Valentina Gottardi & Reka Orsi Toth, the winners of last week’s Hamburg Elite women’s tournament on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour, rose to number three in the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Ranking. For this Italian pair, formed after the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, this is the highest ranking they have ever reached.

FIVB Beach Volleyball World Ranking – Women

Gottardi & Orsi Toth’s previous high was the seventh place they reached last week. With their gold medal in Germany, they earned 1,200 ranking points. After dropping their previous eighth best result from the accounts, they pocketed as many as 1,008 of these points towards a new total of 6,060 points, which propelled them four positions up the chart to a joint third place with Latvia’s Tina Graudina & Anastasija Samoilova.

Tina & Anastasija, a former number one team in the world, reached the quarterfinals in Hamburg and net-gained 720 points to climb from their fifth place last week up to number three on 6,060 points, or 220 short of second-ranked Brazilians Carol Solberg & Rebecca Cavalcanti.

Hamburg runners-up Thamela Coradello & Victoria Lopes of Brazil improved their score by 500 points to rise to a total of 7,980 points on top of the World Ranking, where they have been since May 26, or for 15 consecutive weeks. They widened the gap from compatriots Carol & Rebecca, whom they knocked out in the Hamburg quarterfinals and left in fifth place with a net gain of 300 World Ranking points. Thamela & Victoria are now as many as 1,700 points clear on top of the chart.

Another Brazilian duo, former World Ranking leaders and reigning Olympic champions Ana Patricia Ramos & Eduarda Santos Lisboa (Duda), who completed the women’s podium in Germany last week, are continuing their ascent up the chart. Now they climbed from last week’s number 33 to number 14 this week on a score of 4,360 points, collected from only five qualifying tournaments.

Another previous number one pair, Germany’s Svenja Muller & Cinja Tillmann, who finished fourth at home in Hamburg, gained three positions to ascend to number five. The top 10 is completed by Austria’s Dorina Klinger & Ronja Klinger, Switzerland’s Anouk Verge-Depre & Zoe Verge-Depre, United States’ Terese Cannon & Megan Kraft, Kristen Nuss & Taryn Brasher, also of USA, and France’s Clemence Vieira & Aline Chamereau, in that order.

FIVB Beach Volleyball World Ranking – Men

Last week’s 1,000-point gap at the top of the men’s World Ranking has now widened to 1,360 points, as the world’s number one team, reigning European champions Anders Mol & Christian Sorum of Norway, topped the podium in Hamburg, while second-ranked David Ahman & Jonatan Hellvig of Sweden, reigning Olympic champions, were eliminated in the quarterfinals. With a total of 8,600 points to their name, the Beachvolley Vikings are now holding the top spot in the chart for the 20^th week in a row, following long previous periods as the world’s number one team.

Hamburg silver medalists Michal Bryl & Bartosz Losiak of Poland regained more ground and jumped three spots up to number six in the chart, while bronze medalists Stefan Boermans & Yorick de Groot of the Netherlands leapt five positions to return to the top 10 in number eight. Both the Poles and the Dutch surpassed Martins Plavins & Kristians Fokerots in the ranking, so despite taking a prestigious fourth place in Germany, the Latvian team actually fell two spots down the chart to number 10.

Reigning world champions Ondrej Perusic & David Schweiner of Czechia produced only a ninth-place finish in Hamburg, but netted the full amount of 600 points that came with it, enough to rise from number seven to number five.

Among the rest of the top-10 teams, third-ranked Nicolas Capogrosso & Tomas Capogrosso of Argentina and fourth-ranked Jacob Holting Nilsson & Elmer Andersson of Sweden kept their positions, while Qatar’s Cherif Younousse & Ahmed Tijan descended from number five to number seven and Brazil’s Evandro Oliveira & Arthur Mariano Lanci fell from number six to number nine.

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