The Olympic race for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games officially began in February in Doha, Qatar, with the Volleyball World Elite16. The final event is yet to be determined, but the qualification period will conclude on June 9, 2024. We’ll be providing these updates for the Beach Volleyball Olympic rankings throughout the next two years.
By virtue of their third-place finish Sunday at the Volleyball World Ostrava Elite16, Miles Partain and Andy Benesh moved up 15 spots to No. 17 in the world rankings from our last report. They are third among Americans. Anders Mol and Christian Sorum, who won in Ostrava, are now No. 1, trading places with Sweden’s David Ahman and Jonatan Hellvig, who had to withdraw from their quarterfinal match against Partain and Benesh.
On the women’s side, the USA’s Sarah Sponcil and Terese Cannon finished second in Ostrava and jumped from ninth to fifth. Two USA pairs, Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes and Taryn Kloth and Kristen Nuss, are still 1-2 in the standings after tying for fifth in Ostrava. They are just ahead of Brazilians Duda and Ana Patricia, who won in Ostrava.
Men’s Beach Volleyball Olympic Rankings
(updated June 5 after Volleyball World Ostrava Elite16)
- Anders Mol, Christian Sorum, NORWAY, 4600 (4)
- David Ahman, Jonatan Hellvig, SWEDEN, 4280 (4)
- Nils Ehlers, Clemens Wickler, GERMANY, 3280 (4)
- Evandro Goncalves, Arthur Mariano, BRAZIL, 3280 (6)
- Adrian Gavira, Pablo Herrera, SPAIN, 3220 (5)
- Michal Bryl, Bartosz Losiak, POLAND, 3100 (4)
- Adrian Carambula, Alex Ranghieri, ITALY, 2980 (4)
- Ondrej Perusic, David Schweiner, CZECH REPUBLIC, 2860 (3)
- Andre Loyola, George Wanderley, BRAZIL, 2860 (5)
- Alex Brouwer, Robert Meeuwsen, NETHERLANDS, 2740 (4)
- Vitor Felipe, Renato Lima, BRAZIL, 2660 (5)
- Tri Bourne, Chaim Schalk, USA, 2460 (5)
- Moritz Pristauz, Robin Seidl, AUSTRIA, 2440 (5)
- Theo Brunner, Trevor Crabb, USA, 2420 (5)
- Sam Cottafava, Paolo Nicolai, ITALY, 2360 (4)
- Matthew Immers, Steven van de Velde, NETHERLANDS, 2300 (4)
- Andy Benesh, Miles Partain, USA, 2280 (3)
- Julian Horl, Alex Horst, AUSTRIA, 2280 (5)
- Stefan Boermans, Yorick de Groot, NETHERLANDS, 2260 (3)
- Esteban Grimalt, Marco Grimalt, CHILE, 2220 (4)
- Paul Burnett, Chris McHugh, AUSTRALIA, 2180 (5)
- Cherif Samba, Ahmed Tijan, QATAR, 2160 (3)
- Thomas Hodges, Zac Schubert, AUSTRALIA, 2040 (5)
- Arnaud Gauthier, Youssef Krou, FRANCE, 1980 (3)
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