The Dutch pair fought back from losing the first set to beat the Russians 20-22, 21-14, 15-11 at the KATARA Cultural Village in this four star event. 

"We’ve known them since last week when we played them in Fort Lauderdale, they are a new team and a young team and they played amazingly this whole tournament," Brouwer said.

Brouwer and Meeuwsen began the year by winning bronze in front of their home fans at the FIVB Beach World Tour event in The Hague. 

Now the 2013 world champions have ended their wait for a World Tour gold with their 10th Tour medal, having last topped the podium at the three-star Xiamen tournament in April 2017.

"We started off really well in the start of the first set, but we let them back at the end of the first set with our mistakes," Meeuwsen said.

"We kept going forward and going for the next point.

"We stayed cool even if it was a final and I’m really happy with how we played."

Stoyanovskiy and Velichko were playing in their first World Tour gold medal match since they teamed up as a pair at the start of the year.

They had both won Tour medals with previous partners and they have now set the bar high for success in future tournaments.

"We are very happy because we played very well this week," Stoyanovskiy said.

"We had to play a very high level of volleyball because of the teams that were here, and that is the key for us to play well and then we can worry about the medals."

Cherif Younousse and Ahmed Tijan delighted the home crowd by becoming the first Qatari team to win a World Tour medal on home sand when they defeated the United States Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena 21-19, 19-21, 15-13 in the match to decide who won bronze.

"The game was not really easy and we had to fight to the end," Cherif said.

"We were playing against two of the best players in the world, but we had the energy and didn’t give up and fought till the end."