Beach Volleyball World Championships Adelaide 2025

Olympic champs Ahman & Hellvig conquer World Championship title as well

Young Holting Nilsson & Andersson put up a big fight in the all-Swedish final, but settle for silver

Published 09:56, 23 Nov 2025

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Reigning Olympic champions David Ahman & Jonatan Hellvig are now also the new men’s world champions in beach volleyball! At 23 and 24, respectively, they are the youngest world champs ever. In Sunday’s all-Swedish gold medal showdown at the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championship in Australia, they persevered through two sets of their even younger compatriots Jacob Holting Nilsson & Elmer Andersson’s strong resistance to triumph with the crown. So, the story from the Paris 2024 Olympics repeated, and after losing two of their three matches in the pool stage of the tournament, Ahman & Hellvig found their way to the top of the podium.

It was Sweden’s first-ever title in the history of the World Championships in either gender. The two medals the northern European country picked up enriched its World Championship collection to a total of three, after Ahman & Hellvig’s silver at Tlaxcala 2023. In addition, Sweden became only the second country in history to have two teams playing against one another in a World Championship final. Only Brazil has achieved such an exploit in the past, once in men's competition and twice on the women's side.

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In a spectacular final, the more-experienced Ahman & Hellvig, seeded third in the draw, managed a 2-0 (25-23, 21-19) victory over 20-year-old Holting Nilsson and 19-year-old Andersson, seeded seventh.

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Making reception setting and spiking on two look easy, Holting Nilsson & Andersson came back from a three-point deficit in the first set and even had control of the scoreboard for a while. In the money time, however, Ahman & Hellvig turned things around to reach a double set point, but Holting Nilsson & Andersson kept their cool to push the set to overtime. They denied another three set points for the Olympic champions before an attack error finally handed the set to Ahman & Hellvig at 25-23. The incredible performance on both sides of the net continued in the second set. Ahman & Hellvig broke away with a 15-12 lead, but Holting Nilsson & Andersson caught up at 19-19. Still, with an off-the-block shot, Ahman converted their first championship point to a 21-19 victory.

Holting Nilsson was the best scorer of the match with 25 points, including three kill blocks. Hellvig led the winners with 22, also featuring three blocking points. Ahman added 15, while Andersson finished with 12, including the only ace of the match.

Åhman/Hellvig vs. Hölting Nilsson/Andersson, E - Beach Volleyball - WC - Men - Match Highlights, 23/11/2025

“Of course, we’ve always dreamt of winning a World Championship title. We didn’t believe we would make it this time as I’ve been injured, but we just kept playing better and better every single game and now we are here! It’s crazy!” an elated Ahman told VBTV after the gold medal showdown.

“It was just unbelievable and so cool that we had two Swedish teams in the final. And I’m just so proud of our team, of our coaches and, of course, of Jacob and Elmer as well!” Hellvig added.

Earlier on Sunday, France’s Teo Rotar & Arnaud Gauthier-Rat earned the Adelaide 2025 men’s bronze.