Anders Mol & Christian Sorum are back on top of the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Ranking for the first time in almost exactly a year! On April 22, 2024, after winning the Tepic Elite16, Sweden’s David Ahman & Jonatan Hellvig bumped the Norwegian duo off the top of the chart. On April 21, 2025, the Beachvolley Vikings returned to the first place. The Tepic ranking points expired, reigning Olympic champions Ahman & Hellvig skipped last week’s Brasilia Elite, where Mol & Sorum claimed the bronze – and all these combined resulted in a new change of guard. Meanwhile, women’s Olympic champions Ana Patricia Ramos & Eduarda Santos Lisboa (Duda) of Brazil returned among the top 10 in the World Ranking for the first time since October 2024.
Elite16 - Brasilia, Brazil - 2025
Mol & Sorum back on top of the World Ranking!
Brasilia winners Boermans & De Groot climb to number three; Ana Patricia & Duda back to top 10
Published 01:41, 22 Apr 2025
With the expiration of the 2024 Tepic Elite16 points, Ahman & Hellvig lost the full amount of 1,200 points, as they are now down to seven qualifying tournaments, one fewer that the allowed eight. Meanwhile, Mol & Sorum, who did not play in Tepic, but pocketed the full 1,000 points that came with their bronze in Brasilia as it was their eighth ranking tournament within the last 365 days, collected a new total of 8,600 points to emerge as the new world’s number one team, leaving the Swedish jump-setters in second place on 7,220.
Last week’s Brasilia winners Stefan Boermans & Yorick de Groot of the Netherlands, also a former number one in the world, now gained two positions from their fifth place last week and climbed to number three this week, on a total of 6,840 points. As they had the points from a quarterfinal finish in Tepic, they netted only 440 of the 1,200 points earned in Brasilia. Previous number three, Paris 2024 Olympic silver medalists Nils Ehlers & Clemens Wickler of Germany, had a fourth place in Tepic and did not appear in Brasilia, and that caused them a drop to sixth place.
They were also surpassed by Argentina’s Nicolas Capogrosso & Tomas Capogrosso, who reached the quarterfinals last week to stay fourth in the World Ranking, and by Brasilia silver medalists Evandro Oliveira & Arthur Mariano Lanci, who moved up from seventh to fifth. Brasilia semifinalists Michal Bryl & Bartosz Losiak of Poland also ascended two spots, from number 10 to number 8.
The expiration of Tepic points also affected Cuba’s Noslen Diaz & Jorge Alayo, who lost their top 10 position and made room for Chilean cousins Marco Grimalt & Esteban Grimalt, who jumped two spots to number nine despite finishing outside the top 12 in Brasilia, and for Qatar’s Cherif Younousse & Ahmed Tijan, who skipped last week’s Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour event, but won a continental event in Thailand on the Asian AVC Tour, and also jumped two spots up to number 10. Paris Olympians Steven van de Velde & Matthew Immers of the Netherlands, who no longer compete together, dropped from sixth to seventh and remained the last inactive duo still standing among the top 10 in the World Ranking.
Reigning Olympic champions Ana Patricia & Duda did not appear at any Beach Pro Tour stops after Paris 2024 until March of this year and this prompted a dive from number one in the women’s World Ranking all the way down to number 33. Now that they are back on tour and making their way back up the chart, the Brazilian heavyweights made the podium with bronze last week and returned to the top 10 in the World Ranking for the first time since October. Within a week, they rocketed from number 13 to number six, right below Brazil’s highest ranked pair at the moment, Thamela Coradello & Victoria Lopes.
Brasilia champions Kristen Nuss & Taryn Brasher of the United States remained second in the ranking, but now only 180 points below leaders Svenja Muller & Cinja Tillmann. The Germans skipped the tournament in Brazil and also lost some Tepic points, so they are down to 6,980. Meanwhile, the Americans, with an incomplete set of only six ranking tournaments, at all of which they made the podiums, have now piled up a score of 6,800.
Their compatriots Terese Cannon & Megan Kraft, who reached the Brasilia quarterfinals last week, gained new ground, moved one position up and made it to number three in the world for the first time in the team’s history, surpassing former number ones Tina Graudina & Anastasija Samoilova of Latvia, who are now in fourth place.
With three already inactive pairs still lingering in the top 10 of the ranking, Austrian sisters Dorina Klinger & Ronja Klinger are the only other existing team in there. After reaching the Brasilia quarterfinals, they shifted two positions up to number eight.
Among last week’s other semifinalists, Brasilia runners-up Carol Solberg & Rebecca Cavalcanti of Brazil leapt from number 56 to number 31 with only four qualifying tournaments behind them, and Dutch sensations Emi van Driel & Wies Bekhuis, who finished fourth, surged from number 131 to number 67, with five events on record.
