The race for the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games formally started in February 2023 in Doha, Qatar, with the Volleyball World Elite16. The 2024 season started the primary week of March again in Doha, and the ultimate occasion of the Olympic qualification cycle would be the Ostrava Elite16, which ends on June 9. We’ll be offering these updates for the Seashore Volleyball Olympic rankings after worldwide points-earning tournaments:
The rise of Cuba’s Jorge Alayo and Noslen Diaz has been as swift because it has been astonishing.
Getting into the 2024 seashore volleyball season, that they had lower than 4,000 Olympic factors to their identify and solely 5 of the required 12 finishes. It wasn’t a lot a matter if they might qualify, but when they’d even play sufficient occasions to be within the dialogue. They have been, at finest, an afterthought. After which they gained a silver on the Recife Problem … and one other on the Saquarema Problem … and made one other semifinal final week in Guadalajara … and one other this weekend on the Tepic Elite16. Hauling within the 1,000 level bounty that comes with an Elite16 bronze medal,
Alayo and Diaz jumped 9 spots and now sit No. 23 within the Olympic rankings and with nonetheless two finishes so as to add to the ledger.
Now, they’re now not an afterthought. They’re all however a assure to qualify for the Paris Olympic Video games on factors. It’s welcome information for Canadians Sam Schachter and Dan Dearing, who will — if they don’t make it in on factors themselves — in all probability, keep away from the gauntlet that’s Cuba within the Continental Cup. Their finest opponent remaining will likely be Mexico’s Miguel Sarabia and Gabriel Cruz. Alas, that could be a lengthy methods out, and Cuba continues to be no lock. However with their greatest level end so far, and a white-hot streak to start the season, it could, at this juncture, be extra of a shock if they don’t qualify.
Whereas the Swiss ladies’s Olympic race alas took a again seat in Tepic, with each Verge-Depre sisters sitting out, the German ladies’s race took middle stage. Sandra Ittlinger and Karla Borger took benefit of the chance to knock out Germany’s No. 2, Laura Ludwig and Louisa Lippmann, within the ninth-place rounds, claiming a fifth and reducing the hole to Ludwig and Lippmann to simply 180 factors.
The Canadian ladies’s race, too, grew extra fascinating as Sarah Pavan and Molly McBain reaped the great fortune of a fortunate loser coin flip to sneak into the primary draw. As soon as there, they broke pool, took a ninth, and the dear 600 Olympic qualifying factors that got here with it.
Males’s Seashore Volleyball Olympic Rankings
(up to date April 22 after the Tepic Elite16)
- David Ahman, Jonatan Hellvig, SWEDEN, 11220 (10)
- Anders Mol, Christian Sorum, NORWAY, 10460 (10)
- Nils Ehlers, Clemens Wickler, GERMANY, 9540 (12)
- Andre Loyola, George Wanderley, BRAZIL, 9480 (12)
- Sam Cottafava, Paolo Nicolai, ITALY, 8800 (12)
- Evandro Goncalves, Arthur Mariano, BRAZIL, 8660 (12)
- Ondrej Perusic, David Schweiner, Czech Republic, 8380 (9)
- Alex Brouwer, Robert Meeuwsen, NETHERLANDS, 8300 (12)
- Andy Benesh, Miles Partain, USA, 8220 (10)
- Adrian Gavira, Pablo Herrera, SPAIN, 8080 (12)
- Theo Brunner, Trevor Crabb, USA, 7860 (12)
- Michal Bryl, Bartosz Losiak, POLAND, 7840 (10)
- Adrian Carambula, Alex Ranghieri, ITALY, 7840 (12)
- Matthew Immers, Steven van de Velde, NETHERLANDS, 7620 (12)
- Stefan Boermans, Yorick de Groot, NETHERLANDS, 7400 (9)
- Thomas Hodges, Zachery Schubert, AUSTRALIA, 7380 (12)
- Julian Horl, Alex Horst, AUSTRIA, 7260 (12)
- Chase Budinger, Miles Evans, USA, 7240 (12)
- Cherif Samba, Ahmed Tijan, QATAR, 7200 (10)
- Pedro Solberg, Guto Carvalhaes, BRAZIL, 7120 (12)
- Vitor Felipe, Renato Lima, BRAZIL, 6760 (12)
- Esteban Grimalt, Marco Grimalt, CHILE, 6680 (12)
- Jorge Alayo, Noslen Diaz, CUBA, 6580 (10)
- Tri Bourne, Chaim Schalk, USA, 6580 (12)
- Moritz Pristauz, Robin Seidl, AUSTRIA, 6500 (12)
- Hendrik Mol, Mathias Berntsen, NORWAY, 6020 (12)
- Piotr Kantor, Jakub Zdybek, POLAND, 5960 (12)
- Sam Schachter, Dan Dearing, CANADA, 5900 (12)
- Daniele Lupo, Enrico Rossi, ITALY, 5720 (12)
- Paul Burnett, Chris McHugh, AUSTRALIA, 5460 (12)
- Javier Bello, Joaquin Bello, ENGLAND, 5420 (12)
- Sergiy Popov, Eduard Reznik, UKRAINE, 5300 (11)
Girls’s Seashore Volleyball Olympic Rankings
(up to date April 22 after Tepic Elite16)
- Duda Lisboa, Ana Patricia Silva, BRAZIL, 11820 (12)
- Kristen Nuss, Taryn Kloth, USA, 10860 (12)
- Kelly Cheng, Sara Hughes, USA, 10640 (12)
- Carolina Salgado, Barbara Seixas, BRAZIL, 10440 (12)
- Melissa Humana-Paredes, Brandie Wilkerson, CANADA, 9620 (11)
- Raisa Schoon, Katja Stam, NETHERLANDS, 9540 (12)
- Nina Brunner, Tanja Huberli, SWITZERLAND, 8760 (11)
- Valentina Gottardi, Marta Menegatti, ITALY, 8700 (12)
- Xinyi Xia, Chen Xue, CHINA, 8600 (12)
- Tina Graudina, Anastasija Samoilova, LATVIA, 8560 (12)
- Victoria Lopes, Taina Silva, BRAZIL, 8020 (12)
- Svenja Muller, Cinja Tillman, GERMANY, 7660 (11)
- Agatha, Rebecca, BRAZIL, 7620 (12)
- Esmee Bobner, Zoe Verge-Depre, SWITZERLAND, 7360 (12)
- Mariafe Artacho, Taliqua Clancy, AUSTRALIA, 7310 (10)
- Anouk Verge-Depre, Joana Mader, SWITZERLAND, 7140 (12)
- Laura Ludwig, Louisa Lippmann, GERMANY, 7100 (12)
- Daniela Alvarez, Tania Moreno, SPAIN, 7060 (12)
- Karla Borger, Sandra Ittlinger, GERMANY, 6920 (12)
- Lezana Placette, Alexia Richard, FRANCE, 6780 (12)
- Betsi Flint, Julia Scoles, USA, 6740 (11)
- Monika Paulikiene, Aine Raupelyte, LITHUANIA, 6680 (12)
- Sarah Pavan, Molly McBain, CANADA, 6380 (12)
- Lili Fernandez, Paula Soria, SPAIN, 6280 (12)
- Andressa Cavalcanti, Vitoria De Souza, BRAZIL, 6240 (12)
- Dorina Klinger, Ronja Klinger, AUSTRIA, 6020 (12)
- Niina Ahtiainen, Taru Lahti, FINLAND, 5960 (12)
- Jagoda Gruszczynska, Ola Wachowicz, POLAND, 5820 (12)
- Barbora Hermannova, Marie-Sara Stochlova, CZECH REPUBLIC, 5740 (12)
- Worapeerachayakorn Kongphopsarutawadee, Taravadee Naraphornrapat, THAILAND, 5640 (12)
- Jie Dong, Fan Wang, CHINA, 5080 (12)
- Sophie Bukovec, Heather Bansley, CANADA, 4740 (9)
Earlier rankings
Olympic volleyball rankings, April 15
Olympic volleyball rankings, March 26
Olympic volleyball rankings, March 11
Olympic volleyball rankings, December 18
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 by way of the Olympic rankings, groups use their finest 12 finishes all through the Olympic qualifying interval, which ends June 9, 2024. The high 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 substitute your worst finishes. In parentheses under is the variety of occasions every pair has performed.
- You earn factors as a crew. Subsequently, if a crew breaks up and the people choose new companions, they start with zero Olympic rating factors, though they preserve their particular person entry factors to get into occasions.
- Click on right here for the complete Seashore Professional Tour schedule. The following Volleyball World occasion will likely be a Problem in Xiamen, China.