Last week’s Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Baden Challenge winners in both the men’s and the women’s competitions reached new all-time highs in the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Rankings. In the charts updated on the day after the event in Austria was completed, Swedish youngsters Jacob Holting Nilsson & Elmer Andersson made it to number eight in the world for the first time along their beach volleyball journey. Germany’s Linda Bock & Louisa Lippmann entered the top 30 of the women’s ranking for the first time, jumping into number 27.
Beach Pro Tour
Baden winners touch new highs in World Ranking
Holting Nilsson & Andersson climb to number eight, Bock & Lippmann to number 27
Published 02:53, 12 Aug 2025
Sweden’s Jacob Holting Nilsson & Elmer Andersson
20-year-old Jacob Holting Nilsson and 19-year-old Elmer Andersson picked up 800 points with their gold in Baden and, after dropping their new ninth best score from their account, they netted 420 points towards a new total of 5,420 points, which places them eighth in the men’s World Ranking, up a spot from their previous high ninth place, which the Swedes had been holding since July 14. To reach this new milestone in their young team’s journey, Holting Nilsson & Andersson surpassed Mathias Berntsen & Hendrik Mol of neighboring Norway.
The only other change in the top 10 in comparison to last week was the return of Paris 2024 Olympic silver medalists Nils Ehlers & Clemens Wickler of Germany. After claiming silver in Austria on Sunday, the former number one team in the world climbed two positions up the ranking to number 10, pushing reigning world champions Ondrej Perusic & David Schweiner of Czechia out of the top 10, down to number 11.
Baden bronze medalists Remi Bassereau & Calvin Aye of France ascended three spots up to number 17.
Anders Mol & Christian Sorum of Norway continue to lead the World Ranking by a wide margin, with a score of 8,160 points, 1,620 points clear of second-placed Olympic champions David Ahman & Jonatan Hellvig of Sweden. Just 20 points further down the chart, Argentina’s Nicolas Capogrosso & Tomas Capogrosso occupy the third place.
Linda Bock & Louisa Lippmann have been competing together since the start of this season. In their sixth Beach Pro Tour appearance as a pair, they celebrated their first gold and their second medal, after the silver they earned at June’s Warmia Mazury Challenge in Poland. The German duo has been steadily making their way up the World Ranking and positioned themselves as their country’s second highest ranked pair, after the world’s number two team, Svenja Muller & Cinja Tillmann. With the Baden triumph, Bock & Lippmann jumped 11 positions up, from number 38 to number 27, reaching that high for the first time as a team.
The other two medalists from Baden also gained ground in the World Ranking and are situated just above Bock & Lippmann in the table. Runners-up Mila Konink & Raisa Schoon of the Netherlands are in number 25 and bronze medalists Valentyna Davidova & Anhelina Khmil of Ukraine are in number 26.
Baden quarterfinalists Monika Paulikiene & Aine Raupelyte of Lithuania moved two positions up the ranking, to number 10, and that was the only change in the women’s top 10, in comparison to last week. The Lithuanian Olympians took the top 10 spot from French Olympians Clemence Vieira & Aline Chamereau, who dropped to 11th.
Brazil’s Thamela Coradello & Victoria Lopes are the convincing leaders with a score of 7,720 points. Muller & Tillmann are second with 5,760, and Austria’s Dorina Klinger & Ronja Klinger – third with 5,440.
