Switzerland’s Anouk Verge-Depre & Joana Mader claimed their first Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour medal by snatching gold at last week’s Goa Challenge in India and that result helped them climb back up among the top 20 teams in the women’s FIVB Beach Volleyball Ranking for the first time since they returned to the Tour after Mader’s recovery from the heavy injury she suffered during the Rome 2022 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championship bronze medal match.
During that World Championship, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic bronze medallists were the number four team in the ranking, but forced out of competition for over 10 months, they gradually descended in the chart to as low as number 75 after their points from the fourth place at the World Championship expired in June of this year. Then they started on their way up again to reach number 26 before the tournament in India. Their gold medal in Goa came with 800 points and they net-gained 400 of them (as their ninth best score of 400 points from the Hamburg Elite16 dropped out of the equation) to rise to 4,960 points in position 19. The Swiss pair has not been this high up in the chart since November 2022.
