With the 48 teams in each gender split into 12 pools, the duos now know who their first opponents in Mexico will be
The pool phase of the 2023 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships is now fully set as, following last week’s announcement of the 96 teams that will compete in Mexico from 6-15 October, the Drawing of Lots for the event was held on Wednesday in the host country of the tournament.
Marking the return of the event to Latin America for the first time in two decades, the 14th edition of the World Championships will be played across four venues in the cities of Tlaxcala, Huamantla and Apizaco and will include as many as 216 matches.
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The men’s and women’s winners will each earn a spot at the Olympic Games Paris 2024 for their countries as well as a share of the USD 1 million prize money. Duos from 40 different countries are set to compete in Mexico in just over a month’s time.
The reigning world champions among the women, Brazilians Ana Patrícia Ramos and Eduarda ‘Duda’ Lisboa are in Pool A. The South Americans will begin their campaign in Mexico playing against France’s Lézana Placette and Alexia Richard, Finland’s Niina Ahtiainen and Taru Lahti and Chile’s Maria Francisca Rivas Zapata and Chris Vorpahl.
Pool F is the only one to feature two past world champions – 2015 champion Bárbara Seixas of Brazil, who will be paired with Carol Salgado, and 2017 winner Laura Ludwig of Germany, who will form a duo with Louisa Lippmann. The other two tandems on the pool are Japan’s Miki Ishii and Sayaka Mizoe and Nigeria’s Tochukwu Nnoruga and Franco Ikhiede.
Four other world champions will try to win the tournament again in 2023. Bárbara’s partner in her 2015 title, Olympic medalist Ágatha Bednarczuk is in Pool C alongside partner Rebecca Cavalcanti. The two will face the USA’s Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes, Germany’s Sandra Ittlinger and Karla Borger and Mexico’s Esperanza Albarran and Yerai Vidaurrazaga in the opening round of the event.
The winners of the 2019 World Championship, Canadians Melissa Humana-Paredes and Sarah Pavan are back with new partners and in different pools. While Melissa and partner Brandie Wilkerson will battle Czechia’s Barbora Hermannová and Marie-Sara Štochlová, Paraguay’s Erika Bobadilla and Michelle Valiente, and Morocco’s Imane Zeroual and Mahassine Siad in Pool D, Pavan and Molly McBain are in Pool H, where they will compete against the…
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