It’s over.
In the end, after 17 months and practically two dozen tournaments, the primary and main leg of the Paris Olympic race is over, the final bid sealed up by Switzerland’s Zoe Verge-Depre and Esmee Bobner.
Their ticket was punched in an agonizing method, watching from the sidelines as Tokyo bronze medalists Anouk Verge-Depre — the older sister of Zoe — and Joana Mader competed on the Ostrava Elite16, after Zoe and Bobner have been eradicated within the qualifier by their very rivals. A winless efficiency in the principle draw, when a semifinal berth was required, ended the run for Anouk and Mader, who fell in each matches on Friday, first to Barbora Hermannova and Marie-Sara Stochlova of the Czech Republic (21-19, 23-21) then to Canada’s Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson (23-21, 21-15).
The rest of the Olympic races have been wrapped up throughout Wednesday’s qualifier.
Eighteen of the 24 spots per gender at the moment are determined. Of the remaining six spots, 5 can be earned by way of continental cup occasions over the following few weeks, and France will award one wild card. Boding nicely for France is that its high girls’s staff, Lezana Placette and Alexia Richard, certified by way of factors, and can then get a second staff into the Video games by way of wild card. They’re anticipated to announce their wild card groups June 17.
Under is a listing of groups who’ve certified for the Olympics
Males’s seaside volleyball groups certified for the Paris Olympics
World Championships berth: Ondrej Perusic, David Schweiner, CZECH REPUBLIC
- David Ahman, Jonatan Hellvig, SWEDEN
- Anders Mol, Christian Sorum, NORWAY
- Andre Loyola, George Wanderley, BRAZIL
- Nils Ehlers, Clemens Wickler, GERMANY
- Andy Benesh, Miles Partain, USA
- Evandro Goncalves, Arthur Mariano, BRAZIL
- Michal Bryl, Bartosz Losiak, POLAND
- Stefan Boermans, Yorick de Groot, NETHERLANDS
- Matthew Immers, Steven van de Velde, NETHERLANDS
- Sam Cottafava, Paolo Nicolai, ITALY
- Cherif Samba, Ahmed Tijan, QATAR
- Chase Budinger, Miles Evans, USA
- Adrian Gavira, Pablo Herrera, SPAIN
- Adrian Carambula, Alex Ranghieri, ITALY
- Thomas Hodges, Zachery Schubert, AUSTRALIA
- Jorge Alayo, Noslen Diaz, CUBA
- Julian Horl, Alex Horst, AUSTRIA
Ladies’s seaside volleyball groups certified for the Paris Olympics
World Championships berth: Kelly Cheng, Sara Hughes, USA
- Duda Lisboa, Ana Patricia Silva, BRAZIL
- Kristen Nuss, Taryn Kloth, USA
- Carolina Salgado, Barbara Seixas, BRAZIL
- Raisa Schoon, Katja Stam, NETHERLANDS
- Nina Brunner, Tanja Huberli, SWITZERLAND
- Melissa Humana-Paredes, Brandie Wilkerson, CANADA
- Xinyi Xia, Chen Xue, CHINA
- Tina Graudina, Anastasija Samoilova, LATVIA
- Valentina Gottardi, Marta Menegatti, ITALY
- Mariafe Artacho, Taliqua Clancy, AUSTRALIA
- Svenja Muller, Cinja Tillman, GERMANY
- Esmee Bobner, Zoe Verge-Depre, SWITZERLAND
- Daniela Alvarez, Tania Moreno, SPAIN
- Laura Ludwig, Louisa Lippmann, GERMANY
- Lezana Placette, Alexia Richard, FRANCE
- Monika Paulikiene, Aine Raupelyte, LITHUANIA
- Lili Fernandez, Paula Soria, SPAIN
Three USA groups stay within the Ostrava Elite16
With the Olympic race determined, what’s left is a traditional event with regular stakes on the road — prize cash, entry factors, wins and all the remaining.
Three USA groups stay within the hunt of the Ostrava Elite16. As they’ve been since Thursday, Andy Benesh and Miles Partain are the lone American males, placing collectively consecutive wins over Poland’s Piotr Kantor and Jakub Zdybek (21-14, 21-10) and Germany’s Nils Ehlers and Clemens Wickler (21-17, 26-24). Friday marked their first profession win over Germany, who’s coming off a silver medal on the Espinho Elite16 two weeks in the past.
The remaining American groups, Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes, and Betsi Flint and Julia Scoles, will play each other within the first spherical of the playoffs. The final assembly between the 2 groups truly got here in Ostrava a yr in the past, throughout the remaining spherical of pool play, the place Cheng and Hughes received simply, 21-13, 21-11. Saturday will mark the fifth matchup between the 2, a sequence Hughes and Cheng lead 4-0.