Professional Seashore
December 18, 2023
The Olympic race for the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games formally started in February in Doha, Qatar, with the Volleyball World Elite16. The ultimate occasion is but to be decided, however the qualification interval will conclude on June 9, 2024. We’ll be offering these updates for the Seashore Volleyball Olympic rankings all through the following two years.
A medal, at any occasion, throughout an Olympic race is rarely a foul outcome. Whereas bronze was not the best coloration for Andy Benesh and Miles Partain to deliver residence from the NORCECA Continental Championships on Sunday, their fourth little bit of {hardware} of this 2023 season, the 720 factors they earned within the Olympic — and entry — race bumped them up seven spots, to No. 7 on the earth.
It’s an awfully excessive, and welcome, commonplace once you will be picky about the place you stand on the rostrum. Even previous to the NORCECA Championships, Benesh and Partain have been nearly assured a spot within the Paris Olympics. Now, with 7,620 factors to their identify and solely 9 finishes to get them there, all doubt is gone. All they should do is play three tournaments and keep wholesome, and the USA can have its youngest males’s Olympic crew in historical past.
No such youthful milestones shall be set by Canada’s Sam Schachter and Dan Dearing in the event that they push into the Paris Olympics, however their silver medal, due to an upset of Benesh and Partain within the semifinals (21-16, 21-19), was a boon for his or her hopes. In a single occasion, the Canadians jumped from unranked to No. 29, nonetheless a methods from punching their ticket however a big enchancment nonetheless. Whereas it’s uncertain Cuba’s Jorge Alayo and Noslen Diaz will play the requisite 12 occasions to qualify for the Video games through factors, their gold medal established themselves because the favorites to qualify through the Continental Cup: Their process shall be to win nearly this identical match subsequent June, and Paris is theirs.
The Canadian girls, too, got here residence with silver. Sarah Pavan and Molly McBain continued their torrid end-of-season run, falling to Terese Cannon and Megan Kraft within the finals however nonetheless, like Schachter and Dearing, ending with an essential medal and the 760 factors that include it. Pavan and McBain are actually No. 23 within the Olympic race, up 5 spots with another end so as to add to the ledger, placing themselves firmly on the bubble.
These rankings are the ultimate of the 2023 season. The primary occasion of the 2024 Seashore Professional Tour calendar is the Doha Elite16 the primary week of March.
Males’s Seashore Volleyball Olympic Rankings
(up to date December 18 after the NORCECA Continental Championships)
- Anders Mol, Christian Sorum, NORWAY, 9460 (9)
- David Ahman, Jonatan Hellvig, SWEDEN, 8920 (8)
- Sam Cottafava, Paolo Nicolai, ITALY, 8440 (12)
- Andre Loyola, George Wanderley, BRAZIL, 8340 (12)
- Nils Ehlers, Clemens Wickler, GERMANY, 8200 (11)
- Evandro Goncalves, Arthur Mariano, BRAZIL, 7800 (12)
- Andy Benesh, Miles Partain, USA, 7620 (9)
- Alex Brouwer, Robert Meeuwsen, NETHERLANDS, 7560 (11)
- Adrian Gavira, Pablo Herrera, SPAIN, 7500 (12)
- Thomas Hodges, Zachery Schubert, AUSTRALIA, 7260 (12)
- Julian Horl, Alex Horst, AUSTRIA, 7060 (12)
- Ondrej Perusic, David Schweiner, Czech Republic, 7020 (7)
- Adrian Carambula, Alex Ranghieri, ITALY, 6920 (10)
- Theo Brunner, Trevor Crabb, USA, 6920 (12)
- Michal Bryl, Bartosz Losiak, POLAND, 6480 (8)
- Matthew Immers, Steven van de Velde, NETHERLANDS, 6480 (12)
- Chase Budinger, Miles Evans, USA, 6480 (12)
- Cherif Samba, Ahmed Tijan, QATAR, 6440 (9)
- Vitor Felipe, Renato Lima, BRAZIL, 6440 (12)
- Esteban Grimalt, Marco Grimalt, CHILE, 6440 (12)
- Moritz Pristauz, Robin Seidl, AUSTRIA, 6160 (12)
- Tri Bourne, Chaim Schalk, USA, 6080 (12)
- Pedro Solberg, Guto Carvalhaes, BRAZIL, 5740 (9)
- Piotr Kantor, Jakub Zdybek, POLAND, 5520 (11)
- Paul Burnett, Chris McHugh, AUSTRALIA, 5460 (12)
- Stefan Boermans, Yorick de Groot, NETHERLANDS, 5440 (7)
- Daniele Lupo, Enrico Rossi, ITALY, 5340 (12)
- Hendrik Mol, Mathias Berntsen, NORWAY, 5090 (11)
- Sam Schachter, Dan Dearing, CANADA, 5480 (12)
- Hugo Campos, Joao Pedrosa, PORTUGAL, 5040 (12)
- Florian Breer, Marco Krattiger, SWITZERLAND, 4820 (12)
- Mark Nicolaidis, Izac Carracher, AUSTRALIA, 4700 (12)
Ladies’s Seashore Volleyball Olympic Rankings
(up to date December 18 after the NORCECA Continental Championships)
- Duda Lisboa, Ana Patricia Silva, BRAZIL, 11060 (10)
- Kristen Nuss, Taryn Kloth, USA, 10260 (11)
- Carolina Salgado, Barbara Seixas, BRAZIL, 9600 (12)
- Kelly Cheng, Sara Hughes, USA, 9040 (10)
- Raisa Schoon, Katja Stam, NETHERLANDS, 8240 (11)
- Melissa Humana-Paredes, Brandie Wilkerson, CANADA, 7760 (9)
- Xinyi Xia, Chen Xue, CHINA, 7740 (11)
- Victoria Lopes, Taina Silva, BRAZIL, 7720 (12)
- Tina Graudina, Anastasija Samoilova, LATVIA, 7680 (12)
- Valentina Gottardi, Marta Menegatti, ITALY, 7440 (11)
- Svenja Muller, Cinja Tillman, GERMANY, 6900 (10)
- Mariafe Artacho, Taliqua Clancy, AUSTRALIA, 6780 (8)
- Esmee Bobner, Zoe Verge-Depre, SWITZERLAND, 6760 (12)
- Betsi Flint, Julia Scoles, USA, 6740 (11)
- Anouk Verge-Depre, Joana Mader, SWITZERLAND, 6740 (12)
- Agatha, Rebecca, BRAZIL, 6720 (11)
- Daniela Alvarez, Tania Moreno, SPAIN, 6600 (12)
- Lezana Placette, Alexia Richard, FRANCE, 6560 (12)
- Nina Brunner, Tanja Huberli, SWITZERLAND, 6340 (8)
- Andressa Cavalcanti, Vitoria De Souza, BRAZIL, 6240 (12)
- Monika Paulikiene, Aine Raupelyte, LITHUANIA, 6100 (12)
- Niina Ahtiainen, Taru Lahti, FINLAND, 5760 (12)
- Sarah Pavan, Molly McBain, CANADA, 5700 (11)
- Karla Borger, Sandra Ittlinger, GERMANY, 5620 (12)
- Jagoda Gruszczynska, Ola Wachowicz, POLAND, 5620 (12)
- Dorina Klinger, Ronja Klinger, AUSTRIA, 5500 (12)
- Barbora Hermannova, Marie-Sara Stochlova, CZECH REPUBLIC, 5220 (11)
- Laura Ludwig, Louisa Lippmann, GERMANY, 4980 (9)
- Jie Dong, Fan Wang, CHINA, 4620 (11)
- Lili Fernandez, Paula Soria, SPAIN, 4620 (12)
- Miki Ishii, Sayaka Mizoe, JAPAN, 4300 (10)
- Worapeerachayakorn Kongphopsarutawadee, Taravadee Naraphornrapat, THAILAND, 4260 (9)
Earlier rankings
Olympic volleyball rankings, December 4
Olympic volleyball rankings, November 27
Olympic volleyball rankings, November 20
Olympic volleyball rankings, November 6
Olympic volleyball rankings, October 23
Olympic volleyball rankings, October 16
Olympic volleyball rankings, October 2
Olympic volleyball rankings, August 21
Olympic volleyball rankings, July 31
Olympic rankings, July 25
Olympic seashore rankings, July 17
Olympic seashore rankings, July 10
Olympic seashore rankings, June 19
Olympic seashore volleyball rankings, June 5
Olympic seashore volleyball rankings, Might 1
Olympic seashore volleyball rankings, April 17
Olympic seashore volleyball rankings, April 10
Olympic seashore volleyball rankings, March 28
Olympic seashore volleyball rankings, March 20
Issues to learn about Olympic Seashore qualifying:
- To qualify for the Olympic Video games through the Olympic rankings, groups use their finest 12 finishes all through the Olympic qualifying interval, which ends June 9, 2024. The prime 17 from the Olympic rankings will punch their tickets to the Paris Olympics. The remaining seven spots are allotted to 5 continental cup champions, the winner of the 2023 World Championships, and the French wild card.
- Every nation is proscribed to two groups who can earn a spot within the Olympic Video games.
- Groups can by no means push out good finishes. When you hit your 12, you solely exchange your worst finishes. In parentheses beneath is the variety of occasions every pair has performed.
- You earn factors as a crew. Due to this fact, if a crew breaks up and the people choose new companions, they start with zero Olympic rating factors, though they hold their particular person entry factors to get into occasions.
- Click on right here for the total Seashore Professional Tour schedule. The following Volleyball World occasion shall be in 2024.