Olympic Seashore Volleyball Rankings, up to date Could 26

The race for the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games formally started in February 2023 in Doha, Qatar, with the Volleyball World Elite16. The 2024 season started the primary week of March again in Doha, and the ultimate occasion of the Olympic qualification cycle would be the Ostrava Elite16, which ends on June 9. We’ll be offering these updates for the Seashore Volleyball Olympic rankings after worldwide points-earning tournaments:

On a dreary and in any other case innocuous Friday in April, Chase Budinger and Miles Evans landed what’s arguably the largest win of their Olympic race.

Possibly 50 folks had been there to see it.

A playoff for the NORCECA Continental Finals, a event value the identical Olympic and entry factors as a Problem, solely with a handful of aggressive groups versus 24 of them, pitted Budinger and Evans towards Trevor Crabb and Theo Brunner within the finals. Budinger and Evans received, 15-13 within the third, and Budinger, sometimes a staid and quiet competitor, celebrated with uncharacteristic emotion. He yelled. Banged his chest. Family and friends stormed the courtroom. A lot of viewers had been, at greatest, confused, at worst, poking enjoyable at Budinger and Evans for such a seemingly low-stakes win.

Why the fuss over a NORCECA?

As a result of, in a round-about means, it might need determined the Olympic race.

Budinger and Evans went right down to the Dominican Republic, mopped up the sector, took the 800 Olympic factors with them — however the impact of that win didn’t cease there. Removed from it. The entry factors they gained pushed them to the highest seed on this previous week’s Elite16 in Espinho Portugal, making their route by the qualifier significantly simpler than that of Crabb and Brunner. They made good on it, making the principle draw, profitable pool, and ending fifth, their second straight Elite16 fifth-place end, the factors from which tacked on one other 300 factors to an already-comfortable lead.

Budinger and Evans now lead Crabb and Brunner by 540 factors with simply two tournaments remaining: A Problem in Stare Jablonki, Poland, and an Elite16 in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Even when Budinger and Evans don’t add a single level to their whole, Crabb and Brunner nonetheless have to win gold in Poland, after which come out of the qualifier in Ostrava and end fifth or higher.

Espinho produced an equally momentous points-boost on the ladies’s facet, to 22-year-old Spaniards Tania Moreno and Daniela Alvarez. Pink-shirting from TCU this season to concentrate on their Olympic pursuit, Moreno and Alvarez are actually locks for Paris, having come out of the qualifier to complete fourth, their greatest factors end of the qualifying interval. They’re now ranked No. 15 within the Olympic rankings and can be a part of veterans Lili Fernandez and Elsa Baquerizo as the one Spanish ladies to qualify for an Olympic Video games.

Males’s Seashore Volleyball Olympic Rankings

(up to date Could 26 after the Espinho Elite16)

1. David Ahman, Jonatan Hellvig, SWEDEN, 12420 (11)
2. Anders Mol, Christian Sorum, NORWAY, 10460 (10)
3. Andre Loyola, George Wanderley, BRAZIL, 10420 (12)
4. Nils Ehlers, Clemens Wickler, GERMANY, 10340 (12)
5. Andy Benesh, Miles Partain, USA, 9580 (12)
6. Evandro Goncalves, Arthur Mariano, BRAZIL, 9260 (12)
7. Michal Bryl, Bartosz Losiak, POLAND,  9200 (12)
8. Ondrej Perusic, David Schweiner, Czech Republic, 8980 (10)
9. Matthew Immers, Steven van de Velde, NETHERLANDS, 8880 (12)
10. Sam Cottafava, Paolo Nicolai, ITALY, 8800 (12)
11. Alex Brouwer, Robert Meeuwsen, NETHERLANDS, 8600 (12)
12. Stefan Boermans, Yorick de Groot, NETHERLANDS, 8460 (11)
13. Cherif Samba, Ahmed Tijan, QATAR, 8420 (12)
14. Chase Budinger, Miles Evans, USA, 8400 (12)
15. Adrian Gavira, Pablo Herrera, SPAIN, 8080 (12)
16. Theo Brunner, Trevor Crabb, USA, 7860 (12)
17. Adrian Carambula, Alex Ranghieri, ITALY, 7840 (12)
18. Thomas Hodges, Zachery Schubert, AUSTRALIA, 7820 (12)
19. Julian Horl, Alex Horst, AUSTRIA, 7260 (12)
20. Pedro Solberg, Guto Carvalhaes, BRAZIL, 7260 (12)
21. Esteban Grimalt, Marco Grimalt, CHILE, 7220 (12)
22. Jorge Alayo, Noslen Diaz, CUBA, 7040 (11)
23. Vitor Felipe, Renato Lima, BRAZIL, 6760 (12)
24. Tri Bourne, Chaim Schalk, USA, 6580 (12)
25. Moritz Pristauz, Robin Seidl, AUSTRIA, 6540 (12)
26. Hendrik Mol, Mathias Berntsen, NORWAY, 6480 (12)
27. Javier Bello, Joaquin Bello, ENGLAND, 6120 (12)
28. Piotr Kantor, Jakub Zdybek, POLAND, 5960 (12)
29. Sam Schachter, Dan Dearing, CANADA, 5900 (12)
30. Daniele Lupo, Enrico Rossi, ITALY, 5720 (12)
31. Paul Burnett, Chris McHugh, AUSTRALIA, 5460 (12)
32. Sergiy Popov, Eduard Reznik, UKRAINE, 5300 (11)

Girls’s Seashore Volleyball Olympic Rankings

(up to date Could 26 after Espinho Elite16)

1. Duda Lisboa, Ana Patricia Silva, BRAZIL, 12260 (12)
2. Kristen Nuss, Taryn Kloth, USA, 11960 (12)
3. Kelly Cheng, Sara Hughes, USA, 10800 (12)
4. Carolina Salgado, Barbara Seixas, BRAZIL, 10440 (12)
5. Raisa Schoon, Katja Stam, NETHERLANDS, 10380 (12)
6. Nina Brunner, Tanja Huberli, SWITZERLAND, 10320 (12)
7. Melissa Humana-Paredes, Brandie Wilkerson, CANADA, 10220 (12)
8. Xinyi Xia, Chen Xue, CHINA, 9200 (12)
9. Tina Graudina, Anastasija Samoilova, LATVIA, 9000 (12)
10. Valentina Gottardi, Marta Menegatti, ITALY, 8840 (12)
11. Svenja Muller, Cinja Tillman, GERMANY, 8620 (12)
12. Victoria Lopes, Taina Silva, BRAZIL, 8160 (12)
13. Agatha, Rebecca, BRAZIL, 7920 (12)
14. Esmee Bobner, Zoe Verge-Depre, SWITZERLAND, 7900 (12)
15. Daniela Alvarez, Tania Moreno, SPAIN, 7820 (12)
16. Mariafe Artacho, Taliqua Clancy, AUSTRALIA, 7770 (11)
17. Laura Ludwig, Louisa Lippmann, GERMANY, 7580 (12)
18. Anouk Verge-Depre, Joana Mader, SWITZERLAND, 7580 (12)
19. Karla Borger, Sandra Ittlinger, GERMANY, 7360 (12)
20. Lezana Placette, Alexia Richard, FRANCE, 6920 (12)
21. Monika Paulikiene, Aine Raupelyte, LITHUANIA, 6900 (12)
22. Betsi Flint, Julia Scoles, USA, 6740 (11)
23. Sarah Pavan, Molly McBain, CANADA, 6540 (12)
24. Lili Fernandez, Paula Soria, SPAIN, 6480 (12)
25. Andressa Cavalcanti, Vitoria De Souza, BRAZIL, 6240 (12)
26. Dorina Klinger, Ronja Klinger, AUSTRIA, 6220 (12)
27. Niina Ahtiainen, Taru Lahti, FINLAND, 5960 (12)
28. Jagoda Gruszczynska, Ola Wachowicz, POLAND, 5940 (12)
29. Sophie Bukovec, Heather Bansley, CANADA, 5940 (12)
30. Worapeerachayakorn Kongphopsarutawadee, Taravadee Naraphornrapat, THAILAND, 5800 (12)
31. Barbora Hermannova, Marie-Sara Stochlova, CZECH REPUBLIC, 5740 (12)
32. Jie Dong, Fan Wang, CHINA, 5080 (12)

Earlier rankings

Olympic seaside volleyball rankings, Could 6
Olympic volleyball rankings, March 26
Olympic volleyball rankings, March 11
Olympic volleyball rankings, December 18
Olympic volleyball rankings, December 4
Olympic volleyball rankings, November 27
Olympic volleyball rankings, November 20
Olympic volleyball rankings, November 6
Olympic volleyball rankings, October 23
Olympic volleyball rankings, October 16
Olympic volleyball rankings, October 2
Olympic volleyball rankings, August 21
Olympic volleyball rankings, July 31
Olympic rankings, July 25
Olympic seaside rankings, July 17
Olympic seaside rankings, July 10
Olympic seaside rankings, June 19
Olympic seaside volleyball rankings, June 5
Olympic seaside volleyball rankings, Could 1
Olympic seaside volleyball rankings, April 17
Olympic seaside volleyball rankings, April 10
Olympic seaside volleyball rankings, March 28
Olympic seaside volleyball rankings, March 20

Issues to learn about Olympic Seashore qualifying:

• To qualify for the Olympic Video games by way of the Olympic rankings, groups use their greatest 12 finishes all through the Olympic qualifying interval, which ends June 9, 2024. The high 17 from the Olympic rankings will punch their tickets to the Paris Olympics. The remaining seven spots are allotted to 5 continental cup champions, the winner of the 2023 World Championships, and the French wild card.
• Every nation is restricted to two groups who can earn a spot within the Olympic Video games.
• Groups can by no means push out good finishes. When you hit your 12, you solely exchange your worst finishes. In parentheses under is the variety of occasions every pair has performed.
• You earn factors as a crew. Subsequently, if a crew breaks up and the people choose new companions, they start with zero Olympic rating factors, though they maintain their particular person entry factors to get into occasions.
• Click on right here for the total Seashore Professional Tour schedule. The subsequent Volleyball World occasion will likely be a Problem in Xiamen, China.