The race for qualification for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games officially began with the Volleyball World Elite 16 in Doha, Qatar in February 2023. The 2024 season will begin in Doha in the first week of March, with the final event of the Olympic qualification cycle being the Ostrava Elite 16, which will conclude on June 9. After the international points-earning tournaments, we bring you the latest updates on the Beach Volleyball Olympic Rankings.
On a dreary, ordinary Friday in April, Chase Budinger and Myles Evans won perhaps the greatest Olympic race of all time.
There were probably about 50 people there to see it.
The NORCECA Continental Finals playoff is a tournament worth the same Olympic points and entry points as the Challenge, but with a smaller number of participating teams instead of 24. In the final, Budinger and Evans faced Trevor Crabb and Theo Brunner. Budinger and Evans won the third set, 15-13, and the normally calm and quiet Budinger celebrated his victory in an uncharacteristically emotional way. He screamed and beat his chest. Friends and family swarmed the court. Many viewers were at best confused and at worst despised Budinger and Evans' victory.
Why all the fuss over NORCECA?
Because it may have indirectly determined the Olympic race.
Budinger and Evans traveled to the Dominican Republic, swept the field and took home 800 Olympic points, but that wasn't the only impact of their victory. In fact, the entry points they gained propelled them to the top seeds at last week's Elite 16 in Espinho, Portugal, making it a much easier run than Crabb and Brunner had to qualify. They lived up to that expectation, advancing to the main draw and winning their pool to finish in fifth place. That second consecutive fifth place finish in the Elite 16 added another 300 points to their already comfortable lead.
With just two events remaining – the A-Challenge in Stare Jablonki, Poland, and the Elite 16 in Ostrava, Czech Republic – Budinger and Evans currently lead Crabb and Brunner by 540 points. Even if Budinger and Evans cannot add a single point to their total, Crabb and Brunner would still need to win gold in Poland and then win the qualifying round in Ostrava and finish fifth or better.
Espinho made a similarly significant gain on the women's side, recruiting 22-year-old Spaniards Tania Moreno and Daniela Alvarez. Moreno and Alvarez, who are redshirting this season from TCU in pursuit of an Olympic spot, qualified in Paris with fourth-place finishes and the highest points they had during the qualifying period. They currently sit 15th in the Olympic rankings and join veterans Lili Fernández and Elsa Baquerizo as the only Spanish women to qualify for the Olympics.
Men's Beach Volleyball Olympic Rankings
(Updated on May 26th after the Espinho Elite 16)
- David Ehrman, Jonathan Hellvig, Sweden, 12420 (11)
- Anders Mol, Christian Solm, Norway, 10460 (10)
- Andre Loyola, George Wanderly, Brazil, 10420 (12)
- Nils Ehlers, Clemens Wickler, Germany, 10340 (12)
- Andy Benesch, Miles Partin, USA, 9580 (12)
- Evandro Goncalves, Arthur Mariano, Brazil, 9260 (12)
- Michal Bril, Bartosz Roszyk, Poland, 9200 (12)
- Ondrej Perusic, David Schweiner, Czech Republic, 8980 (10)
- Matthew Immers, Steven van de Velde, Netherlands, 8880 (12)
- Sam Cottafava, Paolo Nicolai, Italy, 8800 (12)
- Alex Brouwer, Robert Meeuwsen, Netherlands, 8600 (12)
- Stefan Bomans, Jorick de Groot, Netherlands, 8460 (11)
- Cherif Samba, Ahmed Tijan, Qatar, 8420 (12)
- Chase Budinger, Miles Evans, USA, 8400 (12)
- Adrian Gavira, Pablo Herrera, Spain, 8080 (12)
- Theo Brunner, Trevor Crabb, USA, 7860 (12)
- Adrian Carambula, Alex Ranghieri, Italy, 7840 (12)
- Thomas Hodges, Zachary Schubert, Australia, 7820 (12)
- Julian Hol, Alex Holst, Austria, 7260 (12)
- Pedro Solberg, Guto Carvalhaes, Brazil, 7260 (12)
- Esteban Grimalt, Marco Grimalt, Chile, 7220 (12)
- Jorge Arayo, Nosren Diaz, Cuba, 7040 (11)
- Vitor Felipe, Renato Lima, Brazil, 6760 (12)
- Triborn, Chaim Sharq, USA, 6580 (12)
- Moritz Priestautz, Robin Seidl, Austria, 6540 (12)
- Hendrik Mol, Matthias Berntsen, Norway, 6480 (12)
- Javier Bello, Joaquin Bello, England, 6120 (12)
- Piotr Kantor, Jakub Zdybek, Poland, 5960 (12)
- Sam Schachter, Dan Deering, Canada, 5900 (12)
- Daniele Lupo, Enrico Rossi, Italy, 5720 (12)
- Paul Barnett, Chris McHugh, Australia, 5460 (12)
- Sergiy Popov, Eduard Reznik, Ukraine, 5300 (11)
Women's Beach Volleyball Olympic Rankings
(Updated May 26th after Espinho Elite 16)
- Duda Lisboa, Ana Patricia Silva, Brazil, 12260 (12)
- Kristen Nass, Taryn Cross, United States, 11960 (12)
- Kelly Chen, Sarah Hughes, USA, 10800 (12)
- Carolina Salgado, Barbara Seixas, Brazil, 10440 (12)
- Raisa Schon, Katja Stam, Netherlands, 10380 (12)
- Nina Brunner, Tanja Huberli, Switzerland, 10320 (12)
- Melissa Humana Paredes, Brandi Wilkerson, Canada, 10220 (12)
- Xinyi Xia, Chen Xue, China, 9200 (12)
- Tina Glaudina, Anastasia Samoilova, Latvia, 9000 (12)
- Valentina Gottardi, Marta Menegatti, Italy, 8840 (12)
- Svenja Müller, Chinja Tillmann, Germany, 8620 (12)
- Victoria Lopes, Taina Silva, Brazil, 8160 (12)
- Agatha, Rebecca, Brazil, 7920 (12)
- Esmy Bobner, Zoe Verges-Despres, Switzerland, 7900 (12)
- Daniella Alvarez, Tania Moreno, Spain, 7820 (12)
- Mariafe Artacho, Tariqua Clancy, Australia, 7770 (11)
- Laura Ludwig, Louisa Lippmann, Germany, 7580 (12)
- Anouk Verges-Despres, Joanna Mader, Switzerland, 7580 (12)
- Carla Bolger, Sandra Ittlinger, Germany, 7360 (12)
- Lezana Placet, Alexia Richard, France, 6920 (12)
- Monika Pawlikienė, Aine Laupelėte, Lithuania, 6900 (12)
- Betsy Flint, Julia Scholz, United States, 6740 (11)
- Sarah Pavan, Molly McBain, Canada, 6540 (12)
- Lili Fernandez, Paula Soria, Spain, 6480 (12)
- Andressa Cavalcanti, Vitoria de Sousa, Brazil, 6240 (12)
- Dorena Klinger, Ronja Klinger, Austria, 6220 (12)
- Nina Ahtianen, Tar Lahti, Finland, 5960 (12)
- Jagoda Gruszczynska, Ola Wachowicz, Poland, 5940 (12)
- Sophie Bukovec, Heather Bansley, Canada, 5940 (12)
- Worapeeratchayakorn Komposartavadee, Tharavadee Narapongrapat, Thailand, 5800 (12)
- Barbora Hermannova, Marie Sara Stoklova, Czech Republic, 5740 (12)
- Jie Dong, Huang Wang, China, 5080 (12)
Previous ranking
Olympic Beach Volleyball Rankings, May 6th
Olympic Volleyball Rankings, March 26th
Olympic Volleyball Rankings, March 11th
Olympic Volleyball Rankings, December 18th
Olympic Volleyball Rankings, December 4th
Olympic Volleyball Rankings, November 27th
Olympic Volleyball Rankings, November 20th
Olympic Volleyball Rankings, November 6th
Olympic Volleyball Rankings, October 23rd
Olympic Volleyball Rankings, October 16th
Olympic Volleyball Rankings, October 2nd
Olympic Volleyball Rankings, August 21st
Olympic Volleyball Rankings, July 31
Olympic Rankings, July 25th
Olympic Beach Rankings, July 17th
Olympic Beach Rankings, July 10
Olympic Beach Rankings, June 19th
Olympic Beach Volleyball Rankings, June 5th
Olympic Beach Volleyball Rankings, May 1st
Olympic Beach Volleyball Rankings, April 17th
Olympic Beach Volleyball Rankings, April 10
Olympic Beach Volleyball Rankings, March 28th
Olympic Beach Volleyball Rankings, March 20th
What you need to know about the Olympic Beach Qualifier:
- To qualify for the Olympics through the Olympic rankings, a team must Top 12 It will end during the Olympic qualification period, which runs until June 9, 2024. Top 17 The top five teams in the Olympic rankings will qualify for the Paris Olympics, while the remaining seven spots will be allocated to the winners of the five continental cups, the winner of the 2023 World Championships and a French wild card.
- Each country Two teams Who will qualify for the Olympics?
- Teams can't do better than one another, and once they reach 12th place they will only replace their worst result. In brackets below is the number of events each pair participated in.
- Earn Points As a team. Therefore, if a team disbands and an individual chooses a new partner, the individual's entry points for entering the competition will be retained, but their Olympic ranking points will start from zero.
- For the full Beach Pro Tour schedule, click here The next Volleyball World event is the Challenge in Xiamen, China.
