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Maryna Hladun & Tetiana Lazarenko of Ukraine

Maryna Hladun & Tetiana Lazarenko of Ukraine

Last week’s Warmia Mazury Challenge winners Maryna Hladun & Tetiana Lazarenko of Ukraine climbed to the top 10 of the women’s FIVB Beach Volleyball World Ranking for the first time in history. Their previous best ranking was the 12th place from three weeks ago, and now they are in number nine, as the chart received its weekly update on Monday. Meanwhile, the men’s finalists of last week’s Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour stop in Poland Bartosz Losiak & Michal Bryl surged back up among the top four teams for the first time in almost two years.

Hladun & Lazarenko’s first place in Warmia Mazury last week came with 800 ranking points, of which the Ukrainian pair netted 480, after their 320 points from the Baden Futures bronze they earned a year ago expired. So on a new total of 4,380 points, Hladun & Lazarenko moved five positions up from last week’s 14th place to tie USA’s Teegan Van Gunst & Kimberly Hildreth in number nine. These two teams pushed Brazil’s Vitoria Rodrigues & Hegeile Almeida and Finland’s Taru Lahti-Liukkonen & Niina Ahtiainen out of the top 10 for now, and they stand 11th and 12th, respectively.

While no other movements occurred above them at the top of the women’s chart, with Brazil’s Thamela Coradello & Victoria Lopes, USA’s Terese Cannon & Megan Kraft and Germany’s Svenja Muller & Cinja Tillmann in the first three positions, Warmia Mazury runners-up Linda Bock & Louisa Lippmann of Germany rocketed from number 136 to number 75 on a total of 1,816 points from five qualifying tournaments played, and French Olympians Clemence Vieira & Aline Chamereau, who claimed bronze in Poland last week, leapt from number 15 to number 12, the team’s all-time high. Vieira & Chamereau are now the highest ranked French duo for the third week running, after surpassing compatriots Lezana Placette & Alexia Richard in the chart two weeks ago.

Former world’s number two team, Poland’s leading pair Bryl & Losiak, pocketed the entire 760 points that came with their silver in Stare Jablonki and jumped four spots up to number four, the highest they have been since early August 2023, when they dropped out of the top three in the men’s chart.

Former world’s number one team, reigning Olympic champions David Ahman & Jonatan Hellvig of Sweden, who finished fourth at the Warmia Mazury Challenge last week, reclaimed the second place in the World Ranking, which they had yielded to Argentina’s Nicolas Capogrosso & Tomas Capogrosso for the past three weeks. Ahman & Hellvig are running on a score of 6,980 points, 460 points above the Capogrossos and another 1,820 points below leaders Anders Mol & Christian Sorum of Norway.

In another high-end development, another former number one duo, Paris 2024 Olympic silver medalists Nils Ehlers & Clemens Wickler of Germany made use of reaching the quarterfinals in Poland to regain their place among the top 10 teams in the men’s chart, climbing four spots up from last week’s number 14 and pushing England’s Joaquin Bello & Javier Bello down to number 11.

Warmia Mazury Challenge gold medalists Marco Krattiger & Leo Dillier of Switzerland ascended from number 71 to a new team’s high number 48. Bronze medalists Paul Henning & Lui Wust of Germany also gained unchartered ground by rising seven positions to number 16.