The medals of the men’s tournament of this week’s Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Challenge event held in Warmia Mazury will remain in Europe as four teams from the continent took the spots in play in the semifinals on Saturday.

Olympic champions David Åhman and Jonatan Hellvig of Sweden will face Switzerland’s Marco Krattiger and Leo Dillier in the first semifinal, scheduled for 10:00 local time (8:00 GMT), with fan favorites and Polish Olympians Michal Bryl and Bartosz Łosiak meeting Germans Paul Henning and Lui Wüst one hour later. The gold medal match is scheduled for 16:00 (14:00 GMT).

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One win away from winning their first medal in 2025, Bryl and Łosiak won a pair of matches in front of their home fans on Saturday to get to the semifinals. The Polish started the day in the Round of 24, where they defeated Dutch Matthew Immers and Leon Luini in the tie-breaker (17-21, 21-13, 15-13).

In the Round of 16, they faced Germans Clemens Wickler and Nils Ehlers for the second time in the tournament – the Olympic medalists had topped the Polish in pool play on Friday. This time, Bryl and Łosiak called the shots, triumphing in straight sets (24-22, 21-16).

Also hailing from Germany, their next opponents Henning and Wüst took a different path to the semifinals, sweeping (23-21, 21-17) Canadians Sam Schachter and Jonathan Pickett in the Round of 24 and needing all three sets (21-18, 18-21, 15-12) to overcome Israelis Eylon Elazar and Kevin Cuzmiciov in the Round of 16.

Partners since the last months of 2024, Henning and Wüst are also fighting to win their first medal in the current season – they took silver at the Nuvali Challenge last December.

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Olympic champions face Swiss

Playing in a Beach Pro Tour Challenge event for the first time in two years, Åhman and Hellvig are playing up to their standard this week in Poland and got the semifinals with an undefeated campaign of six victories.

After winning their pool on Friday, the Swedish secured a pair of victories in the elimination rounds on Saturday, but went to three sets on both, overcoming young Austrians Tim Berger and Timo Hammarberg 2-1 (19-21, 21-15, 23-21) in the Round of 24 and downing French Téo Rotar and Arnaud Gauthier-Rat in the tie-breaker (21-11, 15-21, 15-10) in the Round of 16.

A new team in 2025, Krattiger and Dillier have already won three medals together on the Beach Pro Tour – they took silver at the Xiamen Challenge and the Spiez Futures and bronze at the Valencia Futures.

To remain in contention for a spot in the podium in Warmia Marzury, the Swiss took down Brazilians Heitor Benitto and Vinicius Freitas in two sets (21-16, 23-21) in the Round of 24 and prevailed over Ukrainians Sergiy Popov and Eduard Reznik in the tie-breaker (19-21, 21-17, 15-11) in the Round of 16.

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