Entries by Lennart Neovius

Norway and Denmark triumph in Gothenburg

Three spots on the podium for teams from hosts Sweden, but the winners come from Denmark and Norway at the last NEVZA Beach Volleyball event of year held from Friday to Sunday at the Beach Center, Göteborg. 16 teams per gende entered the sand Friday, when the 2023 edition of NEVZA Beach Sweden got underway. […]

Sweden stops a Finnish quadruple in NEVZA Youth Championships

Finland was going for a quadruple when the NEVZA U17/U19 for the first time ever was played in combination with the 1st round of the EuroVolley U18/U20 qualification tournament. The U17/U18 qualifier was played in Ikast, DEN, one week before seven teams of each gender met in Rovaniemi, FIN, to battle in the NEVZA U19/U20 […]

Age Group Volleyball NEVZA tournaments with EuroVolley Qualifiers

The volleyball society is adapting to a new olympic cycle. The changes introduced by the International Volleyball Federation, FIVB, make difference also on Confederation and Zonal level. For NEVZA, the most important change is that every second year, the Age Group NEVZA Championships will also be the first round qualifier for next year’s EuroVolley Championships. […]

2023 NEVZA Beach Volleyball season concludes in Gothenburg

The city of Göteborg will host the final NEVZA Beach Volleyball tournament of the year, as the so-called NEVZA Beach Sweden will take place November 3-5 in the world’s largest indoor Beach Volleyball arena. The 2023 NEVZA Beach Volleyball season concludes as the tour moves on to Göteborg, Sweden, for the final event of the […]

NEVZA Newsletter #4 August 2023

In this issue of NEVZA News 2023-03, we discuss development of new competition classes and the FIVB Olympic cycle. Decisions taken at the Technical Meeting are presented and preparations for the General Assembly is also discussed. Finally, we congratulate Volleyball England’s Events Manager Jonathan Moore. He’s awarded with a Distinguished Service Award for his work with […]

NEVZA Beach Oddanesand finals

First seeds came second! Both first seeded Thurin/Thurin, and Piippo/Topio reached the finals in scenic NEVZA Oddanesand, but they failed in the final and biggest match. Twins Thurin/Thurin, were favorites in the women’s final with their technical and entertaining volleyball. However, fourth seeded Rudberg/Jernbeck proved to be to strong for dissapointed twins on this particular […]

NEVZA Beach Oddanesand day 2

Top seeded teams on a steady course Top seeded Thurin/Thurin on the women’s side and Piippo/Topio on the men’s side keep a steady course toward the finals. Piippo/Topio was really challenged by the Norwegian super talents Mol/Aas, They managed to pull through a victory in a tight third set, to book a spot in the […]

NEVZA Beach Oddanesand, day 1

Legend delivers Ingrid Tørlen, the most winning female viking in history, delivers on the first day of the NEVZA in spectacular Oddanesand, Norway. After beating countrymen Vaigafa/Duesund 2-0 she took down the second seed Rebom/Malmström 2-0 as well, together with her very talenter partner Julia Thelle. Simply impressive appearance by the 43 year old former […]