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Capogrossos back to top 10 in the world

Paulikiene & Raupelyte back to top 20 after Tlaxcala Challenge silver

Published 10:58, 24 Mar 2026

Tlaxcala silver medalists Capogrosso & Capogrosso and Paulikiene & Raupelyte regained ground in the World Ranking

A former number two team in the world – Argentina’s Tomas Capogrosso & Nicolas Capogrosso – climbed back up to number 10 in the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Ranking after their silver medal finish at last week’s Tlaxcala Challenge on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour. The Capogrosso brothers had been out of the top 10 for about three and a half months.

FIVB Beach Volleyball World Ranking – Men

The South American pair that was running second in the chart for many weeks during the summer of 2025 eventually dropped out of the top 10 in November. Last week, Capogrosso & Capogrosso finished runners-up in Tlaxcala, earned 760 ranking points with it and net-gained 160 points after their previous eighth best score of 600 points dropped out of the accounts. This was enough for them to climb three positions up, from last week’s number 13 to this week’s number 10, which they are sharing with France’s Remi Bassereau Daubas & Calvin Aye, the previous week’s Joao Pessoa Elite silver medalists, on 6,140 points each.

Australia’s D'Artagnan Potts & Jack Pearse, who won the Challenge tournament in Mexico on Sunday, pocketed 580 of the 800 points that came with their gold and climbed 18 positions to number 45. Tlaxcala bronze medalists Timothy Brewster & Logan Webber of the United States, who played their first Beach Pro Tour event after their reunion, reentered the World Ranking in position 198 with 760 points.

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FIVB Beach Volleyball World Ranking – Women

Meanwhile, women’s silver medalists in Tlaxcala, Lithuania’s Monika Paulikiene & Aine Raupelyte, returned to the top 20 in the World Ranking for the first time since early October. The Paris 2024 Olympians netted half of the 760 points they earned in Mexico and ascended 12 spots compared to last week, up to number 20.

Tlaxcala gold medalists Katerina Pavelkova & Anna Pavelkova of Czechia surged 11 positions to number 41 to match their previous high in the World Ranking, which they reached in the first half of October. USA’s Sara Hughes & Allysa Batenhorst picked up their second consecutive Challenge bronze. They have now collected 1,900 points from three qualifying tournaments and are already up to number 79, or 44 positions higher than the previous week.