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Kerri Lee Walsh Jennings (born August 15, 1978) is an American professional beach volleyball player, three-time Olympic gold medalist, and a one-time Olympic bronze medalist. [1] She is the beach volleyball leader in career victories as of 2016 having won 135 international and domestic tournaments.
Misty Elizabeth May-Treanor (/ ˈ t r eɪ n ər /; née May; born July 30, 1977) is an American retired professional beach volleyball player. She is a three-time Olympic gold medalist, and as of August 2012, was the most successful female beach volleyball player having won 112 tournaments in domestic and international competition.
May-Treanor and Walsh Jennings, as noted above, won beach volleyball gold medals in 2004, 2008 and 2012. The other is Karch Kiraly, who won gold with the United States men's indoor team in 1984 and 1988 and in beach volleyball in 1996. Kiraly is the only player of either gender to win medals in both indoor and beach volleyball. [15]
Beach volleyball was a demonstration sport at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, at which Sinjin Smith and Randy Stoklos won the men's tournament, and Karolyn Kirby and Nancy Reno won the women's. Beach volleyball was introduced as an official Olympic sport in 1996. A total of 24 teams take part in each beach volleyball Olympic tournament.
Taryn Kloth is a member of the United States Women's Beach Volleyball team that is competing at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The Sioux Falls, South Dakota native spent three seasons at LSU from 2019 ...
The beach volleyball duo went into the Olympics as the No. 2 ranked team in the world. Their goal is to “rewrite the script” of beach volleyball to prove you can succeed in the sport even if ...
The following is a list of well-known beach volleyball players in the United States: Dain Blanton; Nicole Branagh; Phil Dalhausser; Emily Day; Mike Dodd; Eric Fonoimoana; Lauren Fendrick; Jennifer Fopma; Brent Frohoff; Matt Fuerbringer; Jake Gibb; Sara Hughes; Casey Jennings; Jenny Johnson Jordan; Karch Kiraly; Karolyn Kirby; Alix Klineman ...
Results summary, all-time performance, hosts, medals summary, MVP by edition: FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship qualification: Qualification: List of FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship finals: List of finals, results by nation, results by confederation: National team appearances in the FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship