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The most consecutive volleyball passes is 110 in an event hosted by the Triangle Volleyball Club at the Raleigh Convention Center in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, on 5 February 2010.
Members of the club and friends had broken the previous record of 92 with an attempt of 96 passes earlier in the day. However, wanting to involve more participants who showed up for the event, a third attempt yielded the final record tally of 110. All equipment and passes were overseen by United States Volleyball Association-licensed referees Marilyn Thompson and Daniel E. Pickett. Donations were collected for the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund.
The longest marathon playing volleyball (indoors) lasted 85 hr and was achieved by members of SVU Volleybal (Netherlands) at the Sports Centre Uilenstede in Amstelveen, Netherlands on 27 to 30 December 2011.
The sides played a total of 63 matches, consisting of 338 sets and 14,635 total points scored.
The longest marathon playing volleyball (indoors) lasted 85 hr and was achieved by members of SVU Volleybal (Netherlands) at the Sports Centre Uilenstede in Amstelveen, Netherlands on 27 to 30 December 2011.
The sides played a total of 63 matches, consisting of 338 sets and 14,635 total points scored.
The most national championships won by the same team is 20 by Changos de Naranjito in the Puerto Rico Men’s Volleyball National League between 1958 and 2004.
The record for the most people controlling volleyballs is 299 and was achieved by the people of Taiwan, at YungShin Sports Park, in Taichung County, Taiwan, on 2 October 2008.
The participants controlled the ball for at least 10 seconds.
The most volleyball smashes completed in one minute by a team of four is nine and was set by Stephane Mathurin, Denis Damel, Sebastien Le Bosse and Stephane Faure (all France) on the set of L’Ete De Tous Les Records, in Soulac, France on 15 August 2005.
Aged 44 years 284 days, Karch Kiraly (USA, b. 3 November 1960) became the oldest player to win an AVP tour title, the Huntington Beach Open, in Huntington Beach, California, USA on 13 August 2005.
With a combined age of 76 years 117 days, Karch Kiraly (USA, b. 3 November 1960) and Brent Doble (USA, b. 3 January 1970) became the oldest team to win a pro beach volleyball tournament, at the Huntington Beach Open, in Huntington Beach, California, USA on 17 August 2003.
At 17 years 99 days, Xue Chen (China, b.18 February 1989) became the youngest player to win an international beach volleyball title, the China Shanghai Jinshan Open, in Shanghai, China, on 28 May 2006.
The record for the largest beach volleyball tournament is for the senior male division of the Usedom BeachCup 2007 with 236 players in the division, played in Karlshagen, Insel Usedom, Germany, from 27 to 29 July 2007. The entire event consisted of 890 participants across six different divisions.
The tournament was formed by 334 teams, divided in 118 senior male teams, 83 senior female teams, 37 older male teams, 74 mixed teams, 5 older female teams, and 17 one-day teams. The winner couple were Christian Grapentin & Frank Thiessenhusen (both Germamy).
Extra! Extra!
Per FIVB in an article released on May 7th, 2012:
Data from a volleyball spike by Bulgaria’s Matey Kaziyski registered at 132km/h, faster than a water polo throw and a softball pitch according to an article published in La Gazzetta dello Sport’s weekly magazine SportWeek.
Furthermore, the difference between shot power in men’s and women’s volleyball players is one of the narrowest in world sport with Cuba’s Yanelis Santos hitting 103 km/h, just a 29km/h difference.
This is more than half the difference recorded in badminton, which notched up a 75km/h difference.
The fastest shot was from badminton player Fu Haifeng of China who recorded a 332 km/h smash.
In addition, Elitsa Vasileva (57 points) and Leonardo Leyva (59 points) hold the most points scored in one match.