Swedish youngsters Jacob Holting Nilsson & Elmer Andersson and Swiss sisters Anouk Verge-Depre & Zoe Verge-Depre made it among the top 10 teams in their genders for the first time as the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Rankings received their weekly update on World Volleyball Day, following last week’s Gstaad Elite on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour, where both these teams found their way to the podiums. Meanwhile, the points from the 2024 edition of the Gstaad event expired, so even USA’s Kristen Nuss & Taryn Brasher, who triumphed again to defend their title from last year, actually dropped in the ranking.

FIVB Beach Volleyball World Ranking – Men

20-year-old Jacob Holting Nilsson and 19-year-old Elmer Andersson, coached by the distinguished Rasmus Jonsson, reached another important milestone in their young team’s journey. In Gstaad, they started from the qualifications and made it all the way to the second place on the podium, earning their first Elite-level hardware. The silver came with 1,100 World Ranking points, the highest amount they have collected from a single tournament. Their new ninth best result was dropped from their score, so they netted 800 points towards a new total of 4,880, which lifted them seven positions to number 10, the highest this Swedish duo has ever reached.

Gold medalists Cherif Younousse & Ahmed Tijan of Qatar, former World Ranking leaders, now climbed two spots from last week’s number seven to return among the top five for the first time since October 2023. They pocketed the 440-point difference between the 1,200 points that came with last week’s gold and their fifth-place result at Gstaad 2024 and improved to a 5,720 total.

Meanwhile, last week’s bronze medalists Stefan Boermans & Yorick de Groot of the Netherlands, also a former world’s number one team, made a solid jump from number nine all the way to number three, as they netted almost all of the 1,000 points earned in Gstaad. The Dutch pair overtook reigning Olympic champions David Ahman & Jonatan Hellvig, who skipped the Swiss event this year, after winning it last year. So did Argentina’s Nicolas Capogrosso & Tomas Capogrosso despite a disappointing 19^th-place finish in Gstaad and climbed back to the number two spot, pushing Ahman & Hellvig down to number four.

Well over two thousand points clear on the top, Norway’s Anders Mol & Christian Sorum continue to shine as the world’s number one team after finishing fifth last week.

FIVB Beach Volleyball World Ranking – Women

Switzerland’s Anouk Verge-Depre & Zoe Verge-Depre, who teamed up in a new sibling partnership for the new Olympic cycle, took bronze in Gstaad last week and it was already their fourth back-to-back podium оn the Beach Pro Tour. As a relatively new duo, they still pocket all the points they earn, so now they have reached 10th place (11 spots up from last week) for the first time, on a total of 4,392 points from seven qualifying tournaments, including one light-weight Swiss national tour event.

USA’s Kristen Nuss & Taryn Brasher could not do much more than defend their title and their points from the 2024 Gstaad Elite16 tournament and kept their World Ranking score at 4,690 points from only five qualifying tournaments, but that was not good enough for keeping their place in the chart. They were surpassed by their opponents in last week’s gold medal showdown Tina Graudina & Anastasija Samoilova of Latvia and by Brazil’s Carol Solberg & Rebecca Cavalcanti to descend from fifth to seventh place.

Carol & Barbara did not do so well in Gstaad, but unlike Tina & Anastasija, they netted the entire 460 points earned and managed to overtake the Latvians, who had claimed bronze at Gstaad 2024, into the fifth place in the World Ranking.

The top four in the women’s chart remained intact. Brazil’s Thamela Coradello & Victoria Lopes kept their number one status, 1,480 points clear on the top, followed by USA’s Terese Cannon & Megan Kraft, Germany’s Svenja Muller & Cinja Tillmann and Austria’s Dorina Klinger & Ronja Klinger.

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