Zoe Verge-Depre, Esmee Bobner clinch Paris Olympics bid

It’s over.

In the end, after 17 months and practically two dozen tournaments, the primary and main leg of the Paris Olympic race is over, the final bid sealed up by Switzerland’s Zoe Verge-Depre and Esmee Bobner.

Their ticket was punched in an agonizing method, watching from the sidelines as Tokyo bronze medalists Anouk Verge-Depre — the older sister of Zoe — and Joana Mader competed on the Ostrava Elite16, after Zoe and Bobner had been eradicated within the qualifier by their very rivals. A winless efficiency in the principle draw, when a semifinal berth was required, ended the run for Anouk and Mader, who fell in each matches on Friday, first to Barbora Hermannova and Marie-Sara Stochlova of the Czech Republic (21-19, 23-21) then to Canada’s Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson (23-21, 21-15).

The rest of the Olympic races had been wrapped up throughout Wednesday’s qualifier.

Eighteen of the 24 spots per gender are actually determined. Of the remaining six spots, 5 might be earned by way of continental cup occasions over the subsequent few weeks, and France will award one wild card. Boding nicely for France is that its high girls’s crew, Lezana Placette and Alexia Richard, certified by way of factors, and can then get a second crew into the Video games by way of wild card. They’re anticipated to announce their wild card groups June 17.

Under is an inventory of groups who’ve certified for the Olympics

Males’s seashore volleyball groups certified for the Paris Olympics

World Championships berth: Ondrej Perusic, David Schweiner, CZECH REPUBLIC

1. David Ahman, Jonatan Hellvig, SWEDEN
2. Anders Mol, Christian Sorum, NORWAY
3. Andre Loyola, George Wanderley, BRAZIL
4. Nils Ehlers, Clemens Wickler, GERMANY
5. Andy Benesh, Miles Partain, USA
6. Evandro Goncalves, Arthur Mariano, BRAZIL
7. Michal Bryl, Bartosz Losiak, POLAND
8. Stefan Boermans, Yorick de Groot, NETHERLANDS
9. Matthew Immers, Steven van de Velde, NETHERLANDS
10. Sam Cottafava, Paolo Nicolai, ITALY
11. Cherif Samba, Ahmed Tijan, QATAR
12. Chase Budinger, Miles Evans, USA
13. Adrian Gavira, Pablo Herrera, SPAIN
14. Adrian Carambula, Alex Ranghieri, ITALY
15. Thomas Hodges, Zachery Schubert, AUSTRALIA
16. Jorge Alayo, Noslen Diaz, CUBA
17. Julian Horl, Alex Horst, AUSTRIA

Girls’s seashore volleyball groups certified for the Paris Olympics

World Championships berth: Kelly Cheng, Sara Hughes, USA

1. Duda Lisboa, Ana Patricia Silva, BRAZIL
2. Kristen Nuss, Taryn Kloth, USA
3. Carolina Salgado, Barbara Seixas, BRAZIL
4. Raisa Schoon, Katja Stam, NETHERLANDS
5. Nina Brunner, Tanja Huberli, SWITZERLAND
6. Melissa Humana-Paredes, Brandie Wilkerson, CANADA
7. Xinyi Xia, Chen Xue, CHINA
8. Tina Graudina, Anastasija Samoilova, LATVIA
9. Valentina Gottardi, Marta Menegatti, ITALY
10. Mariafe Artacho, Taliqua Clancy, AUSTRALIA
11. Svenja Muller, Cinja Tillman, GERMANY
12. Esmee Bobner, Zoe Verge-Depre, SWITZERLAND
13. Daniela Alvarez, Tania Moreno, SPAIN
14. Laura Ludwig, Louisa Lippmann, GERMANY
15. Lezana Placette, Alexia Richard, FRANCE
16. Monika Paulikiene, Aine Raupelyte, LITHUANIA
17. Lili Fernandez, Paula Soria, SPAIN

Three USA groups stay within the Ostrava Elite16

With the Olympic race determined, what’s left is a standard event with regular stakes on the road — prize cash, entry factors, wins and all the remaining.

Three USA groups stay within the hunt of the Ostrava Elite16. As they’ve been since Thursday, Andy Benesh and Miles Partain are the lone American males, placing collectively consecutive wins over Poland’s Piotr Kantor and Jakub Zdybek (21-14, 21-10) and Germany’s Nils Ehlers and Clemens Wickler (21-17, 26-24). Friday marked their first profession win over Germany, who’s coming off a silver medal on the Espinho Elite16 two weeks in the past.

The remaining American groups, Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes, and Betsi Flint and Julia Scoles, will play each other within the first spherical of the playoffs. The final assembly between the 2 groups really got here in Ostrava a yr in the past, through the remaining spherical of pool play, the place Cheng and Hughes received simply, 21-13, 21-11. Saturday will mark the fifth matchup between the 2, a collection Hughes and Cheng lead 4-0.