The FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch World Tour returns to Moscow for the fourth year in a row from July 7-12 as it hosts the third Grand Slam event of 2012. The competition will be held at Victory Park where Brazil's Alison Cerutti and Emanuel Rego celebrated a gold medal win over Swiss duo Patrick Heuscher and Jefferson Bellaguard last year, with USA's Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser claiming bronze. The 2012 event is the seventh World Tour event in Moscow as the initial events were men’s-only stops in 1998 and 1999. The international beach volleyball circuit returned to the Russian capital in 2008 when Dalhausser and Rogers and Chen Xue and Xi Zhang of China captured the men’s and women’s gold medals, respectively before Juliana Felisberta Da Silva and Larissa França of Brazil and Julius Brink and Jonas Reckermann of Germany picked up the 2009 crowns. However 2010 was strictly a Chinese year as Penggen Wu and Linyin Xu beat Rogers and Dalhausser in the men's final as Brink and Reckermann salvaged bronze while Xue and Zhang saw off USA's Jen Kessy and April Ross to the women's title as Larissa and Juliana of Brazil sealed bronze. Moscow is the capital city of Russia and also the most populous in the Eurasia country. The city is the political economical, educational and cultural center of the country and has a population of just over 10 million people. Pictured below to the left is 2010 men's Moscow Grand Slam winner Wu.