2019 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour 2019 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour The 2019 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour is the global elite professional beach volleyball circuit organized by the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) for the 2018 beach volleyball season. Starts in late August 2018 after the end of the year season, the 2019 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Calendar comprised by four FIVB World Tour 5-star tournaments (including the World Tour Finals), thirteen FIVB World Tour 4-star, seven 3-star, six 2-star and twenty-two 1-star event, all organised by the FIVB. The World Championships will be held in Hamburg, Germany from June 28 to July
Beach volleyball as a player-run organization. In 2001, the AVP reemerged as a for-profit, publicly traded company that combined the men's and women's professional tours, with equal prize money for both sexes. After filing for bankruptcy again in 2010, the AVP re-emerged under new leadership in 2013 as the main professional beach volleyball tour in the United States. Beach volleyball has become a global sport, with international competition organized by the FIVB. Brazil and the USA are dominant, with 20 of the 30 Olympic medals awarded to date between them, and 16 of the 20 gold and silver medals. But the sport's