Fédération Internationale de Volleyball
[email protected] Telephone +41.21.345.3535 FACT SHEET - Brasília Open The Esplanada dos Ministérios, Brasília, Brazil, April 17-23, 2011 Updated on April 13, 2011, this fact sheet provides information on the FIVB and the 2011 FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch World Tour. The 2011 FIVB Swatch World Tour is scheduled over a eight-month period starting in April in Brazil and ending in November in Thailand. The US$380,000 Brasília Open is the first of 12 double gender events on the 2011 FIVB Swatch World Tour calendar. The FIVB Swatch World Tour returns to Brazil for the 25th-straight year with Rio de Janeiro hosting the first-ever international event for men in 1987. For more information regarding the FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch World Tour, please visit www.fivb.org. · April 17-23, Brasília Open, Men & Women, $380,000 - Brasília returns to the 2011 FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch World Tour calendar for the third-straight season. It will be held at The Esplanada dos Ministérios in Quadrante 1 Brazil has hosted the most FIVB Swatch World Tour events, including 32 men’s and 27 women’s events. The 2011 Brasília stop also marks the 19th-straight season that Brazil has staged a women’s event. Except for the 2004 men’s event in Rio de Janeiro, teams from the South American country have medaled for host Brazil in every tournament. · The Brasília Open starts April 17 and concludes April 23. The winning teams in each gender will share the $30,000 first-place prizes.