The FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Gstaad Grand Slam is a beachvolleyball tournament, which is hold each year as a FIVB World Tour in Gstaad. It is one oft the highly endowed tournament. Olympic and World champions, and the best players of the world ranking are playing pulsating matches during one week for a prize money of 480'000 US-Dollar.

The tournament is held since 2000. All has began with an Open and since 2006 the tournament has got Grand-Slam-Status. 2007 the Beachvolleyball Championschip were hold in Gstaad.

Organisation

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Initiant of the tournament and tournament director since fifteen year is Ruedi Kunz. There is a front office, a 35-member team and around 550 volunteers.

Sustainability

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As the first sport event in Switzerland, the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Gstaad Grand Slam issued a sustainability reporting according of the international GRI / EOSS-guidelines. This has be done within the framework of pilot project. In the future the report sould be used as a guide for reporting on sustainability for swiss sport events.

Previous winners

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The first tournament in 2000 was only a women-competition. Since 2001 also mens take part of the tournament.

Year Winner Team Final
2013 China Volksrepublik  Xue Chen / Zhang Xi Brasilien  Liliane Maestrini / Barbara Seixas
2012 Vereinigte Staaten  Kerri Walsh / Misty May-Treanor Niederlande  Sanne Keizer / Marleen van Iersel
2011 Brasilien  Larissa França / Juliana Felisberta da Silva China Volksrepublik  Xue Chen / Zhang Xi
2010 Brasilien  Larissa França / Juliana Felisberta da Silva Deutschland  Sara Goller / Laura Ludwig
2009 Brasilien  Larissa França / Juliana Felisberta da Silva Brasilien  Talita Antunes / Maria Antonelli
2008 Brasilien  Shelda Bede / Ana Paula Connelly China Volksrepublik  Tian Jia / Wang Jie
2007 Vereinigte Staaten  Kerri Walsh / Misty May-Treanor China Volksrepublik  Tian Jia / Wang Jie
2006 Vereinigte Staaten  Kerri Walsh / Misty May-Treanor Brasilien  Larissa França / Juliana Felisberta da Silva
2005 Brasilien  Larissa França / Juliana Felisberta da Silva China Volksrepublik  Tian Jia / Wang Fei
2004 Vereinigte Staaten  Kerri Walsh / Misty May-Treanor Brasilien  Adriana Behar / Shelda Bede
2003 Vereinigte Staaten  Kerri Walsh / Misty May-Treanor Brasilien  Ana Paula Connelly / Sandra Pires
2002 Vereinigte Staaten  Kerri Walsh / Misty May-Treanor Brasilien  Adriana Behar / Shelda Bede
2001 Brasilien  Adriana Behar / Shelda Bede Vereinigte Staaten  Barbra Fontana / Elaine Youngs
2000 Brasilien  Adriana Behar / Shelda Bede Vereinigte Staaten  Holly McPeak / Misty May-Treanor
Year Winnter Team Final
2013 Brasilien  Ricardo Santos / Álvaro Morais Filho Brasilien  Pedro Salgado / Bruno Oscar Schmidt
2012 Vereinigte Staaten  Sean Rosenthal / Jacob Gibb Brasilien  Emanuel Rego / Alison Cerutti
2011 Brasilien  Emanuel Rego / Alison Cerutti Vereinigte Staaten  Todd Rogers / Phil Dalhausser
2010 Vereinigte Staaten  Todd Rogers / Phil Dalhausser Polen  Grzegorz Fijalek / Mariusz Prudel
2009 Deutschland  Jonas Reckermann / Julius Brink Brasilien  Ricardo Santos / Emanuel Rego
2008 Brasilien  Pedro Salgado / Harley Marques Niederlande  Reinder Nummerdor / Richard Schuil
2007 Vereinigte Staaten  Todd Rogers / Phil Dalhausser Russland  Dmitri Barsuk / Igor Georgijewitsch Kolodinski
2006 Brasilien  Ricardo Santos / Emanuel Rego Brasilien  Márcio Araújo / Fábio Luiz Magalhães
2005 Brasilien  Ricardo Santos / Emanuel Rego Brasilien  Benjamin Insfran / Harley Marques
2004 Schweiz  Patrick Heuscher / Stefan Kobel Deutschland  Jonas Reckermann / Markus Dieckmann
2003 Brasilien  Márcio Araújo / Benjamin Insfran Deutschland  Jonas Reckermann / Markus Dieckmann
2002 Argentinien  Mariano Baracetti / Martin Conde Brasilien  Márcio Araújo / Benjamin Insfran
2001 Vereinigte Staaten  Kevin Wong / Stein Metzger Schweiz  Paul Laciga / Martin Laciga
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