Watch the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships from Rome

Click on the video players below to watch live action from the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships in Rome, Italy.

Coverage from all three courts begins on Friday at 3 a.m. ET. A full live stream schedule and list of Canadian teams can be found below.

Four women's teams and three men's teams are representing Canada at the event, including defending world champions Sarah Pavan and Melissa Humana-Paredes. The Olympic duo are coming off their first beach volleyball tour title since 2019 at the Pro Tour Elite 16event in Jurmala, Latvia last Sunday.

A total of 48 men's and 48 women's pairs representing all five continental confederations will play a total of 216 matches on the way to determining the new world champions, with the gold-medal final scheduled for June 19.

Four Canadian teams will be in action on Day 1 as the pool stage of the tournament kicks off. Megan and Nicole McNamara will face Columbia's Diana Rios and Margarita Guzman on Court 2 at 7 a.m. ET. Olympian Brandie Wilkerson and new partner Sophie Bukovec go up against Swiss duo Esmée Böbner and Zoé Vergé-Dépré on Court 2 at 9 a.m. ET. 

Pavan and Humana-Paredes take on Australia's Alisha Stevens and Georgia Johnson on Court 2 at 10 a.m. ET, while Sam Schachter and Dan Dearing will be the lone Canadian men's team competing on Day 1 with a game against Italy's Daniele Lupo and Alex Ranghieri on centre court at 1 p.m. ET.

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Live stream schedule

Canadian women's teams

Canadian men's teams

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