Olympic Beach Volleyball Rankings: Ostrava Elite16 to decide final Paris berths
Pro Beach
Travis Mewhirter
June 3, 2024
The race for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games officially began in February 2023 in Doha, Qatar, with the Volleyball World Elite16. The 2024 season began the first week of March back in Doha, and the final event of the Olympic qualification cycle will be the Ostrava Elite16, which ends on June 9. We’ll be providing these updates for the Beach Volleyball Olympic rankings after international points-earning tournaments:
Seventeen months and untold airline miles later, it all comes down to this: A single event in a retired steel mill in the Czech Republic. Seven men’s teams and seven women’s teams are still in the hunt for a bid to the Paris Olympic Games.
Every single one of those races could be decided during Wednesday’s qualifier of the Ostrava Elite16.
If you are looking for a breakdown of what each of those teams needs to do to qualify for Paris, we have you covered here.
A live entry list for the Ostrava Elite16 can be found here, where all eyes are on whether Sarah Pavan and Molly McBain get into the event or not. If two more teams don’t drop out, their Olympic race is over. If two teams withdraw, the race goes on, and it remains a three-way battle between Canada, Spain’s Lili Fernandez and Paula Soria, and Austria’s Klinger sisters, Dorina and Ronja for the final Olympic berth.
Below are the penultimate Olympic beach volleyball rankings following last weekend’s Stare Jablonki Challenge in Poland, where Fernandez and Soria vaulted themselves into a qualifying position with their first medal as a team, and where Dutchmen Stefan Boermans and Yorick de Groot punched their Paris ticket with a bronze of their own.
Men’s Beach Volleyball Olympic Rankings
(updated June 3 after the Stare Jablonki Challenge)
David Ahman, Jonatan Hellvig, SWEDEN, 12420 (11)
Anders Mol, Christian Sorum, NORWAY, 10460 (11)
Andre Loyola, George Wanderley, BRAZIL, 10420 (12)
Nils Ehlers, Clemens Wickler, GERMANY, 10340 (12)
Ondrej Perusic, David Schweiner, Czech Republic, 9780 (11)
Andy Benesh, Miles Partain, USA, 9580 (12)
Evandro Goncalves, Arthur Mariano, BRAZIL, 9260 (12)
Michal Bryl, Bartosz Losiak, POLAND, 9200 (12)
Stefan Boermans, Yorick de Groot, NETHERLANDS, 9180 (12)
Matthew Immers, Steven van de Velde, NETHERLANDS, 8880 (12)
Sam Cottafava, Paolo Nicolai, ITALY, 8800 (12)
Alex Brouwer, Robert Meeuwsen, NETHERLANDS, 8600 (12)
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, Zachery Schubert, AUSTRALIA, 7820 (12)
Jorge Alayo, Noslen Diaz, CUBA, 7800 (12)
Julian Horl, Alex Horst, AUSTRIA, 7260 (12)
Pedro Solberg, Guto Carvalhaes, BRAZIL, 7260 (12)
Esteban Grimalt, Marco Grimalt, CHILE, 7260 (12)
Vitor Felipe, Renato Lima, BRAZIL, 6760 (12)
Tri Bourne, Chaim Schalk, USA, 6580 (12)
Moritz Pristauz, Robin Seidl, AUSTRIA, 6540 (12)
Hendrik Mol, Mathias Berntsen, NORWAY, 6480 (12)
Piotr Kantor, Jakub Zdybek, POLAND, 6260 (12)
Javier Bello, Joaquin Bello, ENGLAND, 6120 (12)
Sam Schachter, Dan Dearing, CANADA, 6060 (12)
Daniele Lupo, Enrico Rossi, ITALY, 5720 (12)
Paul Burnett, Chris McHugh, AUSTRALIA, 5460 (12)
Sergiy Popov, Eduard Reznik, UKRAINE, 5300 (11)
Paula Soria watches Liliana Fernandez pass in Poland/Volleyball World photo
Women’s Beach Volleyball Olympic Rankings
(updated June 3 after Stare Jablonki Challenge)
Duda Lisboa, Ana Patricia Silva, BRAZIL, 12260 (12)
Kristen Nuss, Taryn Kloth, USA, 11960 (12)
Kelly Cheng, Sara Hughes, USA, 10800 (12)
Carolina Salgado, Barbara Seixas, BRAZIL, 10440 (12)
To qualify for the Olympic Games via the Olympic rankings, teams use their best 12 finishes throughout the Olympic qualifying period, which ends June 9, 2024. The top 17 from the Olympic rankings will punch their tickets to the Paris Olympics. The remaining seven spots are allotted to five continental cup champions, the winner of the 2023 World Championships, and the French wild card.
Each country is limited to two teams who can earn a spot in the Olympic Games.
Teams can never push out good finishes. Once you hit your 12, you only replace your worst finishes. In parentheses below is the number of events each pair has played.
You earn points as a team. Therefore, if a team breaks up and the individuals select new partners, they begin with zero Olympic ranking points, although they keep their individual entry points to get into events.
