Sunday's Paris Elite16 winners Anders Mol and Christian Sorum are back at the top of the men’s FIVB Beach Volleyball World Ranking for the first time since they dropped from the number one spot over a year ago. The drop took place during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, which the Norwegian team went on to win. Subsequently, the Beachvolley Vikings also won gold at the 2021 European Championship, the 2021 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Finals in Cagliari, the Ostrava Elite16 event on the new Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour and the Beach Volleyball World Championship Rome 2022. But it is only now, after claiming gold in Paris, that they are again the World Ranking leaders.

Before Paris, Mol and Sorum were ranked fourth in the world. Adding 1,200 points to their tally lifted them to the number one spot on a total of 7,170 points, or 610 clear of the previous leaders, Brazil’s Andre Stein and George Wanderley, who did not travel to the French capital. Andre and George had been at the top for over four months, but have now dropped to fourth.

Paris Elite16 silver medallists Alexander Brouwer and Robert Meeuwsen are also above the Brazilians in the new chart. The Dutch pair claimed 1,100 points towards their new total of 6,990 and moved up from third to second, while Poland’s Michal Bryl and Bartosz Losiak, who were stopped at the quarterfinals in Paris, descended from second to third on 6,700.

The other two Paris semifinalists, bronze medallists Paolo Nicolai and Samuele Cottafava and fourth-placed Marco Grimalt and Esteban Grimalt moved up one spot each, the Italians from seventh to sixth and the Chileans from ninth to eighth. So did Qatar’s Cherif Younousse and Ahmed Tijan. After reaching the quarterfinals last weekend, they improved from eighth to seventh.

The remaining two teams who reached the men’s quarterfinals made higher upward leaps. Spain’s Pablo Herrera and Adrian Gavira rose from number 15 to number 11, while Stefan Boermans and Matthew Immers of the Netherlands jumped from 28th to 17th.

In the women's ranking, on the other hand, Katja Stam and Raisa Schoon, who claimed the women’s trophy in Paris on Sunday, fell just 20 ranking points short of returning to the number one spot, which they yielded to Brazil’s Barbara Seixas and Carol Solberg after the Gstaad Elite16 in July. Reaching the quarterfinals last week was enough for the South American pair to retain the first position on 7,020 points, while the Dutch team rounded off their new total to 7,000.

Forty points below them, reigning world champions Eduarda Santos Lisboa (Duda) and Ana Patricia Ramos, also of Brazil, are third in the ranking, moving one spot up from fourth after claiming the Paris bronze. Paris silver medallists Anastasija Samoilova and Tina Graudina of Latvia climbed three positions from seventh to fourth on 6,520, also pushing previous number three team, Taliqua Clancy and Mariafe Artacho Del Solar of Australia, who skipped last week’s tournament, down to fifth.

Two American pairs joined the top 25 after Paris. Kelly Cheng and Betsi Flint finished fourth in France and went from 32nd to 21st, while Taryn Kloth and Kristen Nuss finished fifth and rose from 33rd to 24th.

The two Swiss duos among the remaining quarterfinalists moved in different directions. While Esmee Bobner and Zoe Verge-Depre went up from 21st to 19th, their compatriots Nina Brunner and Tanja Huberli went down from fifth to sixth.

FIVB Beach Volleyball World Ranking – Women

FIVB Beach Volleyball World Ranking – Men

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