Germans Linda Bock and Louisa Lippmann and Ukrainians Maryna Hladun and Tetiana Lazarenko are the finalists of this week’s Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Warmia Mazury Challenge after they survived a pair of elimination matches in Poland on Saturday.

Germans and Ukrainians will play for gold at Anders Hotel Beach on Sunday, at 15:00 local time (13:00 GMT). Americans Julia Donlin and Lexy Denaburg and French Olympians Clémence Vieira and Aline Chamereau will meet in the bronze medal match three hours earlier.

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A new team in 2025, Lippmann, a Paris 2024 Olympian, and Bock, who, like her teammate, played indoor volleyball before moving to the beach a few months ago, are guaranteed to win their first medal together on Sunday in Poland. Before competing this week in Warmia Mazury, the Germans played in three Becah Pro Tour Challenge events, finishing 25^th in Yucatán, ninth in Xiamen and 17^th in Alanya.

They lost to Hladun and Lazarenko in their first pool match, on Thursday, but after that claimed five consecutive victories to make it to the gold medal match. On Saturday, they upset Spanish Olympians Tania Moreno and Daniela Álvarez with a three-set (21-13, 11-21, 15-13) victory in the quarterfinals and then swept (21-12, 21-19) Vieira and Chamereau in the semifinals.

“The French played incredible defense,” Bock said. “We tried to focus on our side and do everything well. That allowed us to find solutions for the game.”

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Ukrainians go for third gold

The other finalists, Hladun and Lazarenko have been playing together on the Beach Pro Tour since 2023. In 15 international events as partners, the Ukrainians have collected five medals, including golds at the Warsaw Futures in 2023 and last year’s Chennai Challenge.

Still undefeated in Warmia Mazury, the two found their way to the gold medal match on Saturday by beating two Americans teams – they swept (21-13, 21-14) Kimberly Hildreth and Teegan Van Gunst in the quarterfinals and topped Donlin and Denaburg also in two sets (21-14, 21-18) in the semifinals.

“This is such a great place to play,” Lazarenko said. “The atmosphere is amazing and we’ve been enjoying it a lot.”

The gold medal match duel will be just the second encounter between Germans and Ukrainians, happening just four days after the first one, which was won by Hladun and Lazarenko in pool play.

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