World Tour returns to Hungary with double-gender event in Budapest

The FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour will return to Hungary later this summer for the third 1-Star double-gender event hosted in this country over the course of the last four years. The tournament will run from August 19-22 in Budapest and more specifically at Lupa Beach – the very same area that just played host to open water competition during the European Aquatics Championships.

Hungary previously hosted World Tour events in 2018 and 2019 – doing so in Siófok and Budapest, respectively, before putting any such plans on hold in 2020 following the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.

The addition of this 1-Star tournament to the 2021 calendar is obviously good news for up-and-coming teams, who have had very little opportunities to compete on the international stage in a 2020 season heavily disrupted by the global health crisis. Moreover, it is good news for the promotion and growth of Beach Volleyball in Hungary, a country known for producing elite athletes in an impressive number of Olympic sports, whereas there is still much room for Beach Volleyball to develop even further.