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Brazilian Legend Alison Says Goodbye to the Sand

July 26, 2025February 20, 2026 source: Volleyball World

A Legendary Career Comes to a Close One of the most accomplished and dominant beach volleyball players of all time, Brazilian blocker Alison Cerutti has announced that the next three months will be the last of his long and successful career. A Rio 2016 Olympic champion, the 39-year-old veteran will play in two events of the American AVP League and in one of the Brazilian Tour before stepping away from the sport that has been his life for the past 20 years. The Mammoth’s Legacy An Espirito Santo native, Alison…

Ehlers and Wickler upset Mol and Sørum for a spot in the quarterfinals

July 5, 2025February 20, 2026 anders_mol, andre_stein, christian_sorum, george_wanderley, stefan_boermans, yorick_de_groot

Germans Stun Norwegian Superstars Repeating what they did just under a year ago in the semifinals of the Paris Olympics, Germans Nils Ehlers and Clemens Wickler shocked Norwegian stars Anders Mol and Christian Sorum, beating the FIVB World Ranking leaders in the Round of 12 of this week’s Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Elite event held in Gstaad on Friday. The German Olympic medalists are among the eight teams that continue alive in the race for the title in the Swiss Alps, which will see both the quarterfinal and the…

USA’s Durish and Koenig crown Beach Pro Tour debut with Geneva gold

June 30, 2025February 20, 2026

Beach Pro Tour first-timers Alexis Durish and Audrey Koenig of the United States crowned their debut with a Geneva Futures gold. Lithuania’s Ieva Dumbauskaite and Gerda Grudzinskaite picked up the silver medals in Switzerland, while France’s Elsa Descamps and Romane Sobezalz completed the podium with bronze. Gold Medal Match The 21-year-old American rookies started the Geneva tournament from the qualifications and managed to string up seven consecutive victories all the way to the top of the podium, while dropping only two sets along the way. One of them was the…

Czech ladies and Italian men dominate Messina Futures podiums

June 25, 2025February 20, 2026 sam_cottafava

Two Czech pairs earned their spots on the women’s podium at the Messina Futures in Italy, both claiming their second consecutive Futures medals on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour, after the Prague Futures earlier this month, only switching their places. This time, Martina Maixnerova and Kylie Neuschaeferova took gold, while Katerina Pavelkova and Anna Pavelkova settled for bronze, with Switzerland’s Menia Bentele and Annique Niederhauser joining them on the podium with silver. In an all-Italian men’s final, Alex Ranghieri and Tobia Marchetto beat Samuele Cottafava and Gianluca Dal Corso,…

Brazilian and French qualifiers make it to the semifinals in Alanya

June 15, 2025February 20, 2026 chase_budinger, david_schweiner, george_wanderley, miles_evans, ondrej_perusic, renato_lima

Brazilian and French Qualifiers Reach Semifinals in Alanya With six Olympians and two teams that started in the qualifier, the mens semifinals of the Beach Pro Tour Challenge event in Alanya, Turkey, were set on Saturday. Semifinals Schedule Ondrej Perusic and David Schweiner (Czechia) vs. George Wanderley and Saymon Barbosa (Brazil) Teo Rotar and Arnaud Gauthier-Rat (France) vs. Mark Nicolaidis and Izac Carracher (Australia) Brazilian Duos Remarkable Run A new team on the 2025 Beach Pro Tour, George and Saymon are set for their first semifinal appearance as partners. Their…

Ahman and Hellvig back up to number two in World Ranking

June 4, 2025February 20, 2026 BumpSpike.comanastasija_samoilova, anders_mol, christian_sorum, david_ahman, david_schweiner, jonatan_hellvig, ondrej_perusic, stefan_boermans, svenja_muller, terese_cannon, tina_graudina, victoria_lopes, yorick_de_groot

Plavins and Fokerots Reach Team’s High Seventh Place The Ostrava men’s final between Ahman and Hellvig and Mol and Sorum After winning the Ostrava Elite on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour last week, reigning Olympic champions David Ahman and Jonatan Hellvig climbed back up to the number two spot in the men’s FIVB Beach Volleyball World Ranking. No changes in the women’s top five occurred as the charts received their weekly update on Monday. Men’s World Ranking Update Ahman and Hellvig\s absence from the top two in the ranking…

Comeback Queens Huberli and Kernen win Ostrava pool

May 30, 2025February 20, 2026 anastasija samoilova, anastasija_samoilova, brandie_wilkerson, carol_solberg, kelly_cheng, kristen_nuss, svenja_muller, tanja_huberli, terese_cannon, tina_graudina, victoria_lopes

The Swiss came from behind for the second time in two days to secure a spot in the Round of 12. The Swiss are among the first four teams guaranteed in the Round of 12. A new team in the 2025 Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour season, Swiss Tanja Huberli and Leona Kernen displayed nerves of steel on Thursday to secure their second comeback win in the Elite event held in Ostrava, Czechia, and claim a spot in the tournament Round of 12. Besides the Swiss, duos from Ukraine, Austria…

Uhl and Schurholz earn first Beach Pro Tour gold

May 20, 2025February 20, 2026

Janne Uhl and Paula Schurholz celebrated their first Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour gold, both as a team and individually. The German pair topped the final standings at the Madrid Futures in Spain, accompanied by silver medalists Alex Merle and Anouk Dupin of France and bronze medalists Tjasa Kotnik and Maja Marolt of Slovenia on the podium. 19-year-old Uhl and 23-year-old Schurholz lost only one in six matches played in Madrid, the Pool A final against top-seeded Spanish Olympians Daniela Alvarez and Tania Moreno. In the semifinals, the ninth-seeded Germans…

Top Seeds in Xiamen Qualifiers Earn Tiebreak Wins to Advance to Women’s Main Draw

May 15, 2025February 20, 2026

The two top-seeded teams in Wednesday’s women’s qualifications at the Xiamen Challenge – France’s Lezana Placette and Alexia Richard and Germany’s Linda Bock and Louisa Lippmann – played only one game each on the way to the main draw, but had to persevere through three-set battles before booking their spots among the 32 teams in the pool stage. Two teams from USA, one each from Canada, Lithuania and Ukraine, and one more from Germany also advanced to the women’s main draw at the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour event in…

Nuss and Brasher Bring Home First Beach Pro Tour Gold for 2025

April 21, 2025February 20, 2026 BumpSpike.comcarol_solberg, kristen_nuss

Nuss and Brasher Secure First Beach Pro Tour Gold of 2025 After taking bronze in Quintana Roo and silver in Saquarema, USA stars Kristen Nuss and Taryn Brasher finally claimed gold in Brasilia as the third Elite16 event of the 2025 Beach Pro Tour concluded in the Brazilian capital. Podium Results 🥇 Kristen Nuss and Taryn Brasher (USA) – Gold 🥈 Carol Solberg and Rebecca Cavalcanti (Brazil) – Silver 🥉 Ana Patricia Ramos and Eduarda Santos Lisboa (Duda) (Brazil) – Bronze Gold Medal Match Recap The second-seeded Americans overcame the…