The Roi Et province in Thailand is hosting the 19th edition of the FIVB U21 Beach Volleyball World Championships biennial event from Tuesday, 7 November, to Sunday, 12 November. Rising beach stars from around the world will showcase their skills and battle for international honours at this prestigious event.
It is the third consecutive time Thailand welcomes the U21 World Championships, after hosting the 2019 edition in Udan Thani and the 2021 edition in Phuket. It is the first country to stage the competition three times. Since 2001 when the inaugural tournament was held, the event has been hosted twice each by France, Italy, England and Canada and once each by Portugal, Brazil, Poland, Türkiye, Croatia, Cyprus, Switzerland and China.
The list of past winners includes numerous players who went on to line up among the world’s top players at the senior level. Some, like Bruno Schmidt, Barbara Seixas, Eduarda Santos Lisboa (Duda) and Ana Patricia Ramos, even triumphed as Olympic or world champions.
Sweden’s David Ahman and Jonatan Hellvig, currently the number two team in the men’s FIVB Beach Volleyball World Ranking, and Ukraine’s Anhelina Khmil and Tetiana Lazarenko celebrated as U21 World Champions at the most recent edition in 2021.
The 2023 U21 World Championship in Roi Et starts today, with the qualification matches set to fill up the four available vacancies in the 32-team main draw line-up per gender. Main draw action will start on Wednesday. The pool stage will finish on Friday, followed by the sixteenthfinals round of 24 later that day. Saturday’s programme includes the eighthfinals and the quarterfinals. The semifinals will be held on Sunday morning and the 2023 podiums will shape up with the medal matches in the afternoon, when the new U21 World Champions are set to emerge.
A total of 92 teams representing 47 countries from all five Continental Confederations will compete in Roi Et. Among them will be already well-known teams like France’s Arthur Canet and Teo Rotar and Austria’s Timo Hammarberg and Tim Berger, number 32 and number 81 in the men’s World Ranking, respectively. Further, the women’s duos of Switzerland’s Leona Kernen (pictured in the main photo) and Annique Niederhauser, Czechia’s Anna Pavelkova and Katerina Pavelkova and Latvia’s Liva Ebere and Deniela Konstantinova, ranked 82nd, 91st and 96th, respectively, in the women’s chart.
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