Aerts/Ricardo Termoshuizen, Netherlands Michiel Boudewijn/Jasper Niewold, Netherlands Pim Heurman/Thijs Nijeboer, Netherlands Sam O'Dea/Michael Watson, New Zealand Ilya Leshukov/Alexander Likholetov, Russia Maxim Sivolap/Igor Velichko, Russia Djordje Klasnic/Lazar Kolaric, Serbia Christian Garcia/Raul Mesa, Spain Martin Appelgren/Simon Boman, Sweden Simon Hagenbuch/Quentin Metral, Switzerland Adrian Heidrich/Gabriel Kissling, Switzerland Jhonatan Golindano/Carlos Rangel, Venezuela Tigrito Gomez/Peter Hernandez, Venezuela

5 2017 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour FIVB The Hague Three-Star Women s Entries (as of June 11, 2017) Main Draw Entries Louise Bawden/Taliqua Clancy, Australia Phoebe Bell/Nicole Laird, Australia Fernanda Alves/Barbara Seixas, Brazil Talita Antunes/Larissa Franca, Brazil Agatha Bednarczuk/Eduarda "Duda" Lisboa, Brazil Heather Bansley/Brandie Wilkerson, Canada Melissa Humana-Paredes/Sarah Pavan, Canada Barbora Hermannova/Marketa Slukova, Czech Republic Kristyna Kolocova/Michala Kvapilova, Czech Republic Taru Lahti/Anniina Parkkinen, Finland Victoria Bieneck/Isabel Schneider, Germany Chantal Laboureur/Julia Sude, Germany Laura Ludwig/Kira Walkenhorst, Germany Marta Menegatti/Rebecca Perry, Italy Sanne Keizer/Madelein Meppelink, Netherlands Manon Nummerdor-Flier/Marleen Van Iersel, Netherlands Jolien Sinnema/Joy Stubbe, Netherlands Anastasia Barsuk/Evgeniya Ukolova, Russia Ekaterina Birlova/Olga Motrich, Russia Nina Betschart/Tanja Huberli, Switzerland Joana Heidrich/Anouk Verge-Depre, Switzerland Valentyna Davidova/Ievgeniia Shchypkova, Ukraine Lauren Fendrick/April Ross, United States Summer Ross/Brooke Sweat, United States Qualification Entries Mariafe Artacho/Jessyka Ngauamo, Australia Lena Plesiutschnig/Cornelia Rimser, Austria Stefanie Schwaiger/Teresa Strauss, Austria Katrien Gielen/Liesbeth Mouha, Belgium Julie Gordon/Camille Saxton, Canada Kristina May/Taylor Pischke, Canada Maja Rosko/Jurja Vlasic, Croatia Laerke Gronfeldt/Cecilie Olsen, Denmark Alexandra Jupiter/Ophelie Lusson, France Nadja Glenzke/Julia Grossner, Germany Tatyana Mashkova/Bakhtygul Samalikova, Kazakhstan Raisa Schoon/Emi van Driel, Netherlands Victoria Kjolberg/Ane Tveit Hjortland, Norway Ingrid Lunde/Oda Ulveseth, Norway Jagoda Gruszczynska/Kinga Kolosinska, Poland Katarzyna Kociolek/Dorota Strag, Poland Alexandra Moiseeva/Ekaterina Syrtseva, Russia Natalia Dubovcova/Andrea Strbova, Slovak Republic Elsa Baquerizo/Angela Lobato, Spain Laura Caluori/Elena Steinemann, Switzerland Inna Makhno/Iryna Makhno, Ukraine Lane Carico/Caitlin Ledoux, United States Emily Day/Brittany Hochevar, United States Country Quota Entries Josemari Alves/Liliane Maestrini, Brazil Maria Antonelli/Carolina Salgado, Brazil Taiana Lima/Elize Maia, Brazil Reserve Entries Eniko Lakatos/Eszter Lutter, Hungary

6 2017 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Men s & Women s Highlights The 2017 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour calendar features US$5.61 million in prize money, a new starrating system with three Major Series Five-Star events, two Four-Star events, five Three-Star events, four Two- Star events, and six One-Star events, along with the Swatch FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Finals. There will be only one age-group FIVB World Championships held in 2017, for players under the age of 21. The showcase event in 2017 will be the Beach Volleyball World Championships in Vienna, Austria in late July and early August. The 2017 schedule begins in February and concludes in October. This year marks the 31st anniversary of the first FIVB beach volleyball event held February 17-22, 1987 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The gold medal was won by USA s Sinjin Smith/Randy Stoklos. The men s World Tour began in 1989, the women s in Smith/Stoklos were the champions of the inaugural season in The international beach volleyball circuit visits 22 sites in 17 countries over a nine-month period spanning from February to October. The last event in October at Qinzhou, China, will be part of the 2018 World Tour. The 2017 FIVB Beach Volleyball schedule features 16 men s and 20 women s events within the all five confederations (African, Asian, European, North American, and South American), offering US$5.19 million in prize money. The total purse for the World Championships will be $US 1 Million, while the three Five-Star events will pay out $600,000 each, the Four-Star events will award $300,000 each and the purse will be $800,000 for the Swatch FIVB World Tour Season Final. The World Championships, all three Five-Star events, the two Four-Star events, and the Swatch FIVB World Tour Season Final will be combined events for women and men. Four of the five Three-Star events, none of the four Two-Star events, and four of the six One-Star events will also include both genders. The two showcase events on the 2017 FIVB World Tour Calendar will be the FIVB World Championships, played in Vienna, Austria from July 28-August 6 and the Swatch FIVB World Tour Season Final, played in Hamburg, Germany from August The three Five-Star events are all FIVB Major Series events, two of which will return to their 2016 sites in Croatia (Porec) and Switzerland (Gstaad). The new venue for 2017 was in the United States (Fort Lauderdale). The Four-Star events in 2017 were in Brazil (Rio de Janeiro), and will be held in Poland (Olsztyn). The Three-Star events will have a purse of $100,000 for each single-gender event and 75,000 per gender for the combined events. The 2017 events for both genders will be played in China (Xiamen and Qinzhou), Russia (Moscow), and Netherlands (The Hague), while the event in Iran (Kish Island) was for men only. The event in Qinzhou is part of the 2018 FIVB World Tour. The Two-Star events will have a purse of $50,000 each with all four being held for one gender only. The men s event will be held in Spain (Espinho), while the three women s events are in Australia (Sydney), and China (Nanjing and Nantong). The One-Star events will offer a purse of $10,000 per gender, with the events in Australia (Shepparton), Malaysia (Selangor), and Morocco (Agadir) competing for both genders, while the events in Monaco (Monaco) and Korea (Daegu and Ulsan) will be for women only. The United States opened the FIVB World Tour calendar for the second time in the 31 year history of the tour with the FIVB Fort Lauderdale Major in Florida from February The state of Florida also opened the 1994 FIVB World Tour season in Miami. The first 2017 Four-Star event was held in Brazil (Rio de Janeiro) from May 18-21, the first Three-Star event was played in Iran (Kish Island) from February 15-18, the first Two-Star event was held in Australia (Sydney) from March 17-19, and the first One-Star event was also held in Australia (Shepparton) on March 4th and 5th. The 2017 FIVB Beach Volleyball calendar also includes the FIVB Age Group World Championships for players under the age of 21 in China (Nanjing) from July FIVB age-group worlds for U21 and U19 have been held for over a decade, once for U17 and two times for U23. Red Bull Media House has the exclusive distribution media rights for the 2017 FIVB World Tour. For the eighth straight year, the tour is exclusively using the Mikasa VLS300 ball.

7 2017 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Calendar and Results Dates Site Type Gender Gold Medal Team/Prize Money ($US) February 7-11 Fort Lauderdale, USA Major Series Men Alvaro Filho/Saymon Barbosa, Brazil February 7-12 Fort Lauderdale, USA Major Series Women Larissa Franca/Talita Antunes, Brazil February Kish Island, Iran Three-Star Men Viacheslav Krasilnikov/Nikita Liamin, Russia March 4-5 Shepparton, Australia One-Star Men Christopher McHugh/Damien Schumann, Australia March 4-5 Shepparton, Australia One-Star Women Julie Gordon/Camille Saxton, Canada March Sydney, Australia Two-Star Women Julie Gordon/Camille Saxton, Canada April Langkawi, Malaysia One-Star Men Nivaldo Diaz/Sergio Gonzalez, Cuba April Langkawi, Malaysia One-Star Women Kim DiCello/Emily Stockman, United States April Xiamen, China Three-Star Men Alexander Brouwer/Robert Meeuwsen, NED April Xiamen, China Three-Star Women Fernanda Alves/Barbara Seixas, Brazil May Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Four-Star Men Alison Cerutti/Bruno Oscar Schmidt, Brazil May Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Four-Star Women Agatha Bednarczuk/Eduarda Duda Lisboa, BRA May 31-June 4 Moscow, Russia Three-Star Men Phil Dalhausser/Nick Lucena, United States May 31-June 4 Moscow, Russia Three-Star Women Larissa Franca/Talita Antunes, Brazil June The Hague, Netherlands Three-Star Men & Women $150,000 June Jiangning, Nanjing, China Two-Star Women $50,000 June Monaco, Monaco One-Star Women $10,000 June Nantong, China Two-Star Women $50,000 June 27-July 2 Porec, Croatia Major Series Men & Women $600,000 July 4-9 Gstaad, Switzerland Major Series Men & Women $600,000 July Nanjing, China U21 WC Men & Women July Daegu, Korea One-Star Women $10,000 July Olsztyn, Poland Four-Star Men & Women $300,000 July Ulsan, Korea One-Star Women $10,000 July Agadir, Morocco One-Star Men & Women $20,000 July 28-August 6 Vienna, Austria World Champ Men & Women $1,000,000 July Espinho, Spain Two-Star Men $50,000 August Hamburg, Germany WT Final Men & Women $800, FIVB World Tour October Qinzhou, China Three-Star Men & Women $150,000

8 2016 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Results Dates Site Type Gender Gold Medal Team Oct 6-11, 2015 Puerto Vallarta, Mexico Open Women Phil Dalhausser/Nick Lucena, United States Oct 7-11, 2015 Puerto Vallarta, Mexico Open Men Laura Ludwig/Kira Walkenhorst, Germany Oct 20-24, 2015 Antalya, Turkey Open Women Barbora Hermannova/Marketa Slukova, CZE Oct 21-25, 2015 Antalya, Turkey Open Men Adrian Carambula/Alex Ranghieri, Italy Nov 8-13, 2015 Doha, Qatar Open Men Markus Bockermann/Lars Fluggen, Germany February Kish Island, Iran Open Men Jefferson Santos Pereira/Cherif Younousse, Qatar February Maceió, Brazil Open Men Phil Dalhausser/Nick Lucena, United States February Maceió, Brazil Open Women Eduarda Lisboa/Elize Maia, Brazil March 8-13 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Grand Slam Men Piotr Kantor/Bartosz Losiak, Poland March 8-13 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Grand Slam Women April Ross/Kerri Walsh Jennings, United States March Vitória, Brazil Open Men Alison Cerutti/Bruno Oscar Schmidt, Brazil March Vitória, Brazil Open Women Talita Antunes/Larissa Franca, Brazil April 4-8 Doha, Qatar Open Men Adrian Carambula/Alex Ranghieri, Italy April Xiamen, China Open Men Adrian Gavira/Pablo Herrera, Spain April Xiamen, China Open Women Isabelle Forrer/Anouk Verge-Depre, Switzerland April Fuzhou, China Open Men Phil Dalhausser/Nick Lucena, United States April Fuzhou, China Open Women April Ross/Kerri Walsh Jennings, United States April 26-May 1 Fortaleza, Brazil Open Women Eduarda Lisboa/Elize Maia, Brazil April 26-May 1 Fortaleza, Brazil Open Men Oscar Brandao/Andre Loyola, Brazil May 3-8 Sochi, Russia Open Women Joana Heidrich/Nadine Zumkehr, Switzerland May 3-8 Sochi, Russia Open Men Daniele Lupo/Paolo Nicolai, Italy May Antalya, Turkey Open Women Laura Ludwig/Kira Walkenhorst, Germany May Antalya, Turkey Open Men Aleksandrs Samoilovs/Janis Smedins, Latvia May Lucerne, Switzerland U21 WC Men Arthur Mariano/George Wanderley, Brazil May Lucerne, Switzerland U21 WC Women Eduarda Lisboa/Ana Patricia Silva, Brazil May Cincinnati, USA Open Women April Ross/Kerri Walsh Jennings, United States May Cincinnati, USA Open Men Saymon Barbosa/Gustavo Carvalhaes, Brazil May Moscow, Russia Grand Slam Women April Ross/Kerri Walsh Jennings, United States May Moscow, Russia Grand Slam Men Reinder Nummerdor/Christiaan Varenhorst, Netherlands June 7-12 Hamburg, Germany Major Series Women Laura Ludwig/Kira Walkenhorst, Germany June 7-12 Hamburg, Germany Major Series Men Phil Dalhausser/Nick Lucena, United States June Olsztyn, Poland Grand Slam Women Laura Ludwig/Kira Walkenhorst, Germany June Olsztyn, Poland Grand Slam Men Aleksandrs Samoilovs/Janis Smedins, Latvia June 28-July 2 Porec, Croatia Major Series Women Chantal Laboureur/Julia Sude, Germany June 28-July 3 Porec, Croatia Major Series Men Alison Cerutti/Bruno Oscar Schmidt, Brazil July 5-9 Gstaad, Switzerland Major Series Women Talita Antunes/Larissa Franca, Brazil July 5-10 Gstaad, Switzerland Major Series Men Evandro Goncalves/Pedro Solberg, Brazil July 6-10 Sochi, Russia Cont Cup Final Men Canada and Russia July 6-10 Sochi, Russia Cont Cup Final Women Czech Republic and Russia July Klagenfurt, Austria Major Series Women Laura Ludwig/Kira Walkenhorst, Germany July Klagenfurt, Austria Major Series Men Aleksandrs Samoilovs/Janis Smedins, Latvia July Lanarka, Cyprus U19 WC Men Renato Lima/Rafael Mendonca, Brazil July Lanarka, Cyprus U19 WC Women Eduarda Lisboa/Victoria Lopes, Brazil August 5-21 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Olympics Women Laura Ludwig/Kira Walkenhorst, Germany August 5-21 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Olympics Men Alison Cerutti/Bruno Oscar Schmidt, Brazil August Long Beach, USA Grand Slam Men Evandro Goncalves/Pedro Solberg, Brazil August Long Beach, USA Grand Slam Women April Ross/Kerri Walsh Jennings, United States September Toronto, Canada World Tour Final Men Alison Cerutti/Bruno Oscar Schmidt, Brazil September Toronto, Canada World Tour Final Women Laura Ludwig/Kira Walkenhorst, Germany

9 2017 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Rankings (through June 12, 2017) Men (Team Rank, events, points) 1, Aleksandrs Samoilovs/Janis Smedins, Latvia, 12*, 4,300 2, Alison Cerutti/Bruno Oscar Schmidt, Brazil, 16*, 3,436 3, Phil Dalhausser/Nick Lucena, United States, 6, 3,240 4, Piotr Kantor/Bartosz Losiak, Poland, 8, 2,770 5, Oleg Stoyanovskiy/Artem Yarzutkin, Russia, 10*, 2,632 6, Adrian Gavira/Pablo Herrera, Spain, 7, 2,600 7, Evandro Goncalves/Pedro Solberg, Brazil, 10*, 2,576 8, Ben Saxton/Chaim Schalk, Canada, 7, 2,480 9, Saymon Barbosa/Alvaro Filho, Brazil, 14*, 2,368 10, Alexander Brouwer/Robert Meeuwsen, Netherlands, 9*, 2,340 11, Saymon Barbosa/Gustavo "Guto" Carvalhaes, Brazil, 4, 2,200 12, Esteban Grimalt/Marco Grimalt, Chile, 9*, 2,180 13, Clemens Doppler/Alexander Horst, Austria, 9*, 2,040 14, Martins Plavins/Haralds Regza, Latvia, 13*, 1,996 15, Nivaldo Diaz/Sergio Gonzalez, Cuba, 7, 1,950 16, Dries Koekelkoren/Tom van Walle, Belgium, 10*, 1,938 17, Daniele Lupo/Paolo Nicolai, Italy, 5, 1,920 17, Vitor Felipe/Alvaro Filho, Brazil, 5, 1,920 19, Christoph Dressler/Thomas Kunert, Austria, 13*, 1,862 20, Viacheslav Krasilnikov/Nikita Liamin, Russia, 5, 1,780 20, Lombardo Ontiveros/Juan Virgen, Mexico, 7, 1,780 22, Jake Gibb/Casey Patterson, United States, 4, 1,760 23, Tri Bourne/John Hyden, United States, 6, 1,680 23, Grzegorz Fijalek/Mariusz Prudel, Poland, 6, 1,680 25, Jefferson Santos Pereira/Cherif Younousse, Qatar, 9*, 1,570 Women (Team Rank, events, points) 1, Talita Antunes/Larissa Franca, Brazil, 17*, 4,500 2, Chantal Laboureur/Julia Sude, Germany, 12*, 4,000 3, Laura Ludwig/Kira Walkenhorst, Germany, 9*, 3,336 4, Barbora Hermannova/Marketa Slukova, Czech Republic, 10*, 2,840 5, Nina Betschart/Tanja Huberli, Switzerland, 11*, 2,724 6, Elsa Baquerizo/Liliana Fernandez, Spain, 6, 2,400 7, Fan Wang/Yuan Yue, China, 9*, 2,310 8, Ana Gallay/Georgina Klug, Argentina, 8, 2,260 9, Louise Bawden/Taliqua Clancy, Australia, 8, 2,216 10, Agatha Bednarczuk/Eduarda "Duda" Lisboa, Brazil, 8, 2,204 11, Kristyna Kolocova/Michala Kvapilova, Czech Republic, 9*, 2,192 12, April Ross/Kerri Walsh Jennings, United States, 4, 2,000 13, Karla Borger/Britta Buthe, Germany, 5, 1,968 14, Taru Lahti/Riikka Lehtonen, Finland, 7, 1,884 15, Valentyna Davidova/Ievgeniia Shchypkova, Ukraine, 7, 1,812 16, Katrin Holtwick/Ilka Semmler, Germany, 5, 1,760 16, Kelly Claes/Sara Hughes, United States, 7, 1,760 18, Maria Antonelli/Liliane Maestrini, Brazil, 8, 1,686 19, Fernanda Alves/Barbara Seixas, Brazil, 12*, 1,632 20, Lauren Fendrick/Brooke Sweat, United States, 4, 1,600 21, Nadine Strauss/Teresa Strauss, Austria, 13*, 1,576 22, Jantine van der Vlist/Sophie van Gestel, Netherlands, 5, 1,472 23, Heather Bansley/Sarah Pavan, Canada, 3, 1,440 23, Vasiliki Arvaniti/Penny Karagkouni, Greece, 5, 1,440 25, Ingrid Lunde/Oda Ulveseth, Norway, 14*, 1,354

10 2017 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Money Leaders (through June 11, 2017) Men (Team Rank, events, titles, US earnings-includes FIVB World Tour Events) 1, Saymon Barbosa/Alvaro Filho, Brazil, 3, 1, $48,000 2, Evandro Goncalves/Andre Loyola, Brazil, 3, 0, $37,500 3, Alison Cerutti/Bruno Oscar Schmidt, Brazil, 3, 1, $35,000 4, Piotr Kantor/Bartosz Losiak, Poland, 4, 0, $33,000 5, Viacheslav Krasilnikov/Nikita Liamin, Russia, 5, 1, $32,100 6, Phil Dalhausser/Nick Lucena, United States, 2, 1, $30,000 7, Daniele Lupo/Paolo Nicolai, Italy, 4, 0, $29,500 8, Oleg Stoyanovskiy/Artem Yarzutkin, Russia, 5, 0, $22,700 9, Ryan Doherty/John Hyden, United States, 2, 0, $22,000 10, Taylor Crabb/Jake Gibb, United States, 3, 0, $19,000 11, Theo Brunner/Casey Patterson, United States, 3, 0, $18,000 12, Michal Bryl/Grzegorz Fijalek, Poland, 3, 0, $17,000 13, Alexander Brouwer/Robert Meeuwsen, Netherlands, 3, 1, $16,000 14, Markus Bockermann/Lars Fluggen, Germany, 4, 0, $15,800 15, Maciej Rudol/Jakub Szalankiewicz, Poland, 4, 0, $15,000 15, Adrian Gavira/Pablo Herrera, Spain, 3, 0, $15,000 17, Nico Beeler/Marco Krattiger, Switzerland, 5, 0, $12,900 18, Clemens Doppler/Alexander Horst, Austria, 3, 0, $12,000 18, Gustavo "Guto" Carvalhaes/Pedro Solberg, Brazil, 3, 0, $12,000 18, Sam Pedlow/Sam Schachter, Canada, 2, 0, $12,000 21, Grant O'Gorman/Michael Plantinga, Canada, 3, 0, $11,500 22, Aleksandrs Samoilovs/Janis Smedins, Latvia, 2, 0, $10,000 23, Robin Seidl/Tobias Winter, Austria, 4, 0, $9,500 24, Nivaldo Diaz/Sergio Gonzalez, Cuba, 4, 1, $9,400 25, Christoph Dressler/Thomas Kunert, Austria, 4, 0, $8,900 25, Trevor Crabb/Sean Rosenthal, United States, 3, 0, $8,900 Women (Team Rank, events, titles, US earnings-includes FIVB World Tour Events) 1, Agatha Bednarczuk/Eduarda "Duda" Lisboa, Brazil, 3, 1, $57,000 2, Talita Antunes/Larissa Franca, Brazil, 3, 2, $56,000 3, Fernanda Alves/Barbara Seixas, Brazil, 4, 1, $29,500 4, Chantal Laboureur/Julia Sude, Germany, 3, 0, $29,000 5, Summer Ross/Brooke Sweat, United States, 2, 0, $24,000 6, Barbora Hermannova/Marketa Slukova, Czech Republic, 3, 0, $20,000 7, Josemari Alves/Liliane Maestrini, Brazil, 4, 0, $18,100 8, Melissa Humana-Paredes/Sarah Pavan, Canada, 2, 0, $18,000 9, Victoria Bieneck/Isabel Schneider, Germany, 4, 0, $16,000 10, Anastasia Barsuk/Evgeniya Ukolova, Russia, 4, 0, $14,900 10, Emily Day/Brittany Hochevar, United States, 4, 0, $14,900 12, Kristyna Kolocova/Michala Kvapilova, Czech Republic, 2, 0, $14,100 13, Jolien Sinnema/Joy Stubbe, Netherlands, 4, 0, $13,400 14, Madelein Meppelink/Sophie van Gestel, Netherlands, 3, 0, $13,000 15, Ekaterina Birlova/Nadezda Makroguzova, Russia, 3, 0, $12,500 16, Taiana Lima/Elize Maia, Brazil, 3, 0, $12,000 16, Heather Bansley/Brandie Wilkerson, Canada, 2, 0, $12,000 16, April Ross/Kerri Walsh Jennings, United States, 1, 0, $12,000 19, Karla Borger/Margareta Kozuch, Germany, 3, 0, $11,100 20, Nina Betschart/Tanja Huberli, Switzerland, 3, 0, $10,000 21, Katharina Schutzenhofer/Stefanie Schwaiger, Austria, 4, 0, $9,900 22, Julie Gordon/Camille Saxton, Canada, 5, 2, $9,500 22, Marta Menegatti/Rebecca Perry, Italy, 4, 0, $9,500 24, Joana Heidrich/Anouk Verge-Depre, Switzerland, 2, 0, $9,000 25, Manon Nummerdor-Flier/Marleen Van Iersel, Netherlands, 4, 0, $8,500

11 Final 2016 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Rankings Men (Team Rank, events, points) 1, Aleksandrs Samoilovs/Janis Smedins, Latvia, 15, 5,910 2, Phil Dalhausser/Nick Lucena, United States, 13, 5,790 3, Piotr Kantor/Bartosz Losiak, Poland, 16, 5,240 4, Adrian Carambula/Alex Ranghieri, Italy, 16, 5,060 5, Tri Bourne/John Hyden, United States, 17, 4,950 6, Lombardo Ontiveros/Juan Virgen, Mexico, 16, 4,910 7, Evandro Goncalves/Pedro Solberg, Brazil, 11, 4,690 8, Jake Gibb/Casey Patterson, United States, 13, 4,540 9, Grzegorz Fijalek/Mariusz Prudel, Poland, 15, 4,440 10, Ben Saxton/Chaim Schalk, Canada, 15, 4,400 11, Adrian Gavira/Pablo Herrera, Spain, 12, 4,320 12, Alexander Brouwer/Robert Meeuwsen, Netherlands, 11, 4,190 13, Alison Cerutti/Bruno Oscar Schmidt, Brazil, 9, 4,140 14, Martins Plavins/Haralds Regza, Latvia, 17, 4,060 15, Saymon Barbosa/Gustavo Carvalhaes, Brazil, 11, 4,040 16, Markus Bockermann/Lars Fluggen, Germany, 13, 3,930 17, Grant O'Gorman/Sam Pedlow, Canada, 17, 3,680 18, Vitor Felipe/Alvaro Filho, Brazil, 11, 3,590 19, Reinder Nummerdor/Christiaan Varenhorst, Netherlands, 10, 3,380 20, Josh Binstock/Sam Schachter, Canada, 16, 3,370 21, Youssef Krou/Edouard Rowlandson, France, 13, 3,290 22, Viacheslav Krasilnikov/Konstantin Semenov, Russia, 10, 3,180 23, Michal Kadziola/Jakub Szalankiewicz, Poland, 13, 3,150 24, Daniele Lupo/Paolo Nicolai, Italy, 10, 3,120 25, Esteban Grimalt/Marco Grimalt, Chile, 12, 2,820 Women (Team Rank, events, points) 1, Laura Ludwig/Kira Walkenhorst, Germany, 13, 5,980 2, April Ross/Kerri Walsh Jennings, United States, 11, 5,530 3, Chantal Laboureur/Julia Sude, Germany, 16, 5,440 4, Karla Borger/Britta Buthe, Germany, 14, 5,180 4, Katrin Holtwick/Ilka Semmler, Germany, 17, 5,180 6, Talita Antunes/Larissa Franca, Brazil, 11, 4,820 7, Elsa Baquerizo/Liliana Fernandez, Spain, 15, 4,670 8, Isabelle Forrer/Anouk Verge-Depre, Switzerland, 16, 4,350 9, Ana Gallay/Georgina Klug, Argentina, 16, 4,330 10, Marta Menegatti/Viktoria Orsi Toth, Italy, 12, 4,260 11, Eduarda Lisboa/Elize Maia, Brazil, 11, 4,010 12, Joana Heidrich/Nadine Zumkehr, Switzerland, 14, 3,940 13, Taru Lahti/Riikka Lehtonen, Finland, 14, 3,650 14, Juliana Felisberta/Taiana Lima, Brazil, 10, 3,330 15, Barbora Hermannova/Marketa Slukova, Czech Republic, 12, 3,320 16, Lauren Fendrick/Brooke Sweat, United States, 13, 3,260 17, Madelein Meppelink/Marleen Van Iersel, Netherlands, 9, 3,230 18, Monika Brzostek/Kinga Kolosinska, Poland, 11, 3,180 18, Nina Betschart/Tanja Huberli, Switzerland, 11, 3,180 20, Heather Bansley/Sarah Pavan, Canada, 8, 3,160 21, Maria Antonelli/Liliane Maestrini, Brazil, 9, 2,940 22, Melissa Humana-Paredes/Taylor Pischke, Canada, 12, 2,840 23, Agatha Bednarczuk/Barbara Seixas, Brazil, 8, 2,800 23, Lane Carico/Summer Ross, United States, 13, 2,800 25, Linline Matauatu/Miller Pata, Vanuatu, 12, 2,790

12 Final 2016 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Money Leaders Men (Team Rank, events, titles, US earnings-includes FIVB World Tour Grand Slams and Opens) 1, Alison Cerutti/Bruno Oscar Schmidt, Brazil, 9, 4, $306,000 2, Evandro Goncalves/Pedro Solberg, Brazil, 11, 2, $273,000 3, Aleksandrs Samoilovs/Janis Smedins, Latvia, 15, 3, $258,875 4, Phil Dalhausser/Nick Lucena, United States, 13, 4, $240,000 5, Piotr Kantor/Bartosz Losiak, Poland, 16, 1, $165,750 6, Alexander Brouwer/Robert Meeuwsen, Netherlands, 11, 0, $155,875 7, Ben Saxton/Chaim Schalk, Canada, 15, 0, $146,375 8, Saymon Barbosa/Gustavo Carvalhaes, Brazil, 11, 1, $132,375 9, Jake Gibb/Casey Patterson, United States, 13, 0, $131,125 10, Adrian Gavira/Pablo Herrera, Spain, 12, 1, $123,375 11, Grzegorz Fijalek/Mariusz Prudel, Poland, 15, 0, $122,750 12, Tri Bourne/John Hyden, United States, 17, 0, $122,525 13, Reinder Nummerdor/Christiaan Varenhorst, Netherlands, 10, 1, $120,125 14, Adrian Carambula/Alex Ranghieri, Italy, 16, 2, $120,000 15, Lombardo Ontiveros/Juan Virgen, Mexico, 16, 0, $115,625 16, Vitor Felipe/Alvaro Filho, Brazil, 11, 0, $101,300 17, Clemens Doppler/Alexander Horst, Austria, 10, 0, $95,200 18, Viacheslav Krasilnikov/Konstantin Semenov, Russia, 10, 0, $82,700 19, Markus Bockermann/Lars Fluggen, Germany, 13, 1, $81,750 20, Martins Plavins/Haralds Regza, Latvia, 17, 0, $71,400 21, Daniele Lupo/Paolo Nicolai, Italy, 10, 1, $70,575 22, Josh Binstock/Sam Schachter, Canada, 16, 0, $66,250 23, Michal Kadziola/Jakub Szalankiewicz, Poland, 13, 0, $65,700 24, Oleg Stoyanovskiy/Artem Yarzutkin, Russia, 10, 0, $57,000 25, Youssef Krou/Edouard Rowlandson, France, 13, 0, $54,475 Women (Team Rank, events, titles, US earnings-includes FIVB World Tour Grand Slams & Opens) 1, Laura Ludwig/Kira Walkenhorst, Germany, 13, 7, $382,375 2, April Ross/Kerri Walsh Jennings, United States, 11, 5, $283,000 3, Talita Antunes/Larissa Franca, Brazil, 11, 2, $241,000 4, Chantal Laboureur/Julia Sude, Germany, 16, 1, $180,250 5, Joana Heidrich/Nadine Zumkehr, Switzerland, 14, 1, $161,150 6, Karla Borger/Britta Buthe, Germany, 14, 0, $155,875 7, Elsa Baquerizo/Liliana Fernandez, Spain, 15, 0, $152,500 8, Heather Bansley/Sarah Pavan, Canada, 8, 0, $127,000 9, Isabelle Forrer/Anouk Verge-Depre, Switzerland, 16, 1, $124,700 10, Katrin Holtwick/Ilka Semmler, Germany, 17, 0, $116,525 11, Eduarda Lisboa/Elize Maia, Brazil, 11, 2, $110,000 12, Monika Brzostek/Kinga Kolosinska, Poland, 11, 0, $102,000 13, Ana Gallay/Georgina Klug, Argentina, 16, 0, $100,825 14, Madelein Meppelink/Marleen Van Iersel, Netherlands, 9, 0, $98,375 15, Agatha Bednarczuk/Barbara Seixas, Brazil, 8, 0, $97,000 16, Marta Menegatti/Viktoria Orsi Toth, Italy, 12, 0, $96,875 17, Juliana Felisberta/Taiana Lima, Brazil, 10, 0, $93,000 18, Nina Betschart/Tanja Huberli, Switzerland, 11, 0, $87,600 19, Lauren Fendrick/Brooke Sweat, United States, 13, 0, $84,775 20, Maria Antonelli/Liliane Maestrini, Brazil, 9, 0, $80,375 21, Barbora Hermannova/Marketa Slukova, Czech Republic, 12, 1, $78,775 22, Louise Bawden/Taliqua Clancy, Australia, 9, 0, $71,500 23, Taru Lahti/Riikka Lehtonen, Finland, 14, 0, $69,550 24, Melissa Humana-Paredes/Taylor Pischke, Canada, 12, 0, $60,375 25, Vasiliki Arvaniti/Penny Karagkouni, Greece, 11, 0, $58,950

13 Men s FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour All-time Country Medals & Final 4s Including Open, Grand Slam, Major Series, Olympics, and Goodwill Games stops Country Gold Silver Bronze... Medals 4ths... Final 4s Brazil United States Germany Switzerland Argentina Netherlands Norway Canada Latvia Italy Spain Russia Poland Australia China France Austria Cuba Mexico Portugal Estonia Chile New Zealand Vacated Japan Qatar Turkey Czech Republic Georgia Greece Kazakhstan Serbia Totals , ,436 There have been 359 men s FIVB World Tour events (including Olympic and Goodwill) with two different countries batting for the gold medal in 274 events: Brazil vs. United States... Brazil leads Brazil vs. Germany... Brazil leads 20-8 Argentina vs. Brazil... Brazil leads 14-8 Brazil vs. Switzerland... Brazil leads 17-4 Brazil vs. Netherlands... Brazil leads 6-5 Brazil vs. Norway... Tied 5-5 Brazil vs. Canada... Brazil leads 6-1 Germany vs. United States... United States leads 5-2 Brazil vs. Latvia... Tied 3-3 Brazil vs. Spain... Tied 3-3 Italy vs. United States... United States leads 4-0 Netherlands vs. United States... United States leads 4-0 Brazil vs. Italy... Brazil leads 3-1 Brazil vs. Poland... Brazil leads 3-1 Germany vs. Netherlands... Netherlands leads 3-1 Spain vs. United States... United States leads 3-1 Germany vs. Switzerland... Tied 2-2 Brazil vs. China... Brazil leads 3-0 Italy vs. Netherlands... Netherlands leads 2-1 Latvia vs. United States... Latvia leads 2-1 Poland vs. United States... United States leads 2-1 Russia vs. United States... United States leads 2-1 Brazil vs. Cuba... Brazil leads 2-0 Brazil vs. Portugal... Portugal leads 2-0 Brazil vs. Russia... Brazil leads 2-0 China vs. Netherlands... Netherlands leads 2-0 Germany vs. Latvia... Latvia leads 2-0 Poland vs. Russia... Russia leads 2-0 Brazil vs. France... Tied 1-1 China vs. United States... Tied 1-1 Germany vs. Russia... Tied 1-1 Italy vs. Latvia... Tied 1-1 Latvia vs. Russia... Tied 1-1 Switzerland vs. United States... Tied 1-1 Argentina vs. Norway... Norway leads 1-0 Australia vs. Brazil... Brazil leads 1-0 Australia vs. Switzerland... Australia leads 1-0 Austria vs. Brazil... Brazil leads 1-0 Austria vs. Cuba... Cuba leads 1-0 Austria vs. Italy... Italy leads 1-0 Austria vs. Latvia... Latvia leads 1-0 Canada vs. Chile... Canada leads 1-0 Canada vs. Germany... Germany leads 1-0 Canada vs. Netherlands... Netherlands leads 1-0 Canada vs. Switzerland... Switzerland leads 1-0 Canada vs. United States... United States leads 1-0 Chile vs. Netherlands... Netherlands leads 1-0 China vs. Latvia... China leads 1-0 Cuba vs. United States... Cuba leads 1-0 Estonia vs. Switzerland... Estonia leads 1-0 France vs. Norway... Norway leads 1-0 France vs. Spain... France leads 1-0 Germany vs. Norway... Germany leads 1-0 Italy vs. Mexico... Italy leads 1-0 Italy vs. Russia... Italy leads 1-0 Netherlands vs. Spain... Netherlands leads 1-0 Norway vs. United States... Norway leads 1-0 Qatar vs. Russia... Qatar leads 1-0

14 Women s FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour All-time Country Medals & Final 4s Including Open, Grand Slam, Major Series, Olympics, and Goodwill Games stops Country Gold Silver Bronze... Medals 4ths... Final 4s Brazil United States China Germany Australia Netherlands Switzerland Italy Czech Republic Canada Russia Austria Greece Spain Japan Norway Slovak Republic Cuba Poland Argentina Finland Ukraine Belgium Georgia Portugal Vanuatu Totals ,280 There have been 320 women s FIVB Beach Volleyball FIVB World Tour Beach Volleyball events (Open, Grand Slam, Major Series, Olympic and Goodwill). Brazil has advanced a team(s) to a FIVB semi-final 272 times, two teams 171 times, three teams 48 times and four teams three times. Brazil has captured all three podium finishes at 24 different events. The United States has advanced a team(s) to a FIVB semi-final 210 times, two teams 90 times, and three teams in 17 events. There have been 237 events where two different countries competed for the Gold Medal. Brazil vs. United States... United States leads Brazil vs. China... Brazil leads 17-7 Brazil vs. Germany... Brazil leads 13-6 China vs. United States... United States leads 10-6 Australia vs. Brazil... Brazil leads 7-2 Australia vs. United States... United States leads 5-1 Germany vs. United States... United States leads 5-0 Brazil vs. Netherlands... Brazil leads 3-1 China vs. Germany... China leads 3-1 Austria vs. Brazil... Brazil leads 3-0 Brazil vs. Canada... Brazil leads 3-0 Brazil vs. Italy... Brazil leads 3-0 Greece vs. United States... United States leads 3-0 Canada vs. Germany... Canada leads 2-1 Germany vs. Switzerland... Germany leads 2-1 Spain vs. United States... United States leads 2-0 Brazil vs. Greece... Tied 1-1 Germany vs. Netherlands... Tied 1-1 Germany vs. Russia... Tied 1-1 Netherlands vs. United States... Tied 1-1 Argentina vs. Switzerland... Switzerland leads 1-0 Australia vs. Canada... Canada leads 1-0 Australia vs. China... Australia leads 1-0 Austria vs. Switzerland... Switzerland leads 1-0 Brazil vs. Cuba... Brazil leads 1-0 Brazil vs. Czech Republic... Czech Republic leads 1-0 Brazil vs. Japan... Brazil leads 1-0 Brazil vs. Norway... Brazil leads 1-0 Brazil vs. Ukraine... Brazil leads 1-0 China vs. Cuba... China leads 1-0 China vs. Norway... China leads 1-0 China vs. Spain... China leads 1-0 Czech Republic vs. Germany... Czech Republic leads 1-0 Czech Republic vs. Italy... Czech Republic leads 1-0 Czech Republic vs. Japan... Czech Republic leads 1-0 Czech Republic vs. United States... United States leads 1-0 Finland vs. Germany... Germany leads 1-0 Germany vs. Spain... Germany leads 1-0 Italy vs. Netherlands... Netherlands leads 1-0 Italy vs. Switzerland... Italy leads 1-0 Italy vs. United States... United States leads 1-0 Japan vs. United States... United States leads 1-0 Netherlands vs. Russia... Russia leads 1-0 Poland vs. United States... United States leads 1-0 Russia vs. United States... United States leads 1-0 Spain vs. Switzerland... Switzerland leads 1-0 Switzerland vs. United States... Switzerland leads 1-0