Poland to host FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships
Updated: 2013-07-01 15:23
(Xinhua)
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WARSAW - Poland will host the ninth edition of the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships starting from July 1.
There are 48 teams in each gender taking part of the 7-day (from 1 of July to 7 of July) Championships, including Chinese women's pair of Xue Chen and Zhang Xi.
The championships will be played in Stare Jablonkia, a small village in the Mazury lake region (northeastern Poland). And Poland will provide 7 regular competition grounds with 2,100 tons of sand. Stare Jablonki's stadium centre court seats 9,000 spectators along the shores of Lake Mazury.
During the championships, there are more than 200 medias involve in, and 130 countries and more than 1.6 billion audience can watch the games.
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