Poland’s Jagoda Gruszczynska & Aleksandra Wachowicz - Ola achieved their first-ever gold on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour. On Sunday evening, they topped the podium at the women’s Madrid Futures in Spain. They were accompanied by runners-up Valentyna Davidova & Anhelina Khmil of Ukraine and Sarah Cools & Lisa Van Den Vonder of Belgium.
After winning a Futures bronze at Bialystok 2022 and a Futures silver at Warsaw 2023, Gruszczynska & Ola finally celebrated a Futures gold at Madrid 2024, their first Beach Pro Tour medal earned outside Poland. They lost only one set in the five matches of their campaign in the Spanish capital, in their pool winners’ match against Czechia’s Marketa Slukova & Karin Zolnercikova. In the semifinals, the second-seeded Poles hammered out a 2-0 (21-12, 21-12) shutout of the ninth-seeded Latvian pairing of 16-year-old Liva Ebere and 18-year-old Deniela Konstantinova. In the gold medal showdown, Gruszczynska & Ola mastered another emphatic straight-setter, 2-0 (21-14, 21-13) against 13th-seeded Ukrainian qualifiers Davidova & Khmil.
