1997 European Beach Volleyball Championships
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The 1997 European Beach Volleybal Championships
were held in August, 1997 in Rome
, Italy
. It was the fifth official edition of the men's event, which started in 1993, while the women competed for the fourth time.
Beach volleyball
Beach volleyball, or sand volleyball, is an Olympic team sport played by two teams of two players on a sand court divided by a net.Like volleyball, the object of the game is to send the ball over the net in order to ground it on the opponent’s court, and to prevent the same effort by the opponent....
were held in August, 1997 in Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
. It was the fifth official edition of the men's event, which started in 1993, while the women competed for the fourth time.
Men's competition
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Women's competition
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