Welcome to the Road to Adelaide, our series breaking down the race to qualifying for the 2025 Beach Volleyball World Championships, which will be held in Adelaide, Australia, November 14-23. Of the 48 teams who qualify for the World Championships, 25 are earned via points, the standings of which are determined by your best six finishes in the 2025 year up through October 5, which follows a Beach Pro Tour Challenge event in Mexico. There is a country quota of four teams per federation who can qualify. 

OSTRAVA, Czech Republic — While it is Sweden’s David Ahman and Jonatan Hellvig, and Brazil’s Thamela Coradelli and Victoria Lopes who won gold at the Ostrava Elite, they will not be the main subjects in this update on the 2025 Beach Volleyball World Championships standings. They, as well as silver medalists Anders Mol and Christian Sorum, and even fourth-place finishers Bartosz Losiak and Michal Bryl, have already all-but assured themselves a berth in November’s World Championships in Adelaide, Australia, this with four months remaining in the qualification process.

But silver medalists Tina Graudina and Anastasija Samoilova? Bronze medalists Anouk Verge-Depre and Zoe Verge-Depre, as well as their male counterparts in the Czech Republic’s Ondrej Perusic and David Schweiner?

Big moves by all, though none bigger than Dorina and Ronja Klinger of Austria. Fresh off their first semifinal — and the best finish for an Austrian women’s team ever in an Elite — the Klingers jumped up to No. 6 in the rankings. The Verge-Depre sisters also took a leap into the top-10, while Valentina Gottardi and Reka Orsi Toth of Italy planted themselves in the top-five after another quarterfinal finish in Ostrava.

Women’s Beach Volleyball World Championships Standings

  1. Carol Salgado, Rebecca Cavalcanti, Brazil: 4760 (6)
  2. Thamela Coradelli, Victoria Lopes, Brazil: 4220 (5)
  3. Kristen Nuss, Taryn Brasher, USA: 3760 (4)
  4. Terese Cannon, Megan Kraft, USA: 3380 (4)
  5. Reka Orsi Toth, Valentina Gottardi, Italy: 3330 (5)
  6. Dorina Klinger, Ronja Klinger, Austria: 3020 (4)
  7. Kelly Cheng, Molly Shaw, USA: 3020 (4)
  8. Tanja Huberli, Leona Kernen, Switzerland: 3020 (6)
  9. Claudia Scampoli, Giada Bianchi, Italy: 2720 (5)
  10. Anouk Verge-Depre, Zoe Verge-Depre, Switzerland: 2592 (5)
  11. Toni Rodriguez, Kylie DeBerg, USA: 2540 (5)
  12. Michelle Valiente, Giuliana Poletti, Paraguay: 2518 (6)
  13. Tina Graudina, Anastasija Samoilova, Latvia: 2460 (3)
  14. Ana Patricia Silva, Duda Lisboa, Brazil: 2360 (3)
  15. Svenja Muller, Cinja Tillmann, Germany: 2260 (4)
  16. Emi van Driel, Wies Bekhuis, Netherlands: 2240 (6)
  17. Taru Lahti, Niina Ahtiainen, Finland: 2200 (5)
  18. Melissa Humana-Paredes, Brandie Wilkerson, Canada: 2120 (3)
  19. Andressa Cavalcanti, Taina Silva, Brazil: 2080 (5)
  20. Lezana Placette, Alexia Richard, France: 2020 (5)
  21. Clemence Vieira, Aline Chamereau, France: 2000 (5)
  22. Maddie Anderson, Brook Bauer, USA: 1980 (5)
  23. Monika Paulikiene, Aine Raupelyte, Lithuania: 1940 (5)
  24. Danisse Alvarez, Fio Nunez Quintana, Paraguay: 1918 (6)
  25. Taliqua Clancy, Jana Milutinovic, Australia: 1900 (6)
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Kristians Fokerots attempts to work around Jonatan Hellvig/Volleyball World photo

Men’s Beach Volleyball World Championships Standings

It’s not often you can find some silver lining after a 21-7, 21-12 loss, yet Latvia’s Martins Plavins and Kristians Fokerots can indeed do just that. Their quarterfinal obliteration at the hands of Sweden’s David Ahman and Jonatan Hellvig will be memorable for all of the wrong reasons, but their fifth place finish, regardless of how ugly it may have ended, was a critical top-five to boost them to No. 13 in the 2025 Beach Volleyball World Championships standings. Norway’s Hendrik Mol and Mathias Berntsen, too, claimed another top-10, putting them into the top-10 of the standings as well.

Chaim Schalk and James Shaw continue tacking on top-10 finishes as well, and are leading the lagging USA Volleyball contingent, checking in at No. 15 in the rankings. It is worth noting, of course, that Andy Benesh and Miles Partain have only competed twice, and their average of 680 points per event is eighth in the world. It will only be a matter of time before they crack the top-25 and, eventually, the top-10, but for now, this is where the Beach Volleyball World Championships standings stand.

  1. Tomas Capogrosso, Nico Capogrosso, Argentina: 3760 (5)
  2. Evandro Goncalves, Arthur Lanci, Brazil: 3560 (5)
  3. Anders Mol, Christian Sorum, Norway: 3300 (3)
  4. David Ahman, Jonatan Hellvig, Sweden: 3060 (3)
  5. Michal Bryl, Bartosz Losiak, Poland: 3000 (4)
  6. Marco Grimalt, Esteban Grimalt, Chile: 2940 (6)
  7. Jorge Alayo, Noslen Diaz, Cuba: 2940 (4)
  8. Stefan Boermans, Yorick de Groot, Netherlands: 2700 (4)
  9. Joao Pedrosa, Hugo Campos, Portugal: 2620 (5)
  10. Hendrik Mol, Mathias Berntsen, Norway: 2580 (4)
  11. Ondrej Perusic, David Schweiner, Czech Republic: 2560 (3)
  12. Cherif Younousse, Ahmed Tijan, Qatar: 2520 (5)
  13. Martins Plavins, Kristians Fokerots, Latvia: 2476 (5)
  14. Timo Hammarberg, Tim Berger, Austria: 2460 (6)
  15. James Shaw, Chaim Schalk, USA: 2400 (4)
  16. Chris Dressler, Philipp Waller, Austria: 2220 (5)
  17. Mark Nicolaidis, Izac Carracher, Australia: 2200 (5)
  18. Ruben Penninga, Matthew Immers, Netherlands: 2200 (5)
  19. Miles Evans, Chase Budinger, USA: 2200 (5)
  20. Sam Cottafava, Gianluca Dal Corso, Italy: 2180 (5)
  21. Teo Rotar, Arnaud Gauthier-Rat, France: 2160 (5)
  22. Remi Bassereau, Calvin Aye, France: 2100 (5)
  23. Steven van de Velde, Alex Brouwer, Netherlands: 2076 (4)
  24. Vicente Droguett, Fernando Quintero, Chile: 2048 (6)
  25. Pedro Sousa, Renato Lima, Brazil: 2040 (4)

Previous World Championships standings

Following Brasilia Elite