The first weekend of December marked the return of the Australian Beach Volleyball Tour with Australia’s best beach volleyball players gathering in Torquay, VIC. The first leg of the 2022/2023 tour was the perfect finale for the Great Ocean Road Beach Volleyfest, which also included two Beach Pro Tour tournaments over the two weeks. In hot and breezy conditions, a […]
Two new Beach Pro Tour Elite 16 champions were crowned on a perfect summer day in Torquay, with two Australian teams also claiming spots on the men’s and women’s podiums. Thomas Hodges (South Australia) and Zachery Schubert (Victoria) scored their best ever result at the Elite 16 event, finishing second just behind the French team of Youssef Krou and Arnaud […]
Thomas Hodges and Zachery Schubert stormed into tomorrow’s men’s finals of the Beach Pro Tour Elite 16 in Torquay, while Olympic silver medalists Taliqua Clancy & Mariafe Artacho del Solar will be playing for bronze in the women’s tournament. Hodges and Schubert reached heights they had never seen before as they defeated the Italian team of Alex Ranghieri and Adrian […]
The main draw has been determined for the Beach Pro Tour Torquay Elite 16, after an exciting qualification day saw the final four men’s and women’s teams decided. Locals were treated to a thrilling three-set battle between Aussie rising stars Georgia Johnson and Jasmine Fleming and China’s Lingdi Zhu and Fan Wang in the second last match of the day. […]
After winning bronze at the Great Ocean Road Beach Volleyfest Challenge yesterday, Australian beach volleyball Olympian and two-time Commonwealth Games champion Chris McHugh took a moment away from the sand to share his sporting experience and personal story with more than 150 year 5 school children today in Torquay. McHugh is an ambassador for the Olympics Unleashed program, which takes […]
Chris McHugh and Paul Burnett finished third in the Beach Pro Tour Challenge event in Torquay on Sunday, as Daniele Lupo and Enrico Rossi claimed the gold medal after a tense final against fellow Italians Alex Ranghieri and Adrian Carambula. Going against the Portuguese duo of Joao Pedrosa and Hugo Campos, McHugh and Burnett put pressure on their opponents right […]
The USA team of Sara Hughes and Kelly Cheng were crowned Torquay Challenge champions today after defeating Lvwen Yuan and Jie Dong (CHN) in the Women’s Final of the Beach Pro Tour tournament, the first of three events featured in the Great Ocean Road Beach Volleyfest. The top seeded team of the Challenge event were dominant, leading from the very […]
Commonwealth Games Champions Chris McHugh and Paul Burnett will play for bronze in Torquay on Sunday, facing the Portuguese team of Joao Pedrosa and Hugo Campos as the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Torquay Challenge reaches its finals stage. The men’s gold medal final will be an all-Italian affair, with Alex Ranghieri and Adrian Carambula playing against compatriots Daniele Lupo […]
Eight teams per gender emerged victorious from the qualification rounds on Wednesday to complete the Torquay Challenge main draw line-up, including Aussie pairs of Stefanie Fejes and Rebecca Ingram, and Brittany Kendall and Caitlin Bettenay, on the first day of action at the Great Ocean Road Beach Volleyfest. Thursday’s main draw action will start with the women’s pool matches at […]
Top Australian brands will come together over the summer to support a vibrant volleyball event calendar, as Scape, We Are Feel Good Inc. and Budgy Smuggler have been announced as official partners of Volleyball Australia for the 2022-2023 season and beyond. This follows the earlier announcement of Australian Radio’s Home of Sport SEN as its major media partner for the […]
