The first World Championships for beach volleyball took place in Los Angeles in 1997. The next host will be Italy in 2021.
LIST OF WORLD CHAMPIONS | ||
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MEN | WOMEN | |
(BRA) Guilherme Para | 1997 Los Angeles | (BRA) Jackie Silva Sandra Pires |
(BRA) Emanuel Loiola | 1999 Marseille | (BRA) Adriana Behar Shelda |
(ARG) Mariano Baracetti Martin Conde | 2001 Klagenfurt | (BRA) Adriana Behar Shelda |
(BRA) Emanuel Ricardo | 2003 Rio de Janeiro | (USA) Kerri Walsh Misty May |
(BRA) Marcio Fabio Luiz | 2005 Berlin | (USA) Kerri Walsh Misty May |
(USA) Todd Rogers Phil Dalhausser | 2007 Gstaad | (USA) Kerri Walsh Misty May |
(GER) Julius Brink Jonas Reckermann | 2009 Stavanger | (USA) Jennifer Kessy April Ross |
(BRA) Alison Emanuel | 2011 Rome | (BRA) Juliana Larissa |
(NED) Alexander Brouwer Robert Meeuwsen | 2013 Stare Jablonki | (CHN) Xue Chen Zhang Xi |
(BRA) Alison Bruno Schmidt | 2015 The Hague | (BRA) Agatha Barbara |
(BRA) Evandro Andre | 2017 Vienna | (GER) Ludwig Walkenhorst |
(RUS) Stoyanovskiy Krasilnikov | 2019 Hamburg | (CAN) Pavan Humana-Paredes |